100 Greatest Sad Songs

Various Artists

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Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
I Miss You [Acoustic]
Grace Chatto / Julia Michaels / Jack Patterson
Clean Bandit 03:36 SpotifyAmazon
2
i hate u, i love u
Garrett Nash / Olivia O'Brien
gnash 04:11 SpotifyAmazon
3
Never Ever
Esmail Jazayeri / Shaznay Lewis / Sean Mather
All Saints 06:30 SpotifyAmazon
4
Fix You
Guy Berryman / Jonny Buckland / Will Champion / Chris Martin
Coldplay 04:55 SpotifyAmazon
5
Skinny Love
Matt Berninger / Aaron Dessner / Thomas Brading Powers / Aaron Phillip Short / Justin Vernon / Alisa Xayalith
Birdy 03:21 SpotifyAmazon
6
When You're Not Here
Mario Battistella / Michael Bublé / Carlos Gardel Rolando Lattes / Alfredo Le Pera / Sebastián Schon
Michael Bublé 03:38 SpotifyAmazon
7
Please Don't Say You Love Me
Gabrielle Aplin / Nick Atkinson
Gabrielle Aplin 03:01 SpotifyAmazon
8
Samson
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor 03:10 SpotifyAmazon
9
Last Request
Matty Benbrook / Jim Duguid / Paolo Nutini
Paolo Nutini 03:20 SpotifyAmazon
10
Goodbye My Lover
James Blunt / Sacha Skarbek
James Blunt 04:18 SpotifyAmazon
11
I Won't Give Up
Jason Mraz / Michael Natter
Jason Mraz 04:01 SpotifyAmazon
12
One More Light
Mike Shinoda / Francis White
Linkin Park 04:15 SpotifyAmazon
13
When I Was Your Man
Philip Lawrence / Ari Levine / Bruno Mars / Andrew Wyatt
Bruno Mars 03:33 SpotifyAmazon
14
One Day I'll Fly Away
Will Jennings / Joe Sample
Randy Crawford 05:03 SpotifyAmazon
15
Everybody Hurts [MTV Unplugged Live Version]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe
The Corrs 05:49 SpotifyAmazon
16
Don't Speak
Eric Stefani / Gwen Stefani
Eliza Shaddad 02:59 SpotifyAmazon
17
Storms
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac 05:30 SpotifyAmazon
18
I Don't Want to Talk About It
Danny Whitten
Rod Stewart 04:47 SpotifyAmazon
19
Kiss From a Rose
Seal
Seal 04:49 SpotifyAmazon
20
If You Don't Know Me by Now
Kenny Gamble / Leon Huff
Simply Red 03:24 SpotifyAmazon
21
Drive
Ric Ocasek
The Cars 03:58 SpotifyAmazon
22
I Want to Know What Love Is
Mick Jones
Foreigner 05:03 SpotifyAmazon
23
I'll Stand by You
Chrissie Hynde / Tom Kelly / Pretenders / Billy Steinberg
Pretenders 04:00 SpotifyAmazon
24
Make It Easy on Yourself
Burt Bacharach / Hal David
Dionne Warwick 02:42 SpotifyAmazon
25
When a Man Loves a Woman
Calvin Lewis / Andrew Wright
Percy Sledge 02:57 SpotifyAmazon
26
It Must Have Been Love [From the Film "Pretty Woman"]
Per Gessle
Roxette 04:20 SpotifyAmazon
27
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Ian Curtis / Peter Hook / Stephen Morris / Bernard Sumner
Joy Division 03:27 SpotifyAmazon
28
How Soon Is Now?
