Shania has admitted on several occasions that "When You Kiss Me" is her favorite ballad off Up!

Carey described the song as the "favorite ballad she had ever written", one that was more personal than her previous work.

But somehow that does not satisfy his every musical yearning, so every few years he cuts a record himself, singing his favorite ballads.

Galliher makes tapes of favorite ballads and melodies, which play at a soft and pleasing volume.

She would often croon a favorite ballad of Mme Lerat's, which was full of flowers and birds.

He happened to dislike Lord Raid's favorite ballad with a passion and, if Raid cornered him, he'd have no choice but to sing it.

One of my really favorite ballads.

My original spec music video for one of my favorite modern ballads, Dancing, by the enchanting and immensely t..

The clue lies perhaps in the words of his favorite ballad.

Inventiveness, though, is not necessarily the quality that endears them to most fans swaying and crooning to their favorite meaning-filled ballads.