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104 Of The Best Love Songs Ever Written

From classic ballads to modern pop hits, there's a lot of great love songs to choose from.
by Evelina Zaragoza Medina Staff
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Do you like love songs? You should. They're great.

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Just in case you're looking for a song to put you in a romantic mood, here are 104 of the best love songs of all time:

Columbia/Epic JUST A QUICK DISCLAIMER: I asked a lot of people for input on this list in order to include a nice mix of genres and eras. And since there are hundreds (thousands??) of songs that could go on this list, I set some ground rules: 1) The songs have to be positive love songs — which means no breakup songs, no unrequited love songs, and no sad songs in general; and 2) Only one song per artist, for fairness. Did I break both these rules? Yes, but I hope you agree that my exceptions are warranted.

1. Céline Dion, "Because You Loved Me"

View this video on YouTube Columbia/Epic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "You saw the best there was in me / Lifted me up when I couldn't reach / You gave me faith 'cause you believed / I'm everything I am because you loved me"

2. Lionel Richie, "Hello"

View this video on YouTube Motown Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I've been alone with you inside my mind / And in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times"

3. Whitney Houston, "I Will Always Love You"

View this video on YouTube RCA Victor Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I will always love you"

4. Christina Aguilera, "I Turn to You"

View this video on YouTube RCA Most swoonworthy lyrics: "For a shield from the storm / For a friend / For a love to keep me safe and warm, I turn to you"

5. Selena, "I Could Fall in Love"

View this video on YouTube EMI Latin Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I could lose my heart tonight / If you don't turn and walk away / 'Cause the way I feel I might / Lose control and let you stay"

6. Journey, "Faithfully"

View this video on YouTube Columbia Most swoonworthy lyrics: "And being apart ain't easy on this love affair / Two strangers learn to fall in love again / I get the joy of rediscovering you"

7. Bonnie Tyler, "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

View this video on YouTube Columbia Most swoonworthy lyrics: "And we'll only be making it right / 'Cause we'll never be wrong / Together we can take it to the end of the line"

8. Katy Perry, "Teenage Dream"

View this video on YouTube Capitol Most swoonworthy lyrics: "My heart stops when you look at me / Just one touch / Now, baby, I believe this is real"

9. Taylor Swift, "Mine"

View this video on YouTube Big Machine Most swoonworthy lyrics: "And every time I look at you, it's like the first time"

10. Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman, "Come What May"

View this video on YouTube 20th Century Fox Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Storm clouds may gather / And stars may collide / But I love you / Until the end of time"

11. The Backstreet Boys, "I Want It That Way"

View this video on YouTube Jive Most swoonworthy lyrics: "You are my fire / The one desire"

12. Elton John, "Your Song"

View this video on YouTube Uni/DJM Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean / Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen"

13. Ed Sheeran, "Perfect"

View this video on YouTube Asylum/Atlantic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I have faith in what I see / Now I know I have met an angel in person / And she looks perfect"

14. Céline Dion, "My Heart Will Go On"

View this video on YouTube Columbia/Epic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "We'll stay forever this way / You are safe in my heart and / My heart will go on and on"

15. Aerosmith, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"

View this video on YouTube Columbia Most swoonworthy lyrics: "'Cause even when I dream of you / The sweetest dream will never do / I'd still miss you, babe / And I don't want to miss a thing"

16. The Beach Boys, "All I Wanna Do"

View this video on YouTube Brother/Reprise Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Sure as the sun will come around again to start off another day / You can be sure that in my heart and soul I'll love you in every way"

17. Yaz, "Only You"

View this video on YouTube Mute Most swoonworthy lyrics: "All I needed was the love you gave / All I needed for another day / And all I ever knew / Only you"

18. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, "Your Precious Love"

View this video on YouTube Motown Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Wo, heaven must have sent you from above / Wo, heaven must have sent your precious love"

19. Justin Bieber, "Anyone"

View this video on YouTube Def Jam Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Forever's not enough time to / Love you the way that I want"

