there's no denying that some of the best songs are the saddest songs. Few genres are better at exploring themes of love, loss, and heartbreak than country music, and the decades are positively ...

In the 2010s, country music revamped the definition of what a sad country song could be. Sure, there were still quite a few traditional heartbreak ballads about the end of a relationship ...

It's difficult to imagine the modern Americana ballad without the examples provided time and again by the legendary Townes ...

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(There is also the platonic kind of heartbreak: band breakups, rifts between siblings, broken creative partnerships, etc.) ...

Next up on our list of sad country songs ... this ballad sees Swift pour her heart out in the wake of a breakup. The redux version of the song, released in 2021, adds even more narrative heft ...

But no matter whether you prefer the solid-country 2000s or the sonically experimental 2010s, one thing's for certain: In each decade, our No. 1 pick is a weeper. Scroll through the lists below to ...

And yes, in case you're wondering, last year's winner Salvador Sobral's Amar Pelos Dois is the saddest-sounding winning song - although you probably didn't need data to tell you that. Eurovision ...

“Country” is more than just a steel guitar. It’s a lifestyle. A mindset. A cold beer, hot grill, the game on and the great ...