Selena Gomez is one of the top popular artists in the last decade with many hit songs that have landed on the Billboard charts. Do you want to know what some of her best tracks are? We’re going to tell you the 15 best Selena Gomez songs ever, ranked so that you can add some of these tunes to your playlist!
1. The Heart Wants What It Wants
First up on our list is The Heart Wants What It Wants from her album For You, which was a compilation record. It has a lot of R&B and pop in it, and this would be her last song released by Hollywood Records. The vocals and lyrics in this track are really powerful and it’s all about her relationship with Justin Bieber, which was on and off for a long time.
If you’ve been with someone and broke up with them only to get back together, then you’ll relate to this song. There’s a lot of emotion in this track, and she talks about the good and bad about her relationship with Bieber. It peaked at six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was featured in the movie Lean On Pete and the television show New Girl.
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2. A Year Without Rain
A Year Without Rain makes our list, which is from her second album with her band The Scene and features a beat that’ll remind you of disco while also being a little bit of a Eurodance track. The song is all about how she desires love and compares this desire to not having rain for a year. It’s a very dance-heavy track which is why it went to number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart and also hit 35 on the Billboard Hot 100.
3. Slow Down
Next is Slow Down, which comes from her solo album Stars Dance, and there is a little EDM in the track, so it’s very catchy and fun. The song goes into how we all should just slow down and take some time to dance the night away, even if it’s for a few minutes. The track went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and made it to 27 on the Billboard Hot 100.
4. Come & Get It
Come & Get It makes the list, which also comes from her debut album Stars Dance. This song is a very pop track that has an infectious beat and bop, so it’ll make you want to dance. There is a little Punjabi in the song as well as electro-pop and the tabla beat is just really fun. You can hear this track in multiple episodes of Love Island. It went to number one on the Dance Club Songs chart and hit number two on the Mainstream Top 40 chart.
5. Love You Like a Love Song
We have to talk about Love You Like A Love Song, which comes from When The Sun Goes Down by Gomez with The Scene. This track features Eurodisco as well as dance and electropop, and it’s a song all about being in the midst of a relationship where everything is going well.
Once you’ve heard this track, it’s going to stay in your head all day because it’s infectious and incredibly catchy. It went to number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart while hitting six on the Mainstream Top 40 and landing at 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
6. Ghost Of You
Ghost Of You is on this list because it’s an emotional song that will leave you remembering it long after it’s over. This track is all about trying to get over someone, so if you’ve been in a relationship and it ended, then you’ll understand the lyrics and relate to the powerful and haunting vocals Gomez provides in this song. What really sets this track apart is that it’s a theme we all can relate to, and the lyrics really delve into the trials and tribulations of getting over someone that you really love and how hard that can be regardless of your age.
7. Good For You Featuring
On the list is Good For You, which comes from her album Revival, and it features A$AP Rocky, so it’s a little more heavy with the beats than some other songs. It’s all about a woman feeling comfortable in her own skin and how she is. This track is empowering because it talks about how the woman wants to please her man and do things that he likes, so it’s sexy and sultry and showcases a more mature side of Gomez.
What we really enjoy about this song is the beat and edge that it has since it features rapper A$AP Rocky, so it gives us more of a flirtatious and dangerous vibe. It went to number one on the Mainstream Top 40 chart while making it to five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
8. Bad Liar
Next up on our list is Bad Liar, which comes from her album Rare, and it uses the bassline of Psycho Killer, a song from The Talking Heads dating back to 1977. In the track, you can hear her saying how bad of a liar she is through the song, and it’s catchy as well as being very sultry and sexual. The track is all about someone who is deceiving someone else while also being infatuated with them, and it’s whimsical while being complex at the same time.
You can see her acting abilities in the video because she plays multiple characters, and it is all about being in a love triangle. The story in this music video is worth watching if you like Gomez, and it’s considered to be one of the best songs of 2017. The storytelling elements of this track are what make it stand out when compared to some of her other singles around this time. It is featured in the television shows Good Girls and Love Island. It went to 13 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart and 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
9. Falling Down
Next on the list is Falling Down, which comes from Kiss And Tell, the debut album by Gomez with The Scene. There are multiple ways you can take this song, from thinking it’s about a relationship to thinking she is dissing Hollywood, but either way, it’s a rock track with a lot of synth usage. It went to number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold more than half a million copies in the United States.
10. My Mind & Me
My Mind & Me is next up on our list, which is from the documentary she made in 2022 called Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me. This track even was nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards. The track is all about how you can not be in the same place with your mind, and this was a very personal song for her.
When she was recording the documentary, she had a lot going on in her life including depression, lupus, and kidney failure. The song will pull at your heartstrings and also make you realize you’re not alone when you’re battling multiple issues at once because she was there too.
11. Lose You To Love Me
Lose You To Love Me makes the list, which comes from her album Rare. It’s a pop song that is all about finding out who you are, and it’s one of her more personal tracks. If you’ve discovered your identity after a breakup before, then you’ll know and understand what she’s singing about in this song.
There is a lot of pain talked about in the track as well as the process of healing and moving on, and it was praised by the music critics as being mature, honest, and empowering. The personal story in the song is what makes it so great. It went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and this was the first time she had a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It also topped the charts or went within the top 10 in multiple countries including Ireland and Canada.
12. Hands To Myself
Next up on our list is Hands To Myself, which comes from her album Revival. This song is both synth and dance-pop, and it’s very much influenced by Prince, which is pretty obvious when you listen to it. She can belt out the vocals in this song but also uses the whisper-like vocals to convey desire and all of the sexual feelings she’s having.
It’s a very adult track and very sexy. This song went to number one on the Mainstream Top 40, seven on the Billboard Hot 100, and 13 on the Adult Top 40. You can hear this track in television shows such as New Girl, Big Mouth, and This Is Us.
13. Calm Down
Gomez did a remix with Rema of Calm Down, which hit number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart while hitting number one on the Adult Pop, Pop Airplay, and Radio Songs charts. Rema first put out the track and then added the remix that featured Gomez, which can be found on her album as well. Their coming together for a remix made it such a popular and catchy tune that we had to include it on our list.
This is just a really cool song about how a guy was at a party and saw a girl he wanted to get to know, so it goes through the journey of him finding her and falling in love. Gomez’s voice blends perfectly with Rema’s for the ultimate remix to have you bouncing up and down to the beat.
14. Ice Cream
Ice Cream is next on our list because it’s a song that both Gomez and BLACKPINK collaborated on. It’s a really fun track since the group is one of the popular K-pop female groups, so there are a lot of catchy parts to this song. When you hear Gomez and BLACKPINK, you’ll realize how well their vocals go together.
What we love about this track is that it’s a playful song featuring a melody that’ll have you on your feet dancing. It has elements of trap music in it and electropop, so it’s similar to other music she’s done in the past. There are a lot of innuendoes and double-entendres in the track, which you’ll probably catch, but it uses ice cream to talk about them. It landed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and went to number 13.
15. Wolves
Last is Wolves, which features Marshmello, who is a well-known producer of EDM. This is one of Gomez’s best songs because the chorus is incredibly catchy and her powerful vocals are on display during this whole performance. The track is about the obstacles two people are trying to overcome in order to stay together.
They are lovers and are struggling through various types of adversity, and in this song, you can hear the emotion and mood in her voice, which captivates you to keep listening. It is a more grown-up song for her, and it shows her maturity. which is partially why in terms of electronic music, it was second in America for all of 2018 and hit the top 20 within the United States and Germany.
