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The Break-Up Music Guide

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UNH chapter.

Every girl knows that breakups suck, especially if your ex goes to school with you. The only real way to get over a breakup is to go through the three stages. The first stage: sadness, is when you and your beau break up and you can’t help but sit on your couch, cry, and maybe start hanging with two new guys, Ben and Jerry. However, after a few days or weeks you’re already onto the next stage, anger or what I like to call “the Taylor Swift stage.” You want to reek havock on your ex’s life, burn all the pictures of you two together, and show him what he is missing. Finally, after the tears are gone and the craziness, I mean anger is out, you are onto the third stage, moving on. This is the stage were you are a new woman who is single and ready to mingle and when you look back on your breakup you laugh because you don’t know what you ever saw in your ex. Here are some of our favorite songs from every genre for your break up needs! Turn up your ipod or radio and tune out the heart break!

Stage 1: Sadness
-Please Don’t Go – Mike Posner
– Don’t Speak by No Doubt
– Can’t Be Friends by Trey Songz
– What Hurts The Most by Rascal Flatts
– Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart by Alicia Keys
– Doing It Wrong by Drake
– This Ain’t Goodbye by Train
– What Goes Around by Justin Timberlake
– Thinking of You by Katy Perry
– Springsteen by Eric Church
– Burn by Usher
– Dreaming With A Broken Heart by John Mayer
– Me, Myself and I by Beyonce

Stage 2: Anger
– Undo It by Carrie Underwood
– Picture To Burn by Taylor Swift
– Irreplaceable by Beyonce
– Set Fire To The Rain by Adele
– Erase Me by Kid Cudi
– White Liar by Miranda Lambert
– Misery Business by Paramore
– The Story of Us by Taylor Swift
– I Don’t Want You Back by Eamon
– Take A Bow by Rihanna
– Bust Your Windows by Jazmine Sullivan
– Gives You Hell by All American Rejects

Stage 3: Moving On
– Return of The Mack by Mack Morrison
– So What by Pink
– Stronger by Kelly Clarkson
– Wide Awake by Katy Perry
– Best Thing I Never Had by Beyonce
– Blow Me (One Last Kiss) by Pink
– We are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift
– Ridin’ Solo by Jason Derulo
– Single Ladies by Beyonce
– Red High Heels by Kellie Pickler
– Part of Me by Katy Perry
– Leavin’ by Jesse McCarthey
– Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson
– Makes Me Wonder by Maroon 5
– Deuces (Remix) by Chris Brown, Drake, Kanye West & Andre 3000