Favourite break-up songs revealed - including tracks by Adele and Taylor Swift

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Unless you've been completely plain sailing in your first relationship, chances are you'll have a break-up song or two. These tunes that remind us of heartbroken times, often played full-blast at home alone, can also be a way of pulling us through the bad and make us feel like ourselves again,Hull Live reports that a study of 2,000 adults who have been in a long-term relationship and gone through at least one break-up revealed that listening to music is their preferred coping mechanism following a split.

And Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black, Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You and Fleetwood Mac’s Go Your Own Way are the nation's top break-up songs, according to the research.Coldplay's Fix You and Robyn's Dancing On My Own also featured in the top 30.

And despite almost half of those polled saying they listen to sad music when heartbroken, break-up songs aren’t all doom and gloom.More than four in 10 choose an empowering and happy song such as Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive and Taylor Swift’s We Are Never Getting Back Together, which also featured in the list alongside Beyonce's Single Ladies.

Relationship expert Rachael Lloyd at eharmony has unveiled the seven stages of a breakup, including disillusionment, doubt, denial, anger, relapse, acceptance and happiness – and shared some advice on how to approach them in a healthy way.