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“Love Ain't No Stranger” by Whitesnake
From the album Slide It In (1984)
“Love Ain't No Stranger” by Whitesnake appears on 7 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 2002. It was first released in 1984 on the album Slide It In. Its best result is #126 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #625 hard rock song of all time.
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David Coverdale and Mel Galley wrote "Love Ain't No Stranger" for Slide It In, the 1984 album that finally kicked the American door open for Whitesnake, and it's a power ballad built on the grand hard rock scale, with Martin Birch at the controls. It went out on Liberty Records and reached 44 in the UK and 34 on the US mainstream rock chart.
The chart numbers undersell it. It has become one of the band's best-known songs and a fixture of their concerts: by December 2022 Whitesnake had played it more than eight hundred times, putting it among their five most-performed songs. AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia went as far as ranking it with the finest power ballads of the whole decade.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 126 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 608 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 852 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 664 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 742 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 725 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 891 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
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