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Cigarettes After Sex

Data updated on 2025-09-18 07:08:42 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

5.7 billion
Updated on 2025-09-18

Country

United States

Social media links

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Monthly listeners

30,759,232

Followers

16,965,216

Top Cities

  1. Indonesia
    Jakarta
    869,204 listeners
  2. Indonesia
    Bandung
    340,699 listeners
  3. United Kingdom
    London
    424,377 listeners
  4. Mexico
    Mexico City
    454,206 listeners
  5. Philippines
    Quezon City
    318,208 listeners

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Most popular tracks

Track Plays Duration Release date
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Apocalypse
2,038,866,917 4:50 2017-03-21
Cry
Cry
1,051,586,035 4:17 2019-10-25
Heavenly
Heavenly
468,732,789 4:49 2019-08-28
Falling In Love
Falling In Love
251,780,132 4:06 2019-10-08
You're All I Want
You're All I Want
227,588,259 4:24 2020-05-13
Touch
Touch
219,954,879 4:53 2019-10-25
Crush
Crush
183,047,369 4:27 2018-07-10
Pistol
Pistol
154,912,366 3:54 2022-11-15
Sesame Syrup
Sesame Syrup
147,301,567 5:03 2018-07-10
Don't Let Me Go
Don't Let Me Go
135,623,518 4:23 2019-10-25
Kiss It Off Me
Kiss It Off Me
122,114,881 4:30 2019-10-25
Neon Moon
Neon Moon
108,095,276 3:46 2018-12-17
Tejano Blue
Tejano Blue
103,718,863 3:54 2024-03-01
Stop Waiting
Stop Waiting
98,818,986 6:03 2023-07-18
You're the Only Good Thing In My Life
You're the Only Good Thing In My Life
79,062,618 4:35 2019-10-25
Hentai
Hentai
57,445,472 4:45 2019-10-25
Dark Vacay
Dark Vacay
53,547,716 3:33 2024-04-16
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Motion Picture Soundtrack
52,149,229 4:60 2023-12-12
Pure
Pure
43,972,582 4:15 2019-10-25
Bubblegum
Bubblegum
42,891,117 4:39 2023-07-18
Baby Blue Movie
Baby Blue Movie
37,069,766 4:05 2024-06-04
Sweet
Sweet
27,434,474 4:13 2017-08-29

New releases

Baby Blue Movie
Baby Blue Movie
2024-06-04
[Liberator Music / Partisan Records]
Baby Blue Movie
Baby Blue Movie
2024-06-04
[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]
Sweet
Sweet
2017-08-29
[Partisan Records]
Apocalypse
Apocalypse
2017-03-21
[Partisan Records]