A Definitive Ranking of EVERY Song from Selena Gomez's For You Album

Welcome Back to Disney!👋😊🎉I hope you enjoyed my last post on A Definitive Ranking of Every Song from Selena Gomez’s Stars Dance Album, because today we’re continuing with Selena Gomez’s Disney discography and talking all about her FIRST compilation album and her very LAST album with Hollywood Records, For You. This is going to be a bittersweet post, for sure, but definitely worth the read. So, let’s get into it!🎶💿🩷🖤🎉

For You was the FIRST greatest hits album by Selena Gomez, that was released on November 24, 2014, through Hollywood Records.🎶💿🎉The album contains songs from Selena Gomez & The Scene’s records, as well as Selena’s releases as a solo artist under Hollywood Records. And therefore, it’s mostly in the dance-pop genre. For You served as Selena’s FINAL project to be released through Hollywood Records, with whom she released FOUR studio albums and a remix album. This album includes two previously unreleased songs, produced by Rock Mafia, as well as new versions of some previously released recordings. On March 31, 2015, a 4-track extended play version containing some of the new music was also released digitally.

Upon its release, For You received a generally favorable reception. As it was seen as a fair representation of Selena’s music career, while the new material was praised for its “mature” sound. The album also received moderate commercial success, debuting at #24 on the Billboard 200 chart, and selling 36,000 equivalent album units during its first week of release.👏👏It also saw a similar commercial performance worldwide, entering the lower end of eleven total countries. As of January 2020, For You had reportedly sold 112,000 copies in the U.S. .👏

The album received minimal promotion prior to its release. In fact, on November 6, 2014, “The Heart Wants What It Wants” was released as the sole single from the album, and the album was announced and put up for pre-order that same day. “The Heart Wants What It Wants” and its accompanying music video received positive reviews from critics, who praised Selena’s new sound after she was criticized for her heavy EDM style, from her previous album Stars Dance. That single went on to become Selena’s second TOP 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S., and it sold over one million copies in the country.👏👏“The Heart Wants What It Wants” achieved similar success in multiple countries worldwide, as well. Selena performed “The Heart Wants What It Wants” live for the FIRST time at the 2014 American Music Awards, which was the day before the album’s release date.

As you probably already know by now, Selena first signed with Hollywood Records in 2008, and formed her band Selena Gomez & The Scene that following year. The band released THREE studio albums together. Selena announced that she and her band were gonna be taking a hiatus in 2012, so that she could focus on her acting career and so her band could go and do their own thing, too. Despite this, however, Selena later began working on both a Spanish album and her solo debut album. The Spanish album was never released. But, in 2013, Selena did release her debut solo album, Stars Dance. 

Rumors began circulating that Selena would be parting ways with Hollywood Records, after the cancellation of the planned third single from Stars Dance. To which Selena later cancelled the Asian and Australian legs of her Stars Dance Tour in 2013, claiming that she wanted to spend time with her family. In January 2014, Selena entered a rehab center. And despite initially neglecting to comment, Selena confirmed in 2015 that she had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called lupus, and that she had cancelled the tour and entered rehab to undergo chemotherapy. 

As early as July 2014, rumors of Selena releasing a greatest hits album began circulating. Early reports claimed that Selena planned to release said album to fulfill her contract with Hollywood Records, which required her (Selena) to release one more album through the label. Selena later fired her parents as her managers, signing with the WME and Brillstein companies. Of course, this decision fueled the rumors of Selena leaving Hollywood Records, and speculation began to arise that she was in talks with Interscope Records. On October 31, 2014, the track list for the album was revealed, when Amazon.com in France temporarily posted the album on their site. Selena appeared on On Air with Ryan Seacrest to debut the lead single, “The Heart Wants What It Wants”, and officially announced that the album was available for pre-order through digital retailers. Ultimately, Selena hoped that the release of “The Heart Wants What It Wants” and subsequent album would provide her with a “clean slate” going into 2015. 

Speaking of “The Heart Wants What It Wants”, the song was written by Selena, alongside Antonina Armato, Tim James, and David Jost. Selena also worked with longtime collaborators Rock Mafia to produce the song. “The Heart Wants What It Wants” was initially recorded for inclusion on her 2013 album Stars Dance, though it was not featured on that album for unknown reasons. The song differs from Selena’s previous releases, because it features elements of R&B music and a minimal electro-pop beat. Lyrically, “The Heart Wants What It Wants” speaks of a troubled romance, and it was seemingly inspired by Selena’s publicized relationship with Justin Bieber. On November 6, 2014, Selena premiered the song during an interview with Ryan Seacrest, and she said, “It’s also a step for me knowing like, ‘Ok, this is what I’m about to say, and I need to say it when I’m ready’ […] And I think after this year, it’s the perfect way to end the year, it’s the perfect way to end a chapter in a way. It’s like, this is what I’ll say about every single person that has judged me for every decision that I’ve made, for every person, [and] heart that is being judged for something they’ve done, and now I just want to release it.” 

