<P> "Why Can't We Be Friends?" is a song by the funk band War for their 1975 studio album of the same name . The song has a simple structure, with the phrase "Why can't we be friends?" being sung four times after each two - line verse amounting to over forty times in under four minutes . The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1975 . It was played in outer space when NASA beamed it to the linking of Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts for the Apollo--Soyuz Test Project . Billboard ranked it as the No. 23 song of that year . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> <H3> Weekly charts (edit) </H3> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Chart (1975) </Th> <Th> Peak position </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Canada RPM </Td> <Td> 6 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Billboard Hot 100 </Td> <Td> 6 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Billboard R&B </Td> <Td> 9 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Cash Box Top 100 </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> <Td> <H3> Year - end charts (edit) </H3> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Chart (1975) </Th> <Th> Rank </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Canada </Td> <Td> 75 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Billboard Hot 100 </Td> <Td> 23 </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> <H3> Weekly charts (edit) </H3> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Chart (1975) </Th> <Th> Peak position </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Canada RPM </Td> <Td> 6 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Billboard Hot 100 </Td> <Td> 6 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Billboard R&B </Td> <Td> 9 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Cash Box Top 100 </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> <Td> <H3> Year - end charts (edit) </H3> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Chart (1975) </Th> <Th> Rank </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Canada </Td> <Td> 75 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Billboard Hot 100 </Td> <Td> 23 </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Chart (1975) </Th> <Th> Peak position </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Canada RPM </Td> <Td> 6 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Billboard Hot 100 </Td> <Td> 6 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Billboard R&B </Td> <Td> 9 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> U.S. Cash Box Top 100 </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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