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As Billboard Latin Artist on the Rise, Óscar Maydon talks about what convinced him to invest in his music career. Watch the singer reflect on his rising star. Keyword: JohnnieWalkerLMW2024 Óscar Maydon: What’s up, guys? It’s your friend, Óscar Maydon. And I am the Billboard Artist Latin… What’s up, guys? It’s your friend, Óscar Maydon. […]
A behind-the-scenes look at Fuerza Regida’s BBMAs performance for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. Manny Bonilla:Dick Clark Productions contact me to direct this multi-cam performance of Fuerza, and it’s pretty big deal. Janeth Briceno:The movement was created for Manny, our director, and he talked about 360s everything like bird eyes, they want dancing around the […]
Yeison Jiménez played Finish the Lyrics to some of his biggest hits including “Aventurero,” “Ya No Mi Amor” and more! Yeison Jiménez:I’m Yeison Jiménez and I’m with Billboard. Today we are going to Finish the Lyrics. And I don’t run from anyone/ I never humiliate anybody/ I am who I am. I’d like to know […]
A behind-the-scenes look at SEVENTEEN’s BBMAs performance for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. Kylie Kang:Hi, we’re the directing duo, seven to five, and my name is Kylie and his … Jihoon Jeon:Jihoon Jeon. Because we had a limited amount of time to develop a performance that felt as live as possible, we thought a lot […]
In today’s the 25th episode of Billboard Unfiltered, Billboard staffers Kyle Denis and Carl Lamarre are joined by Vibe‘s Regina Cho and Amber Corinne. Together, they dissect Billboard’s 10 Hottest Female Rappers of 2024, discuss who fell off the list, share their personal favorites and explain why each rapper earned her ranking. They also react to Jay-Z’s assault allegations, his response and more.
Carl Lamarre:I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes from 10 to one.
Kyle Denis:Oh, you’re predicting it?
Regina Cho:I personally feel like the girlies were kind of just like, “OK the boys are fighting. I want to have fun. Like pack it up, like, please. Where’s Latto? Where’s Glo? Let’s go on tour, let’s wear our cheetah prints.”
Amber Corinne:I do think that Jay-Z might have known that this was coming and that’s why the response was so quick. I do believe it might’ve been prepared already.
Carl Lamarre:Yo , yo, yo. What’s going on, y’all? Welcome to a fresh episode of Billboard Unfiltered, No. 25! What it do? What it do? It may look a little different because we fired some cads, but we got some fresh superstars. Brother Kyle is still in the building.
Kyle Denis:I try to stay in the building.
Regina Cho:You kept the job.
Carl Lamarre:I’m still here. But no, we have two amazing superstars representing Vibe magazine. To my left, Ms. Amber Corrine, news staff writer, a beast all across. Make sure y’all see her interviews with the Rhythm + Flow cast.
Amber Corinne:Go watch that.
Carl Lamarre:Ms. Latto, Luda, DJ Khaled. We have … can I say an award winning? Can I do that?
Regina Cho:Oh my goodness, I was not prepared for this.
Carl Lamarre:An award winning podcast. She is also the associate news editor for Vibe magazine, Ms. Regina Cho.
Regina Cho:Hello Carl, look at us podding together!
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A behind-the-scenes look at Tyla’s BBMAs performance for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. Richard Godfrey:The building we’re sitting in the pub, the Counting House, is 500 years old, and we’re right in the heart of London, in the Old City of London. And the good thing is the pub has been renovated in that time, […]
Capping a banner breakthrough year, Tyla roars to No. 1 on the year-end Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs Artists recap for 2024. The South African singer, who finished at No. 14 last year, leaps into first place thanks to a flurry of hits from her self-titled debut album, released in March, and its runaway hit “Water,” which wraps the year as the No. 1 title on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs year-end chart.
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Tyla, who records for Fax Records/Epic Records, became widely known through “Water,” which reached No. 1 on the weekly U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart in October 2023, just in time for the 2024 chart year, which ran from the charts dated Oct. 28, 2023, to Oct. 19, 2024. The single drowned the competition and charged to a 51-week domination on the list during the chart year, stepping aside for only one week during that time, for Asake and Travis Scott’s one-week champ, “Active.”
Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts dated Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024. The rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology details, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate.