Johnny Marr / Morrissey
The Smiths 06:43 SpotifyAmazon
29
Poor Misguided Fool
Starsailor
Starsailor 03:51 SpotifyAmazon
30
If You Leave Me Now
Peter Cetera
Chicago 03:57 SpotifyAmazon
31
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Neil Young
Neil Young 03:09 SpotifyAmazon
32
Make It With You
David Gates
Bread 03:15 SpotifyAmazon
33
Losing You
Randy Newman
Randy Newman 02:46 SpotifyAmazon
34
I'm Not Supposed to Care
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot 03:31 SpotifyAmazon
35
Goodbye
Steve Earle
Emmylou Harris 04:53 SpotifyAmazon
36
My Boy
Billie Eilish / Finneas O'Connell
Ruuth 02:39 SpotifyAmazon
37
Empty House
Kosuke Kasza / Billy Lockett / Chris Zane
Billy Lockett 02:49 SpotifyAmazon
38
Georgia
Vance Joy
Vance Joy 03:50 SpotifyAmazon
39
Resolution
Matt Corby
Matt Corby 04:22 SpotifyAmazon
40
Hello in There
John Prine
Bette Midler 04:16 SpotifyAmazon
41
Laura
Natasha Khan / Justin Parker
Bat for Lashes 04:26 SpotifyAmazon
42
Gone
Matt Hales / Lianne La Havas
Lianne La Havas 04:25 SpotifyAmazon
43
Crying Over You ◐
Andy Clutterbuck / James Hatcher / Anna Lotterud
HONNE 04:02 SpotifyAmazon
44
Can't Be Friends
Michael Jones / Jaques Morelenbaum / Tremaine Neverson / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Troy Taylor / Mario Winans
Trey Songz 03:40 SpotifyAmazon
45
The Weakness in Me
Joan Armatrading
Keisha White 03:18 SpotifyAmazon
46
Don't You Love Me
Cynthia Biggs / Terence Dudley / Christopher Kellum / Carolyn Mitchell
Eternal 03:47 SpotifyAmazon
47
Officially Missing You
Seven Aurelius
Tamia 04:02 SpotifyAmazon
48
You Might Need Somebody
Nan O'Byrne / Tom Snow
Shola Ama 04:52 SpotifyAmazon
49
Please Don't Walk Away
James Newton Howard / Steve Lukather
George Benson 03:51 SpotifyAmazon
50
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
Steve Cropper / Otis Redding
Otis Redding 02:46 SpotifyAmazon
51
Anyone Who Had a Heart
Burt Bacharach / Hal David
Sheridan Smith 03:27 SpotifyAmazon
52
Bad Day
Daniel Powter
Daniel Powter 03:55 SpotifyAmazon
53
Not About Angels
Jasmine van den Bogaerde
Birdy 03:09 SpotifyAmazon
54
Best I'll Ever Sing
Jez Ashurst / Brad Ellis / Maisie Peters
Maisie Peters 03:19 SpotifyAmazon
55
Superwoman
Baby Face / L.A. Reid / Daryl Simmons
Karyn White 05:50 SpotifyAmazon
56
Tell It Like It Is
George David / Lee Diamond
Percy Sledge 02:53 SpotifyAmazon
57
My Eyes Adored You
Bob Crewe / Kenny Nolan
Frankie Valli 03:32 SpotifyAmazon
58
Love Don't Live Here Anymore
Miles Gregory
Rose Royce 03:59 SpotifyAmazon
59
Walk On By
Burt Bacharach
Dionne Warwick 03:02 SpotifyAmazon
60
Stay With Me
Jerry Ragovoy / David Was
Lorraine Ellison 03:15 SpotifyAmazon
61
Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
Morris Broadnax / Clarence Paul / Stevie Wonder
Aretha Franklin 03:25 SpotifyAmazon
62
She's Gone
Daryl Hall / John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates 05:14 SpotifyAmazon
63
Wishing on a Star
Billie Rae Calvin
Rose Royce 04:51 SpotifyAmazon
64
If
David Gates
Bread 02:36 SpotifyAmazon
65
I Go to Sleep
Ray Davies
Pretenders 02:55 SpotifyAmazon
66
The First Cut Is the Deepest
Cat Stevens
Rod Stewart 04:31 SpotifyAmazon
67
Tracks of My Tears
Warren "Pete" Moore / Smokey Robinson / Marvin Tarplin
