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Cigarettes After Sex

Data updated on 2025-04-03 21:59:12 UTC
Ten years ago Greg Gonzalez was having a really rough Valentine’s Day. Freshly heartbroken with no hope of reconciliation, he spent two hours driving from his hometown El Paso to play a show, and he listened to Sade’s “By Your Side” on repeat both ways. “The experience that day stuck in my bones—it was an idea that I couldn’t forget,” says Gonzalez, the frontman of Cigarettes After Sex. “I thought, how do I make a record that feels like that?”

With each record—the initial 2012 EP, 2017’s eponymous debut album, and 2019’s Cry— Gonzalez has been faithful to his muse: love. In raw, imagistic vignettes set to entrancing, slow-burn pop songs, Gonzalez captures every emotion a romantic arc inspires. But where previous albums have drawn from an amalgam of relationships, for the most part, their third, eagerly anticipated LP, X’s, centralises on just one relationship that spanned four years.

Genres

: dream pop

Total plays

4.9 billion
Updated on 2025-04-03

Country

United States

Monthly listeners

27,347,389

Followers

15,295,863

Top Cities

  1. Indonesia
    876,906 listeners
  2. Turkey
    241,431 listeners
  3. Indonesia
    359,211 listeners
  4. Philippines
    260,868 listeners
  5. United States
    271,497 listeners

Most popular tracks

Track Plays Duration Release date
Apocalypse
Apocalypse
1,788,866,024 4:50 2017-03-21
Cry
Cry
838,082,096 4:17 2019-10-25
Heavenly
Heavenly
398,342,899 4:49 2019-08-28
Falling In Love
Falling In Love
219,683,659 4:06 2019-10-08
You're All I Want
You're All I Want
197,521,762 4:24 2020-05-13
Touch
Touch
171,417,440 4:53 2019-10-25
Crush
Crush
167,264,699 4:27 2018-07-09
Pistol
Pistol
135,929,886 3:54 2022-11-15
Sesame Syrup
Sesame Syrup
125,401,628 5:03 2018-07-09
Don't Let Me Go
Don't Let Me Go
118,480,713 4:23 2019-10-25
Kiss It Off Me
Kiss It Off Me
108,659,292 4:30 2019-10-25
Neon Moon
Neon Moon
97,178,819 3:46 2018-12-17
Tejano Blue
Tejano Blue
82,729,773 3:54 2024-03-01
Stop Waiting
Stop Waiting
76,852,502 6:03 2023-07-18
You're the Only Good Thing In My Life
You're the Only Good Thing In My Life
69,872,860 4:35 2019-10-25
Hentai
Hentai
50,586,406 4:45 2019-10-25
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Motion Picture Soundtrack
42,637,302 4:60 2023-12-12
Dark Vacay
Dark Vacay
40,032,245 3:33 2024-04-16
Pure
Pure
38,158,384 4:15 2019-10-25
Bubblegum
Bubblegum
35,791,473 4:39 2023-07-18
Baby Blue Movie
Baby Blue Movie
29,252,993 4:05 2024-06-04
Sweet
Sweet
23,493,291 4:13 2017-08-29

New releases

Baby Blue Movie
Baby Blue Movie
2024-06-04
[Partisan Records]
Baby Blue Movie
Baby Blue Movie
2024-06-04
[Liberator Music / Partisan Records]
Dark Vacay
Dark Vacay
2024-04-16
[Partisan Records]
Dark Vacay
Dark Vacay
2024-04-16
[Liberator Music / Partisan Records]
Tejano Blue
Tejano Blue
2024-03-01
[Liberator Music / Partisan Records]
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Motion Picture Soundtrack
2023-12-12
[Partisan Records]
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Motion Picture Soundtrack
2023-12-12
[Liberator Music / Partisan Records]
Bubblegum
Bubblegum
2023-07-18
[Partisan Records]
Bubblegum
Bubblegum
2023-07-18
[Partisan Records / Liberator Music]
Pistol
Pistol
2022-11-15
[Partisan Records / Liberator Music]
You're All I Want
You're All I Want
2020-05-26
[Partisan Records]
You're All I Want
You're All I Want
2020-05-13
[Partisan Records]
Cry
Cry
2019-10-25
[Partisan Records]
Falling In Love
Falling In Love
2019-10-08
[Partisan Records]
Heavenly
Heavenly
2019-08-28
[Partisan Records]
Heavenly
Heavenly
2019-08-28
[Partisan Records]
Neon Moon
Neon Moon
2018-12-17
[Spanish Prayers]
Neon Moon
Neon Moon
2018-12-17
[Spanish Prayers]
Crush
Crush
2018-07-10
[PTKF]
Crush
Crush
2018-07-09
[Partisan Records]
Sweet
Sweet
2017-08-29
[Partisan Records]
Apocalypse
Apocalypse
2017-03-21
[Partisan Records]