Music
* Ballad, a form of verse
* Balada (song form), Portuguese and Galician sung poems
* Ballade, musical composition in ABA or ABAB form
* Ballad opera, staged drama in which the dialogue is sung through as recitative
* Ballad book, a collection of popular ballads
* The Ballad (band), an American country music trio
Fiction and media
* Ballad (poetry), a form of verse
* La Balada (novel), by Roberto Ampuero
* La balada de Narayama, a 1956 Japanese novel by Shichirō Fukazawa
* La balada de Narayama (1958 film), a Japanese film adaptation of the novel
* La balada de Narayama (1983 film), a Japanese remake of the 1958 film
Other uses
* Balada (dance), a Portuguese folk dance
* Ballad, a kind of dance
* Balada, Iran, a village in Khomeyn Rural District
* "La balada de Johnny y Jane" (The ballad of Johnny and Jane), a popular Latin song recorded in 1961
* "Balada triste", a song by Argentinian singer and composer Nacha Guevara
* Balada (film), a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film