Top Ten Breakup Songs For Valentine’s Day: Can You Do Better?

To celebrate Valentine’s Day’s imminent arrival, MTV posted their picks for the Top 10 Breakup Songs. After perusing the list, we find it lacking –sorry, MTV.

To celebrate Valentine’s Day’s imminent arrival, MTV posted their picks for the Top 10 Breakup Songs. After perusing the list, we find it lacking – sorry, MTV.

No Doubt, Jennifer Lopez, and Kelly Clarkson?

These read like the Top 10 Videos you may consider playing, if you were to have some sort of show where videos were played.

So we’re asking you, the highly qualified American Songwriter reader, to submit your own Best Breakup Songs. We’ll post them next week.

Give us some “real” songs!

Here’s MTV’s:

10. No Doubt – “Ex-Girlfriend”

9. Jennifer Lopez – “Ain’t It Funny”

8. The Ting Tings – “Shut Up and Let Me Go”

7. Kanye West – “Heartless”

6. Carrie Underwood – “Before He Cheats”

5. Pink – “So What”

4. Justin Timberlake – “Cry Me a River”

3. Destiny’s Child – “Survivor”

2. Alanis Morissette – “You Oughta Know”

1. Kelly Clarkson – “Since U Been Gone”

I’ll start you off. Here’s my vote:

“Since I Been Loving You,” Led Zeppelin