If it's true that misery loves company, then it also must require a great soundtrack.

According to research from a U.K. entertainment Web site TheFilter.com, the number of people listening to snippets of gloomy music or rating the tracks as positive has soared in the last month. In fact, the site has seen well-known downbeat bands like The Smiths climbing its popularity charts 32 percent faster than happier types of music.

More people are willingly listening to depressing music, and who can blame them? The down-and-out greenback, the astronomical price of crude and worsening global food crisis can make anyone whistle a less-happy tune. With no end in sight to the current economic state, I wonder how long it’ll be before all happy beats are wiped off the radio waves.

Now I don’t know if there's research that shows whether listening to cheerless tunes helps people whose mood is marred by monetary woes, but realizing that your discretionary income allows no way to buy the sad songs because the price of food staples has nearly doubled will not help.

Below is the Ten Most Popular Depressing Songs, as rated by The Filter users in order. What do you like to listen to when you’re in the financial dumps?

1. Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own
2. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
3. The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
4. Coldplay - Trouble
5. The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
6. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
7. Blur - No Distance Left To Run
8. Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
9. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
10. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

-- Oksana Poltavets, US Reporter, Dealing with Technology