For Spotify listeners looking for songs to put them in their feels, there’s one track that consistently shows up on “sad” playlists.
The melancholy 2018 track “Lovely” by Billie Eilish and Khalid was recently named Spotify’s top sad song of all time, according to new data released by the streaming platform. The deep cut has been added to a whopping 2.4 million “sad” playlists, which is more than any other song in Spotify history.
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“Lovely,” was written specifically for the Season 2 soundtrack of the hit Netflix drama series 13 Reasons Why, a show with intensely dark subject matter like depression and suicide. It spent a total of 22 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 64 in January 2019.
It was the first of Eilish’s songs to land on the Hot 100, though she has had 43 other songs make the chart since then, including one No. 1 hit (2019’s “Bad Guy”). For Khalid, “Lovely” is one of 32 songs he’s had on the chart throughout his career.
In 2018, “Lovely” earned the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, a position to which it would later return again in 2023 after it was featured in the Disney+ and Hulu series Goosebumps.
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“Lovely” was named as part of Spotify’s recent data drop in honor of its 20-year anniversary. To celebrate the milestone, the platform has unveiled lists of its most-streamed songs, artists, albums and even audiobooks, of all time
In addition to the top “sad” song of all time, Spotify also announced its top love song: “I Wanna Be Yours” by the Arctic Monkeys, which has been added to 2.7 million Spotify playlists about “love.” The platform also named its top breakup song of all time, revealed as Olivia Rodrigo‘s 2021 heartbreaker, “traitor,” which has been added to 131,000 “breakup” playlists.
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