Love Zone (song) explained

Love Zone
Type:	single
Artist:	Billy Ocean
Album:	Love Zone
Released:	5 July 1986
Recorded:	1985
Genre:	R&B, funk
Length:	5:36 (Album Version) 4:17 (Radio Edit)
Label:	Jive
Producer:	Barry Eastmond, Wayne Brathwaite
Prev Title:	There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)
Prev Year:	1986
Next Title:	Love Is Forever
Next Year:	1986

"Love Zone" is the title track from Billy Ocean's 1986 album. In the US, The ballad hit number one on the Billboard R&B chart and was his third single to hit the top spot. "Love Zone" also reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100^[1] and number five on the Adult Contemporary chart.^[2]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1986)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	91
Canadian Singles (RPM)	18

Year-end charts

Chart (1986)	Position
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)^[4]	42
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)^[5]	49

Popular culture

• The song was used for the characters of Tina Lord and Cord Roberts on the American soap opera One Life to Live.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 436.
2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Joel Whitburn . 2002 . Record Research . 184.
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. St. Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. Illustrated. 221. 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.
4. Web site: Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 1986. Billboard. 21 December 2020.
5. Web site: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 1986. Billboard. 21 December 2020.
6. Daytime's Greatest Weddings: One Life to Live. Dir. David Seeger. 1993. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2004. DVD.