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Valentine’s Day is coming up and Starbucks has the exclusive release of Sweetheart, a CD full of artists’ favorite love songs sung by the artists themselves. It’s an absolutely great CD to listen to even if you aren’t with a significant other because the new versions of classic love songs are sometimes almost better than the originals.

Here’s the tracklist below (tracks in bold are personal favs):

1. Death Cab For Cutie – Love Song (The Cure)
2. Katy Perry – Black and Gold (Sam Sparro)
3. DeVotchKa – Hot Burrito #1 (Flying Burrito Brothers)
4. Department of Eagles – Love Me (Elvis)
5. Jessica Lea Mayfield – Words of Love (Buddy Holly)
6. Ben Bridwell – Your Love Is Forever (George Harrison)
7. Kate Tucker – I’m On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
8. Rogue Wave – Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
9. A.C. Newman – Take On Me (a-ha)
10. Jem – Yellow (Coldplay)
11. Richard Hawley – Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
12. Daniel Martin Moore – I Hear Music (Billie Holiday)
13. She & Him – I Put A Spell On You (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins)
14. Lila Downs – My One and Only Love (Frank Sinatra)

I already bolded it, but I’ll make special note of the Jem rendition of Coldplay’s “Yellow”. In a word, it is beautiful!

Give the album a go here.