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Cover of Up Your Alley by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
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“I Hate Myself for Loving You” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

From the album Up Your Alley (1988)

“I Hate Myself for Loving You” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts appears on 54 radio countdowns from 22 stations between 1988 and 2026. It was first released in 1988 on the album Up Your Alley. Its best result is #20 on the 102.9 The Whale Rocktober: Women That Rock 24. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #141 alternative song of 1988.

54countdowns
22stations
#20best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1988–2026years charted

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Joan Jett and the Blackhearts put "I Hate Myself for Loving You" out front in 1988 as the first taste of Up Your Alley, their sixth studio album, a love-hate stomp Jett wrote with Desmond Child. Child also produced it alongside Kenny Laguna, with Thom Panunzio mixing, and the guitar solo came from a guest: Mick Taylor, formerly of the Rolling Stones.

It went to number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, her third and final top-10 single and her first since "Crimson and Clover" in 1982, and it hung around the chart six weeks longer than "I Love Rock 'n Roll" had. The CD single carried her version of the Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself" on the flip side.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

Classic Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1988 37 WLIR / WDRE Long Island, NY WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1988 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1997 839 102.3 WBAB WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) 1023
2012 267 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2012) 500
2012 746 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) 885
2013 336 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR CT 500 (2013) 500
2013 436 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2013) 500
2014 305 Big 100 BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) 1000
2014 963 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 234 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2015) 500
2015 946 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) 1007
2015 20 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Rocktober: Women That Rock 24 24
2016 335 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2016) 500
2016 436 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2016) 500
2016 544 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2017 445 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017) 500
2018 458 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018) 500
2019 320 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2019) 500
2019 303 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2019) 500
2019 958 102.5 KZOK KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 1025
2019 191 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2019) 499
2020 823 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) 1025
2020 438 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2020) 500
2020 93 Q105.7 Q105.7 Memorial Day 500 (2020) 499
2020 340 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2020) 500
2021 436 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s 909
2021 408 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2021) 500
2021 205 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2021) 500
2021 111 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2021) 499
2021 250 WCSX WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021) 499
2022 52 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) 500
2022 282 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2022) 500
2022 410 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) 1025
2022 164 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2022) 500
2022 464 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2022) 500
2022 183 97.1 The River River 500 (2022) 500
2022 109 94.1 KRNA KRNA Memorial Day 500 (2022) 500
2023 97 KSHE 95 KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 433 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 257 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 200 97.1 The Drive 97.1 The Drive Memorial Day Weekend Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 109 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015
2024 34 KSHE 95 KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2024) 500
2024 323 KQRS KQRS KQ 500 (2024) 499
2024 338 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2024) 500
2024 171 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2024) 499
2024 170 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2024) 500
2025 274 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2025) 400
2025 347 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500
2025 136 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500
2025 267 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2025) 500
2026 447 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2026) 500
2026 484 KSHE 95 KSHE 95 U-Man 500 (2026) 499
2026 111 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2026) 500
2026 279 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2026) 500

Also listed as: I Hate Myself For Loving You; I Hate Myself (For Loving You).

Charting alongside it in 1988

Best songs of 1988 →
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  2. 2DesireU2
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  4. 4Route 66Depeche Mode
  5. 5Peek-A-BooSiouxsie and the Banshees
  6. 6Chains of LoveErasure

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