Top Ten Power Ballads by Female Artists

Feel free to add any of your own or vote for an existing favourite :)
The Top Ten
1 Alone - Heart
2 Black Velvet - Alannah Myles

These are all pretty darn good, especially the 8 I voted for! And you know I really dig on this one. However, and I ask this with a certain amount of embarrassment, how do I define what a power ballad is? I'm so confused with all these sub genres, and now I've been reduced to this. Alas, there is no hope for me. I mean, I don't know if any songs I'd like to add qualify?

3 Because the Night - Patti Smith

Well, it's a great list. If I'm any closer to understanding what a "power ballad" is, then all my favorites on this list are songs I didn't submit. Humbling... Beginning with this song.

4 All I Need - Within Temptation

It's by a female-fronted band, so I'd say it's fair game for this list.

5 Brass In Pocket - Pretenders
6 Carnival - Natalie Merchant
7 Wish Someone Would Care - Irma Thomas
8 I Found Someone - Cher

Look at you! This list all the way up to #2.

9 I Hate Myself for Loving You - Joan Jett
10 I'm the Only One - Melissa Etheridge
The Contenders
11 The Winner Takes It All - ABBA
12 I'll Be Thunder - Tina Turner
13 The First Cut is the Deepest - P.P. Arnold
14 Games - Cher
15 Resta In Ascolto - Laura Pausini
16 If One Bird Sings - Sarah Kreuz
17 Help - Tina Turner
18 Woman In Love - Barbra Streisand
19 Shadows of the Night - Pat Benatar
20 Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin

Not sure this one exactly qualifies as a Power Ballad.
If it does, it blows the rest off the page.

21 Holding Out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler
22 Keep Holding On - Avril Lavigne
23 Let Me Go - Avril Lavigne
24 It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
25 Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
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