"If It's Love" is the second single from Train

Train (band)

Train is an American pop rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1994. The band currently comprises a core trio of Patrick Monahan , Jimmy Stafford and Scott Underwood ....

's fifth studio album, Save Me, San Francisco.

It debuted at #31 on Billboard 's Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks

Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks

Adult Top 40 is a variation on the United States Billboard charts...

 chart. and has since become Train's second-consecutive #1 hit from the album, as well as their fourth #1 overall. This ties the band with Matchbox Twenty

Matchbox Twenty

Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1995...

 and Daughtry for second-most chart-topping singles in format history, and trailing only Nickelback

Nickelback

Nickelback is a Canadian rock band from Hanna, Alberta. Since 1995 the band has included guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, guitarist and back-up vocalist Ryan Peake and bassist Mike Kroeger.. The band's current drummer and percussionist is Daniel Adair who has been with the band since 2005....

 in total Adult Top 40 #1 placements. It is also the 100th single to go #1 in the format's history.

In addition, it has reached a present peak of #34 on the Billboard Hot 100: becoming, by far, their most successful secondary single to date and only their second album era to produce multiple Billboard Hot 100-charting singles.

A music video was filmed for the song, which debuted on VH1

VH1

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.com on May 11, 2010.

Background

In a recent interview with the Post Crescent, Pat Monahan confirmed "If It's Love" was written the same day as their hit "Hey, Soul Sister" and was intended as a thank-you song to long-time fans of the band:
Much like "Hey, Soul Sister", the track features a handful of pop cultural references; including Winger (an American hair metal band that briefly enjoyed popularity in the late 80's and early 90's), Henry Lee (the name of a folk song and dance that enjoyed renewed popularity after Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...

 covered it in 1995) and The Rain in Spain

The Rain in Spain

"The Rain in Spain" is a song from the musical My Fair Lady, with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The song was published in 1956....

 (a song featured in the musical My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...

.)

Monahan explained in an interview with Mike Ragogna of the Huffington Post in October 2009 the lyric: "I wanna buy you everything except cologne, 'cause it's poison."

Chart performance

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Chart (2010)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... )	21
New Zealand (RIANZ)	28
US Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	34
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... )	15
US Adult Pop Songs (Billboard)	1
US Pop Songs Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) The Mainstream Top 40 is an airplay chart from Billboard magazine, and is also known as Pop Songs on billboard.com. It was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart...  (Billboard)	19
US Triple A (Billboard)	6

Sales and certifications

Country	Provider	Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds)
Australia	ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...	Gold
United States	RIAA Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...	Gold