10 Best Breakup Albums Of All Time

Making any breakup album like this can sometimes feel a touch one-sided. Even though we may be onboard with calling this person awful for betraying you, when do you ever get to hear their side of the story to even things out? Well, you can if you have the right formula, and Fleetwood Mac's Rumours came with an all out soap opera to get you there.

In the years leading up to this album's production, both Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham had gone through a bitter breakup with each other, all while Christine and John McVie were separating after years of marriage together. Though the tension could be cut with a knife in the studio, much of the magic of this album stems from the actual music, with each song directed towards a different jilted lover.

Given that McVie, Buckingham, and Nicks wrote all of these songs, you see these breakups from a few different angles, almost like they're using songs as weapons against one another. For every song like Dreams that aims to leave on a happy note, you get the spiteful Go Your Own Way, which is so cheery you can almost be tricked into thinking it's a happy song. While the relationships weren't meant to last, the by product has been influencing the entire music scene for the better part of 40 years.