Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel)
1977 · From The Stranger
Bebop alto player Phil Woods takes the solo, and the melody Joel dreamed won Record and Song of the Year.
★ 6.2
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All of Me
2013
A piano ballad written for Teigen that gave Legend his first Hot 100 number one after nearly a decade.
★ 5.1
The Way I Are
Timbaland and Keri Hilson
2007
Cut in Virginia Beach with Danja co-producing, Keri Hilson co-writing, and a hook that shrugs at the whole courtship.
★ 5.0
I Can't Make You Love Me (Bon Iver)
2011
Vernon strips Reid and Shamblin's Nashville ballad to falsetto, then slips into Raitt's "Nick of Time" at the end.
★ 4.5
Rudolph the Red-Nosed ReindeerGene Autry
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1949
Recorded in June 1949 by a reluctant Autry, at his wife's urging, from a story written for a department store.
★ 4.4
As Long As You Love Me (Backstreet Boys)
1997
Strep throat handed McLean's bridge to Littrell; Clive Calder heard Max Martin's demo and added it late.
★ 4.3
Bent
2000
Codependency as a love song, Serletic producing, and the only Matchbox Twenty record to reach number one.
★ 3.5
Angel of the Morning
1981
Chip Taylor wrote it after hearing Ruby Tuesday, Connie Francis passed on it, and Newton reached number four.
★ 3.1
C'est La Vie
1986
Gospel singer Beau Williams cut it first; Nevil, an MCA staff writer, took his version to number two.
★ 1.7