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“Is This Love” by Whitesnake
From the album Whitesnake (1987)
“Is This Love” by Whitesnake appears on 35 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 1990 and 2026. It was first released in 1987 on the album Whitesnake. Its best result is #156 on the 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #726 classic rock song of all time.
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"Is This Love" was the ballad that followed "Here I Go Again" off Whitesnake's 1987 self-titled album, and David Coverdale wrote it with guitarist John Sykes. Keith Olsen and Mike Stone produced it and Olsen mixed it, with Coverdale singing, Sykes on guitar and backing vocals, Neil Murray on bass and Aynsley Dunbar on drums, while Don Airey and Bill Cuomo guest on keyboards.
It's a power ballad in full bloom, Coverdale's voice all smoke and ache, and it climbed to number two on the Billboard Hot 100, second only to "Here I Go Again" among the band's American hits. It has held its place in the live set ever since, and Classic Rock ranked it 7th among the greatest power ballads in 2015.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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Also listed as: Is this Love; Is This Love?.
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