After “Water” opened the gates, Tyla’s self-titled debut album reinforced her standing on U.S. Afrobeats Songs, where 10 of the album’s standard edition’s 14 tracks reached the chart. In addition to “Water,” three more tracks land in the top 10 on the year-end recap: “Truth or Dare” (No. 4), “Jump,” with Gunna and Skillibeng (No. 5) and “Art” (No. 9).
Tems, the top U.S. Afrobeats Artist two years ago, comes in at No. 2 on the 2024 edition thanks to the impact of her anticipated full-length debut, Born in the Wild. The set, released on Since ‘93/RCA Records in June, produced 15 charting titles on the weekly U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart, including three different tunes that each peaked at No. 3: “Me & U,” “Love Me JeJe” and “Not An Angel.” The foremost pair’s extended trajectories help them finish at No. 3 and No. 7, respectively, on the year-end rankings.
Notably, with “Water,” “Me & U,” “Truth or Dare” and “Jump” accounting for four of the top five year-end slots on U.S. Afrobeats Songs, the only non-Tyla or Tems song in the region is the 2024 runner-up, Rema and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down.” The track, which reigned atop the 2023 standings, nabs the silver medal due to its steady streaming levels. Though the collaboration has waned from its highest point, when it set a record 59-week run atop the U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart, a consistent level of streams has allowed the single to remain within the chart’s top three positions for the entirety of the charting year.
With help from “Calm Down,” Rema captures the No. 3 spot on the year-end artist rank for U.S. Afrobeats Songs, though it’s not the sole reason for his success. The Nigerian performer debuted 16 additional songs on the list in the 2024 chart year, from both his November 2023 EP, Ravage, and 2024 full-length album, HEIS. Chief among them was “Yayo,” which reached No. 9 in July and became his third top 10 hit on the chart.
Last year’s champ, Burna Boy, picks up the No. 4 position on the 2024 year-end artist recap, largely through cuts from his August 2023 release, I Told Them…, continuing their chart runs into the year. Notably, the international superstar achieved a new top 10 – his 14th total – with “Higher,” which managed a No. 6 high in July.
Asake, meanwhile, rounds out the top five on the 2024 class for the U.S. Afrobeats Songs Artists chart. While a run of 14 top 10s had already established the 29-year-old’s chops, he finally unlocked the penthouse in August with his first No. 1, the Travis Scott collaboration “Active.” A-list pairings proved a winning formula for Asake, with further hits coming via team-ups with Wizkid on the No. 7-peaking “MMS” and Gunna (“Happiness,” also with Sarz) and Central Cee (“Wave”), which both reached No. 8.
In 2024, Elevation Worship, the music collective based in Charlotte, N.C., leads Billboard’s Top Christian Artists in the overall year-end recap. The group also rules as the leading duo/group of 2024.
Elevation Worship’s eight-song album, Can You Imagine?, is Billboard’s No. 1 Top Christian Albums title of 2024. The set, which spent 14 weeks at No. 1 during the 2024 eligibility period (charts dated Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024), has remained in the top five on the weekly ranking for most of the chart year.
The week that the album arrived at the summit, group frontman Chris Brown told Billboard: “We’re blown away by the response to our new album and how it’s pointing people to Jesus,” he said. “It’s reminding us that He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine in and through our lives.”
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Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024. Rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate
Additionally, Elevation Worship’s “Praise” featuring Brandon Lake, Chris Brown and Chandler Moore leads multiple major year-end song charts: the multimetric Hot Christian Songs, along with the radio rankings Christian Airplay Songs and Christian AC Airplay Songs, and even Christian Streaming Songs.
“Praise” hit No. 1 on the weekly Hot Christian Songs chart in March and became the act’s third chart-topper among 15 top 10s. It was the first leader for Brown, Lake’s third of five and Moore’s first. It spent 31 weeks at No. 1 on Hot Christian Songs during the 2024 chart year.
Meanwhile Singer-songwriter Brandon Lake, who is featured on “Praise,” leads Billboard’s Top Christian Artists – Male roundup. Lake, who hails from Dallas, is No. 2 on the overall Top Christian Artists recap.
