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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.
Gospel music icon CeCe Winans reigns as Billboard’s 2024 year-end top gospel artist.
Winans repeats as the leading woman from 2023 and moves up from No. 3 on the overall tally. Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), the leading artist for the past three years, shuffles to No. 3 and rules as the top male.
In the duo/group category, Maverick City Music is tops and No. 2 amongst all artists. The No. 1 new gospel act in the year-end tally is Victor Thompson.
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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 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.
Winans, who hails from Detroit and now resides in Brentwood, Tenn., is represented twice in the year-end top 10 gospel albums of 2024. At No. 3 is Believe For It: A Live Worship Experience, which led for seven frames on the weekly Top Gospel Albums chart starting in March 2021, but has remained in the weekly top five throughout all of 2024. More Than This is the No. 6 set on the Top Gospel Albums 2024 rundown.
That set entered at the Top Gospel Albums summit in May, becoming Winans’ 10th No. 1. Her run started in 1989 when CeCe and her brother Bebe Winans scored their first of two chart-toppers as a team when Heaven hit No. 1. The siblings’ other leader as a duo is Different Lifestyles (1991).
On the streaming, airplay and sales based Hot Gospel Songs survey Winans banked her third No. 1 when “That’s My King” began a length run atop the list in May. It spent 24 weeks atop the chart during the eligibility period. “That’s My King” is the No. 3 title of the leading Hot Gospel Songs of the year.
Billboard’s top gospel duo/group of 2024, and No. 2 among all acts is the Atlanta-based worship collective Maverick City Music. The popular outfit matches its rankings from 2022 and 2023.
Also, the year-end No. 1 title on Hot Gospel Songs is “Jireh,” Maverick City Music’s collaboration with Christian music collective Elevation Worship, along with Chandler Moore and Naomi Raine. The song debuted at No. 1 in April 2021 and spent the entire 2024 eligibility period locked in the weekly top three on Hot Gospel Songs.
Maverick City Music’s “In the Room,” with Chandler Moore and Naomi Raine and featuring Tasha Cobbs Leonard, is the No. 3 Hot Gospel Songs track of the year. “In the Room,” reached a high of No. 2 in October 2023, and has stayed in the top 3 ever since.
Maverick City Music’s third of three songs in the year-end top 10 is “God Problems,” a collaboration with Chandler Moore and Naomi Raine, which is the No. 6 Hot Gospel Songs title of ‘24.
Maverick City Music finished 2023 with the release of The Maverick Way Complete: Complete Vol. 2 with Chandler Moore and Naomi Raine. It arrived atop the weekly Top Gospel Albums list dated Nov. 11, 2023 (which places it within the 2024 chart year). It held through all of the 2024 chart year at Nos. 1 or 2. The set is No. 2 on the Top Gospel Albums recap for the year.
Old Church Basement, Maverick City Music’s collaborative project with Christian act Elevation Worship, ranks as the year’s No. 4 title on Top Gospel Albums. Basement, which opened at No. 1 on Top Gospel Albums in May 2021 and spent 17 frames at the summit, spent all of the 2024 chart year in the top 10.
The leading male gospel act of 2024 is Ye, mainly on the durability of his Donda and Jesus is King LPs. Donda ranks at No. 1 on the year-end Top Gospel Albums tally, and Jesus is King is No. 5.
Donda stormed atop Top Gospel Albums, plus the all-genre Billboard 200 as well as Top Christian Albums in September 2021 and been a consistent chart presence since. Donda has ruled Top Gospel Albums for a staggering count of over 140 frames, more than any other set since the survey lunched in 1983.
Ye’s 2019 LP, Jesus is King, is the second-longest running No. 1 title with more than 65 weeks in the penthouse.
The top new gospel artist of 2024 is Nigerian born Victor Thompson. He’s No. 13 among all acts.
Thompson’s “This Year (Blessings),” with Gunna and featuring Thompson’s brother and duo partner Ehis “D” Greatest, topped the weekly Hot Gospel Songs chart on Oct. 28, 2023 (the first week of the 2024 chart year).
“This Year” is the No. 5 Hot Gospel Songs title for 2024. It’s noteworthy that the song, originally released in January 2023, received a boost when rapper Gunna joined for a remix of the track that October.
The title spent five weeks at No. 1 and is Thompson’s lone chart entry to date.
For the second consecutive year, Taylor Swift is both Billboard’s overall top artist of the year, as well as the No. 1 Hot 100 Songwriter.
