You Give Good Love - Chart Performance

Chart Performance

"You Give Good Love" was released as the first single from Houston's debut album Whitney Houston in February 1985. The single entered the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart (later Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs) at number 89 on the March 9 issue, and on ninth week of its release, reached the top ten of the chart, the issue dated May 4, 1985. Eventually, it hit the pole position of the chart, the issue date of May 25, 1985, and stayed atop for one week, becoming Houston's first R&B number-one single. The song debuted at number 67 and number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles and Hot Adult Contemporary charts, respectively, on the May 11 issue. Eight weeks later the single reached the top ten on the Hot 100 chart, and in the following three weeks peaked at number three on the chart, the issue dated July 27, 1985, spending a total of 21 weeks on the chart. On the Adult Contemporary chart, it reached a peak of number four in the July 20, 1985 issue. It was ranked number 47 and number two on the Billboard year-end Top Pop Singles and Top Black Singles charts, respectively. The single was certified Gold for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States alone by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on December 6, 1995. In Canada, the song debuted at number 95 on the RPM 100 Singles chart on the May 18 issue, and 14 weeks later peaked at number nine on the chart, the issue date of August 24, 1985. It placed at number 76 on the RPM year-end Top 100 Singles chart of 1985.

Worldwide, "You Give Good Love" was not released as the official single except some countries such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Moreover, unlike in North America, the song failed to get enough attention to establish itself as a hit song in even their markets at the time of its release, because another songs from Houston's debut album―"All at Once" or "Saving All My Love for You"―got a better reaction than the song from the public and the media, particularly in Europe, and the early promotion for the album was also stratagemically focused on those of songs. After all, the single didn't even make the Top 40 on the singles charts, peaking at number 58 in Australia, 44 in New Zealand, and 93 in the UK.