Lake’s 2023 hit “Gratitude,” which led Hot Christian Songs for 13 weeks during the 2024 chart year, finishes at No. 6 on the year-end Hot Christian Songs recap. The singer-songwriter banked two additional Hot Christian Songs No. 1s: “Praise You Anywhere” rang up six weeks in the penthouse starting in November 2023, and “That’s Who I Praise” became his fifth leader in the final week of the 2024 chart year (Oct. 19, 2024).
Lake notched his first No. 1 on Top Christian Albums with Coat of Many Colors which debuted atop the Nov. 4, 2023 dated tally. The 16-song Colors ranks at No. 5 on the year-end roundup. The 34-year-old from Charleston, S.C., also posts the No. 14 album of 2024, House of Miracles. It peaked at No. 6 on the weekly Top Christian Albums chart in June of 2023, but continued to have a sustained chart run into the 2024 eligibility period.
Billboard’s Top Christian Artists — Female of 2024 is Lauren Daigle, who was 2023’s overall Top Christian Artist. She finishes fourth in the latter category this year. The singer-songwriter who hails from Lafayette, La., has the No. 6 spot on the 2024 top albums survey with her 2023 self-titled album.
Daigle released the initial 10-song self-titled album with the promise that the deluxe version with 10 more tracks would come later. The LP paired the 33-year-old Daigle with new producer Mike Elizondo and was her first through Atlantic Records, which her longtime label, Centricity, formed a partnership in early 2023.
The first version of the LP entered at the summit on May 27, 2023, returning to the apex that September with the deluxe version, which added 13 tracks to the original release. It led on Sept. 23, 2023, with 13,000 units and has remained on Top Christian Albums throughout 2024.
Meanwhile Daigle’s earlier albums remain extremely popular. Her third of four No. 1 sets, Look Up Child from 2018, is No. 3 on the Top Christian Albums year-end ranking.
The No. 2 female of the year (and No. 5 overall) is Anne Wilson. She is notable as her music is being promoted to both Christian and country radio (by Capitol Christian and Capitol Nashville, respectively). The two-sided promotion between these two genres is still not all that common. While she has not impacted Country Airplay yet, her single “Strong,” hit No. 3 on Christian Airplay and No. 2 on Christian AC. Wilson has earned five top 10s on each of the lists to date.
Queen Is ‘New’ King
At No. 1 on the 2024 year-end Top New Christian Artists ranking is Josiah Queen. He concurrently cracks the top 10 on the overall Top Christian Artists list, coming in at No. 9.
His independently released debut set, The Prodigal, opened atop Top Christian Albums in June. Queen’s rookie single, the album’s title track, reached No. 4 on Hot Christian Songs in May becoming his first top 10. The 21-year-old from Tampa, Fla. initially accumulated traction by posting videos on TikTok, where he has more than 100,000 followers.
Speaking of artists who springboard from social media, Forrest Frank, who was 2023’s Top New Christian Artist, is No. 3 among all acts this year. Frank’s “Good Day” is the No. 2-ranked Hot Christian Songs title of 2024. “Good” reached No. 2 on the weekly version of the list in March, becoming his first of three top 10s. His duet with Connor Price, “Up!”, peaked at No. 8 in April, while “Never Get Used to This,” with JVKE, climbed to No. 6 in August.
During the last year the country music charts, including country radio, welcomed a wide range of acts.
On Billboard’s multi-metric Hot Country Songs tally dated May 4, 2024, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” hit No. 1. The song, which interpolates J-Kwon’s 2004 hip-hop classic “Tipsy,” marked the first leader on the list for the Virginia native (born Collins Obinna Chibueze).
Notably that week, as Shaboozey dethroned Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em,” two Black artists reigned back-to-back for the first time since Hot Country Songs became an all-encompassing genre ranking in 1958.
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“Texas Hold ‘Em” commanded Hot Country Songs for 10 weeks, making the track the No. 10 title of the year on Billboard’s 2024 year-end Hot Country Songs list. The year-end No. 1 is “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which spent 18 weeks at No. 1 during the 2024 eligibility period (charts dated Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024).
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Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024. Rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate.
Shaboozey also finishes as the Top New Country Artist of 2024 and ranks at No. 7 on the overall year-end Top Country Artists roundup. Beyoncé is No. 9 on the same ranking, while also placing at No. 2 on the Top Country Artists – Female recap. (The only woman ahead of Beyoncé on either list is Taylor Swift, who is at No. 6 on Top Country Artists, and No. 1 on the Top Country Artists – Female.)
