Songs · UK Singles Chart

Why Can't This Be Love

Van Halen

Entered Mar 30, 1986 · peaked at #8 on May 18, 1986 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 13, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #3, 16 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 15 wk
Record Power
19.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
2
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
March 1986 – July 1986

Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.

What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what the song earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Van Halenprimary100%19.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 18, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Chicken SongSpitting Image
  2. #2On My OwnPatti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
  3. #3Lessons In LoveLevel 42
  4. #4SledgehammerPeter Gabriel
  5. #5Spirit In The SkyDoctor And The Medics
  6. #6Snooker LoopyMatchroom Mob & Chas and Dave
  7. #7Rock Me AmadeusFalco
  8. #8Why Can't This Be LoveVan Halen
  9. #9Rollin' HomeThe Status Quo
  10. #10Live To TellMadonna

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