Last year on Valentine's Day, I posted twice on my blog: once on the occurrence of the word Valentine in songs from Billboard's year-end Top 30 charts (1951-2015), and once on references to saints in the same collection of music. In this post, I look at the word love in songs making up Billboard's year-end Top Ten charts (1951-2016). Of course, as I mentioned in an earlier post, love is a frequent word in pop music, but in this music video essay I present the top ten songs from the collection in terms of the density of variants of love in chunks of the song (e.g. love, loves, loved, lovely, loving, etc.). In other words, these are songs just dripping with the word love.

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"I Love a Rainy Night" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in November 1980 as the second single from his album Horizon. It reached number one on the Hot Country Singles, Billboard Hot 100, and Adult Contemporary Singles charts in 1981.

Paul McCartney - My Love

From 1977

The Righteous Brothers - Bill Medley & Bobby Perform a blistering live performance of their classic hit You've lost that loving feeling on an American tv special in 1965 at the height of their fame

Alan O'Day - Undercover Angel

Alicia Keys' official music video for 'Fallin''. Click to listen to Alicia Keys on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/AKeysSpot?IQid=AliciaKFAL As featured on Songs In A Minor.

She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah You think you lost your love, Well, I saw her yesterday. It's you she's thinking of And she told me what to say. She says she loves you And you know that can't be bad.

Official video of Billy Idol performing Cradle Of Love from the album Charmed Life.

And a couple of bonuses from outside the collection:

Here's a fun remix of "The Word" by The Beatles! Created using the (very low quality) MOGG multi-track audio files from the Beatles Rock Band video game. Edited with Ableton Live 10. (Listen for the subtle mashup with "I am the Walrus" near the end!) Video footage is from the Yellow Submarine and Help!

"The Beatles added to the gaiety of nations and they raised the sum of human happiness. You can watch this footage over and over again and never tire of remembering why." - Mark Ellen ALL-NEW EDITIONS OF THE BEATLES 1 VIDEO COLLECTION PAIR BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED PROMOTIONAL FILMS AND VIDEOS WITH BRAND NEW STEREO SURROUND AUDIO MIXES.

This post could not have been put together without my friends Clayton Darwin and Betsy Barry and BRDi Tools.

For a recent post on the "love is" construction in pop music, click here.

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