"Love Is," Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight (1993)

Romantic bombast from the "90210" universe

Peak: #3 on the Hot 100
Streams: 2.2 million

I support any songwriter confident enough to name a song “Love Is.” The implication is that the tune has distilled the very essence of love into a verse-chorus-verse structure — that it has finally cracked the heart’s mysterious code. And frankly, if you don’t believe your pop tunes can solve at least one exist…