El blog Spinner ha realizado el siguiente ranking de las canciones más tristes de la historia.
1. Pernice Brothers – Chicken Wire
2. Billie Holiday – Gloomy Sunday
3. The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby
4. Johnny Cash – Hurt
5. The Smiths – I Know It’s Over
6. George Jones – He Stopped Loving Her Today
7. Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
8. Luther Vandross – Dance With My Father
9. Martina McBride – Concrete Angel
10. Roy Orbison – In the Real World
11. Ben Folds Five – Brick
12. Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
13. Iron & Wine – Naked as We Came
14. Dionne Warwick – Anyone Who Had a Heart
15. Chocolate Genius – My Mom