50 Best Country Songs About Broken Hearts
Heartache Country Songs to Play on Repeat
There’s a particular kind of quiet that follows someone walking out and not looking back. Not a dramatic slam or storm-off kind of thing. More like the sound of your phone lighting up one less time, or that weird ache when you drive past their exit and don’t even slow down. That’s where these songs live. Not in the explosion, but in the slow, steady unravel. Country music doesn't try to clean it up or spin it into something inspiring. It leans into the mess, the memory, the voicemail you deleted but still remember word for word.
A lot of heartbreak playlists borrow from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, trying to hit every emotion in one go. But when the lights are low and the silence kicks in, it’s usually a fiddle or a steel guitar that lands the gut punch. Country has a way of sitting right in the wreckage and letting things sting for a while. There’s a rawness that doesn’t chase the next mood shift. It’ll stay with the lonely until they’re done pretending to be fine. Sometimes that means three minutes of sad harmonies on loop. Sometimes it’s an acoustic gut-check that sounds like it was written in your kitchen at 2am.
No genre does heartbreak with a straight face like country. There’s no need to reframe or spin it into something useful. These tracks don’t sidestep the weight or tidy things up. They let the ache sit there like a drink you can’t finish but also can’t pour out. Here’s a run of country songs that hit hard when you’re dealing with the kind of silence that won’t stop humming in your chest.
Top 10 Country Songs
1. 'He Stopped Loving Her Today'—George Jones
2. 'I Will Always Love You'—Dolly Parton
3. 'Whiskey Lullaby'—Brad Paisley featuring Alison Krauss
4. 'Crazy'—Patsy Cline
5. 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'—Hank Williams
6. 'The Dance'—Garth Brooks
7. 'Mama's Broken Heart'—Miranda Lambert
8. 'Before He Cheats'—Carrie Underwood
9. 'What Hurts the Most'—Rascal Flatts
10. 'Neon Moon'—Brooks & Dunn
Breakup Country Music #11—20
11. 'You'll Think of Me'—Keith Urban
12. 'Die From a Broken Heart'—Maddie & Tae
13. 'Always on My Mind'—Willie Nelson
14. 'Colder Weather'—Zac Brown Band
15. 'For My Broken Heart'—Reba McEntire
16. 'Give It Away'—George Strait
17. 'Need You Now'—Lady A
18. 'Break Up in a Small Town'—Sam Hunt
19. 'Fire Away'—Chris Stapleton
20. 'Here Comes Goodbye'—Rascal Flatts
Country Songs About Heartache #21—30
21. 'Tin Man'—Miranda Lambert
22. 'Better Man'—Little Big Town
23. 'Jolene'—Dolly Parton
24. 'What If I Never Get Over You'—Lady A
25. 'Hurt'—Johnny Cash
26. 'I Fall to Pieces'—Patsy Cline
27. 'Go Rest High on That Mountain'—Vince Gill
28. 'The Grand Tour'—George Jones
29. 'D-I-V-O-R-C-E'—Tammy Wynette
30. 'Goodbye Earl'—The Chicks
Country Songs About Lost Love #31—40
31. 'I Drive Your Truck'—Lee Brice
32. 'When I Call Your Name'—Vince Gill
33. 'Blame It on Your Heart'—Patty Loveless
34. 'Traveling Soldier'—The Chicks
35. 'Don't Think I Don't Think About It'—Darius Rucker
36. 'Like We Never Loved at All'—Tim McGraw featuring Faith Hill
37. 'Consider Me Gone'—Reba McEntire
38. 'A Little Past Little Rock'—Lee Ann Womack
39. 'Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain'—Willie Nelson
40. 'Anymore'—Travis Tritt
Country Music Breakup Songs #41—50
41. 'You Get Used to Somebody'—Tim McGraw
42. 'The Truth'—Jason Aldean
43. 'Breakup with Him'—Old Dominion
44. 'I'm Over You'—Keith Whitley
45. 'Over You'—Miranda Lambert
46. 'I Hope He Breaks Your Heart'—American Aquarium
47. 'When It Rains It Pours'—Luke Combs
48. 'There Is No Arizona'—Jamie O'Neal
49. 'Space Cowboy'—Kacey Musgraves
50. 'If I Could Only Fly'—Blaze Foley
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