Heartbreak Factor: 6/10 -- While the lyrics are heartsick, the beat is peppy and Wiz adds a dash of "over it" attitude.
Best Lyrics: "I've wasted my nights / You turned out the lights / Now I'm paralyzed / Still stuck in that time / When we called it love."
Heartbreak Factor: 8/10 -- This song pairs well with lying in the fetal position, clinging to a box of your ex's stuff.
Best Lyrics:"And you didn't have to stoop so low / Have your friends collect your records and then change your number / I guess that I don't need that though / Now you're just somebody that I used to know."
Heartbreak Factor: 8/10 -- Mars is in his element tickling the ivories, wailing beautifully about the girl he let get away.
Best Lyrics: "Too young, too dumb to realize / That I should've bought you flowers / And held your hand / Should've gave you all my hours / When I had the chance."
Heartbreak Factor: 9/10 -- It's Adele, heartbreak music at its finest.
Best Lyrics: "Sometimes I wake up by the door / That heart you caught must be waiting for you / Even now when we're already over / I can't help myself from looking for you."
Heartbreak Factor: 4/10 -- This song is all about being the one to let things go. Clare gets the last laugh.
Best Lyrics: "There's nothing to say, nothing to do / I've nothing to give / I must live without you / You know we're heading separate ways."
Heartbreak Factor: 5/10 -- The power pop energy overshadows the song's message of losing yourself to a bad boy.
Best Lyrics: "I guess I just lost my balance / I think that the worst part of it all wasn't losing him / It was losing me."
Heartbreak Factor: 9/10 -- The lyricism coupled with the video is the most raw Rihanna has ever been about being unhealthily in love.
Best Lyrics: "Funny you're the broken one, but I'm the only one who needed saving / 'Cause when you never see the light it's hard to know which one of us is caving."
Heartbreak Factor:10/10 -- Even if you have never fallen in love, this song can still break your heart.
Best Lyrics: "I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited / But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it / I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded / That for me it isn't over."
Heartbreak Factor: 3/10 -- Pink is breaking up with you and she's really damn happy about it.
Best Lyrics: "I will do what I please, anything that I want / I will breathe, I will breathe, I won't worry at all / You will pay for your sins, you'll be sorry my dear / All the lies, all the why's, will all be crystal clear."
Heartbreak Factor: 2/10 --Taylor Swift is gleefully breaking up with you and telling you there are no second chances.
Best Lyrics: "Then you come around again and say / 'Baby, I miss you and I swear I'm gonna change, trust me.' / Remember how that lasted for a day? / I say, 'I hate you,' we break up, you call me, 'I love you.'"
Heartbreak Factor: 5/10 -- Even though it's about a struggling relationship, it's all about trying hard to make things work.
Best Lyrics: "Where there is a flame / Someone's bound to get burned / But just because it burns / Doesn't mean you're gonna die / You've gotta get up and try, and try, and try."
Heartbreak Factor: 6/10 -- Basically, Adele is saying she's the best you'll ever have, and that mistake will haunt you.
Best Lyrics: "Turn my sorrow into treasured gold / You'll pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow / You're gonna wish you never had met me."
Heartbreak Factor: 3/10 -- Cher Lloyd thinks it's cute you're hooking up with other girls, but she's going to get back with you.
Best Lyrics: "I thought you'd still be mine / When I kissed you goodbye / Ooh, and you might be with her / But I still had you first."
Heartbreak Factor: 6/10 -- This song is a newsflash to Katy Perry's ex-boyfriends/fiancés/husbands: You may have broken her down, but you'll never destroy her soul.
Best Lyrics: "So you can keep the diamond ring / It don't mean nothing anyway / In fact you can keep everything / Except for me."
Valentine's Day can suck. For all it's cracked up to be, the holiday just isn't fun for everyone.
There's no occasion that tries harder to remind you of your bruising singledom, your recent bad breakup or your crush that never came to fruition. So how do you cope? By turning to sad love songs.
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SoundExchange, a non-profit organization that collects royalties from more than 2,000 radio services, has put together a "Love Stinks" playlist. Based on royalties paid to artists, the company (which represents the entire recorded music industry) figured out which tracks were the 14 most popular anti-love songs streamed in 2013.
Heartbreak queens such as Adele, Taylor Swift and Pink are dominant with their lovesick woes. When these divas suffer, they transform their loss into sonic landscapes that become therapy for our ears and hearts.
We've put together a Spotify playlist and a gallery of music videos of the top pop songs that will make you weep, sigh or plan revenge on an old lover. Peruse the pickings from a bevy of artists, from Bruno Mars to Rihanna to Katy Perry.
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