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Cigarettes After Sex

Data updated on 2025-04-24 07:50:22 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

5.0 billion
Updated on 2025-04-24

Country

United States

Monthly listeners

27,640,441

Followers

15,530,703

Top Cities

  1. Indonesia
    878,492 listeners
  2. Turkey
    262,572 listeners
  3. Indonesia
    371,254 listeners
  4. Philippines
    236,218 listeners
  5. United States
    266,750 listeners

Most popular tracks

Track Plays Duration Release date
Apocalypse
Apocalypse
1,820,460,715 4:50 2017-03-21
Cry
Cry
861,709,728 4:17 2019-10-25
Heavenly
Heavenly
406,852,456 4:49 2019-08-28
Falling In Love
Falling In Love
224,021,988 4:06 2019-10-08
You're All I Want
You're All I Want
201,328,585 4:24 2020-05-13
Touch
Touch
177,256,085 4:53 2019-10-25
Crush
Crush
169,303,837 4:27 2018-07-09
Pistol
Pistol
138,550,331 3:54 2022-11-15
Sesame Syrup
Sesame Syrup
128,489,974 5:03 2018-07-09
Don't Let Me Go
Don't Let Me Go
120,539,764 4:23 2019-10-25
Kiss It Off Me
Kiss It Off Me
110,409,214 4:30 2019-10-25
Neon Moon
Neon Moon
98,596,812 3:46 2018-12-17
Tejano Blue
Tejano Blue
85,731,842 3:54 2024-03-01
Stop Waiting
Stop Waiting
79,853,281 6:03 2023-07-18
You're the Only Good Thing In My Life
You're the Only Good Thing In My Life
71,119,942 4:35 2019-10-25
Hentai
Hentai
51,422,469 4:45 2019-10-25
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Motion Picture Soundtrack
43,928,558 4:60 2023-12-12
Dark Vacay
Dark Vacay
41,844,734 3:33 2024-04-16
Pure
Pure
38,843,498 4:15 2019-10-25
Bubblegum
Bubblegum
36,745,940 4:39 2023-07-18
Baby Blue Movie
Baby Blue Movie
30,341,809 4:05 2024-06-04
Sweet
Sweet
23,952,286 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]