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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Can't We Try

Dan Hill & Vonda Shepard

Entered Jun 6, 1987 · 24 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 14, 1987

Record Power
30.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#6
1 week there · Sep 12, 1987
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
24
June 1987 – November 1987

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 it 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
Dan Hillprimary50%15.2
Vonda Shepardprimary50%15.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 12, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1La BambaLos Lobos
  2. #2I Just Can't Stop Loving YouMichael Jackson & Siedah Garrett
  3. #3Didn't We Almost Have It AllWhitney Houston
  4. #4Here I Go AgainWhitesnake
  5. #5Only In My DreamsDebbie Gibson
  6. #6Can't We TryDan Hill & Vonda Shepard
  7. #7Doing It All For My BabyHuey Lewis & The News
  8. #8When Smokey SingsABC
  9. #9Who's That GirlMadonna
  10. #10I Heard A Rumour (From "Disorderlies")Bananarama

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