How the Greatest Love Songs bracket works
Rank love songs without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — I Will Always Love You or At Last? Can't Help Falling in Love or Make You Feel My Love? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 32-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 tracks in the field. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including I Will Always Love You, At Last, Can't Help Falling in Love and Make You Feel My Love.
I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston
At Last
Etta James
Can't Help Falling in Love
Elvis Presley
Make You Feel My Love
Adele
Thinking Out Loud
Ed Sheeran
Unchained Melody
The Righteous Brothers
All of Me
John Legend
My Girl
The Temptations
Endless Love
Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Something
The Beatles
Your Song
Elton John
Just the Way You Are
Bruno Mars
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
Aerosmith
Wonderful Tonight
Eric Clapton
Perfect
Ed Sheeran
Let's Stay Together
Al Green
When a Man Loves a Woman
Percy Sledge
Crazy in Love
Beyonce
A Thousand Years
Christina Perri
Love on Top
Beyonce
God Only Knows
The Beach Boys
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
The Way You Look Tonight
Frank Sinatra
Die With a Smile
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
Somebody to Love
Queen
You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Stevie Wonder
Stand by Me
Ben E. King
I Got You Babe
Sonny & Cher
Truly Madly Deeply
Savage Garden
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
Bryan Adams
If I Ain't Got You
Alicia Keys
Then
Brad Paisley
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 3 completed Greatest Love Songs brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Can't Help Falling in Love
11W - 1L · won 2 brackets
92%
win rate
- 2
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
6W - 1L · won 1 bracket
86%
win rate
- 3
Just the Way You Are
8W - 3L
73%
win rate
- 4
Thinking Out Loud
7W - 3L
70%
win rate
- 5
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
6W - 3L
67%
win rate
- 6
All of Me
4W - 2L
67%
win rate
- 7
Somebody to Love
4W - 2L
67%
win rate
- 8
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 9
Perfect
3W - 3L
50%
win rate
- 10
Stand by Me
3W - 3L
50%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Go with the track you would rather hear right now — instant reaction beats a considered take.
- 2The default run puts all 32 tracks in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the track you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Greatest Love Songs bracket FAQ
How many tracks are in the Greatest Love Songs bracket?
The pool holds 32 tracks. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which tracks are included?
I Will Always Love You, At Last, Can't Help Falling in Love, Make You Feel My Love, Thinking Out Loud, Unchained Melody, All of Me, My Girl, Endless Love, Something, Your Song and Just the Way You Are, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank love songs take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other track grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two tracks that never met. If you would rather place the tracks into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these tracks?
Every completed bracket feeds the Greatest Love Songs community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own greatest love songs bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own tracks, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.