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- ↑ "Loverboy Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
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- ↑ "Talent Almanac 1984: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 52. December 24, 1983. p. TA-18. gai xinh
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