20. H.E.R., "Comfortable"

View this video on YouTube RCA Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I feel so comfortable with you / You make me comfortable with you"

21. Thomas Rhett, "Die a Happy Man"

View this video on YouTube Valory/Republic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Oh, if I never get to build my mansion in Georgia / Or drive a sports car up the coast of California / Oh, if all I got is your hand in my hand / Baby, I could die a happy man"

22. Andy Grammer, "Fine by Me"

View this video on YouTube S-Curve / Warner Bros. Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I knew that this was different from the start"

23. Leon Bridges, "Beyond"

View this video on YouTube Columbia Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I'm scared to death that she might be it / That the love is real, that the shoe might fit / She might just be my everything and beyond"

24. Sixpence None the Richer, "Kiss Me"

View this video on YouTube Curb Records Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Kiss me, beneath the milky twilight / Lead me out on the moonlit floor"

25. "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" by Frankie Valli

View this video on YouTube Philips Most swoonworthy lyrics: "You'd be like heaven to touch / I wanna hold you so much / At long last, love has arrived"

26. Nat King Cole, "L-O-V-E"

View this video on YouTube Capitol Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Two in love can make it / Take my heart and please don't break it"

27. Natalie Cole, "This Will Be (an Everlasting Love)"

View this video on YouTube Capitol Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Loving you is some kind of wonderful / Because you showed me just how much you care / You've given me the thrill of a lifetime"

28. Paul McCartney, "Maybe I'm Amazed"

View this video on YouTube Apple Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song / Right me when I'm wrong"

29. Jason Mraz, "I’m Yours"

View this video on YouTube Atlantic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "There's no need to complicate / Our time is short / This is our fate, I'm yours"

30. Norah Jones, "Come Away With Me"

View this video on YouTube Blue Note Most swoonworthy lyrics: "And I want to wake up with the rain / Falling on a tin roof / While I'm safe there in your arms"

31. Sam Cooke, "You Send Me"

View this video on YouTube Keen Most swoonworthy lyrics: "At first I thought it was infatuation / But woo, it's lasted so long"

32. Shania Twain, "You’re Still the One"

View this video on YouTube Mercury Nashville Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I'm so glad we made it / Look how far we've come, my baby"

33. Dave Matthews Band, "Crush"

View this video on YouTube RCA Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Lovely lady, I will treat you sweetly / Adore you, I mean you crush me"

34. Bryan Adams, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"

View this video on YouTube AM Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Don't tell me it's not worth fightin' for / I can't help it, there's nothin' I want more"

35. Rihanna Feat. Calvin Harris, "We Found Love"

View this video on YouTube Def Jam/SRP Most swoonworthy lyrics: "We found love in a hopeless place"

36. Frank Ocean, "Thinkin' Bout You"

View this video on YouTube Def Jam Most swoonworthy lyrics: "It will never get old, not in my soul, not in my spirit, keep it alive / We'll go down this road till it turns from color to black and white"

37. Drake Feat. Majid Jordan, "Hold On, We're Going Home"

View this video on YouTube Young Money/Cash Money/Republic/AMG Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I can't get over you / You left your mark on me / I want your hot love and emotion endlessly"

38. Emeli Sandé, "Next to Me"

View this video on YouTube Virgin Most swoonworthy lyrics: "When the end has come and buildings falling down fast / When we’ve spoilt the land and dried up all the sea / When everyone has lost their heads around us / You will find him, you’ll find him next to me"

39. The Ronettes, “Be My Baby”

View this video on YouTube Philles Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I'll make you happy, baby, just wait and see / For every kiss you give me I'll give you three"

40. Ben E. King, “Stand by Me”

View this video on YouTube Atco Most swoonworthy lyrics: "When the night has come / And the land is dark / And the moon is the only light we'll see / No, I won't be afraid / Oh, I won't be afraid / Just as long as you stand / Stand by me"

