R.E.M.’s Everybody Hurts has become a classic. Those who have experienced hurt somehow find a way to this song. It isn’t even overly emotional or slow or depressing, and the message of the song is ...
Yet, when you look at the data, only one song is deemed the saddest. In 2022, with the help of Durham University music expert Analiese Micallef Grimaud, data company HappyOrNot worked to determine ...
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 ...
The Band Perry stares it right in the face here. Next up on our list of sad country songs, Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” has stood the test of time. Originally released in 2012, this ballad ...
Some of the saddest but finest songs from the BBC’s music archives, with hits from Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, The Smiths, Randy Crawford, Coldplay, Dolly Parton, Eric Clapton and Eric Carmen.