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Facebook’s most popular Spotify breakup, love songs

By | February 11, 2012, 10:34am PST

Summary: Here are the top 10 songs for Facebook users in a relationship and for Facebook users who have just broken up their relationship. The data is limited to Spotify users located in the U.S.

Facebook knows what you listen to when you’re changing your relationship status. Do you have a go-to break up song or a song you can’t stop listening to when you’re seeing someone? If you listen to it on Facebook, the social network knows what it is.

In advance of Valentine’s Day, Facebook decided to pull data together from the songs most played by Americans on Spotify to see what users are playing as they change their relationship statuses on the social network. Facebook even created Spotify playlists “for Facebook users, by Facebook users.”

So, without further ado, here are the top 10 songs U.S. users listen to on Spotify when entering into a relationship on Facebook, according to the Facebook Data Team:

  1. “Don’t Wanna Go Home” by Jason Derulo
  2. “Love On Top” by Beyoncé
  3. “How to Love” by Lil Wayne
  4. “Just The Way You Are” by Bruno Mars
  5. “Good Feeling” by Flo Rida
  6. “It Girl” by Jason Derulo
  7. “Stereo Hearts” by Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine
  8. “Criminal” by Britney Spears
  9. “No Sleep” by Wiz Khalifa
  10. “Free Fallin’” by John Mayer

Here is Facebook’s playlist for the above 10 songs: love mix.

Here are the top 10 songs U.S. users listen to on Spotify after ending a relationship on Facebook, according to the Facebook Data Team:

  1. “The Cave” by Mumford and Sons
  2. “Crew Love” by Drake
  3. “All of the Lights” by Kanye West
  4. “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele
  5. “Take Care” by Drake
  6. “It Will Rain” by Bruno Mars
  7. “We Found Love” by Rihanna & Calvin Harris
  8. “Call It What You Want” by Foster the People
  9. “Love You Like a Love Song” by Selena Gomez and the Scene
  10. “Without You” by David Guetta featuring Usher

Here is Facebook’s Spotify playlist for the above 10 songs: breakup mix.

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Emil Protalinski has covered the tech industry for five years for multiple publications.

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Emil Protalinski

Emil Protalinski has covered the tech industry for five years for multiple publications, including Neowin for two years and Ars Technica for three years. He has written 1,000s of articles for both, with a particular focus on scrutinizing Microsoft products and services. Recently, Emil has expanded his coverage to non-Microsoft technologies, including the social networking giant Facebook.

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RE: Facebook's most popular Spotify breakup, love songs
pixelmobb 17th Feb
wow - wish i had this list when i made my recent short comedy about a facebook break up - https://vimeo.com/36761996

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