“Do It” was also written by Selena, Antonina Armato, Tim James, and David Jost, with production handled by Rock Mafia, Dubkiller, and Thomas Armato Sturges. “Do It” is much lighter than “The Heart Wants What It Wants”, being an upbeat song that has been described as “sexy” by critics. As the song features sexual innuendos and hidden messages, and sees Selena apparently singing about her desire to “do it every single day”.🫣”Do It” leaked online days prior to the release of For You, and it garnered media attention for its themes. Selena compared “Do It” to releases from Lily Allen, and described the song as a “cute little catchy song and I thought it’d be a great little bonus track for the album.” “My Dilemma 2.0” is a previously unreleased remix to a song taken from Selena Gomez & The Scene’s third 2011 album When the Sun Goes Down. The Rock Mafia produced remix was set to be released as the fourth and final single from For You, featuring a guest rap from Flo Rida, but the single’s release was cancelled for unknown reasons, and the release of the remix was scrapped. The version featured on this album has omitted the rap verse, and is credited solely to Selena Gomez & The Scene. 

“Forget Forever”, taken from Selena’s previous 2013 album Stars Dance, is also featured in remixed form on For You. The fifth and final new release is “Mas”, the Spanish language version of a song taken from Selena Gomez & The Scene’s FIRST album, Kiss & Tell (2009). “Mas” was reportedly recorded for Selena’s FIRST Spanish spoken album, which ended up not being released. The previously released songs featured on For You spans across the entirety of Selena’s music career. On For You, Selena once stated, “I love my music so much and that’s the idea of this album…kind of collecting the past four years and my favorite songs that I’ve been able to do from when I was 15 to now being 22.” As For You features all of Selena’s singles, both as a solo artist and with Selena Gomez & The Scene, excluding 2012’s “Hit the Lights”. Both 2009’s “Naturally” and 2010’s “A Year Without Rain” appear as the Dave Aude remixed versions. Even 2008’s “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” is included on the album as the remix featured on Selena and The Scene’s 2009 debut album, Kiss & Tell. This album also includes Selena’s remix of the late Selena Quintanilla-Perez’s 1994 single  “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom”. Which Selena recorded as a duet with the deceased singer for the 2012 remix album Enamorada de Ti. The ICONIC artwork featured on both the album cover and its inner booklet is taken from the music video for “The Heart Wants What It Wants”. The digital extended play features the same cover art but with a blue tint instead of pink. 

Like I briefly mentioned before, For You was released to a minimal amount of promo, excluding a performance of “The Heart Wants What It Wants” at the 2014 American Music Awards. Initial estimations saw the album selling 15,000 copies for its first week, though these numbers slightly increased as the week went on. For You debuted at #24 on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of 35,506 equivalent album units.👏For You sold 17,139 copies in its first week.👏During its second week of release, For You fell to #44 on the chart. The following week, it once more fell to #52, and remained there for two weeks. 

The next week, For You rose to #39, aided in part to the ongoing success of the album’s lead single.👏 The album rose once more to #31 for its sixth week, with a total of 18,000 equivalent album units sold for the week.👏Billboard reported that 60% of these units were from “The Heart Wants What It Wants”, with the album selling 7,200 copies for the week.👏In its seventh week, For You rose once more to #29, though it declined down the chart in subsequent weeks. The album went on to spend a total of 18 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. The lowest of her albums thus far. As of July 2015, according to Billboard, For You had sold 89,000 copies in the U.S. .👏 

Despite the minor success of this album in the U.S., it failed to achieve much success outside of the country, as well. Initial reports claimed that For You would reach the TOP 40 in the U.K., becoming Selena’s fifth album to do so. But, despite this, For You entered the chart at #64. Marking it Selena’s lowest charting effort in the country to date. The following week, For You even fell out of the TOP 75, and failed to re-enter. In Ireland, For You fared similarly, debuting and peaking at #95 in the country. The album had minor success in territories such as Italy, Spain, and Norway, reaching the lower part of the TOP 40 in each country. For You went on to sell 20,000 copies in Brazil, earning it a gold certification in the country.👏 Which serves as For You’s only worldwide certification. For You has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide since it was released.👏 

