Top 10 Best Date Night Songs

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You can't have date night without these songs. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re looking at the songs you gotta have for a romantic evening.

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00:00 "My head's underwater, but I'm breathing fire."

00:06 Welcome to Ms Mojo, and today we're looking at the songs you gotta have for a romantic evening.

00:12 "Life is like a song."

00:18 Number 10, your song, Elton John.

00:21 "It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside."

00:28 Most of us don't have the lyrical ability of Bernie Taupin or the musical genius of Elton John,

00:33 but thanks to their combined brilliance, we have one of the most perfect date night songs imaginable.

00:38 "If I was a sculptor, but then again, no."

00:45 A song that, in its simple romanticism, allows anyone to proclaim that this track is for their

00:50 loved one. Because whoever is sitting across from you on date night, you can look them in the eye

00:55 and tell them that this is your song. "I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, what I put down in the world."

01:04 And when Elton sings about how wonderful life is while you're in the world,

01:08 well, we couldn't have said it any better ourselves.

01:12 "How wonderful life is while you're in the world."

01:19 Number 9, P.S. I Love You, Billie Holiday.

01:22 "Dear, I thought I'd drop a line."

01:26 There are few voices as distinctive as Billie Holiday,

01:30 and few are still as perfect as the soundtrack to a romantic date night dinner.

01:35 "Yesterday, we had some rain."

01:39 You could put a Billie Holiday playlist on shuffle and those jazz and R&B tones would fit the evening

01:45 like a glove. Regardless of which one of her many great songs came on next,

01:50 "Ride to the Bronx, just as soon as you're able."

01:56 But if we had to narrow it down to just one, we gotta give the nod to her 1954

02:02 version of the 1934 song, P.S. I Love You. P.S. We love it.

02:08 "Yes, I love you."

02:13 Number 8, Fade Into You, Mazzy Starr.

02:16 "I wanna hold the hand inside you."

02:21 Whether or not you and/or your date were around in 1994 when Fade Into You reached number 44

02:27 on the Billboard Hot 100 doesn't matter. This is a great song for a date night regardless.

02:32 Alternative band Mazzy Starr only had one song charted on the Billboard Hot 100, and it was

02:38 this one. Rolling Stone magazine has ranked this song as one of the 500 Greatest Ever,

02:44 and it's hard to argue with the selection.

02:46 "Fade into you."

02:52 The track has an echoing beauty that makes for wonderful background music at dinner,

02:56 but also works for those spontaneous date night slow dances.

03:00 "Drain you of me."

03:06 Number 7, A Thousand Years, Christina Perri.

03:09 "Heart beats fast, colors..."

03:13 If you and/or your partner are fans of the Twilight Saga,

03:17 then this one is a no-brainer for your next date night playlist.

03:21 "One step closer."

03:27 Appearing in both Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2, a version recorded with Steve Kazee,

03:32 appears in Part 2. The song is a lyrical exploration of the great Edward and Bella love story.

03:38 "I have loved you for a thousand years."

03:44 Whether you like the movies or not, there's no denying the beauty and romanticism of the track.

03:49 And with the video topping over 2 billion views on YouTube,

03:53 we sure aren't the only ones who think that.

03:55 "I love you for a thousand years."

04:01 Number 6, Lover, Taylor Swift.

04:04 "We could leave the Christmas lights up till January."

04:08 While Taylor Swift has produced a number of great songs to listen to after a breakup,

04:13 she also produced some tunes that are perfect for those in loving and committed relationships

04:17 to enjoy as well. "Have I known you 20 seconds, 20 years."

04:23 Lover, off her similarly titled seventh studio album, is one such song. In fact,

04:29 the entire album itself has been described by Swift as a love letter to love.

04:34 Through a romantic gaze. "And I go where you go."

04:41 So it only makes sense that the beautiful Lover be part of the

04:45 soundtrack as you gaze romantically at the one you truly love.

04:48 "Lover."

04:56 Number 5, All of Me, John Legend.

04:58 "What would I do without your smart mouth? Drawing me in and you kicking me out."

