The DeuxDuel Heartbreak Songs lineup

22 songs · 18 artists · 1961–2023 · listed A–Z, not ranked

Heartbreak Songs: a curated cross-era selection.

What this list is

DeuxDuel draws from 22 songs when it builds a Heartbreak Songs matchup. Two of them appear side by side, you play a 30-second preview of each, and you pick the one you would rather hear. Every track here is a real Apple Music catalogue song, hand-picked for this category — not pulled from a streaming chart — and voting needs no music subscription.

The order below is alphabetical by artist. It is not a ranking and does not imply one.

No ranking is published for Heartbreak Songs yet. DeuxDuel only publishes a chart once a category has real head-to-head evidence behind it, so this page shows the lineup and nothing more. How the ranking works.

Every song in Heartbreak Songs

  1. Hello
    Adele · 2015
  2. Rolling in the Deep
    Adele · 2010
  3. Someone Like You
    Adele · 2011
  4. Ain't No Sunshine
    Bill Withers · 1971
  5. I Can't Make You Love Me
    Bonnie Raitt · 1991
  6. Jar of Hearts
    Christina Perri · 2010
  7. All By Myself
    Eric Carmen · 1975
  8. Thinkin Bout You
    Frank Ocean · 2012
  9. Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra)
    Gotye · 2011
  10. Say You Won't Let Go
    James Arthur · 2016
  11. Before You Go
    Lewis Capaldi · 2019
  12. Someone You Loved
    Lewis Capaldi · 2018
  13. drivers license
    Olivia Rodrigo · 2021
  14. vampire
    Olivia Rodrigo · 2023
  15. Crying
    Roy Orbison · 1961
  16. Stay With Me
    Sam Smith · 2014
  17. Nothing Compares 2 U
    Sinéad O'Connor · 1990
  18. Kill Bill
    SZA · 2022
  19. Linger
    The Cranberries · 1993
  20. Call Out My Name
    The Weeknd · 2018
  21. Un-Break My Heart
    Toni Braxton · 1996
  22. I Will Always Love You
    Whitney Houston · 1992
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