Upon its release, For You received a generally mixed to positive reception. AllMusic gave For You four out of five stars, writing, “Selena might not be a belter or have the electric personality of some of her contemporaries; what she does possess is style, a winning voice, and lots of good songs - as For You proves again and again.” AXS gave For You a score of three and a half stars out of five, claiming that “Instead of just packaging her hits, Selena’s For You is layered with elements of her personality. The album reflects Selena’s highs and lows from the past five years in the industry and serves as closure to her time with Hollywood Records. She sneaks in a few last words with love and that’s something any fan can appreciate.”👏Idolator also gave For You a three out of five stars, and wrote, “If you’ve slept on Selena’s music career, For You is a great starting point. For fans, it offers just enough new material to justify the purchase.”👏 The site also went on to praise both “The Heart Wants What It Wants” and “Do It”. The Times of India gave For You a score of three out of five stars, praising the new material but questioning whether Selena’s career warranted a compilation album at that point. They also added, “For You really is all about growth. We’ve got the punky-emo cuts like “Falling Down” to salacious songs like “Come & Get It” and also uplifting anthems that have defined her musical career till date.” Popology also praised For You, saying “At the end of it, For You shows us where she’s been, where she’s at right now, and where she’s going. It may not include every single release, but the new songs are what counts. They show that she has a vision for herself outside of Hollywood Records. We think we speak for all of her fans when we say we can’t wait to take the next step of her journey with her!”👏 I couldn’t have said it better myself.😊 

Like I’ve said before, those good or bad reviews, facts and statistics did not affect my thoughts and opinions about this album when doing this. And I would say that they also didn’t affect my thoughts and opinions about the album back then, either, but this is actually one of the very few albums of Selena’s that I actually didn’t know about or listen to when it first came out in 2014. Which is the perfect time to now get into my memories associated with this album, which isn’t a lot. ‘Cause for some reason I didn’t know this was an album until many years later. I only knew about “The Heart Wants What It Wants”, because when that song came out I listened to it immediately, and I vividly remember watching the music video of that song when it was released on YouTube in 2014, too. I watched the video for “The Heart Wants What It Wants” and listened to that song SO MANY times after that first day, as well. “The Heart Wants What It Wants” has always been one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Selena Gomez songs since it came out. In fact, I still think it’s one of her TOP 3 BEST songs EVER. Okay, maybe TOP 5, but it's definitely up there. Her ballads are just always the BEST.

So, yeah, for some reason in 2014 I didn’t know that after that single was released that there was a whole album released with that song on it, which was For You. At least, I have no memory of listening to this album back when it came out in 2014. Which is crazy to me.🤯 I mean, it kind of makes sense that I didn’t know, since apparently, as I mentioned before, this album didn’t get a lot of promotion. But, yeah, that’s just so crazy to me that this is basically my FIRST TIME EVER listening to this album all the way through from beginning to end and hearing majority of the songs from it. ‘Cause I don’t even remember when I actually did find out that this album was a thing, until maybe just a few years ago. But even then I don’t remember listening to it. After listening to this album now, if I had known it existed in 2014, I definitely would have bought the CD of it. Even though I’m usually not about compilation albums, but this compilation album is actually GREAT.

Again, all of my memories with this album just have to do with the song, “The Heart Wants What It Wants”. Like I said, I remember the first time I heard the song, watched the music video, watched Selena’s live performance of it on that award show, etc. etc. But, beyond that song I have no other memories associated with this album. So, I was very curious and EXCITED to listen to this album for basically the VERY FIRST TIME. ‘Cause I didn’t know what new songs were included on it and what past songs were included on it. Wait…something else just came to my mind while typing this...Now that I’m thinking about it, I must have known a little something about this album in 2014, because I do also remember Selena’s version of “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom”, and listening to that and watching a few of her old performances singing the song. So maybe I did skim through this album when it came out in 2014?🤔 Again, I just have no memory of it. 

But anyway, like I said, I was very curious and excited to listen to this album for what felt like the VERY FIRST time, because I’ve only ever really known about, and have gone back to listen to, “The Heart Wants What It Wants” throughout the years since it came out in 2014. Though it’s been quite a while since I last listened to that song too. Therefore, it was definitely time to give this album a full listen. So that’s what I did recently, and I’m SO EXCITED to finally get to talk about these songs and share my thoughts and opinions about them here with you. Well, really just the newer songs because most of these songs are ones that I’ve already talked about previously when talking about Selena Gomez’s other albums. So, what are we waiting for? Let’s finally get into A Definitive Ranking of EVERY Song from Selena Gomez’s For You Album!🎶💿🩷🖤🎉😊

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(from LEAST to MOST FAVORITE)...

