50 Best Country Songs About Getting Over Someone
Country Heartbreak Tracks for Moving On
There’s a strange kind of buzz that hits when you’re trying to get past someone. It’s not clean relief, not full-on sadness, but some knotty thing in between. You wake up thinking you’re fine, then a song on the radio makes your chest tighten out of nowhere. The days swing from petty anger to laughing at nothing to staring out the window while the coffee goes cold. These are the moments when music slips in, not to fix anything, but to sit there with you.
It’s the late-night drives where headlights blur and the right track hums through the speakers like it knows your business. Sometimes it’s a drawl dripping with spite, sometimes it’s a cracked voice that still misses what’s gone. The stories in these songs don’t push past the hurt, they hang in it. They can be blunt and bitter or soft enough to sting when you least expect it. The best ones feel like they belong to the same messy soundtrack that holds pop, rock, country, and R&B songs you’ve leaned on before.
The mess doesn’t fade in a neat line. One night you might crank the volume and belt every word, the next you might skip it altogether. These tracks carry that unpredictable pulse, turning heartache into something you can hold onto for three and a half minutes. Here are the best country songs for moving on from someone.
Top 10 Breakup Songs
1. 'Before He Cheats'—Carrie Underwood
2. 'I Hope You're Happy Now'—Carly Pearce and Lee Brice
3. 'Kerosene'—Miranda Lambert
4. 'Starting Over'—Chris Stapleton
5. 'I Fall to Pieces'—Patsy Cline
6. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
7. 'Wide Open Spaces'—The Chicks
8. 'Goodbye Earl'—The Chicks
9. 'What If I Never Get Over You'—Lady A
10. 'Better Man'—Little Big Town
Country Music Breakup Songs #11—20
11. 'You'll Think of Me'—Keith Urban
12. 'Mama's Broken Heart'—Miranda Lambert
13. 'I Will Always Love You'—Dolly Parton
14. 'Bye Bye'—Jo Dee Messina
15. 'Give It Away'—George Strait
16. 'Stay'—Sugarland
17. 'Die From a Broken Heart'—Maddie & Tae
18. 'Break Up in a Small Town'—Sam Hunt
19. 'Let It Go'—Zac Brown Band
20. 'Wasted Time'—Keith Urban
Country Songs About Moving On #21—30
21. 'Blame It on Your Heart'—Patty Loveless
22. 'How Do I Say Goodbye'—Dean Lewis
23. 'Drinkin' Problem'—Midland
24. 'I'm Gonna Miss Her'—Brad Paisley
25. 'A Little Too Late'—Toby Keith
26. 'Over You'—Miranda Lambert
27. 'Getting Over You'—Lauren Alaina
28. 'That's My Job'—Conway Twitty
29. 'When She Wakes Up and Finds Me Gone'—Tim McGraw
30. 'Not Over You'—Sara Evans
Healing From a Breakup Songs #31—40
31. 'Someone Else Calling You Baby'—Luke Bryan
32. 'Don't Think I Don't Think About It'—Darius Rucker
33. 'Here Comes Goodbye'—Rascal Flatts
34. 'Mercy'—Brett Young
35. 'Over When It's Over'—Eric Church
36. 'A Broken Wing'—Martina McBride
37. 'New Truck'—Dylan Scott
38. 'I'm Outta Here'—Shania Twain
39. 'That Ain't My Truck'—Rhett Akins
40. 'You Were Mine'—The Chicks
Country Songs About Getting Over Someone #41—50
41. 'He Didn't Have to Be'—Brad Paisley
42. 'The Cowboy Rides Away'—George Strait
43. 'Like We Never Loved at All'—Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
44. 'I Told You So'—Randy Travis
45. 'She's Gone, Gone, Gone'—Lee Ann Womack
46. 'I'm Already There'—Lonestar
47. 'She's Acting Single (I'm Drinking Doubles)'—Gary Stewart
48. 'The Bed's Too Big Without You'—The Police
49. 'All Too Well'—Taylor Swift
50. 'I'm Gone'—Brantley Gilbert
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