Rank Disney Love Songs

[The Disneynerd]

I dont think there was a thread for that and as Disney has so many aiconic and Underrated love songs it would be really fun to rank them imo.

You can include everything from cheapquels WDAS, Live action etc

[PatchofBlue]

1. A Whole New World
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. (I Won't Say) I'm in Love
4. Kiss the Girl
5. I See the Light
6. One Song
7. Someday My Prince Will Come
8. Once Upon a Dream
9. Lost in the Woods
10. So This is Love
11. Can You Feel the Love Tonight
12. Bella Notte
13. Fixer Upper
14. Love
15. Evangeline


One thing I'm appreciating seeing all these songs together like this is just how varied and diverse the roster of love songs is within the Disney canon. "Someday My Prince Will Come" has such a different tone from "(I Won't Say) I'm in Love" or "Kiss the Girl."

Anyways, The Princess and the Frog's songs will inevitably find themselves at the bottom of any ranking except perhaps in cases where it is competing with Wish.

[Disney's Divinity]

1. "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)"
2. "A Whole New World" (Kane/Salonga)
3. "Beauty and the Beast" (Angela Lansbury)
4. "Ten Minutes Ago" from R&H's Cinderella--the '90s Disney show)
5. "Happy Ending" (TLM Choral Reprise)
6. "Part of Your World (Reprise)"
7. "Transformation" (B&tB Choral Reprise)
8. "I'm Wishing/One Song"
9. "Something There"
10. "Evermore"
11. "That's How You Know"
12. "Love Is An Open Door"
13. "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Streisand Version--not going to list other outside covers, but this one's the best version of that song for me)
14. "Beauty and the Beast" (Finale--Audra McDonald)
15. "Never Knew I Needed"
16. "One Step Closer" (TLM Broadway)
17. "Beauty and the Beast" (End Title--Celine, Bryson)
18. "Kiss the Girl" (I actually enjoy the Broadway version a little better than the original with this one, no knock on Wright at all. )
19. "Forget About Love" (The Return of Jafar)
20. "My Own Home"
21. "True Love" (Frozen Broadway)
22. "Happy End in Agrabah"
23. "Stories" (The Enchanted Christmas)
24. "Wild, Uncharted Waters"
25. "Party in Agrabah" (King of Thieves)
26. "Love Will Find a Way" (Simba's Pride)
27. "Out of Thin Air" (King of Thieves)
28. "Different" (Tarzan Broadway)
29. "If I Can't Love Her" (Josh Groban--his version of B&tB in the Live is held back by H.E.R., she's just not vocally as powerful and you can tell they arranged it more simply to accommodate her)
30. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (Elton John version and the Beyonce/Glover are about tied)
31. "If Only" (Duet Version from the Demos and Live!)
32. "If I Never Knew You" (End Credits)
33. "She's in Love" (TLM Broadway)
34. "A Whole New World" (End Title--Bryson, Belle)
35. "If I Never Knew You" (In-Film)
36. "Lost in the Woods"
37. "I See the Light"
38. "Once Upon a Dream"
39. "Beauty and the Beast" (End Title--Grande, Legend)
40. "Love Can't Be Denied"
41. "If Only" (Quartet Version)
42. "A Whole New World" (End Credits--ZAYN, Ward)
43. "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (In-Film Version)
44. "So Close"
45. "What Do You Know About Love?" (Frozen Broadway
46. "If I Could Take This Moment Back" (Tangled: The Series)
47. "I Wonder"
48. "Between Two Worlds" (Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World)
49. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (Original In-Film Version)
50. "Love"
51. "If I Can't Love Her" (B&tB Broadway)
52. "For the First Time" (Tarzan Broadway)
53. "Love Will Find a Way" (End Credits)
54. "I Bring You a Song (Looking For Romance)"
55. "Everything I Ever Thought I Knew" (Tangled: The Series)
56. "Bella Notte"
57. "Beauty and the Beast" (Shania Twain--love Shania, that just wasn't it.)
58. "So This Is Love"
59. "Fixer Upper"
60. "Ma Belle Evangeline"

"Love Is an Open Door" is a fake-out love song, but I'm including it anyway. I don't agree with PatchOfBlue on TP&TF at all, but "Ma Belle Evangeline" was a mess, the worst in the movie. Newman made his disdain for doing a princess musical pretty obvious with that one. "Almost There" and "Down in New Orleans" are both pretty good though, so it's not the entire soundtrack. I know it's Gilbert Gotfried, but I also like "Forget About Love" from The Return of Jafar, you'd think it would make my ears bleed. I love Liz Callaway's voice.