#15 "Forget Forever" (Stefan Remix)

#14 "A Year Without Rain" (Dave Aude Radio Remix) 

#13 "Naturally" (Dave Aude Radio Remix)

#12 "Mas" (Spanish version of "More")

#11 "Do It" 

#10 "Falling Down" 

#9 "Slow Down"

#8 "Come & Get It" 

#7 "My Dilemma 2.0" 

#6 "Round & Round" 

#5 "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" (with Selena)

#4 "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"

#3 "Love You Like a Love Song" 

#2 "The Heart Wants What It Wants" 

#1 "Who Says" 

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  Well, that concludes A Definitive Ranking of EVERY Song from Selena Gomez’s For You Album and the LAST of her Disney discography!🎉🎶💿🩷🖤☺️😔I really enjoyed getting to listen to these songs for what seemed like the VERY FIRST time. And I hope you enjoyed this post as much as I did creating it, and that it maybe brought back some FUN, NOSTALGIC memories for you.😊 

At first, when planning for this little series of blog posts, I wasn’t even going to include this album in the mix since it’s just a compilation album and includes songs that are from Selena’s other albums. But since there are a few new songs and different versions of previous songs from her other albums, I thought why not. Especially because I had no recollection of having ever listened to this full album, and I mean, it was an important part of her Disney discography. All that to say, I’m really happy that I did include this album for this blog post series, because it wasn’t as bad of an album as I initially thought it was going to be. In other words, I would definitely listen to this album again. Especially to hear “The Heart Wants What It Wants” again, and a couple of the other new songs from this album. 

Speaking of the songs from this album, they were actually a lot harder to rank than I thought they would be. I mean, the remix songs were easy to rank, because I’ve never been a fan of remixes. Just give me the original and I’m good. So those were a no brainer to be last. But then having to rank some of the old classics with new ones it was hard, but I feel pretty good about my ranking. At least, I’m definitely solid on my TOP 5 being ranked where they are. But I would love to know, what’s your favorite song(s) from For You? Let me know in the comments below, hit that follow button so that you get notified when my next post goes up, and come Back to Disney soon for more FUN, NOSTALGIA, and GREAT MUSIC!👋🩷🖤🎉🎶💿✌️

But don't sign off just yet, because like I did with Miley Cyrus’/Hannah Montana’s album posts, whenever I finish relistening/listening to ALL the soundtracks/albums from each Disney artist, I then like to share my official ranking of ALL of them. So, I’ll do that now.😊 Selena’s Disney discography goes like this for me:

(from MOST to LEAST favorite)…

#1 When the Sun Goes Down (I mean there are so many GREAT songs on this album, and it is the most nostalgic, carefree, fun, summer album. This album like defined part of my teenage hood. It’s just EVERYTHING. Truly an un-skippable album, even if a couple of the songs aren't the greatest, but they’re still good. This album never gets old. Again, it just instantly takes me back to when I was a teenager listening to this album for the first time, every time I play it.) 

#2 Stars Dance (I’ve always said since this album came out that this was my favorite album of hers from her Disney discography, but now after having just relistened to all of Selena’s Disney discography, I would say this is my SECOND FAVORITE just because a lot of the songs are a little more sexual, which I’m not always in the mood to listen to, and I don’t always love. But this album is a very, VERY close second to the first, and it’s so nostalgic and non-skippable every song is good. There are just a few things I don’t like in some of the songs, lyric wise.) 

#3 Kiss & Tell (A pretty un-skippable album. I actually do really LOVE this album by Selena, but there are a few not-so-great songs. And just when compared to my TOP 2 favorite albums of hers, this one is not better than those. But it also is one of the more NOSTALGIC ones to me. And, I mean, it gave us one of her BEST songs EVER, "Naturally".

#4 A Year Without Rain (At least Selena is singing on all the songs on this album, but all the songs are not great.)

#5 Wizards of Waverly Place (Just because it has other Disney artists and it’s not just Selena Gomez singing all the songs. And all the songs aren’t great and a couple of the best ones are not even Selena’s.)

#6 For You (Even though it gave us one of her BEST, MOST ICONIC songs EVER, “The Heart Wants What It Wants”, majority of this album is just songs from her previous albums. So, not much new. But I do still LOVE it.)