If you need to wallow in heartache, we're prescribing a heavy dose of sad country music. With a mix of new songs and classic tearjerkers, this breakup playlist is the cathartic medicine you need right now. (Then once you're feeling better, vent your feelings by belting out the empowering songs in this breakup playlist [1].) Here are 40 country songs to help you get the cries out.
"Better as a Memory" by Kenny Chesney
"Colder Weather" by Zac Brown Band
"Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You" by Kellie Pickler
"Don't Think I Don't Think About It" by Darius Rucker
"Every Time I Hear Your Name" by Keith Anderson
"Forget to Forget You" by Scotty McCreery
"Goodbye Time" by Blake Shelton
"Grown Woman" by Jason Aldean
"Here Comes Goodbye" by Rascal Flatts
"Hurt Somebody" by Dierks Bentley
"I Miss My Friend" by Darryl Worley
"I'll Think of You That Way" by Carolyn Dawn Johnson
"If You Had Called Yesterday" by Julie Roberts
"In a Song" by Hunter Hayes
"It Would Be You" by Gary Allan
"Keep It to Yourself" by Kacey Musgraves
"Like We Never Loved at All" by Faith Hill
"Love Your Memory" by Miranda Lambert
"Mine Would Be You" by Blake Shelton
"More Like Her" by Miranda Lambert
"Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum
"Please Remember Me" by Tim McGraw
"Settle For a Slowdown" by Dierks Bentley
"She Wouldn't Be Gone" by Blake Shelton
"Someday When I Stop Loving You" by Carrie Underwood
"Stay" by Little Big Town
"The Dance" by Garth Brooks
"The Truth" by Jason Aldean
"These Boots" by Eric Church
"Tonight I Wanna Cry" by Keith Urban
"Watching Airplanes" by Gary Allan
"What I Really Meant to Say" by Cyndi Thomson
"While You Loved Me" by Rascal Flatts
"Why Should I Care" by Sara Evans
"You Get Used to Somebody" by Tim McGraw
"You Were Mine" by Dixie Chicks
"You'll Think of Me" by Keith Urban
"Your Side of the Bed" by Little Big Town