1/7/2024 0 Comments Adele someone like you pianoAgain, though, none are clearly as bare-bones as “Someone Like You” (or “Angel”). I’m tempted to bestow the title upon any of the early “American Idol” coronation songs: Carrie Underwood’s “Inside Your Heaven” (2005) Fantasia’s “I Believe” (2004) Clay Aiken’s “This Is the Night” (2003 oh wait, that’s right, Ruben Studdard won that year …) or, Clarkson’s “A Moment Like This” (2002). What, then, was the last all-out, low-key piano ballad to rule the Hot 100 prior to “Someone Like You”? (Nor, Marc Anthony’s “You Sang to Me,” which I mention only because I want to reference your almost-namesake). I’d not put any of those songs, though, in that same “Someone Like You”/”Angel” league of sparseness, as they all include greater levels of instrumentation. Piano Man: The Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40, Performed Song-By-Song ![]() (A personal favorite, although it never charted: Aimee Mann’s “Wise Up,” most famously sung by members of the cast of the 1999 movie “Magnolia,” starring Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julianne Moore). ![]() 7, 2005) and, Michael Buble’s “Home” (No. 11, 2008) Kelly Clarkson’s “Because of You” (No. 1 piano ballads from recent years that merit a mention: Leona Lewis’ “Better in Time” (No. 25 on the Hot 100’s Bubbling Under chart).Ī few other non-Hot 100 No. Somewhat inexplicably, Jackson’s melodic single spent only a week at No. (I always thought it was interesting that it was one of two ballads by superstar divas in recent years by that title: Janet Jackson had released the similarly intimate “Every Time” in 1998. The latter song, however, does culminate in a gush of guitars and drums.īritney Spears’ “Everytime” seems to count as a piano ballad, but that song peaked at No. “Angel” is a great example of that rare type of pop hit, a song that showcases the raw strength of a vocalist against only the backdrop of piano accompaniment, combining to create a tempo-halting, yet undeniably captivating, radio moment.Ī more recent such song could be Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb,” which rose to No. How Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ Became First Ballad in More Than Three Years to Top Billboard Hot 100 But, if the slight tempo and other, fuller production that kicks in later disqualifies it as a piano ballad to your ears, I could certainly understand that. It does, after all, start with a piano intro. No – happy to try and figure out (of course!)įirst, I think you could make a case that “Bow” is a piano ballad. ![]() 1? Now you want the last piano ballad?! Such nerve! Not enough simply to note the last ballad No. Motley Crue, Papa Roach & More Feature on Both Screen & Soundtrack For 'The Retaliators': Producers…
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