While legends like Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson and Patsy Cline set the standard for sad songs, modern country music has more ...

Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year, but many songs touch on the sadder themes of the season. Here are 7 to make you cry into your cocoa.

The Eagles' melancholy song from 1970, inspired by two California venues, offered an uncanny prediction of their breakup the ...

Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder have been writing great songs since the 1990s. In an interview, Vedder talks about how "Alive" ...

We talk a lot about sob-inducing movies, but personally, I don’t think enough attention is paid to the best sad songs to cry to, from Adele ballads—duh—to offerings from Mitski and Enya ...

Even during the holidays, I simply cannot get enough. It’s hard to find really good, high quality sad country Christmas songs, and as I’ve mentioned several times already this holiday season, I’m not ...

What sort of festive music goes with that? Turns out, there are more than a handful of "sad" holiday songs written about the not-so-fun parts of the season. We're taking a look at 30 of them below.

The emotional story behind Miley Cyrus' unconventional Christmas song "My Sad Christmas Song" and how it has become a beacon ...

Phoebe Bridgers has cornered the market on sad girl songs in the 2020s, and we’ll likely hear even more between her and boygenius in the next few years. “I Know The End” is one of the best ...

I still think we have all of that intact, but maybe the percentage has shifted.” Believe it or not, serious scientific research has gone into what creates dark and sad songs. Commissioned by the ...

Those types of songs included “The Knoxville Girl,” “Down in the Willow Garden,” “Little Rosewood Casket,” and more, which ...