41. Kanye West, “Bound 2”

View this video on YouTube Def Jam/GOOD Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I know you're tired of loving / With nobody to love, nobody, nobody"

42. The Roots Feat. Erykah Badu, “You Got Me”

View this video on YouTube MCA Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Baby, don't worry, you know that you got me"

43. The Bangles, “Eternal Flame”

View this video on YouTube CBS/Liberation Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling"

44. Mariah Carey, "Always Be My Baby"

View this video on YouTube Columbia Most swoonworthy lyrics: "You'll always be a part of me / I'm part of you indefinitely / Boy, don't you know you can't escape me / Oh darlin', 'cause you'll always be my baby"

45. One Direction, "What Makes You Beautiful"

View this video on YouTube SyCo Music Most swoonworthy lyrics: "If only you saw what I can see / You'll understand why I want you so desperately / Right now I'm lookin' at you, and I can't believe"

46. Cyndi Lauper, "Time After Time"

View this video on YouTube Epic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "If you're lost, you can look and you will find me / Time after time"

47. Peter Gabriel, "The Book of Love"

View this video on YouTube Real World/Virgin Most swoonworthy lyrics: "The book of love is long and boring / No one can lift the damn thing / It's full of charts and facts and figures / And instructions for dancing / But I / I love it when you read to me"

48. Dashboard Confessional, "Stolen"

View this video on YouTube Vagrant Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I watch you spin around in your highest heels / You are the best one of the best ones"

49. The Cars, "Just What I Needed"

View this video on YouTube Elektra Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I don't mind you comin' here / And wastin' all my time, time / 'Cause when you're standin' oh so near / I kinda lose my mind, yeah"

50. Shakira, "Underneath Your Clothes"

View this video on YouTube Epic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "You're a song written by the hands of God"

51. Nick Jonas, "This Is Heaven"

View this video on YouTube Island Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Every kiss with you, it's like a prayer falls from my lips / Now I'm a believer"

52. The Beatles, "Something"

View this video on YouTube Apple Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Something in the way she knows / And all I have to do is think of her"

53. Billy Joel, "She's Got a Way"

View this video on YouTube Family Productions/Philips Most swoonworthy lyrics: "She's got a smile that heals me"

54. Janelle Monáe, "Make Me Feel"

View this video on YouTube Wondaland/Bad Boy/Atlantic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "That's just the way you make me feel / So real, so good, so fuckin' real"

55. Beyoncé, "Crazy in Love"

View this video on YouTube Columbia/Music World Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I've been playing myself, baby, I don't care / 'Cause your love's got the best of me / And, baby, you're making a fool of me / You got me sprung and I don't care who sees"

56. John Legend, "Favorite Place"

View this video on YouTube Columbia Most swoonworthy lyrics: "No matter where I go, any time, any space / Your lips are my favorite place"

57. Snow Patrol, "Chasing Cars"

View this video on YouTube Interscope Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Those three words / Are said too much / They're not enough"

58. REO Speedwagon, "Keep on Loving You"

View this video on YouTube REO Speedwagon Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Baby, I'm gonna keep on loving you / 'Cause it's the only thing I wanna do"

59. Etta James, "At Last"

View this video on YouTube Argo/MCA/Chess Most swoonworthy lyrics: "You smiled, you smiled / Oh, and then the spell was cast / And here we are in heaven / For you are mine at last"

60. The Righteous Brothers, "Unchained Melody"

View this video on YouTube Philles/Verve Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Ooh, my love, my darling / I've hungered for your touch"

61. Roberta Flack, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

View this video on YouTube Atlantic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "The first time ever I saw your face / I thought the sun rose in your eyes"

62. Prince, "Kiss"

View this video on YouTube Paisley Park/Warner Bros. Most swoonworthy lyrics: "You don't have to be rich to be my girl / You don't have to be cool to rule my world"

