December 07 2020
If there is any one human experience that is truly universal, it's a broken heart.
There is no pain quite as sharp or as lasting as your very first heartbreak, which is not to say subsequent heartbreaks are easy. But what remains consistent through it all is the power of music to offer comfort and catharsis. Whether your heart is broken for the first or the fiftieth time, these songs will help you throughout every stage of your journey to healing. Some are angry and defiant, some are sad and self-pitying, and some are about letting go and moving on. Whatever kind of break up song you need right now, we guarantee it's on this list.
"Head Held High" Elliot Taylor
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"Joe Tex, These Taming Blues" Phosphorescent
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"Big Girls Don't Cry" Fergie
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"Somebody Else" The 1975
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"Ghost Of You" My Chemical Romance
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"Lover, You Should've Come Over" James Buckley
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"Dead Flowers" The Rolling Stones
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"Night Shift" Lucy Dacus
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"Bathtub" Waxahatchee
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"Space Cowboy" Kacey Musgraves
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"Go Your Own Way" Fleetwood Mac
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"Someone Like You" Adele
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"I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston
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"Jealous" Labrinth
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"Lay Me Down" Sam Smith
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"If The World Was Ending ft. Julia Michaels" JP Saxe
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"Six Feet Under" Billie Eilish
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"Back to Black" Amy Winehouse
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"New Rules" Dua Lipa
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"Dancing On My Own" Robyn
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"Green Light" Lorde
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"Stone Cold" Demi Lovato
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"Broken Over You" Grace Mitchell
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"Your Graduation" Modern Baseball
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"Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi
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"Let Me Down Slowly" Alec Benjamin
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"Mama's Broken Heart" Miranda Lambert
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"Leaving Blues" Bombay Bicycle Club
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"Music When the Lights Go Out" Libertines
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"Waiting Game" Banks
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"Stay" Rihanna
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"Somebody That I Used to Know" Gotye
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"I Am Easy To Find" The National
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"A Song About Being Sad" Rex Orange County
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"Another Love" Tom Odell
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"Ivy" Frank Ocean
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"Falling" Harry Styles
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"Whiskey and You" Chris Stapleton
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"U" Kendrick Lamar
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"Tonight I Wanna Cry" Keith Urban
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"Jar of Hearts" Christina Perri
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"Let Her Go" Passenger
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"Let It Go" James Bay
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"Moments Passed" Dermot Kennedy
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"All Out Of Love" Air Supply
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"Give Me One Reason" Tracy Chapman
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"Don't Call Me At All" Flatsound
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"If I Go, I'm Going" Gregory Alan Isakov
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"I Can't Make You Love Me" Bon Iver
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"Before You Go" Lewis Capaldi
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