"Why Can't This Be Love" | ||||
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Single by Van Halen | ||||
from the album 5150 | ||||
B-side | "Get Up" | |||
Released | March 1986 | |||
Recorded | 1985–1986 | |||
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Length | 3:47 / 5:00 (extended version) | |||
Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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"Why Can't This Be Love" is a song by the American rock band Van Halen for their seventh studio album, 5150 (1986). The song was the group's first single with Sammy Hagar, replacing founding member David Lee Roth. It was released on both 7" and 12" formats with the latter having an extended version featuring extra lyrics.
In the US, it went to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number one on the Cashbox Top 100, the week of May 16. [5] It was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany and a top 20 single in Canada, the Netherlands and Sweden.