The UK’s top 10 love songs:

1. All Of Me, John Legend (11%)
2.  I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston (10%)
3.  Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol (9%)
4. Thinking Out Loud, Ed Sheeran (9%)
5. I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing, Aerosmith (8%)
6. Just The Way You Are, Bruno Mars (7%)
7.  Angels, Robbie Williams (7%)
8.  (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Bryan Adams (7%)
9. My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion (5%)
10.  The Power Of Love, Jennifer Rush (4%)

Written by John Legend for his then-fiancée, now wife, Chrissy Teigen, ‘All Of Me’ is a piano and vocal ballad that has become a popular choice for weddings and romantic occasions. It shot to number one on the Billboard 200, and number two on the UK Singles Chart.

The UK’s top 10 love songs have an average BPM of 111. This shows that songs with faster tempos may boost your romantic mood.

The participants were asked which genres they found to be the most romantic – around a quarter (24%) chose chill-out music, followed closely by pop (21%) and RnB (20%). Lower in the romantic rankings were hip hop (2%), heavy metal (1%) and house music (0.7%).

In 2021, the official UK Charts Company compiled their data to make a list of the ‘Best-selling Love Songs of All-Time’, based on both physical sales and downloads. At the top of the list was “Love Is All Around” by Scottish soft-rockers, Wet Wet Wet. Originally written and performed by the Troggs, the song was covered by Wet Wet Wet for the soundtrack of the film Four Weddings and A Funeral. The tune managed to sell 1.91 million copies and spent 15 weeks at No.1.

Following closely was ‘Unchained Melody’ by Robson and Jerome. Originally written as a theme for the film Unchained, it has since been recorded in over 1,500 recordings by more than 670 artists. The Robson and Jerome version became the best-selling single of 1995 in the UK, also becoming Simon Cowell’s first big hit after he signed the two popstars. Another cover version by Gareth Gates made it onto the best-sellers list.

The Top 10 Best-selling Love Songs in the UK:

1. Wet, Wet, Wet – Love Is All Around
2. Robson & Jerome – Unchained Melody/The White Cliffs of Dover
3. Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
4. Will Young – Anything Is Possible/Evergreen
5. Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
6. Celine Dion – My Heart Will Go On
7. Jennifer Rush – The Power Of Love
8. Celine Dion – Think Twice
9. Bruno Mars – Just The Way You Are (Amazing)
10. Gareth Gates – Unchained Melody

The full list with rundowns of a few of the tracks can be found here. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Steeped in angst and effective in it’s stark use of contrast, it’s an immediately engaging piece of work that deserves your attention. You can check it out below:

The video was shot on Praia de Almagreira beach in Portugal and directed by the prolific French music video director Yoann Lemoine (Katy Perry – “Teenage Dream“, Lana Del Rey – “Born to Die“, Harry Styles – “Sign of the Times”). Speaking with NME recently Lemoine said “Twigs approached me with a beautiful treatment for “killer” that she had written about her personal story. It felt empowering and vulnerable at the same time. I said yes instantly when she asked me to direct it. It was the perfect opportunity to portray her in a way that we have not seen before, raw and intimate“. Going on he explained “The video is about the poison and the fuel that personal trauma is in art. How our experience forces us to create and how sometimes it is only inhibition and violence“.

The overall feeling stirred by the video is a powerful one, with a climactic scene that sees Twigs watch on helpless as she and her lover, now wearing a demonic mask, make love in a hellish landscape. It’s an interesting take on someones facade slipping the more you become engrossed in them, with the mask seeming to represent her partners true identity, it can be seen as a twist on the well trodden Scooby-Doo reveal that we’re all used to. It’s a vulnerable and nightmarish take on trauma and the dangerously hypnotic nature of love, with Twigs representing herself as honestly as ever.

Elsewhere FKA twigs has released a handful of music videos recently for tracks from her 2022 mixtape Caprisongs, including “Papi Bones,” “Honda,” and “Oh My Love”.