63. Bruno Mars, "Rest of My Life"

View this video on YouTube Universal Motown / Atlantic / Elektra Most swoonworthy lyrics: "As I stand here before my woman / I can't fight back the tears in my eyes / Oh, how could I be so lucky / I must've done something right"

64. Donna Lewis, "I Love You Always Forever"

View this video on YouTube Atlantic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I love you always forever / Near and far, closer together / Everywhere I will be with you / Everything I will do for you"

65. Bob Dylan, "Make You Feel My Love"

View this video on YouTube Columbia Most swoonworthy lyrics: "There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do / To make you feel my love"

66. The Bee Gees, "How Deep Is Your Love"

View this video on YouTube RSO Most swoonworthy lyrics: "You know the door to my very soul / You're the light in my deepest, darkest hour"

67. K-Ci & JoJo, "All My Life"

View this video on YouTube MCA Most swoonworthy lyrics: "All my life, I pray for someone like you / I thank God that I, that I finally found you"

68. The Weeknd, "Earned It"

View this video on YouTube Republic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "You make it look like it's magic / 'Cause I see nobody, nobody but you, you, you"

69. Elvis Presley, "Can't Help Falling in Love"

View this video on YouTube RCA Victor Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Take my hand / Take my whole life too / For I can"t help falling in love with you"

70. Marvin Gaye, "Sexual Healing"

View this video on YouTube Columbia / CBS Records Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Whenever blue teardrops are fallin' / And my emotional stability is leaving me / There is something I can do / I can get on the telephone and call you up, baby"

71. James Bay, "Need the Sun to Break"

View this video on YouTube Republic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I need the sun to break, you've woken up my heart / I'm shaking, all my luck could change / Been in the dark for weeks, and I've realized you're all I need"

72. Justin Timberlake, "Mirrors"

View this video on YouTube RCA Most swoonworthy lyrics: "'Cause I don't wanna lose you now / I'm lookin' right at the other half of me / The vacancy that sat in my heart / Is a space that now you hold"

73. Modern English, "I Melt With You"

View this video on YouTube 4AD/Sire Most swoonworthy lyrics: "There's nothing you and I won't do / I'll stop the world and melt with you"

74. Stevie Wonder, "I Just Called to Say I Love You"

View this video on YouTube Motown Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I just called to say I love you / And I mean it from the bottom of my heart"

75. Foster the People, "I Would Do Anything for You"

View this video on YouTube Startime/Columbia Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Ooh-la-love, I've fallen in love, and it's better this time than ever before / Ooh-la-love, I've fallen in love, and it's better this time than I've ever known"

76. The Postal Service, "Such Great Heights"

View this video on YouTube Sub Pop Most swoonworthy lyrics: "And I have to speculate / That God Himself did make / Us into corresponding shapes / Like puzzle pieces from the clay"

77. Death Cab for Cutie, "I Will Follow You Into the Dark"

View this video on YouTube Atlantic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "If there's no one beside you / When your soul embarks / Then I'll follow you into the dark"

78. Frank Sinatra, "The Way You Look Tonight"

View this video on YouTube RCA Victor/Columbia/Capitol/Reprise/Warner Bros. Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Some day, when I'm awfully low / When the world is cold / I will feel a glow just thinking of you / And the way you look tonight"

79. The National Parks, "You Are Gold"

View this video on YouTube N/A / Groundloop Records Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I felt big with you next to me"

80. Hunter Hayes, "Wanted"

View this video on YouTube Atlantic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I wanna make you feel wanted / And I wanna call you mine / Wanna hold your hand forever"

81. Al Green, "Let's Stay Together"

View this video on YouTube Hi Records Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Whatever you want to do / Is all right with me / 'Cause you make me feel so brand new / And I want to spend my life with you"

82. Eric Clapton, "Wonderful Tonight"

View this video on YouTube RSO Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I feel wonderful / Because I see the love light in your eyes / And the wonder of it all / Is that you just don't realize how much I love you"

