Justin Bieber’s ‘Love Yourself’ crowned most profitable break-up song, earning $7.8 million
In under a month Miley Cyrus and Shakira have earned a staggering $1,744,407.13 combined from Spotify streams of their trending breakup songs.
That’s according to BestGamblingSites.com who scraped Spotify for streaming numbers of the 50 most popular breakup songs. The experts then utilised MusicGateway.com’s streaming royalty calculator to thus uncover which artist managed to rake in the most from their heartbreak.
BestGamblingSites.com can reveal that Justin Bieber’s ‘Love Yourself’ is the highest earning break up song ever, earning $7,897,482.29 in royalties.
The Top 10 highest earning breakup songs
| Rank | Artist | Song | Total Spotify streams | Total earned in royalties (avg) |
| 1. | Justin Bieber | Love Yourself | 1,974,370,572 | $7,897,482.29 |
| 2. | Passenger | Let Her Go | 1,783,861,554 | $7,135,446.22 |
| 3. | Olivia Rodrigo | good 4 u | 1,731,195,507 | $6,924,782.03 |
| 4. | Halsey | Without Me | 1,665,580,340 | $6,662,321.36 |
| 5. | Charlie Puth ft Selena Gomez | We Don’t Talk Anymore | 1,466,902,855 | $5,867,611.42 |
| 6. | Adele | Someone Like You | 1,446,515,707 | $5,786,062.83 |
| 7. | Bruno Mars | When I Was Your Man | 1,436,550,545 | $5,746,202.18 |
| 8. | Dean Lewis | Be Alright | 1,409,965,240 | $5,639,860.96 |
| 9. | Gotye | Somebody That I Used To Know | 1,316,862,531 | $5,267,450.12 |
| 10. | Juice Wrld | All Girls Are The Same | 1,189,873,690 | $4,759,494.76 |
Please find the full dataset used throughout this study, here.
Justin Bieber’s ‘Love Yourself’ is the highest earning break up song of all time
BestGamblingSites.com can reveal that Justin Bieber’s ‘Love Yourself’ ranks first having potentially earned $7,897,482.29 from almost 2 million Spotify streams. The song originally written by Ed Sheeran has earned over 50% more than Bieber’s ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez. ‘Lose You To Love Me’ has earned just under $4 million ($3,885,926.12).
Passenger’s ‘Let Her Go’ ranks second, with the 2012 hit raking in a potential $7,135,446.22 from 1.8 million Spotify streams. This is almost a fifth (19%) more than Bruno Mars’ ‘When I Was Your Man’, which has potentially raked in a staggering $5,746,202.18 and was released in the same year.
Olivia Rodrigo ranks third with the number one single ‘good 4 u’. The hit has potentially earned $6,924,782.03 in just under two years from the 1.7 million streams. This is almost a quarter (23%) more than Giveon’s ‘Heartbreak Anniversary’ ($3,344,636.25)which was released one year earlier.
Halsey takes fourth place with the 2020 hit ‘Without Me’, potentially earning $6,662,321.36 in Spotify streams. This is almost a third (28%) more than ex-boyfriend Matty Healy’s band, The 1975, with ‘Somebody Else’ which has so far raked in over $2 million ($2,537,093.29) from Spotify streams.
Miley Cyrus and Shakira’s trending breakup songs have earned them a combined total of $1,744,407.13 from Spotify streams
| Artist | Song | Total number of Spotify Streams | Total earned in royalties (avg) |
| Miley Cyrus | Flowers | 255,087,370 | $1,020,349.48 |
| Shakira | Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol 53 | 181,014,413 | $724,057.65 |
Miley Cyrus’s ‘Flowers’, has already potentially earned a staggering $1,020,349.48 in less than a month. Written about her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth, the song has already become a TikTok sensation, with 50 million TikTok views on videos using the ‘Flowers’ audio.
Shakira has taken the media by stormwith her song ‘Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol 53’. In under a month Shakira has earned a potential $724,057.65 from 180k Spotify streams. Despite being released within a day of each other, Shakira’s Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol 53 has earned almost a third less than “Flowers” — suggesting the Miley Cyrus hit is more popular amongst fans.
