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Already being touted as the UK’s next big vocal export after Adele and Sam Smith, the 19-year-old is giving everyone a good cry with one of the saddest music videos of all time.

You can guess from the opening scenes as an old man waits in a hospital corridor before returning to his wife’s bedside that this is not going to end well.

Frances begins the song unaccompanied, her pure voice tugging at your heartstrings with the lyrics “I’ll feel the fear for you, I’ll cry your tears for you, I’ll do anything I can to make you comfortable.”

In Australia to launch the single, the 19-year-old musician said she “bawled my eyes out” when she saw the first edit.

“It was so important to me to make a video that matched the emotion and message of the song,” she said.

“Someone close to me was unwell, and I needed to write a song to explain how I felt.

“I wanted them to concentrate on themselves and not worry about how I was feeling, just to know that I’d be there and supporting them.”

Frances admits she has choked up a few times while performing the song when she spies someone in the audience in tears.

But Don’t Worry About Me has also been embraced as a life-affirming anthem by fans.

“A lot of people have told me that they’re using it as a first dance for their wedding, or for walking down the aisle, which is just so amazing to me,” she said.

“To be part of the happiest day of someone’s life is such an honour.

“But an amazing thing I’ve also had is a few people explaining how the song has described exactly how they feel after loosing a loved one and that the song has helped them with how they’re feeling.”

The rising talent nominates Broken Bones by Aqualung as the song most likely to provoke her tearworks and “cried and cried” when she saw Coldplay perform Up In Flames.

The photograph of the lifeless body of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi on a Greek beach brought millions of people to tears around the world. Higgin’s haunting song tells his story and the animated video, using pictures drawn by children in Caritas programs in Damascus and Beirut, brings the plight of refugees to heart-breaking reality.

An old man who has lost his wife, a young girl separated from her boyfriend and a woman whose husband is away at war — at least there is one happy ending but moisture in the eye area is inevitable.

This emotional piano ballad was a massive hit — and tearkerker — when released in the early 1990s, sweeping the ARIA Awards and sending Kleenex stocks soaring. It still gets you right in the feels after all these years.

A frail Cash performs the Nine Inch Nails song as flowers and fruit decay around him. His death seven months later cast the Mark Romanek video in an even more poignant light and it remains one of the most emotionally powerful clips made.

As Sam croons about his own heartbreak, a wife drinks and cries her pain away at home as her wretched husband conducts an affair. The last scene makes you equal parts mad and sad for her.

The solo hit from the Destiny’s Child star paints a graphic picture of disaffected youth dealing with bullying, gang culture and teen pregnancy. It packed an emotional punch when released in 2002 and remains as timely today.