She finishes 2024 as the No. 1 songwriter thanks to the chart performance of a staggering 56 songwriting credits on the Billboard Hot 100 during the 2024 chart eligibility period (Oct. 28, 2023-Oct. 19, 2024), including her two-week No. 1 hit, “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone.
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Here’s a look at all 56 of Swift’s songwriting credits on the Hot 100 during the 2024 tracking period, which all contribute to her placement on the year-end ranking. Note that many of the songs listed below are holdovers from previous years—“Anti-Hero,” for example, debuted and peaked at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in November 2022, but continued to chart until Nov. 4, 2023 (its final week on the chart before dropping off). As such, its final two weeks on the chart count towards Swift’s 2024 year-end Hot 100 Songwriters ranking because it was still charting.
Of the 56 songs that contributed to Swift’s No. 1 placement, all but “Anti-Hero” peaked on the chart during the eligibility period. “Cruel Summer,” notably, hit No. 1 in the first week of the eligibility period (chart dated Oct. 28, 2023). Swift is the lead artist on all songs below except Gracie Abrams’ “Us.,” on which she was featured.
Peak Position, Title (co-songwriters in addition to Taylor Swift
No. 1, “Anti-Hero” (Jack Antonoff)No. 1, “Cruel Summer” (Jack Antonoff, St. Vincent)No. 1, “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” (Jack Antonoff)No. 1, “Fortnight” (Jack Antonoff, Post Malone)No. 2, “Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” (Jack Antonoff)No. 2, “Down Bad” (Jack Antonoff)No. 3, “Slut! (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” (Jack Antonoff, Patrik Berger)No. 3, “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart” (Jack Antonoff)No. 4, “The Tortured Poets Department” (Jack Antonoff)No. 5, “Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” (Diane Warren)No. 5, “So Long, London” (Aaron Dessner)No. 6, “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”No. 7, “Bad Blood (Taylor’s Version)” (Max Martin, Shellback Kendrick Lamar)No. 7, “But Daddy I Love Him” (Aaron Dessner)No. 8, “Florida!!!” (Florence Welch)No. 9, “Style (Taylor’s Version)” (Max Martin, Shellback, Ali Payami)No. 9, “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”No. 10, “Suburban Legends (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” (Jack Antonoff)No. 10, “Guilty As Sin?” (Jack Antonoff)No. 11, “Fresh Out The Slammer” (Jack Antonoff)No. 12, “Blank Space (Taylor’s Version)” (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 12, “loml” (Aaron Dessner)No. 13, “The Alchemy” (Jack Antonoff)No. 14, “Welcome to New York (Taylor’s Version)” (Ryan Tedder)No. 14, “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” (Aaron Dessner)No. 16, “Out of the Woods (Taylor’s Version)” (Jack Antonoff)No. 19, “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 20, “All You Had To Do Was Stay (Taylor’s Version)” (Max Martin)No. 20, “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” (Jack Antonoff)No. 21, “Clara Bow” (Aaron Dessner)No. 23, “Thank You Aimee” (Aaron Dessner)No. 24, “So High School” (Aaron Dessner)No. 25, “The Black Dog”No. 26, “imgonnagetyouback” (Jack Antonoff)No. 27, “You’re Losing Me (From The Vault)” (Jack Antonoff)No. 28, “Shake It Off (Taylor’s Version)” (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 29, “New Romantics (Taylor’s Version)” (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 30, “Clean (Taylor’s Version)” (Imogen Heap)No. 30, “The Albatross” (Aaron Dessner)No. 31, “I Wish You Would (Taylor’s Version)” (Jack Antonoff)No. 32, “The Prophecy” (Aaron Dessner)No. 34, “I Hate It Here” (Aaron Dessner)No. 35, “How Did It End?” (Aaron Dessner)No. 36, “I Know Places (Taylor’s Version)” (Ryan Tedder)No. 36, “Chloe Or Sam Or Sophia Or Marcus” (Aaron Dessner)No. 36, “Us.” (Gracie Abrams feat. Taylor Swift) (Gracie Abrams, Aaron Dessner)No. 39, “Wonderland (Taylor’s Version)” (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 39, “I Look In People’s Windows” (Jack Antonoff, Patrik Berger)No. 40, “How You Get The Girl (Taylor’s Version)” (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 42, “This Love (Taylor’s Version)”No. 43, “You Are In Love (Taylor’s Version)” (Jack Antonoff)No. 44, “Cassandra” (Aaron Dessner)No. 46, “Peter”No. 47, “The Bolter” (Aaron Dessner)No. 51, “The Manuscript”No. 55, “Robin” (Aaron Dessner)
Swift’s 56 songs above are from four different albums: Midnights (No. 1 peak in 2022), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (No. 1; 2023), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (No. 1; 2023) and The Tortured Poets Department (No. 1; 2024). The lattermost album is Billboard’s No. 1 Billboard 200 album of 2024. It’s the fourth time Swift has finished with the No. 1 album of the year, after Fearless in 2009, 1989 in 2015 and Reputation in 2018.
Swift has now finished as Billboard’s No. 1 Hot 100 Songwriter of the year three different times: in 2009, 2023, and now in 2024.
Just below Swift on the 2024 year-end Hot 100 Songwriters ranking, Swift’s collaborator Jack Antonoff finishes at No. 2, thanks to 25 songwriting credits on the Hot 100 during the eligibility period. Along with the 20 songs above by Swift, Antonoff is also credited as a co-writer on four Sabrina Carpenter songs (including her No. 1 hit “Please Please Please”) as well as Quavo and Lana Del Rey’s “Tough.”
Antonoff also finishes 2024 as the No. 1 Hot 100 Producer for the first time, largely thanks to his work with Swift and Carpenter.
After Antonoff, Zach Bryan finishes as the No. 3 Hot 100 Songwriter, thanks to 22 songwriting credits, mainly from his album The Great American Bar Scene.
Kendrick Lamar claims the No. 4 spot, thanks to five songwriting credits, including his No. 1s “Not Like Us” and “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin.
Finally, Amy Allen finishes as the No. 5 Hot 100 Songwriter of 2024, thanks to 20 songwriting credits in the eligibility period. Twelve of those are from Sabrina Carpenter’s No. 1 album Short n’ Sweet, including her No. 1 “Please Please Please.” Also contributing are songs by Tate McRae (“Greedy,” “Run For The Hills”), Koe Wetzel & Jessie Murph (“High Road,” “Sweet Dreams”), Justin Timberlake (“Selfish”) and Olivia Rodrigo (“Scared of My Guitar”).
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.
For the first time in his career, Jack Antonoff is the No. 1 Hot 100 Producer of the year.
He finishes 2024 as the No. 1 Hot 100 Producer thanks to the chart performance of 31 production credits on the Billboard Hot 100 during the 2024 chart eligibility period (charts dated Oct. 28, 2023-Oct. 19, 2024), all of which were by either Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter. Of those 31 songs, five hit No. 1: Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” “Cruel Summer,” “Is It Over Now (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” and “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone, as well as Carpenter’s “Please Please Please.”
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Here’s a look at all 31 of Antonoff’s production credits on the Hot 100 during the 2024 tracking period, which all contribute to his placement on the year-end ranking. Note that some of the songs listed below are holdovers from previous years—“Anti-Hero,” for example, debuted and peaked at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in November 2022, but continued to chart until Nov. 4, 2023 (its final week on the chart before dropping off). As such, its final two weeks on the chart count towards Antonoff’s 2024 year-end Hot 100 Producers ranking because it was still charting. It’s worth noting that, on many of the songs below, Antonoff is credited as either the sole producer or co-producer with Swift, helping boost his chart results (as he doesn’t share credit with many other individuals).
“Anti-Hero,” notably, is the only song on the list below that didn’t peak during the eligibility period. “Cruel Summer” topped the Hot 100 on Oct. 28, 2023, the first week of the period.
Peak Position, Artist Billing, Title (co-producers in addition to Jack Antonoff)
No. 1, Taylor Swift, “Anti-Hero” (Taylor Swift)No. 1, Taylor Swift, “Cruel Summer” (Taylor Swift)No. 1, Taylor Swift, “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” (Taylor Swift)No. 1, Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone, “Fortnight” (Taylor Swift)No. 1, Sabrina Carpenter, “Please Please Please”No. 2, Taylor Swift, “Down Bad” (Taylor Swift)No. 2, Taylor Swift, “Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” (Taylor Swift)No. 3, Taylor Swift, “Slut! (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” (Taylor Swift, Patrik Berger)No. 3, Taylor Swift, “I Can Do It with A Broken Heart” (Taylor Swift)No. 4, Taylor Swift, “The Tortured Poets Department” (Taylor Swift)No. 5, Taylor Swift, “Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” (Taylor Swift)No. 6, Taylor Swift, “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” (Taylor Swift)No. 7, Taylor Swift, “But Daddy I Love Him” (Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner)No. 8, Taylor Swift, “Florida!!!” (Taylor Swift)No. 9, Taylor Swift, “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” (Taylor Swift)No. 10, Taylor Swift, “Suburban Legends (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” (Taylor Swift)No. 10, Taylor Swift, “Guilty As Sin?” (Taylor Swift)No. 11, Taylor Swift, “Fresh Out The Slammer” (Taylor Swift)No. 13, Taylor Swift, “The Alchemy” (Taylor Swift)No. 16, Taylor Swift, “Out of the Woods (Taylor’s Version)” (Taylor Swift)No. 20, Taylor Swift, “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” (Taylor Swift)No. 21, Sabrina Carpenter, “Sharpest Tool”No. 23, Taylor Swift, “thanK you aIMee” (Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner)No. 25, Taylor Swift, “The Black Dog” (Taylor Swift)No. 26, Taylor Swift, “imgonnagetyouback” (Taylor Swift)No. 27, Taylor Swift, “You’re Losing Me (From The Vault)” (Taylor Swift)No. 27, Sabrina Carpenter, “Slim Pickins”No. 31, Taylor Swift, “I Wish You Would (Taylor’s Version)” (Taylor Swift)No. 39, Taylor Swift, “I Look in People’s Windows” (Taylor Swift, Patrik Berger)No. 41, Sabrina Carpenter, “Lie to Girls”No. 43, Taylor Swift, “You Are in Love (Taylor’s Version)” (Taylor Swift)
The 31 songs above are from several different albums: Swift’s Midnights (No. 1 peak on the Billboard 200 in 2022), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (No. 1; 2023), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (No. 1; 2023) and The Tortured Poets Department (No. 1; 2024), along with Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet (No. 1; 2024).
Swift herself finishes just below Antonoff at No. 2 on the 2024 year-end Hot 100 Producers ranking, thanks to her production credits on each of her 55 charting solo songs during the eligibility period (she tallied one additional chart entry in the period, as a featured act on Gracie Abrams’ “Us,” though she isn’t listed as a producer). Swift also finished at No. 2 on the 2023 Hot 100 Producers list, behind Joey Moi.
After Swift, Dan Nigro is the No. 3 Hot 100 Producer of 2024, thanks to 16 production credits during the eligibility period by Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo. Leading the way is Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” which finishes as the No. 18 Hot 100 Song of the year.
Finishing out the top five, Finneas ranks as the No. 4 Hot 100 Producer of 2024, thanks to his continued work with Billie Eilish on her album Hit Me Hard and Soft, and Zach Bryan finishes at No. 5.
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.
In 2017, Imagine Dragons started a trend that has continued every year since on Billboard’s year-end Top Rock & Alternative Artists chart.
It’s never obvious at first. An act has a big year, big enough that they reign supreme above all other rock and/or alternative artists in the U.S. Well and good, but by the time they’re crowned atop Billboard’s year-end charts, the clock has reset anew, and there’s no guarantee they’ll end up on top of the fray yet again the following year.
Except that’s exactly what’s happened in every two-year period since, a trend that continues in 2024, with Zach Bryan the year’s No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Artists.
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After Imagine Dragons led in both 2017 and ’18, Panic! at the Disco followed in 2019-20. Glass Animals topped the list in 2021 and ’22, with Bryan ascending to the top in 2023, a spot he holds again this year.
Bryan, the folky troubadour whose music blurs the line between rock and country singer-songwriter fare, premiered a new album, The Great American Bar Scene, on July 4. Music from that set – including one-week Hot Rock & Alternative Songs No. 1 “Pink Skies” – certainly helped his fortunes on both the Top Rock & Alternative Artists and Top Country Artists (where he’s No. 2) for the year, but much like fellow country heavy-hitters Morgan Wallen and Chris Stapleton, it’s important to look beyond music that was released during the chart year.
Indeed, “I Remember Everything,” Bryan’s duet with Kacey Musgraves from his 2023 self-titled album, is No. 1 on a variety of year-end charts for 2024, including – but certainly not limited to – the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs lists, as well as the all-genre Streaming Songs survey. Released in September 2023, the song reigned on the weekly Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart for 30 weeks through March of this year and didn’t fall off the survey until October. Even as The Great American Bar Scene’s tracklist roared onto the charts in July, “I Remember Everything” persisted; it’s only spent a handful of weeks outside Streaming Songs’ top 20 since release.
Bryan also notches multiple appearances on the year-end Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart; Zach Bryan leads the way at No. 2, followed by 2022’s American Heartbreak (No. 5), The Great American Bar Scene (No. 12), 2020’s Elisabeth (No. 20), 2022 EP Summertime Blues (No. 25) and 2023 EP Boys of Faith (No. 64). And on the year-end Rock Streaming Songs, he boasts the top two (“I Remember Everything” and 2022’s “Something in the Orange”) and 13 of the 50 total entries.
Bryan’s 2024 coronation continues another rising trend on Top Rock & Alternative Artists: the domination of soloists. After years of leads by bands, Bryan’s 2023 rule was the exclamation point on a year when the entire top 10 were solo acts, a first for the genre.
In 2024, soloists are still in vogue, but bands took back some territory, with two of the top 10 groups of two or more. One of those is Fleetwood Mac (No. 9), the classic rock act who remains a streaming force in the ‘20s, with “Dreams” No. 7 on the year-end Rock Streaming Songs survey. The other? Linkin Park (No. 8), which returns to the top 10 for the first time since 2017.
The story of Linkin Park’s resurgence began in 2023, when it vaulted to No. 16 on Top Rock & Alternative Artists after appearing at No. 50 in 2022, mostly on the strength of catalog sales and streams. The band was No. 3 in 2017, but it wasn’t for particularly celebratory reasons; longtime co-frontman Chester Bennington died that year, spurring an outpouring of streams and sales in remembrance of the late iconic singer. In 2023, the band found success via the 20th-anniversary reissue of its 2003 album Meteora, which spurred the year-end No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay Songs and Alternative Airplay Songs in “Lost,” a previously unreleased cut featuring Bennington’s vocals.
A new greatest-hits package, Papercuts, followed this April, boasting a one-week No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay in “Friendly Fire.” In September, Linkin Park officially reformed with a new vocalist in Dead Sara’s Emily Armstrong, with comeback single “The Emptiness Machine” topping both Mainstream Rock Airplay and Alternative Airplay for multiple weeks. Despite being released in the 11th hour of the 2024 chart year, the song appears on several year-end rankings, paced by its No. 4 arrival on Hot Hard Rock Songs.
What will 2025 have in store for Linkin Park? Stay tuned, with new album From Zero having been released on Nov. 15, whose chart performance will factor into the year-end 2025 charts.
Further up Top Rock & Alternative Artists, Billie Eilish rises to the highest point she’s ever been on the ranking since the weekly Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts changed from their previous iterations to allow alternative-leaning music not necessarily within the rock genre in 2020. Eilish ends the year at No. 2, the highest rank for a woman since Lorde was No. 1 on the year-end tally in 2014. She’s also No. 1 on Top Alternative Artists, a return for Eilish after she also reigned in 2022.
As in 2022, Eilish released a new album, this time Hit Me Hard and Soft. The set has reigned on Top Rock & Alternative Albums for 18 weeks so far since debuting atop the June 1 list and has paced Top Alternative Albums for even longer (22 frames); though she misses out on the distinction of the No. 1 Top Alternative Albums year-end entry in 2024 (that goes to Noah Kahan’s Stick Season), Hit Me Hard and Soft still ranks at No. 2, while Eilish is the No. 1 Top Alternative Albums Artist in 2024 thanks to a flurry of appearances on the year-end ranking (When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? at No. 11, Happier Than Ever at No. 14 and Dont Smile at Me at No. 47).
Eilish also boasts a coronation as the No. 1 on Hot Alternative Songs Artists in 2024, accumulating 11 songs on the 50-position year-end Hot Alternative Songs list. That includes the Nos. 2 and 3: “Birds of a Feather,” from Hit Me Hard and Soft, and “What Was I Made For?,” off the 2023 Barbie film soundtrack.
Neither song could hold a candle to Hozier’s “Too Sweet,” No. 1 on the year-end Hot Alternative Songs. The viral success of the tune fuels Hozier’s appearance at No. 4 on Top Rock & Alternative Artists, an impressive comeback for the Irish singer-songwriter after having last reached the top 10 in 2015, when he was No. 2. “Too Sweet” was a force across all metrics; the song ends 2024 as the No. 1 on the year-end Adult Alternative Airplay Songs, Alternative Streaming Songs and Rock Digital Song Sales lists, while other notable accolades include No. 2 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, No. 4 on Alternative Airplay Songs and No. 4 on Rock & Alternative Airplay Songs.
Hozier’s influence even extended outside the rock and alternative genres, much like his breakout 2014 hit, “Take Me to Church.” “Too Sweet” ends the year at No. 10 on Hot 100 Songs, as well as at No. 4 on Adult Pop Airplay Songs and No. 7 on Pop Airplay Songs.
The year’s No. 1 on Top New Rock & Alternative Artists illuminates TikTok’s continued influence on all charts: Djo, whose “End of Beginning,” originally released in 2022, went viral via multiple trends on the social media app earlier this year. The project of actor Joe Keery also finds its way to No. 10 on Top Rock & Alternative Artists, while “End of Beginning” is the year-end No. 6 on Alternative Streaming Songs and No. 7 on Alternative Airplay Songs.
And Hozier’s not the only resurgent act to top a year-end radio ranking; Sum 41’s “Landmines” leads the Alternative Airplay Songs list, while Daughtry crowns the Mainstream Rock Airplay Artists ranking.
Sum 41 (which relents the Alternative Airplay Artists No. 1 to usual format stalwart Green Day) topped the weekly Alternative Airplay chart for two weeks but ultimately remained on the ranking for 51 weeks from October 2023 to October 2024. The Deryck Whibley-fronted band’s reign was its first since 2001’s “Fat Lip,” marking the longest break between rulers in the chart’s 36-year history.
Daughtry’s Mainstream Rock Airplay Artists coronation is thanks to a pair of one-week No. 1s on the weekly Mainstream Rock Airplay. This is former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry’s first time topping the chart. “Pieces” ends up at No. 3 on Mainstream Rock Airplay Songs, followed by “Artificial” at No. 5; Nothing More’s “If It Doesn’t Hurt” is No. 1, the rockers’ first time as the biggest song of the year, eclipsing the No. 3 rank of “Ballast” all the way back in 2014.
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.
For the second straight year, Taylor Swift finishes atop the year-end Billboard Global 200 Artists and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. Artists charts. With 67 entries in the 2024 tracking period (Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024-dated charts) on the former chart and 66 on the latter, she doubles the nearest totals for both.
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In just the third week of the chart year, songs from 1989 (Taylor’s Version) impacted the global lists, amassing 19 debuts on both tallies. About six months later, the release of The Tortured Poets Department spurred 31 more new entries, including “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone, which arrived atop each weekly chart.
But Swift’s biggest global hit of 2024 was from neither album. “Cruel Summer,” from 2019’s Lover, hit No. 1 on the Global 200 in November 2023 and ends the year at No. 4 on both annual recaps. The song’s years-late success blossomed out of buzz from its opening-slot performance at Swift’s record-busting The Eras Tour, which launched in March 2023.
While it’s perhaps an anomaly for a four-year-old song to hit No. 1, it also speaks to Swift’s extremely wide-ranging success and reach over the last two years, amid several other album releases. In addition to the three albums already named, Swift’s 2024 global hit roster includes tracks from Folklore, Midnights, Red (Taylor’s Version), and more.
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.
The rest of the top five for both global charts’ artist rankings include the same line-up of artists, in slightly different order. Sabrina Carpenter and Billie Eilish are next up, with Carpenter at No. 2 for the Global 200 and Eilish in the runner-up spot for Global Excl. U.S. On both lists, Ariana Grande and The Weeknd follow at Nos. 4-5, respectively.
Carpenter, Eilish and Grande all scored No. 1 global hits in 2024 from new albums, led by the former’s “Espresso,” which topped the Global 200 for eight weeks. Eilish got there with “Birds of a Feather” and Grande logged two leaders with “Yes, And?” and “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love).”
The Weeknd’s top five placement is largely fueled by older hits like “Blinding Lights” and “Starboy.” His more recent releases include “One of the Girls,” featuring Jennie and Lily Rose Depp, and “Popular,” with Playboi Carti and Madonna, both from his first major TV vehicle, 2023’s The Idol. He also debuted with “Dancing in the Flames” and “Timeless” in the final weeks of the chart year, both from his upcoming album Hurry Up Tomorrow.
The Weeknd is the only artist to appear in the top five – or top 10 – of both lists for all four year-end global recaps (the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts launched in late 2020).
Carpenter and Swift land “Espresso” and “Cruel Summer” in the top five of both tallies’ songs year-end charts, but a different newcomer leads both lists. Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” is No. 1 on the year-end Global 200 chart and the year-end Global Excl. U.S. ranking.
“Beautiful Things” debuted on the Feb. 3-dated edition of each chart, rising 13-6-1 on the Global 200 and 37-14-2-1 on Global Excl. U.S. chart. Ultimately, it spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the former list and eight on the latter. It’s the longest-running chart-topper on both lists for the 2024 tracking period, tied only by “Espresso” on Global Excl. U.S.
Boone’s breakout hit remained in the top 10 on Global Excl. U.S. for the duration of the chart year, though it dipped out on two occasions on the Global 200 – once because of Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department clogging the top of the chart, and once knocked out by The Weeknd’s first new solo single in years.
Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” is No. 2 on the Global 200 recap, and No. 5 for Global Excl. U.S. The remaining top five year-end global hit is Tate McRae’s “Greedy,” at Nos. 5 and 3 on the lists, respectively. Both songs spent the entire chart year on each global chart, but arrive at their high year-end finishes with different trajectories.
“Greedy” topped both lists, spending five weeks at No. 1 on Global Excl. U.S. While it lasted throughout 2024, it ended the tracking period at No. 91. “Lose Control” never climbed higher than No. 3 on Global Excl. U.S. and No. 4 on the Global 200 but held remarkably steady throughout the year. By the final frame of the 2024 chart year, it was still No. 12 on both lists, never having left the top 20 once it got there in January and February.
Notably, FloyyMenor and Cris Mj’s “Gata Only” is No. 6 on the year-end Global Excl. U.S. and No. 9 on the year-end Global 200. It’s only the second non-English-language song to crack the year-end top 10 in the charts’ four annual recaps. In 2021, Bad Bunny landed “Dakiti” at No. 6 for both rankings. They are not only the first Chilean acts to make the year-end top 10, but the first from all of South America.
Chappell Roan finishes 2024 at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top New Artists chart, in the same year the 26-year-old saw breakout successes on both the weekly Billboard 200 albums chart and weekly Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The singer-songwriter’s debut full-length album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in August, while she logged seven entries on the Billboard Hot 100, including her first top 10 with the No. 4-peaking “Good Luck, Babe!”
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Recent champs in the year-end Top New Artists category include Zach Bryan (2023), Latto (2022), Olivia Rodrigo (2021), Roddy Ricch (2020) and Billie Eilish (2019).
Roan made her Billboard chart debut in October of 2023, when she premiered on the Emerging Artists chart dated Oct. 7. By the following April, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess made its Billboard 200 chart debut, at No. 127. It took a relatively leisurely route to the top 10, reaching the region in its 12th chart week (June 22-dated chart). It’s atypical for an album to climb into the top 10 for the first time, as most albums that peak in the top 10 do so by debuting in the top 10. Rise had the slowest climb to the top 10 for a non-catalog album in a year. Once the album reached the top 10, it was a near-weekly fixture in the region for the rest of the year.
Meanwhile, as the album was doing big business on the Billboard 200, Roan’s songs were starting to dent the Hot 100. First came “Good Luck, Babe!” (a stand-alone single not on Rise), which debuted on the Hot 100 dated April 20, eventually peaking at No. 4 in September. Following “Babe,” she logged six more entries during the eligibility period: “Red Wine Supernova,” “Hot to Go!,” “Pink Pony Club,” “Casual,” “Femininomenon” and “My Kink Is Karma.” Of those, “Hot to Go!” and “Pink Pony Club” both reached the weekly top 40.
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess wraps 2024 at No. 18 on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums tally. On the year-end Hot 100 Songs recap, “Good Luck, Babe!” is No. 18 and “Hot to Go!” is No. 53.
On the year-end overall Top Artists ranking, Roan closes the year at No. 11, and on the Top Artists – Female roundup, she’s No. 5.
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. The Top New Artists category ranks the best-performing acts, and new acts, of the year based on activity on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100, as well as Billboard Boxscore (touring), for the 2024 tracking period.
Taylor Swift has done it again. The superstar rules Billboard’s year-end Top Artists chart for a second straight year, and the fourth time overall, after she loomed large on both the weekly Billboard 200 albums and Billboard Hot 100 songs chart during the 2024 chart year. Swift was previously the year-end top artist in 2023, 2015 and 2009. Swift is the only act to be the year-end top artist four times, since the category launched in 1981. Previously, only Swift and Adele were the year-end Top Artist three times.
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During the 2024 chart year, Swift placed 11 albums on the Billboard 200 – the most of any act. Among those were a pair that spent time at No. 1: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and The Tortured Poets Department. The latter racked up 15 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list, becoming Swift’s album with the most weeks at No. 1, and tying Carole King’s 1971 release Tapestry for the third-most weeks at No. 1 among albums by women. Only Adele’s 21 (24 weeks in 2011-12) and the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard (20 weeks in 1992-93) have earned more weeks at No. 1 among women.
The Tortured Poets Department and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) finish as the Nos. 1 and 2 titles on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums recap. It’s the only time that the year’s top two albums are by the same act since 1967, when The Monkees’ More of the Monkees and its self-titled set were Nos. 1 and 2. (The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in 1956.) Swift goes even further on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums recap, with Lover and Midnights at Nos. 9 and 10, marking the first time that an act has finished with four of the year’s top 10 albums.
Swift is also the year’s top female artist for a third consecutive year (the most consecutive years an artist has been the year’s top female act), while Morgan Wallen and Fuerza Regida are the top male, and top duo/group artists of 2024 for a second year running.
Chappell Roan is 2024’s top new artist, following a breakthrough year that saw her debut studio album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess climb to No. 2 on the weekly Billboard 200 along with a trio of top 40-charting hits on the weekly Hot 100, including her first top 10, “Good Luck, Babe!” (peaking at No. 4 in September).
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. The Top Artists and Top New Artists categories rank the best-performing acts, and new acts, of the year based on activity on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100, as well as Billboard Boxscore (touring), for the 2024 tracking period.
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) finish as the Nos. 1 and 2 titles on the 2024 year-end Billboard 200 Albums recap. It’s the only time that the year’s top two albums are by the same act since 1967, when The Monkees’ More of the Monkees and its self-titled set were Nos. 1 and 2. (The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in 1956.)
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Swift becomes the first act to have the year’s top album in four different years, following her year-end wins with reputation (2018), 1989 (2015) and Fearless (2009).
During the 2024 chart year (Oct. 28, 2023-Oct. 19, 2024-dated charts), The Tortured Poets Department racked up 15 nonconsecutive weeks atop the weekly Billboard 200 list. (It returned to No. 1 on the Dec. 14, 2024-dated chart for a 16th frame at the top.) When it claimed a 15th week at No. 1, it tied Carole King’s 1971 release Tapestry for the third-most weeks at No. 1 among albums by women. Only Adele’s 21 (24 weeks in 2011-12) and the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard (20 weeks in 1992-93) have earned more weeks at No. 1 among women.
1989 (Taylor’s Version), the fourth of Swift’s re-recorded studio albums, places at No. 2 on the year-end Billboard 200 albums chart. The set premiered at No. 1 on the weekly Billboard 200 chart dated Nov. 11, 2023, and spent a total of six nonconsecutive weeks in the lead on the list during the eligibility period. It remained in the weekly top 40 of the chart through the rest of the 2024 chart year, save for two weeks.
Swift goes even further in the top 10 on the the 2024 year-end Billboard 200 Albums recap, with Lover and Midnights at Nos. 9 and 10, marking the first time that an act has finished with four of the year’s top 10 albums. (Lover and Midnights were Nos. 9 and 2, respectively, on the 2023 year-end ranking.)
Half of 2024’s top 10 albums are holdovers from 2023’s year-end top 10, including one that’s been among the year-end top 10 for four years straight: Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album, which was released in 2021. It’s No. 8, after being No. 5 in 2023, No. 3 in 2022 and No. 1 in 2021. It’s the first title to spend four years, consecutively or otherwise, in the year-end Billboard 200 Albums top 10 since the original Broadway cast recording of My Fair Lady (1956-59). In recent years, albums tend to stay longer on the weekly chart, and appear on the year-end ranking repeatedly, thanks to sustained streaming activity.
Three songs from The Tortured Poets Department dot the year-end Hot 100 Songs ranking: “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone (No. 22); “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” (No. 35); and “Down Bad” (No. 99). “Fortnight” debuted atop the weekly Billboard Hot 100 in May and spent two weeks in the lead. The same week it opened at No. 1, “Down Bad” and “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” debuted and peaked at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively.
As for the non-Swift albums in the year-end Billboard 200 albums roundup: No. 3 is Wallen’s One Thing at a Time (it was tops in 2023), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is No. 4 (his first appearance in the year-end top 10), Drake’s For All the Dogs is No. 5, SZA’s SOS is No. 6 (it was No. 3 a year ago), Zach Bryan’s self-titled album is No. 7 and Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album is No. 8.
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 appears 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 different between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate.