How much do you know about sad songs?

Tickets for Phoebe Bridgers – notorious creator of sad music – went on sale in Ireland during the week.

US SINGER-SONGWRITER PHOEBE Bridgers, who is well-known for creating devastatingly sad music, has announced her first tour in three years.

Tickets for her Irish concerts sold out in record time during the week.

The artist, who hasn’t released new music since 2020, has not yet dropped her new album, and fans are eagerly awaiting what is anticipated to be another collection of melancholic masterpieces.

In honour of Bridgers’ return, we’ve put together a quiz to test your knowledge on sad songs.

Which of the following sad songs by The Beatles is the most covered song ever, according to the Guinness Book of World Records?

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Eleanor Rigby (1966)

Yesterday (1965)

For No One (1966)

Julia (1968)

Céline Dion made it famous, but who actually wrote the song All By Myself?

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Eric Carmen

Céline Dion

Elton John

Linda Ronstadt

For which 2023 movie did Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas make the song What Was I Made For?

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Oppenheimer

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

The Little Mermaid

Barbie

What did Tom Odell bring his partner in the 2013 song Another Love?

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Sunflowers

A letter

Daffodils

Water

Which two words begin Adele's 2011 sad hit Someone Like You?

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Never mind

I heard

You know

I hate

In the song Nothing Compares 2 U, originally written by Prince and popularised by Sinead O'Connor in 1990, how much time had it been since love had been taken away?

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Four years

Seven hours and 15 days

Two days

One hour

Which actor is Taylor Swift's 2012 song All Too Well allegedly about?

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Tom Hiddleston

Joe Alwyn

John Mayer

Jake Gyllenhaal

Who originally wrote Johnny Cash's 2002 sad anthem Hurt?

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Jeff Buckley

Nine Inch Nails

Ed Sheeran

Taylor Swift

Who sings the 2021 ballad Drivers License?

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Gracie Abrams

Phoebe Bridgers

Taylor Swift

Olivia Rodrigo

Lady Gaga performed the emotional ballad Always Remember Us This Way in the 2018 film A Star Is Born. What was the name of her character in the movie?