05:05 Unless you're married to Chrissy Teigen,

05:07 you can't tell your partner that this song was written for them.

05:10 But just because it's the perfect date night song for John Legend and his wife

05:14 doesn't mean it isn't also ideal for the rest of us.

05:17 "My head's underwater but I'm breathing fire."

05:24 And besides the ridiculously romantic lyrics, All of Me's slow tempo and beautifully simple

05:30 piano accompaniments create a peaceful and loving atmosphere that's pretty ideal for

05:34 any romantic evening. "I give you all of me."

05:41 Also, given that the song was the third best-selling track around the world in 2014,

05:47 we're gonna assume it's been part of the soundtrack to at least a few intimate evenings already.

05:52 "And you give me all of you."

05:57 Number 4, Endless Love, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie.

06:02 "My love, there's only you in my life."

06:09 Do you consider your relationship to be the greatest coupling of all time?

06:13 Well, if so, then you obviously need to have the song that Billboard calls

06:18 "the greatest duet of all time" as part of your date night playlist.

06:21 "My first love, you're every breath that I take."

06:29 Okay, so maybe that's a little too much pressure on our relationships,

06:33 but thankfully this classic back-and-forth love song is great for our romantic evenings,

06:38 even if our couplehood isn't the greatest the world has ever known.

06:42 "And I'm in love, I want to share."

06:48 And while the Diana Ross and Lionel Richie version is the OG Endless Love,

06:53 we recommend checking out the Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey version as well some nights.

06:58 Number 3, Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye.

07:08 "I've been really trying."

07:14 "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye is unapologetically a song about love and sex.

07:20 We don't want to assume that your date night has to lead to, shall we say, an intimate conclusion.

07:25 "Trying to hold back this feeling for so long."

07:31 But if it's headed that way, it certainly doesn't hurt to give it a nudge with one of the down-and-out

07:36 sexiest songs of all time. It's smooth and soulful and has that awesome groove that can

07:42 get anyone in the mood too. As Gaye sings, "You know what I'm talking about."

07:49 Just make sure you play this one after dinner or else your food is going to get cold.

07:54 Number 2, Until I Found You, Stephen Sanchez.

08:01 Stephen Sanchez wrote Until I Found You for his girlfriend Georgia,

08:11 and now we can all enjoy it with our sweethearts regardless of their names.

08:15 As Sanchez put it in an interview with ABC Audio, "All the track ever needed to be was

08:26 just a song about a girl that I love." And sometimes that's all date night needs to be as

08:32 well. Just an evening with the person that you love and that loves you back.

08:36 "I was lost within the darkness but then I found her."

08:43 And sure, Sanchez and Georgia are no longer together, but they've remained good friends,

08:47 and in Sanchez's own words, "She'll always be someone so important and special to me."

08:52 It kinda makes us love the song even more.

08:55 "I found you."

09:01 Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.

09:04 Say You Won't Let Go, James Arthur.

09:07 Let Your Significant Other Know You Will Always Hold On.

09:10 I Belong To You, Brandi Carlile.

09:17 A guitar and Brandi Carlile's beautiful voice. A great date night combination.

09:22 Angels, Robbie Williams.

09:31 Whether it's two people or 20,000, you can't go wrong with this one.

09:35 Earned It, The Weekend.

09:43 You and your partner earned this date night. No red room required.

09:47 The Way You Look Tonight, Fred Astaire.

09:55 If it's good enough for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, it's good enough for us.

09:59 Just the way you look tonight.

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10:19 At Last, Etta James.

10:28 At Last was originally written for the 1941 musical Sun Valley Serenade,

10:33 and it has been re-recorded multiple times throughout the decades that followed.

10:37 However, while there are some nice recordings out there, when it comes to At Last,

10:41 there really is just one version that matters.

10:44 That's the one Etta James gave the world in 1960. The one that was inducted into the Library of

10:56 Congress' National Recording Registry. The one that Rolling Stone called the 115th greatest song

11:02 of all time. The one that has been the soundtrack to many a wedding reception.

11:13 And the one that is the ultimate date night song for you and yours.

11:24 What's your go-to date night song? Let us know in the comments.

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