83. David Gray, "This Year's Love"

View this video on YouTube IHT/EastWest Most swoonworthy lyrics: "When ya hold me like you do / It feels so right oh now"

84. Percy Sledge, "When a Man Loves a Woman"

View this video on YouTube Atlantic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "When a man loves a woman, he can't keep his mind on nothing else / He'll trade the world for the good thing he's found"

85. The Goo Goo Dolls, "Come to Me"

View this video on YouTube Warner Bros. Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Come to me with secrets bare / I'll love you more so don't be scared / And when we're old and near the end / We'll go home and start again"

86. Ray LaMontagne, "Hold You in My Arms"

View this video on YouTube RCA Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I could hold you in my arms / I could hold you forever"

87. The National, "Slow Show"

View this video on YouTube Beggars Banquet Most swoonworthy lyrics: "You know I dreamed about you / For 29 years before I saw you"

88. Otis Redding, "That's How Strong My Love Is"

View this video on YouTube Volt/Atco Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I'll be the ocean so deep and wide / And catch the tears whenever you cry / I'll be the breeze after the storm is gone / To dry your eyes and keep you warm"

89. Diana Ross, "Love Hangover"

View this video on YouTube Motown Most swoonworthy lyrics: "If there's a cure for this / I don't want it, don't want it"

90. Rufus and Chaka Khan, "Ain't Nobody"

View this video on YouTube Warner Bros. Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I want this dream to be real / I need this feelin'"

91. Fleetwood Mac, "Everywhere"

View this video on YouTube Warner Bros. Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I want to be with you everywhere"

92. Jackie Wilson, "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"

View this video on YouTube Brunswick Records Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Your love, lifting me higher / Than I've ever, been lifted before"

93. Monica, "Angel of Mine"

View this video on YouTube Arista Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Nothing means more to me than what we share / No one in this whole world can ever compare"

94. Billie Holiday, "Crazy He Calls Me"

View this video on YouTube MGM Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Like the wind that shakes the bough / He moves me with a smile / The difficult I'll do right now / The impossible will take a little while"

95. Alison Krauss, "When You Say Nothing at All"

View this video on YouTube RCA Most swoonworthy lyrics: "There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me / The touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall / You say it best when you say nothing at all"

96. The Emotions, "Best of My Love"

View this video on YouTube Columbia Most swoonworthy lyrics: "I like the way you make me feel about you, baby / Want the whole wide world to see"

97. Tina Turner, "The Best"

View this video on YouTube Capitol Most swoonworthy lyrics: "In your heart, I see the start of every night and every day / In your eyes, I get lost, I get washed away / Just as long as I'm here in your arms / I could be in no better place"

98. The Drifters, “This Magic Moment”

View this video on YouTube Atlantic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Sweeter than wine / Softer than the summer night / Everything I want I have / Whenever I hold you tight"

99. Aretha Franklin, "(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman"

View this video on YouTube Atlantic Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Now I'm no longer doubtful of what I'm living for / And if I make you happy, I don't need to do more"

100. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “The Power of Love”

View this video on YouTube ZTT Most swoonworthy lyrics: "When the chips are down I'll be around / With my undying, death-defying love for you"

101. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, “Cheek to Cheek”

View this video on YouTube Verve/Polygram Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Oh, I'd love to climb the mountain / Reach the highest peak / But it doesn't thrill me half as much / As dancing cheek to cheek"

102. Muna Feat. Phoebe Bridgers, "Silk Chiffon"

View this video on YouTube Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans Most swoonworthy lyrics: "She said that I got her if I want / She's so soft like silk chiffon"

103. Berlin, "Take My Breath Away"

View this video on YouTube Columbia Most swoonworthy lyrics: "My love, take my breath away"

104. And Finally: Diana Ross and Lionel Richie, "Endless Love"

View this video on YouTube Motown Most swoonworthy lyrics: "Two hearts that beat as one / Our lives have just begun"

Are any of your favorites missing from the list? Discuss, please!

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