Beyonce’s country album, Cowboy Carter, ranks at No. 5 on the year-end ranking for Top Country Albums. The set, released March 29, debuted at No. 1 on the weekly Top Country Albums ranking, making her the first Black woman to lead the Top Country Albums tally.
Wallen Dominates Again
Just as he did last year, Morgan Wallen reigns as Billboard’s Top Country Artist in 2024 as well as the leading male.
Wallen’s One Thing at a Time LP is Billboard’s No. 1 country title of 2024. On the chart dated March 18, 2023, One Thing stormed atop both the all-genre Billboard 200 as well as Top Country Albums with a whopping 501,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week. The set has dominated for much of 2024. Meanwhile, his 2021 LP, Dangerous: The Double Album, is the No. 3 album of 2024.
Plus, country radio was kind to Wallen, as he scored three Country Airplay No. 1s in 2024: his featured turn on Thomas Rhett’s “Mamaw’s House” led for a week in March; “Cowgirls,” featuring ERNEST, had a week at No. 1 in July; and his featured role on Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help” led for four weeks in June-July.
“Help” marked the genre-straddling Malone’s entrance into the country format. (He had previously placed albums on both the Top Rap Albums and the Top Rock & Alternative chart.) The song completed a speedy seven-week jaunt to the Country Airplay summit, making it the second quickest run since the chart was started in 1990. It’s second to Garth Brooks’ “More Than a Memory,” which debuted in the penthouse in 2007.
“Help” is the No. 2 Country Airplay track of ’24, as well as No. 2 on the year-end Hot Country Songs survey. Malone is No. 4 among all Billboard’s Top Country Artists.
Malone’s maiden country album, F-1 Trillion, made a splash when it arrived at the Top Country Albums apex in August, as well as the Billboard 200.
The No. 1 Country Airplay song for 2024 is relative newcomer Nate Smith’s “World on Fire,” which controlled that list for 10 weeks at the end of ’23, continuing into ’24. It tied with Morgan Wallen’s “You Proof” as the longest-running Country Airplay topper in the 34-year history of the list.
Country’s leading woman of the year is Taylor Swift thanks to her successful craft of re-recording her album catalog. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is No. 6 on the year-end Top Country Albums ranking. That set started at No. 1 on Top Country Albums and the Billboard 200 in July 2023 with a staggering 716,000 equivalent album units earned (with 507,000 in traditional album sales).
While it’s not been a stellar period for country groups, certainly since the glory days of bands like Alabama, Restless Heart and others, some outfits were able to achieve a footing in the format. The Top Country Artists – Duo/Group is The Red Clay Strays. Hailing from Mobile, Ala., the quintet has earned a large following and is able to sell out venues across the U.S. The band landed its first top 10 on Top Country Albums in August when Made by These Moments entered at No. 9. Meanwhile, the act also collected a pair of top 30-charting tunes on the weekly Hot Country Songs chart during the 2024 eligibility period, with “Wondering Why” and “Wanna Be Loved.”
Taylor Swift has remained a ubiquitous presence in pop culture for a long while; no doubting that. Her stranglehold on the Billboard charts has, too, been widely touted, ranking at No. 1 on the Top Artists chart for each of the past two years and not straying outside the top five since 2020.
But there’s one prize Swift had never hoisted – until 2024, that is.
Swift’s had her share of streaming wins ever since the weekly Streaming Songs chart began in 2013. Her nine No. 1s are second most among all acts, only to Drake’s 20 (and three ahead of her closest competitors, Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, each with six). Even still, 2024 marks the first time Swift claims the Top Streaming Songs Artists distinction, after coming as close as No. 2 in 2022.
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Think of it as a volume thing, in part. In the 2024 chart year (charts dated from Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024), Swift premiered 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in October 2023, begetting a two-week No. 1 in “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” and the entire top nine of the Nov. 11, 2023, survey. Her encore came in April: new album The Tortured Poets Department, itself armed with a No. 1 in the Post Malone-featuring “Fortnight” for a week and the full top 15 of the May 3 ranking. Tough to argue with a Streaming Songs Artist coronation with that kind of domination.
