5 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's seventh consecutive top five hit on the US pop chart.

It held the record for highest drop from the top 40 for thirty years.

[4] In the United Kingdom, where the group did not enjoy the same amount of success as they did in Australia and the US, the song missed the top 40 by four places, reaching No.

[5] Billboard said that "The deliberate solo vocal, delicate piano and string section interplay and chorus/bridge harmonies are direct links to [Air Supply's] past hits.

"[6] The video for "Even the Nights Are Better" was filmed in and around the boardwalk, beach, and amusement area of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York.