Aretha Franklin 02:53 SpotifyAmazon
68
I've Been Loving You Too Long
Jerry Butler / Otis Redding
Otis Redding 02:58 SpotifyAmazon
69
Twist in My Sobriety
Tanita Tikaram
Tanita Tikaram 05:08 SpotifyAmazon
70
The Needle and the Damage Done
Neil Young
Neil Young 02:03 SpotifyAmazon
71
Fool (If You Think It's Over)
Chris Rea
Chris Rea 04:03 SpotifyAmazon
72
Holding Back the Years
Mick Hucknall / Neil Moss
Simply Red 04:28 SpotifyAmazon
73
A Thousand Years [Radio Edit]
David Hodges / Christina Perri
Christina Perri 04:01 SpotifyAmazon
74
Crying in the Rain
Howard Greenfield / Carole King
a-ha 04:25 SpotifyAmazon
75
Tears and Rain
James Blunt / Guy Chambers
James Blunt 04:04 SpotifyAmazon
76
The Power of Love
Peter Gill / Holly Johnson / Brian Nash / Mark O'Toole
Gabrielle Aplin 04:05 SpotifyAmazon
77
Goodbye Girl
David Gates
Rumer 03:31 SpotifyAmazon
78
Dark End of the Street
Chips Moman / Dan Penn
Percy Sledge 02:43 SpotifyAmazon
79
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)
Bob Crewe / Bob Gaudio
Frankie Valli 03:31 SpotifyAmazon
80
So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
Boudleaux Bryant / Felice Bryant / Don Everly
The Everly Brothers 02:30 SpotifyAmazon
81
Sometimes ◐ [Livingston Session]
Andy Clutterbuck / James Hatcher
HONNE 05:12 SpotifyAmazon
82
Marry Me
Marlin Donnell Bonds / Jason Desrouleaux / Jonas Jeberg / Andy Marvel
Jason Derulo 03:44 SpotifyAmazon
83
There Goes My Baby
Jerry Leiber / Ben Nelson / Lover Patterson / Mike Stoller / George Treadwell
The Drifters 02:16 SpotifyAmazon
84
Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)
Wes Farrell / Bert Russell
Solomon Burke 03:22 SpotifyAmazon
85
Rainy Night in Georgia
Tony Joe White
Brook Benton 03:54 SpotifyAmazon
86
Cheating on Me
Kwabena Adjepong / James Napier
Kwabs 05:01 SpotifyAmazon
87
How Am I Supposed to Live Without You
Michael Bolton / Doug James
Laura Branigan 04:31 SpotifyAmazon
88
What Can I Do
Andrea Corr / Caroline Corr / Jim Corr / Sharon Corr / The Corrs / Robert John "Mutt" Lange
The Corrs 04:30 SpotifyAmazon
89
Don't Let Go (Love)
Patrick Brown / Andrea Martin / Ivan Matias / Raymon Murray / Rico Wade
En Vogue 04:02 SpotifyAmazon
90
Sleeping Satellite [Acoustic Version]
Tasmin Archer / John Beck / John Hughes
Tasmin Archer 03:20 SpotifyAmazon
91
Sophia [Unplugged]
Nerina Pallot
Nerina Pallot 03:57 SpotifyAmazon
92
Don't Go
Rae Morris
Rae Morris 03:58 SpotifyAmazon
93
Trouble
Guy Berryman / Jonny Buckland / Will Champion / Chris Martin
Coldplay 04:33 SpotifyAmazon
94
Nothing Stays the Same
Iain Archer / Luke Sital-Singh
Luke Sital-Singh 04:01 SpotifyAmazon
95
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen
k.d. lang 05:08 SpotifyAmazon
96
He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother
Bob Russell / Bobby Scott
The Hollies 04:21 SpotifyAmazon
97
Goodbye Girl
David Gates
David Gates 02:48 SpotifyAmazon
98
Little Miss Lonely
Michael Hawker / John Schroeder
Helen Shapiro 02:52 SpotifyAmazon
99
Go Your Own Way
Lindsey Buckingham
Fleetwood Mac 03:38 SpotifyAmazon
100
Each Time You Break My Heart [Edit]
Stephen Bray / Madonna Ciccone
Nick Kamen 04:20 SpotifyAmazon
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100 Greatest Sad Songs