Not going to bother with the in-film versions of songs from the remakes, I only did the originals or End Credits songs. I actually like the version of "Once Upon a Dream" on the Legacy Collection's second disc with Bill Lee a bit more than the in-film version. I'm conflicted on whether "Colors of the Wind" belongs here, its lyrics aren't exactly romantic per se, but it ends with the characters kissing, so... Its function feels romantic if nothing else.

[Sotiris]

Is there a difference between an 'I Want' song where the character wishes for love vs. a proper Love song?

[The Disneynerd]

My ranking:
1. So close (Enchanted)
2. A whole New world (Aladdin)
3. Beauty and the Beast
4. If I never knew you (Pocahontas)
5. I see the Light (Tangled)
6. Love cant be denied (Snowqueen/Frozen)
7. I wont say im in love (Hercules)
8. True loves kiss (Enchante)
9. So this is love (Cinderella)
10. Kiss the girl (Mermaid)

Is there a difference between an 'I Want' song where the character wishes for love vs. a proper Love song?

Well not really but at least we can narrow them down to just love songs as half of the "I want" songs are more about self discovery rather than love

And I guess we can include non romantic relationship love songs too like "Youll be in my Heart" etc as they are listed too in Disney love song tracklists (would be above BatB song but im too lazy to change my ranking now)

If we would include non Disney animated stuff, Thumbelinas "Let me be your Wings" is one of my fav Love songs ever! And might challenge A whole New Worlds #2 position

One thing I'm appreciating seeing all these songs together like this is just how varied and diverse the roster of love songs is within the Disney canon. "Someday My Prince Will Come" has such a different tone from "(I Won't Say) I'm in Love" or "Kiss the Girl."

I agree with u. Its refreshing that Love songs dont have to be the clichee slow calm ballad but also more powerful or energetic, i really like all those contrasts in the disney catalogue (dont get me wrong with the stereotypical love songs as I appreciate them too, i mean So close is literally #1 lol)

Also Yay we have some parallels with #5

Really grand ranking Divinity! Love that you included Broadway songs and Choral/Instrumentals!

[carolinakid]

Some favorites:
I’m Wishing 1937
One Song 1937
Some Day My Prince Will Come 1937
I Bring You A Song 1942
So This Is Love 1950
Bella Notte 1955
I Wonder 1959
Love 1973
Candle On The Water 1977

[Farerb]

1. Looking for Romance (I Bring You a Song) (Bambi)

2. Love is a Song (Bambi)

3. I'm Wishing / One Song (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

4. Someday My Prince Will Come (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

5. Bella Notte (Lady and the Tramp)

6. Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty)

7. So This is Love (Cinderella)

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1. Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)

2. A Whole New World (Aladdin)

3. If I Never You (Pocahontas)

4. Something There (Beauty and the Beast)

5. Kiss the Girl (The Little Mermaid)

6. Can You Feel the Love Tonight (The Lion King)

7. In a Place of Miracles (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

8. I Won't Say (Hercules)

9. One Day She'll Love Me (The Emperor's New Groove)

10. I See the Lights (Tangled)

[Disney Duster]

1. I Bring You a Song
2. Love is a Song
3. Can You Feel the Love Tonight
4. One Song
5. Beauty and the Beast
6. Someday My Prince Will Come
7. I'm Wishing
8. A Whole New World
9. Love
10: In a Place of Miracles
11. How Do You Know
12. I Won't Say I'm In Love

The first three are so haunting. The entire list is what I feel are the best and my favorite.

[Disney's Divinity]

Is there a difference between an 'I Want' song where the character wishes for love vs. a proper Love song?

Depends on the lyrics. I don't think POYW is about romance, but the reprise is, for example. Both Snow White's and Aurora's songs are about romance to me, too.

The more I think of it, I'm not sure if I should've included "Love Is a Song," since I think it's more about love in a general sense, not really romantic love. But I forgot "I Bring You a Song" and the Enchanted songs, so it balances out.