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“Summer Nights” by Van Halen

From the album 5150 (1986)

“Summer Nights” by Van Halen appears on 19 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1990 and 2024. It was first released in 1986 on the album 5150. Its best result is #44 on the WMMR Top 50 Songs of Summer (2012). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,419 classic rock song of all time.

19countdowns

9stations

#44best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1990–2024years charted

"Summer Nights" turns up on 5150, the seventh Van Halen album, released by Warner Bros. in March 1986, and it comes from a band in the middle of a reinvention: this was the first of four records they made with Sammy Hagar out front in place of David Lee Roth. The songwriting credit is shared among Hagar, Eddie and Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony.

Van Halen produced it with Mick Jones and Donn Landee, who also engineered, and Ken Deane added more engineering. The album took its name from Eddie's home studio, 5150, which in turn borrowed the California police shorthand for someone judged mentally disturbed.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Classic Rock

#1,419 of all time

Hard Rock & Metal

#1,587 of all time

All Rock Formats

#4,259 of all time

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1990	979	Z-Rock	Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990)	1000
1994	995	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)	1000
1995	792	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)	1000
1996	966	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)	1000
1998	943	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)	1000
2002	865	KISW	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)	999
2012	44	93.3 WMMR	WMMR Top 50 Songs of Summer (2012)	49
2013	706	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013)	1000
2014	846	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014)	1000
2015	500	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2015)	499
2015	712	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015)	1007
2016	863	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016	1007
2019	401	106.7 WLLZ	WLLZ 500 (2019)	500
2020	403	106.7 WLLZ	WLLZ 500 (2020)	500
2021	211	97 Rock	97 Rock N Roll 500 (2021)	500
2021	421	WCSX	WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021)	499
2022	424	99.1 PLR	99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022)	500
2023	676	101.5 WPDH	WPDH Top 1015 (2023)	1015
2024	275	99.1 PLR	99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2024)	400

Also listed as: Summer nights.

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