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TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #1

#1 "Endless Love" Diana Ross & Lionel                                                                  Richie

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for nine weeks (1981)

Producer Jon Peters and director Franco Zeffirelli asked Lionel Richie to compose an instrumental along the lines of the theme from "Love Story" for their movie starring Brooke Shields. When Zeffirelli changed his mind and asked Richie if he would add lyrics, the Motown star agreed to write some. Then Zeffirelli made one more request – to add a female singer, someone like Diana Ross.

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #2

#2 "I’ll Make Love to You" - Boyz II Men

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 14 weeks (1994)

When the members of Boyz II Men first heard Babyface's composition "I'll Make Love to You," they were concerned about recording a song that was too similar to their previous hit, "End of the Road." Nathan Morris explains, "The record company talked us into doing it and thank God it worked."

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #3

#3 "We Found Love" - Rihanna feat. Calvin                                                               Harris

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 10 weeks (2011)

What could be more romantic than finding love in a "hopeless place"? Rihanna scored the biggest hit of her career (and the top 'love' song of the 21st century) with only her fourth Hot 100 entry to feature "love" in the title, following "If It's Lovin' That You Want" (2005), "Hate That I Love You" (2007) and her featured role on Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" (2010).

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #4

#4 "How Deep Is Your Love," Bee Gees

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for three weeks (1977)

Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb hadn't seen the script for the movie that became "Saturday Night Fever" when they wrote "How Deep Is Your Love" for the soundtrack. They weren't even certain that there was a love scene in the film. They intended the song for Yvonne Elliman, but their manager Robert Stigwood insisted they record it themselves.

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #5

#5 "Silly Love Songs" - Wings

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for five weeks (1976)

1976 was a very good year for love songs achieving pole position on the Hot 100. First there was "Love Rollercoaster" by the Ohio Players, followed by Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," "Love Machine" by the Miracles, "Let Your Love Flow" by the Bellamy Brothers, "Love Hangover" by Diana Ross and the longest-running "love" No. 1 of the year, Wings' "Silly Love Songs."

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #6

#6 "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney                                                                   Houston

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 14 weeks (1992)

Houston's signature song was originally a No. 1 hit for the woman who composed the tune, Dolly Parton. Her version topped the Hot Country Songs chart in 1974 and again in 1982.

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #7

#7 "Let Me Love You" - Mario

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for nine weeks (2005)

Mario didn't realize this song was going to be so huge. "I didn't know it would touch so many people," he says. "But it was an emotional song and those records last forever."

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #8

#8 "Because I Love You (The Postman                                                   Song)" -Stevie B

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for four weeks (1990)

Songwriter Warren Allen Brooks says his No. 1 hit was a "spiritual song," even if people think he was writing about love between a man and a woman. "It's really about me and God having a personal relationship."

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #9

#9 "Best of My Love" - The Emotions

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for five weeks (1977)

When the Stax label folded, the three Hutchinson sisters had to find a new home. They were signed to a production company run by Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire. With group member Al McKay, White wrote this song specifically for them and the lead voice of Wanda Hutchinson.

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #10

#10 "I Can’t Stop Loving You" - Ray                                                                        Charles

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for five weeks (1962)

Back in 1958, Don Gibson wrote two songs one hot afternoon in Knoxville, Tenn. – "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You." Four years later, Charles only needed to hear the first two lines of the latter before deciding to record it for his album "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music."

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #11

#11 "Bleeding Love" - Leona Lewis

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for four weeks (2008)

Ryan Tedder and Jesse McCartney wrote the song, inspired by the latter's long-distance romance with his girlfriend. McCartney wanted the song for himself but his label was unenthusiastic so it went to the winner of the third season of "The X Factor" in the U.K.

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #12

#12 "My Love" - Paul McCartney and                                                                        Wings

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for four weeks (1973)

McCartney wrote "My Love" about one of the members of his post-Beatles band, Wings. The inspiration for the sentimental ballad was Scarsdale, N.Y.-born Linda Louise Eastman, a professional photographer before she married McCartney on March 12, 1969.

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #13

#13 "Because You Loved Me" - Celine                                                                         Dion

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for six weeks (1996)

After viewing the film "Up Close and Personal," Diane Warren met with director Jon Avnet to talk about her vision of the song she was to compose for his movie. The next morning in her office, she recalls, "The chorus lyrically and musically wrote itself."

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #14

#14 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" -                                                                      Queen

Hot 100: No. 1 for four weeks (1980)

Freddie Mercury wrote the song while languishing in his bath at the Munich Hilton. He leaped from the tub and ran to his guitar and piano to lay down the melody. His label was reluctant to release the song in the U.S. but radio stations played the imported U.K. single anyway, forcing an American release.

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #15

#15 "To Know Him Is to Love Him" - The                             Teddy Bears

                                   

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for three weeks (1958)

Phil Spector was inspired to write the song by a photograph of his father's tombstone at Beth David Cemetery in New York. The inscription read: "To Know Him Was to Love Him."

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #16

#16 "Love Is Blue" - Paul Mauriat

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for five weeks (1968)

Five years after he co-wrote Peggy March's No. 1 hit "I Will Follow Him," Mauriat was back on top of the Hot 100 with an instrumental cover of "L'Amor Est Bleu," Luxembourg's entry in the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest. Vicki Leandros performed the song, which placed fourth in the annual songfest.

TOP 17 LOVE SONGS LISTENED TO EVER #17

#17  "Woman in Love" - Barbra Streisand

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for three weeks (1980)

Barry and Robin Gibb wrote the song for Streisand but the former told Billboard he gives the artist most of the credit. "At least 80 per cent of the success of the record belongs to her."