BLACKPINK's 'Kill This Love' Among Most Popular Break up Songs in Last Five Years


BLACKPINK's 'Kill This Love' is among the top 5 break up songs from the last five years according to a study conducted by Learn Divorce Law

The study,  analyzed a little under 100 songs that can be defined “break up songs” from 2018 to 2023 and summed their Spotify streams and YouTube view
s to discover which one was the most popular.

Lewis Capaldi’s hit song from 2018 “Someone You Loved” comes in first. The song peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart and became Capaldi’s first number one single, spending seven consecutive weeks atop the chart and was the best-selling single of 2019 in the UK. With 2,643,286,380 streams on Spotify alone, the highest on the list, and 588,750,389 YouTube views, “Someone You Loved” totals 3,232,036,769 plays across the two platforms.

In second comes “SAD!” by late American rapper XXXTentacion, released in 2018 along with the album “?”, the last one before the singer’s death in June of the same year. The song has the third highest Spotify streams at 1,971,683,487 and the second highest YouTube views at 1,200,696,026 for a total of 3,172,379,513 plays.

“Happier” by Marshmello and Bastille comes in third, with 1,802,089,675 Spotify streams and 1,051,052,327 YouTube views for a total of 2,853,142,002 plays. The song was released in 2018.

Further down on the list, “Don’t Start Now” by Dua Lipa is fourth. The song, released in 2020 is one of the most popular songs of the year, quickly accumulating 2,143,417,922 streams on Spotify, the second highest on the list, and 636,668,506 views on YouTube for its official video. The total is 2,780,086,428 plays.

The top five closes with “Kill This Love” by Korean girl group BLACKPINK who have the fewest Spotify streams in the top ten at 664,110,420, but have the highest count of YouTube views, surpassing 1.7 billion, for a total of 2,401,799,832.

Top 10 most popular break-up songs of the last five years

 

Song name

Artist

Spotify streams

YouTube views

Sum

1

Someone You Loved

Lewis Capaldi

2,643,286,380

588,750,389

3,232,036,769

2

SAD!

XXX

Tentacion

1,971,683,487

1,200,696,026

3,172,379,513

3

Happier

Marshmello and Bastille

1,802,089,675

1,051,052,327

2,853,142,002

4

Don't Start Now

Dua Lipa

2,143,417,922

636,668,506

2,780,086,428

5

Kill This Love

Blackpink

664,110,420

1,737,689,412

2,401,799,832

6

Without Me

Halsey

1,672,387,505

722,593,595

2,394,981,100

7

thank u, next

Ariana Grande

1,637,794,578

750,347,927

2,388,142,505

8

when the party's over

Billie Eilish

1,482,614,893

846,581,518

2,329,196,411

9

no tears left to cry

Ariana Grande

1,182,952,776

1,133,575,586

2,316,528,362

10

good 4 u

Olivia Rodrigo

1,739,123,601

420,106,282

2,159,229,883



A spokesperson from Learn Divorce Law commented; 

“Break up songs have been one of the pillars of popular music for the longest time, and we could confidently say that some of the most popular songs of the last decade are about broken hearts. This list highlights the most popular of the last five years, and most of these are also among the most popular songs of the year they were released in, “Someone You Loved” being a perfect example of this.”


An interesting tidbit to learn a few days ahead of Valentine's Day. What do you think? Let us know @kpopwise!

Ciera Reeves

Ciera is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of KpopWise. She has been a fan of Korean pop culture since 2005 and writing about it since 2009. Her bias groups are VIXX and OnlyOneOf. She is a 2nd-3rd generation K-pop fan, but she is actively keeping up with the current artists. twitter instagram

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