Some days we live life to the fullest and enjoy the moment. Other days, we are reminded that we are still in the midst of a pandemic. If you're feeling depressed about the latter, take a look at our list of the best songs of 2022. It will be updated throughout the year, so bookmark this tab!

Ian Dior, perhaps best known for featuring on the hit single "Mood," which went viral on TikTok, gives fans a change of pace with "thought it was." The song, featuring Travis Barker and Machine Gun Kelly, appears on Dior's new album, "on to better things."

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Lana Del Rey's latest single, "Watercolor Eyes," premiered on the latest episode of Euphoria. After all, Del Rey's "Hot summer and cold watermelon / Your love stings like blood and lemons / Why do you leave me with watercolor eyes?" Would it really be a list of sad songs without the songs of.

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"Background Music" from Maren Morris' forthcoming Humble Quest is a melancholy and beautiful tribute to lovers and inevitable death." A hundred years from now, the only thing we'll be to them / Might be that we were here for three minutes in a car or a bar / When it's all over, if it's you and me / It's hard not to think we're the lucky ones / Not everyone gets to leave a keepsake."

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Gunna's "so far ahead > empire" is not necessarily classified as a capitalized sad song, but when the rapper talks about how far he has come despite the hardships he has faced throughout his life, it has a nostalgic It makes me feel good. Watch him perform the song on Jimmy Fallon (opens in new tab).

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