Top 10 Break Up Songs

You Oughta Know

I love this song. Alanis sings about being a psycho, ticked off ex-girlfriend who needs her ex to know how angry she is. This is the best break-up song on the planet.

Post Break-Up Sex

My Happy ending

This is a great song after a break-up, whether you love or hate Avril. This song is great for girls going through a break-up and is about a guy and his rude friends having opinions and interfering with the relationship, and how they influence whom you’re dating, and how someone can be a completely different person with their friends and outside of the relationship.

jar of hearts (Christina Perri)

Break Up (Tyga)

Break Up (Mario)

Potential Breakup Song

We Belong Together

Though it is unarguably a break-up song, there’s something inexplicably uplifting about this ballad from Mariah. The lyrics are fueled by familiar longing and regret and the melody creates a melancholic mood. I played this song on repeat while I drove through the city with mascara streaks on my cheeks, my voice hoarse while I sang along. I was still humming it months later when the wounds had nearly healed, only then the song meant something different: I had triumphed over heartache.

Break Up To Make Up