Interestingly enough, Swift’s top appearance on the year-end Streaming Songs chart is from neither of those releases. “Cruel Summer,” at No. 20, was first released on 2019’s Lover, appearing on Streaming Songs for two weeks that year. It returned to the survey in mid-2023 on the strength of a social media trend, and by the Nov. 4, 2023, ranking – one week before the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) – it was No. 1. It spent many weeks inside the top 20 from there, its last appearance in that range to date being in mid-March.
“Fortnight” follows at No. 23 on the year-end recap, while The Tortured Poets Department’s “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” (No. 36) and “Down Bad” (No. 67) are also on the year-end, 75-position Streaming Songs list, as is “Is It Over Now?” at No. 61.
Swift’s “Cruel Summer” being No. 20 is the lowest on the chart for the No. 1 on Streaming Songs Artists since the ranking began in 2013, the previous low being The Weeknd’s “The Hills” at No. 6 in 2015.
The No. 1 on Streaming Songs, meanwhile, continues a major trendline of the 2020s: the surge of country music on streaming services, as Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves, takes top honors.
In 2022, the year-end article noted how Wallen was the first country artist to appear in the top 10 of the year-end Streaming Songs chart, a feat that seemed downright otherworldly after a first near-decade of the chart where country songs making the year-end chart at all were few and far between. In 2023, country had an even bigger year on the tally, with Wallen taking top Streaming Songs Artists honors and his “Last Night” being the No. 1 on the songs-based survey, flanked by Bryan, Luke Combs and Bailey Zimmerman on the artists ranking. It seemed country had finally arrived as a streaming force.
Turns out 2023 wasn’t the ceiling. In 2024, three of the top 10 – Wallen, Bryan and Combs – are musicians whose fare is always snugly within the country genre (even if Bryan’s also often blurs the line between singer-songwriter output in both the country and rock worlds). They’re joined by Post Malone; the genre chameleon’s Streaming Songs appearances in 2024 largely skewed country thanks to his star-studded F-1 Trillion album (which notably featured both Wallen and Combs).
As for songs, four of the top 10 are country, much like in 2023. “I Remember Everything” leads largely on the strength of its longevity; though its four weeks at No. 1 on the weekly ranking came in its first six weeks on the chart (Sept. 9-Oct. 14, 2023), the song has never fallen off the tally. In fact, it spent its last week in the top 10 to date in April and often can still be found in the top 20, over a year after its release.
That’s the Zach Bryan way, though. The troubadour’s catalog has long had an impressive shelf life, with 2022’s “Something in the Orange” No. 11 on the year-end Streaming Songs chart after being No. 3 in 2023. “Pink Skies” (No. 21) and “28” (No. 55) both appear on the album he released during the chart year, July’s The Great American Bar Scene.
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Malone’s Wallen-featuring “I Had Some Help” and Wallen’s “Last Night” (last year’s No. 1) join Bryan in the top 10 at Nos. 2, 5 and 8, respectively. And in all, 23 of the 75 tunes to grace the year-end chart are country, up from 20 in 2023.
Outside of the four (Wallen, Bryan, Combs and Malone) in the top 10 of the year-end artists ranking, Shaboozey also appears on the survey at No. 11, giving the country genre five appearances on the 25-position tally, topping the four in 2023.
But the year wasn’t all about Swift and country’s biggest stars. In 2024, three up-and-coming pop singers made their presences known on the charts, and that popularity extended to streaming services, with Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Benson Boone making their first appearances on Streaming Songs Artists at all, let alone in the top 10.
Carpenter paces the group at No. 4, boasting a top 10 on the year-end Streaming Songs chart with “Espresso” at No. 9, followed by “Please Please Please” at No. 17 and “Taste” at No. 54. Roan, at No. 8, also snags three appearances on the song-based ranking: “Good Luck, Babe!” at No. 19, “Hot To Go!” at No. 42 and “Pink Pony Club” at No. 73. And while Boone (No. 10) only has one song on the ranking, it’s also the highest-ranking of the trio, as “Beautiful Things” reaches No. 6.
With Carpenter, Roan and Boone flanked by fellow pop singers in Swift and Billie Eilish (whose music also skews alternative, though her core genre is considered pop) in the top 10, the pop genre has its best year in the top 10 of Streaming Songs Artists since 2021, when Olivia Rodrigo paced (at No. 1) a group of either pop-centric or pop-adjacent acts (Doja Cat, The Weeknd, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande among them).
Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024. Rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate.