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Jelly Roll celebrated the end of the year with another homage of one of his musical heroes. During the Nashville’s Big Bash New Year’s Eve special on Tuesday night (Dec. 31), the singer performed Toby Keith’s 1993 debut single, “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” as part of a five-song set that also included his own hits […]
In the 2024 calendar year, 761 songs by a total of 404 different artists appeared on the Billboard Hot 100.
Of those 404 artists, 120 appeared on the chart for the first time in 2024. Billboard has been celebrating these Hot 100 first-timers throughout the year, highlighting their first chart appearances and sharing their reactions to the news. As 2024 draws to a close, let’s look back at each act to debut on the ranking for the first time and the songs that helped them become Hot 100-charting hitmakers.
Notably, of the eight acts nominated for best new artist at the upcoming 67th Grammy Awards in February, two hit the Hot 100 for the first time this year: Chappell Roan with “Good Luck, Babe!” in April, and Shaboozey with his featured turns on Beyoncé’s “Spaghettii” and “Sweet * Honey * Buckiin” from her album Cowboy Carter, also in April. “Good Luck, Babe!” reached No. 4 on the chart in September, and Roan landed six additional songs on the chart this year: “Red Wine Supernova,” “Hot to Go!,” “Pink Pony Club,” “Casual,” “Femininomenon” and “My Kink Is Karma.” Shaboozey, of course, later charted with his breakthrough smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which spent a record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1, and then with “Good News.”
As for the other best new artist nominees: Benson Boone first charted in 2021 with “Ghost Town,” but his song “Beautiful Things” became his biggest hit to date this year, reaching No. 2; Sabrina Carpenter first charted in 2021 with “Skin,” but earned her first three top 10s this year with “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “Taste”; Doechii arrived on the Hot 100 in 2023 with “What It Is (Block Boy)”; Raye debuted in December 2022 with “Escapism”; and Teddy Swims arrived in August 2023 with “Lose Control,” which topped the chart this March and finished as Billboard’s No. 1 Hot 100 song of the year. (Khruangbin hasn’t yet appeared on the Hot 100.)
Tommy Richman made a historic first entry on the chart this year with “Million Dollar Baby” when it debuted at No. 2. Since the Hot 100 began in 1958, only five other acts have debuted in the top two with no prior history on the chart: Lauryn Hill, Fantasia, Baauer, Zayn and Oliver Anthony Music. (Hill and Zayn previously charted with Fugees and One Direction, respectively. Fantasia won Season 3 of American Idol. So only Richman, Baauer and Oliver Anthony Music debuted in the top two with no significant previous audience awareness.)
Other notable artists who first reached the Hot 100 this year include Djo, aka actor Joe Keery of Stranger Things, who debuted with his viral hit “End of Beginning”; Sophie Ellis-Bextor, whose 2001 song “Murder on the Dancefloor” received newfound popularity after its appearance in the film Saltburn; YG Marley, who debuted with “Praise Jah in the Moonlight” helping him become the sixth member of the legendary Marley family to chart a song on the Hot 100; and Pabllo Vittar, who joined RuPaul as the only drag queens to ever to debut on the chart.
Proving that age is just a number, two artists over the age of 80 earned their first Hot 100 entries this year. Ariana Grande’s grandmother, Marjorie Grande, was credited as a featured act on her granddaughter’s song “Ordinary Things” (under the name Nonna). At 98 years old, she became the senior-most artist ever to appear on the Hot 100. She surpassed Fred Stobaugh, who charted at 96 years old with “Oh Sweet Lorraine” in 2013. Plus, Linda Martell charted for the first time at age 82 thanks to her guest appearance on Beyoncé’s “Spaghettii.” In 1969, the country music pioneer became the first Black woman to ever play the Grand Ole Opry.
Plus, the children of two superstars also charted on the Hot 100 for the first time this year: North West, the eldest child of Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Kim Kardashian, charted her first song in February at age 10, with her featured appearance on Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Talking.” Two months later, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter Rumi became the youngest female artist to ever chart on the Hot 100, at just 6 years old. She debuted with her guest appearance on Beyoncé’s “Protector.” She surpassed her sister, Blue Ivy Carter, who was 7 years old when she first charted in 2019 (on “Brown Skin Girl”).
In chronological order below is a roundup of every artist who earned a first Hot 100 hit in 2024, encompassing the charts dated Jan. 6-Dec. 28.
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2025 may only be two days old, but Doechii is already hitting the ground running. On Thursday (Jan. 2), the ascendant Tampa rapper released the highly anticipated music video for “Denial Is a River,” a standout cut from her breakout mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal. Co-directed by Carlos Acosta and James Mackel, the “Denial” clip […]
Chappell Roan is letting her Gleek flag fly in 2025. In a hilarious video shared to her TikTok account Wednesday (Jan. 1), the 26-year-old pop star recreates an iconic scene from Ryan Murphy’s Glee — taking a slushie to the face in the process.
In the clip, Roan plays the part of Kurt Hummel — portrayed by Chris Colfer on the hit Fox series — speaking into a microphone during an interview with a classmate. “You know what does take some courage? Standing up and singing about something,” the “Good Luck, Babe!” singer mouths along to the Glee audio, sassily pointing her finger at the camera.
“So here’s a message for everyone that reads your blog: Next time, instead of posting an anonymous comment online, say what you have to say to my face,” she continues.
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In the original Glee scene — which is featured in the second season’s first episode — Colfer’s character is then assaulted by a surprise slushie that a William McKinley High School bully throws in his face. For her recreation, Roan maintained the integrity of the source material, bravely committing to the bit as purple icy sludge sails into view from off camera and splashes her in the face.
“New Year New Me New Directions #glee #welcomeback #ladies,” Roan captioned the clip.
The Grammy nominee’s video marks her first post of 2025 on the platform. Just a week prior, Roan shared her thoughts on a different episode of the satirical show-choir sitcom, posting on Instagram Stories that its 2011 Christmas special was “the worst episode of Glee I’ve ever seen.”
Shortly afterward, Roan followed it up with an “apology video for the Gleeks that [she] offended,” which she filmed in front of a Christmas tree as someone off camera aims a pair of scissors at her. “I am so sorry,” she continues jokingly in the video. “I love every episode of Glee …”
Starring Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera, Glee aired from 2009 to 2015. During its run, the cast notched 207 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 — one of the highest amounts on record. It’s a number only a few musicians have surpassed, including Drake, Taylor Swift and Future.
Roan ended 2024 as Billboard‘s fourth-greatest pop star of the year, a testament to the phenomenal career explosion she’s experienced in the past 12 months. Her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in August, and the star launched seven tracks onto the Hot 100 over the course of last year.
Watch Roan’s TikTok below.
Wham!’s “Last Christmas” becomes the second holiday song in the one-year history of the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart to hit No. 1, lifting 7-1 on the Jan. 4, 2025-dated tally.
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The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Dec. 23-29. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Last Christmas” reigns for the first time after reaching No. 2 a year before on the Jan. 6 survey, behind Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” (Carey’s classic appears at No. 3 on the latest list.)
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Concurrently, “Last Christmas” rises 51% in official Billboard-eligible U.S. streams to 69.6 million listens in the week ending Dec. 26, according to Luminate. It holds at its No. 3 peak on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100, which Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” rules for an 18th week.
Holiday-related music occupies 10 spots of TikTok Billboard Top 50, including four of the top 10; Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” re-enters the chart at No. 8, a new peak, while Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” jumps 18-9.
Christmas music dominates the ranking due to the holiday falling amid the tracking period on Dec. 25, begetting a variety of uploads, from dances and lip syncs to creators showing off their gift hauls for the year.
The chart’s top 10 features another newcomer in the top 10, albeit not a Christmas song: Naughty Boy’s “La La La,” featuring Sam Smith, which leaps 19-4 in its second week on the tally.
Though some of the uploads using “La La La” use the original version, a majority of the top-performing clips feature a sped-up sound, generally set to a dance trend.
“La La La” sports a 165% jump in listens to 3.3 million streams in the week ending Dec. 26. It peaked at No. 19 on the Hot 100 in May 2014, Smith’s first appearance on the list.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
Ava Max loves her fans, but she doesn’t love it when they leak her music. So on Thursday morning (Jan. 2), the “Sweet But Psycho” singer made a plea to her followers to stop leaking unreleased demos. In an Instagram Story, Max shared a screenshot of what she said was a visualizer for an as-yet-unreleased song called “Phenomenon.”
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“ok yes I have a lot of demos I’ve written that are not finalized records, and I’d appreciate it if you stop leaking these records ^ like this one,” Max wrote alongside a snippet of the mid-tempo dance number with an alluring, Middle Eastern-inspired groove. “It’s a phenomenon-on/ One dance and then it’s gone-on/ One touch can make you wonder, wonder, what’s going on,” she sings on the track.
The note continues: “A lot of records I write do not ever see the light of day and I understand your frustration, but this is not right. I write a lot of records I wish I could put out. This is one of 5 songs I have found today. It’s not right.” Max did not name the other four songs she said she found, but the post ended with a stern warning.
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“I will find out who did this,” she wrote. “Like I usually do. So plz Stop.” A follow-up slide expanded on her plea to fans, adding, “I’ve never posted about this since the leak of my second album prematurely. Plz respect my art so I can keep working on making the songs I wanna put out that make sense for my project, and who I am perfect for you.”
Max broke through in 2018 with her Billboard Hot 100 No. 10 single “Sweet But Psycho,” followed by her 2020 debut studio album, Heaven & Hell. Her sophomore LP, Diamonds & Dancefloors, was released in January 2023 after a several-month delay caused by she said at the time was a leak. She addressed the incident in a since-deleted TikTok in which she explained the delay.
“I wanted to come on here personally and talk about all the leaks that have been happening [with] Diamonds & Dancefloors. I am extremely upset about it, obviously,” she wrote. “I don’t want anyone thinking I am trying to avoid this or anything. I see what is happening. I, personally, haven’t seen the leaks or where they’re coming from online. I just know that it’s out there and — I don’t know… My team and I are trying our hardest to bring it down. We’ve all worked so hard on Diamonds & Dancefloors and I can’t wait for everyone to hear every single song on the album.”
Last May, Max told Billboard that that she was preparing for her third album cycle with “no heartbreak attached and no man attached.” She explained then that those crucial elements are tied to the vibe of the untitled collection’s debut single, “My Oh My,” which she described as feeling like “the beginning of me.”
“For the first time I’m really finding myself, honing in on healing… I really feel like this is everyone’s healing era,” Max said of the in-process album, whose release date has not yet been announced. She released the dance pop banger “Spot a Fake” in September 2024.
Coi Leray is going to be a mom. The Boston rapper kicked off 2025 in a major way, as she and Trippie Redd are expecting their first child together.
Leray revealed her pregnancy in an announcement to social media on Wednesday (Jan. 1). “I’m a rock star mommy we ready for 2025,” she captioned an Instagram carousel of photos of her baby bump, with two photos also featuring Trippie.
Congratulatory messages poured into her comments section from her fellow female artists such as Anycia, BIA, Lady London, GloRilla, Mariah the Scientist, Ice Spice, Shenseea, Kehlani and DreamDoll, who revealed a pregnancy of her own earlier this week.
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“Congrats! You finally got what you wanted you’re gonna loveee the journey sis,” Shenseea wrote.
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Coi and Trippie dated back in 2019 before breaking things off not long after. During that time, Leray accompanied Redd to the Billboard NYC office for his ! album press run.
The couple went their separate ways, but rekindled their romance in August 2024. Trippie relayed to TMZ that he slid into Coi’s DMs and things flourished from there. “We just been talking. That’s my boo,” he said in September.
Some of their relationship drama was poured into music, as Trippie dedicated “Leray” from A Love Letter to You 4 to his then-ex in 2019. Coi mentioned Trippie years later on 2023’s “Isabel Marant.”
“At first, no, I didn’t like it. It was very like, ‘What the f–k,’ because I always thought we really had something outside of the music,” Coi said of her response to “Leray” in an interview with No Jumper. “So I’m just like, ‘Damn. If you got something to say, let’s get together and you say that s–t to my face.’”
New year, same Rihanna. Less than one day into 2025, the superstar has already punched in with one of her characteristic comebacks, shutting down a troll who demanded new music and called her a rude name on Instagram Wednesday (Jan. 1).
The exchange went down on Ri’s latest post, a video she filmed of herself celebrating with friends as the clock ticked down to midnight on New Year’s Eve. “Y’all, I didn’t drink all year,” she excitedly tells the camera in the clip.
“New Year, New Me,” the Fenty mogul captioned the post.
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One person in the comments, however, seemed intent on raining on her parade. “We want an album forehead,” they wrote.
But Rihanna being Rihanna, the “Umbrella” singer was quick to shut him down. “listen Lorenzo!” she replied. “You ain’t cute enough to be calling me by my black name you dizzy f–k!”
The Barbadian musician hasn’t released an album since 2016’s Anti, which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Since then, she’s appeared on a couple sparse remixes and contributed “Born Again” and “Lift Me Up” for the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack. The latter tune earned Ri a Grammy nomination for best song written for visual media as well as an Oscar nod for best original song.
Rihanna has been hinting that a new LP has been in the works for years, but fans have had to get used to taking her updates with a grain of salt. In April, she told Interview that she had “a lot of visual ideas” for her next musical project, but not the songs to match. “Maybe the visual ideas are leading me to the songs that I need to make,” she added at the time.
Two months later, Ri told Entertainment Tonight that she was “starting over” the album-making process. “I don’t want to neglect the songs that I have, so I actually want to go back and listen to stuff with new ears, with my new perspective and then see what applies and what I’m still in love with,” she told the outlet in June. “I have been working on the album for so long that I kinda put all that stuff aside, and now I’m prepared to go back in the studio. I’m gonna start — give me a second!”
See Ri’s post below.
It has been more than six years since Lily Allen’s most recent studio LP — but that could be about to change. In a new update, the British pop star has said that she is “trying to manifest” releasing a new album by “the end of the year.”
Speaking on her Miss Me? podcast, a show she hosts with TV presenter and longtime friend Miquita Oliver, the 39-year-old musician discussed the potential follow-up to 2018’s No Shame, which landed at No. 8 on the U.K.’s Official Album Charts.
“Firstly, I’m going to go and get my head straight for a bit,” she said on the show’s latest episode, which was released Thursday (Jan. 2). “I’m doing a little bit of work on myself in this beginning period of the year, then I’m going to do some more writing, then I’m going to do my play [Allen will star in a new production of Hedda Gabler in Bath, England, in July], hopefully, maybe get an album out by the end of the year. That would be nice, wouldn’t it?”
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She continued, “It’s not real, I’m just trying to manifest it now.” Later, she added, “Listen, I’ve got this. We’re bringing Lily Allen back in 2025.”
Across her career, Allen has released four studio albums: 2006’s Alright Still, 2009’s It’s Not Me, It’s You, 2014’s Sheezus and 2018’s No Shame. Three of her singles have charted at No. 1 on the Official Singles Chart in the U.K. – “Smile” (2006), “The Fear” (2008) and a cover of Keane’s “Somewhere Only We Know” (2013).
On a previous episode first released in April 2024, Allen revealed that she had been working on new music in Nashville. “I’m in Nashville, where everyone is really good. There’s so much legacy,” she told her co-host Oliver. “I have to say it’s quite intimidating being here. People are really talented.” Prior to that, she also said on X that she had written up to 50 songs for a new album.
In July 2024, Allen shared that she had begun selling pictures and videos of her feet on OnlyFans and that she was receiving more revenue from her pictures than from her music streams. “Imagine being and artist [sic] and having nearly 8 million monthly listeners on spotify but earning more money from having 1000 people subscribe to pictures of your feet,” she said on social media.
Listen to the episode below (music discussion begins at the 6:00 mark.)
Britney Spears‘ ex-husband Sam Asghari has gone Instagram official with his new girlfriend. The 30-year-old The Traitors actor posted a series of celebratory New Year’s pics on Wednesday (Jan. 1) in which he is seen getting up-close-and-personal with his blonde lady love.
In the first snap, the couple, both dressed in all white, are seen staring deep into each other’s eyes under a palm tree beneath a starry sky next to a caption reading “Happy New Year to All.”. According to US Magazine, Asghari’s new partner is realtor Brooke Irvine, whose social feeds are set to private.
In another picture, Irvine lays her head on Asghari’s stomach as the couple recline on the trunk of a palm tree. The reel also features a snap of the pair in all-black at what looks like a party, followed by another cuddly image of them sitting on a carnival-like ride and a final pic of Asghari with his arm around Irvine’s neck, standing behind her as they take a mirror selfie while dressed in all-white again.
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In December, Spears celebrated her 43rd birthday on the same day a California court declared her officially single. The declaration came seven months after her divorce from Asghari was finalized in Los Angeles. Spears and Asghari separated in July 2023, 13 months after their wedding and six years after they first started dating. Asghari filed for divorce in August 2023, citing irreconcilable differences.
Two months earlier, Spears announced that she’d “married” herself in a throwback video that appeared similar to one from 2022, in which she wrote, “The day I married myself … Bringing it back because it might seem embarrassing or stupid, but I think it’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever done !!!
The divorce from Asghari was the third for spears, who was also briefly married to childhood friend Jason Alexander in 2004 before tying the knot with dancer Kevin Federline that same year; she and Federline had two sons, Sean Preston, 19 and Jayden James, 18, before splitting in 2007.
While Asghari spent the new year with his new love, Spears revealed over the Christmas holiday that she’d reunited with Jayden, calling their reconciliation the “best Christmas of my life!!! I haven’t seen my boys in 2 years!!!”
