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Shaboozeyâs âA Bar Song (Tipsy)â was the most streamed, downloaded and highest grossing song of 2024 in the United States, according to a Billboard review of Luminateâs annual report published on Wednesday (Jan. 15).
The anthemic hip-hop-infused country song generated $6.59 million from digital song sales and on-demand audio streams in the United States for the year spanning from Dec. 29, 2023 to Jan. 2, 2025, having spent a historic 19 weeks in the No. 1 spot on Billboardâs Hot 100.
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The top 10 most digitally consumed songs of 2024 as identified by Luminate generated a combined $53.4 million from on-demand audio streams, such as when the song is played on Spotify, and digital song sales, like when a digital download is purchased through Appleâs music store.
Another country crossover hit, Post Maloneâs âI Had Some Helpâ featuring Morgan Wallen, took the No. 2 spot on Luminateâs list, and generated $5.76 million from sales and on-demand audio streams, while Benson Booneâs âBeautiful Thingsâ came in third on that list, and generated $5.65 million. Those royalties are paid out to an artistâs record label and music publisher; Billboard was not able to determine the artistsâ share of those earnings.
The remainder of the top 10 most digitally consumed songs were Teddy Swimsâ âLose Controlâ which earned $5.57 million; Kendrick Lamarâs âNot Like Us,â which earned $5.63 million; Sabrina Carpenterâs âEspresso,â which earned $5.2 million; Zach Bryanâs 2023 release featuring Kacey Musgraves, âI Remember Everything,â which generated $5.03 million; Tommy Richmanâs âMillion Dollar Baby,â which earned $4.99 million; Billie Eilishâs âBIRDS OF A FEATHER,â which earned $4.53 million; and Hozierâs âToo Sweet,â which generated $4.39 million.
Lamarâs âNot Like Usâ ranked fifth, behind Swimsâ âLose Control,â on the list of most streamed and downloaded songs. However, âNot Like Usâ generated slightly more money than âLose Controlâ â âNot Like Usâ netted $5.63 million compared to $5.57 million for âLose Controlâ â because it was streamed 37.7 million more times. While âLose Controlâ had more digital downloads, and a single digital download pays out more than a single stream, digital sales for both songs only totaled 430,000.
As the music industryâs leading data provider, Luminate tracks consumption data from more than 500 retailers, streaming and radio companies, among others. This top 10 list from Luminateâs report focused on digital song sales and on-demand audio streams because around 90% of music consumption activity comes from digital formats in the U.S. Luminate stripped out video streams from this yearâs chart because of a change in how one company provided video data in 2024.
These 10 songs made an additional $30.3 million from video streams, programmed streams, such as a play on satellite radio, and radio airplay spins in the U.S. Including that revenue, Shaboozeyâs âA Bar Songâ was still the top money-making hit with $10.74 million, but Teddy Swimsâ âLose Controlâ came in second with $10.22 million, largely because of its success on radio and programmed streams. The songs would have also made additional revenue from sales and streams around the world, metrics that are not included in Luminateâs ranking.
Some songs did particularly well on video. Lamarâs Drake diss track âNot Like Usâ had more than 216 million on-demand video streams in the U.S. last year, which generated over $1 million from master recording and publishing rights, Billboard estimates.
Here is Luminateâs full list of the top 10 songs of 2024 ranked by sales and streaming-equivalent units based on on-demand audio streams with Billboardâs estimates on how much money each song generated from those categories.
Taylor Swiftâs The Tortured Poets Department finished 2024 as the most popular album of the year in the U.S., according to music data tracking company Luminate. Meanwhile, the most-streamed song by on-demand audio streams was Shaboozeyâs âA Bar Song (Tipsy),â and the most-heard song on the radio was Teddy Swimsâ âLose Control.â
Total music consumption in the U.S. â as measured in audio equivalent album units â increased by 5.6% in 2024. (View Luminateâs 2024 Year-End Music Report.)
See Luminateâs year-end top 10 albums, along with other year-end rankings and industry volume numbers, below.
But first, the fine print:
Equivalent album units â for album titles and chart rankings cited below (but not industry volume numbers) â comprise traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album, or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. Album titles and album chart rankings by equivalent album units do not include user-generated content (UGC) streams, but UGC streams are included in Luminateâs industry volume numbers. (UGC streams are not factored into any of Billboardâs weekly charts.)
For the sake of clarity, equivalent album units do not include listening to music on broadcast radio or digital radio broadcasts â including programmed streams â operating under Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) regulations. All numbers cited in this story are rounded, and reflect U.S. consumption only.
Luminateâs equivalent album unit totals include SEA and TEA for an albumâs songs registered before an albumâs release, but during the tracking period of Dec. 29, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2025.
Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991 when the company was known as SoundScan. Luminateâs sales, streaming and airplay data is used to compile Billboardâs weekly charts. Luminateâs 2024 tracking year ran from Dec. 29, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2025.
Luminateâs 2024 tracking year contained 53 weeks, instead of the usual 52 weeks. So, for 2024 volume comparisons to 2023, a corresponding 53-week period was used by Luminate for 2023: Dec. 30, 2022, through Jan. 4, 2024.
Highlights from Luminateâs 2024 U.S. year-end data:
Taylor Swiftâs The Tortured Poets Department was Luminateâs top album of 2024 in the U.S. Itâs the third time Swift has led the year-end list. She was also tops with 1989 (in 2014) and Fearless (in 2009).
Poets earned 6.955 million equivalent album units in 2024 in the U.S., according to Luminate. Thatâs the biggest yearly total for an album since 2015, when Adeleâs third album, 25, earned 8.008 million units.
Swift is the first artist in Luminate history (1991-present) to have three different albums be a year-end No. 1.
Poets was also the top-selling album overall in the U.S. in 2024, by traditional album sales. It was also the top-selling album in each of CD, vinyl and cassette tape formats, as well as among digital download albums.
Total U.S. audio album consumption increased 5.6% in 2024.
U.S. on-demand audio streams increased 6.4% in 2024.
Shaboozeyâs âA Bar Song (Tipsy)â was the most-streamed song in the U.S. in 2024 by on-demand audio streams: 912.7 million.
U.S. vinyl album sales increased by 4.3% in 2024.
Seven of the yearâs top 10-selling albums were K-pop projects.
Digital track sales declined for a 12th year in a row in the U.S. in 2024.
Teddy Swimsâ âLose Controlâ was the biggest song at U.S. radio in 2024: 3.250 billion audience impressions.
Swiftâs The Tortured Poets Department debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated May 4, 2024, and has spent 17 nonconsecutive weeks atop the tally (through its most recent week at No. 1 on the chart dated Dec. 21). The last album by a woman to spend as many weeks at No. 1 was Adeleâs 21, which earned 24 nonconsecutive weeks on top in 2011-12.
Poets is the third Swift album to be named Luminateâs year-end No. 1 album, following 1989 (2014) and Fearless (2009). In both 2014 and 2009, the year-end list was based solely on traditional album sales. In 2015, the year-end ranking started being based on equivalent album units.
Since Luminate began electronically tracking music consumption in 1991, Swift is the first artist to have three different albums be Luminateâs year-end No. 1. Adele is the only other act to have the year-end top album in three different years, but Adele did it with two albums: 21 (2011-12) and 25 (2015).
Poets is the first album not by a solo male to be Luminateâs year-end No. 1 since 2015, when Adeleâs 25 was tops.
Poets earned 6.955 million equivalent album units in 2024 in the U.S., according to Luminate. Thatâs the biggest yearly total for an album since 2015, when Adeleâs third album, 25, earned 8.008 million units. (Previous to Poets, the last album to clear 6 million units in a single year was 25.)
Half of Poetsâ 2024 units was generated by traditional album sales (3.491 million of 6.955 million) â via purchases of physical (CD, cassette and vinyl) and digital download albums. Streaming equivalent album (SEA) units comprise 3.434 million and track equivalent album (TEA) units comprise 30,000. Poets was also the most-streamed album of 2024, by total on-demand official streams generated by its songs, with 4.490 billion streams.
Poets was initially released on April 19 as a standard 16-song digital download album, as well as in an array of 17-song physical configurations. Two hours after the album dropped, Swift issued an expanded 31-song edition of the album, dubbed The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, which added 15 additional songs. However, the Anthology edition was only available as a digital download and streaming set until Nov. 29, when its CD and vinyl editions became available for purchase exclusively through Target. The Target CD and vinyl additionally boast four bonus acoustic tracks (which were previously released in other alternate versions of the album). All told, more than 40 variants of Poets were released to U.S. customers in 2024, across CD, vinyl, cassette and digital download album versions.
Poets yielded 10 top-10 charting songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the No. 1 âFortnight,â featuring Post Malone.
Rounding out Luminateâs year-end top 10 albums are titles by Morgan Wallen, Sabrina Carpenter, SZA, Billie Eilish, Noah Kahan, Chappell Roan, Zach Bryan, and Future and Metro Boomin.
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2024 IN U.S., BY TOTAL EQUIVALENT ALBUM UNITS1. Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (6.955 million)2. Morgan Wallen, One Thing at a Time (3.183 million)3. Sabrina Carpenter, Short nâ Sweet (2.491 million)4. SZA, SOS (2.473 million)5. Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft (2.259 million)6. Noah Kahan, Stick Season (2.213 million)7. Chappell Roan, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (1.946 million)8. Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album (1.895 million)9. Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan (1.723 million)10. Future & Metro Boomin, We Donât Trust You (1.606 million)Source: Luminate, for the tracking period Dec. 29, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2025. UGC streams are not included in this chart, but are included in Luminateâs on-demand streaming charts (below).
TOTAL U.S. AUDIO ALBUM CONSUMPTION INCREASES 5.6%: Audio equivalent album units increased by 5.6% in 2024, to 1.1 billion. For this figure, audio equivalent album units comprise traditional album sales (excluding independent retail sales*), track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA, excluding video streams). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported on-demand official audio streams generated by songs from an album, or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio streams generated by songs from an album.
*Note: There was a change in methodology behind Luminateâs independent retail store reporting beginning in January 2024, and, in turn, independent retail physical sales under the new methodology for 2024 are isolated and no trending analysis is provided versus 2023. So, any year-over-year album sales volume excludes independent retail physical sales, including the âtotal U.S. audio album consumptionâ figure above. Independent retail sales are included in all figures for individual album titles throughout this story.
TAYLOR SWIFTâS âTORTURED POETSâ IS 2024âS TOP-SELLING ALBUM: Poets is also by far the top-selling album of 2024, with 3.491 million copies sold across all configurations (physical and digital purchases combined: CD, vinyl LP, cassette, digital download album). That makes it the highest-selling album of any calendar year in the U.S. since 2015, when Adeleâs 25 sold 7.441 million copies. See the top 10-selling albums, below.
Poetsâ sales were so big that it outsold the yearâs Nos. 2-8 top sellers combined.
TOP 10-SELLING ALBUMS OF 2024 IN U.S. (PHYSICAL & DIGITAL SALES COMBINED)1. Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (3.491 million)2. Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft (570,000)3. Travis Scott, Days Before Rodeo (493,000)4. Sabrina Carpenter, Short nâ Sweet (484,000)5. Chappell Roan, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (472,000)6. Stray Kids, ATE (449,000)7. Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylorâs Version) (414,000)8. ENHYPEN, Romance: Untold (378,000)9. Taylor Swift, Lover (343,000)10. BeyoncĂ©, Cowboy Carter (329,000)Source: Luminate, for the tracking period Dec. 29, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2025.
An album by Swift has been the yearâs top-seller in seven of the last 11 years: Poets in 2024, 1989 (Taylorâs Version) in 2023, Midnights in 2022, Folklore in 2020, Lover in 2019, Reputation in 2017 and 1989 in 2014. She also had the yearâs top seller in 2009 with Fearless. Swift is the only act to have the top-selling album of the year at least eight times since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991.
Poets was also the yearâs top-selling album on CD (1.512 million), vinyl (1.489 million), digital download (465,000) and cassette (24,000).
As mentioned earlier in this story, Poets was available across more than 40 different variants in the U.S. in 2024 â helping its sales figures. In total, there have been 15 CD editions, seven vinyl variants, four cassettes, and 19 digital download versions. Most versions contain at least one bonus track (ranging from bonus studio songs to acoustic or live renditions of songs from the album).
Taylor Swift sold the most albums of any act in 2024 in the U.S., as her collected catalog of albums sold 6.003 million copies (across all configurations, physical and digital combined). The second-biggest act, by album sales in 2024, was Stray Kids, with 1.009 million sold. Swift and Stray Kids were also the Nos. 1 and 2-selling acts, by album sales, in 2023.
PHYSICAL & DIGITAL ALBUM SALES DECLINE: Luminate reports that physical album sales â excluding independent retail store sales â declined 1% in 2024 to 55.6 million. (Indie store sales are excluded from this year-over-year album sales volume comparisons due to a methodology change, as noted earlier in this story, behind Luminateâs independent retail store reporting in 2024 versus 2023.) Digital album sales fell 9.5% in 2024 to 16.8 million.
VINYL ALBUM SALES INCREASE 4.3%: Luminateâs year-end report reveals that U.S. vinyl album sales increased 4.3% in 2024 as compared to 2023, when excluding independent retail store sales (due to the methodology change noted above in this story). In 2023, industry-wide, vinyl sales increased for an 18th consecutive year.
TOP 10-SELLING VINYL ALBUMS OF 2024 IN U.S.1. Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (1.489 million)2. Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft (340,000)3. Chappell Roan, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (336,000)4. Sabrina Carpenter, Short nâ Sweet (291,000)5. Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylorâs Version) (200,000)6. Taylor Swift, Folklore (267,000)7. Taylor Swift, Midnights (188,000)8. Taylor Swift, Lover (185,000)9. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (178,000)10. Olivia Rodrigo, Guts (175,000)Source: Luminate, for the tracking period Dec. 29, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2025.
The Tortured Poets Department was the top-selling vinyl LP of 2024, with 1.489 million sold â more than four times the number of copies that the second-biggest vinyl set of the year, Billie Eilishâs Hit Me Hard and Soft, sold: 340,000. Poets is only the second album to sell a million copies on vinyl in a calendar year since Luminate started tracking sales in 1991. Swiftâs own 1989 (Taylorâs Version) was the first, in 2023, with 1.014 million copies sold on wax that year.
Poets scored the single-largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking data in 1991) with its opening sales week of 859,000.
Swift finished 2024 with five of the top 10-selling vinyl albums. Further, her catalog of albums sold 2.935 million copies on vinyl in 2024 â the most of any artist. (Billie Eilish was the second-biggest selling act on vinyl in 2024, with 520,000 sold.)
K-POP CONTINUES TO DOMINATE CD TOP SELLERS: Seven of the yearâs top 10-selling CD albums are by K-pop acts, while efforts from Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish are the lone non-K-pop projects among the top 10 best sellers. Swiftâs The Tortured Poets Department is the top-selling CD album, with 1.512 million copies sold. A year ago, seven of the top 10 sellers were also K-pop titles. All of the titles in the 2024 year-end top 10 ranking below profit from their availability across multiple collectible editions aimed at superfans.
TOP 10-SELLING CD ALBUMS OF 2024 IN U.S.1. Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (1,512,000)2. Stray Kids, ATE (442,000)3. ENHYPEN, Romance: Untold (363,000)4. ATEEZ, GOLDEN HOUR: Part.1 (250,000)5. Stray Kids, HOP (248,000)6. TOMORROW X TOGETHER, minisode 3: TOMORROW (240,000)7. ATEEZ, GOLDEN HOUR: Part. 2 (225,000)8. Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylorâs Version) (175,000)9. TWICE, With YOU-th (174,000)10. Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft (165,000)Source: Luminate, for the tracking period Dec. 29, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2025.
ON-DEMAND AUDIO STREAMS UP 6.4%: Total U.S. on-demand audio streams (inclusive of UGC streams) grew 6.4% in 2024 to 1.4 trillion. (Note: UGC streams are included in Luminateâs industry streaming on-demand volume numbers and its year-end streaming song charts. UGC streams are not factored into any of Billboardâs weekly charts.)
TOP 10 MOST STREAMED SONGS OF 2024 IN U.S., ON-DEMAND AUDIO1. Shaboozey, âA Bar Song (Tipsy)â (912.7 million)2. Kendrick Lamar, âNot Like Usâ (823.5 million)3. Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen, âI Had Some Helpâ (822.9 million)4. Benson Boone, âBeautiful Thingsâ (800.5 million)5. Teddy Swims, âLose Controlâ (785.8 million)6. Sabrina Carpenter, âEspressoâ (758.9 million)7. Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves, âI Remember Everythingâ (739.5 million)8. Tommy Richman, âMillion Dollar Babyâ (731.3 million)9. Billie Eilish, âBirds of a Featherâ (660.7 million)10. Hozier, âToo Sweetâ (630.9 million)Source: Luminate, for the tracking period Dec. 29, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2025. Includes UGC streams.
DIGITAL TRACK SALES DROP FOR 12TH YEAR IN A ROW: Digital track sales declined for a 12th year in a row, falling 12.8% to 118.77 million in 2024 (down from 136.20 million in the comparable 53-week period of 2023). The top-selling digital song of 2024 was Shaboozeyâs âA Bar Song (Tipsy),â with 480,000 sold. It was the third year in a row that no song sold at least a half-million downloads. Prior to 2022, it last happened in the early days of downloading, in 2004 (the first full year of the iTunes Store, which launched in mid-2003).
2024 also marks the third year in a row that no song sold at least 1 million downloads. Before 2022, the industry last had a year without a million-selling download in 2005.
TOP 10-SELLING DIGITAL SONGS OF 2024 IN U.S.1. Shaboozey, âA Bar Song (Tipsy)â (480,000)2. Teddy Swims, âLose Controlâ (311,000)3. Benson Boone, âBeautiful Thingsâ (293,000)4. Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen, âI Had Some Helpâ (252,000)5. BeyoncĂ©, âTexas Hold âEmâ (192,000)6. Hozier, âToo Sweetâ (162,000)7. Jelly Roll, âI Am Not Okayâ (152,000)8. Jimin, âWhoâ (131,000)9. Sabrina Carpenter, âEspressoâ (125,000)10. Kendrick Lamar, âNot Like Usâ (121,000)Source: Luminate, for the tracking period Dec. 29, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2025.
TEDDY SWIMSâ âLOSE CONTROLâ DOMINATED AIRWAVES: Teddy Swimsâ âLose Controlâ was the most popular song on radio in 2024, with 3.260 billion audience impressions earned across all monitored radio stations in the U.S. Audience impressions are measured by cross-referencing plays with Mediabase, Nielsen Audio and/or Luminate Metro Radio Streaming audience data â i.e., a play of a song on a top-rated New York station at 8 a.m. on a Monday has more listeners (audience) than an overnight weekend play in a smaller city.
TOP 10 RADIO SONGS OF 2024 IN U.S. (BASED ON AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS)1. Teddy Swims, âLose Controlâ (3.250 billion)2. Shaboozey, âA Bar Song (Tipsy)â (2.767 billion)3. Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen, âI Had Some Helpâ (2.591 billion)4. Benson Boone, âBeautiful Thingsâ (2.565 billion)5. Hozier, âToo Sweetâ (2.436 billion)6. Jack Harlow, âLovinâ On Meâ (2.325 billion)7. Sabrina Carpenter, âEspressoâ (2.253 billion)8. Doja Cat, âAgora Hillsâ (2.098 billion)9. Taylor Swift, âCruel Summerâ (2.054 billion)10. Luke Combs, âFast Carâ (1.993 billion)Source: Luminate, for the tracking period Dec. 29, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2025.
12/18/2024
New faces, touring and regional genres propelled Latin music to outpace the market, yet again, with no end in sight.
12/18/2024
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 âWater,â 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 âWater,â 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 Scottâs one-week champ, âActive.â
Billboardâs 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 titleâs chart run isnât 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 âWaterâ opened the gates, Tylaâs self-titled debut album reinforced her standing on U.S. Afrobeats Songs, where 10 of the albumâs standard editionâs 14 tracks reached the chart. In addition to âWater,â three more tracks land in the top 10 on the year-end recap: âTruth or Dareâ (No. 4), âJump,â with Gunna and Skillibeng (No. 5) and âArtâ (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 â93/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: âMe & U,â âLove Me JeJeâ and âNot An Angel.â The foremost pairâs extended trajectories help them finish at No. 3 and No. 7, respectively, on the year-end rankings.
Notably, with âWater,â âMe & U,â âTruth or Dareâ and âJumpâ 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 Gomezâs âCalm Down.â 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 chartâs top three positions for the entirety of the charting year.
With help from âCalm Down,â Rema captures the No. 3 spot on the year-end artist rank for U.S. Afrobeats Songs, though itâs 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 âYayo,â which reached No. 9 in July and became his third top 10 hit on the chart.
Last yearâs 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 ThemâŠ, continuing their chart runs into the year. Notably, the international superstar achieved a new top 10 â his 14th total â with âHigher,â 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-oldâs chops, he finally unlocked the penthouse in August with his first No. 1, the Travis Scott collaboration âActive.â A-list pairings proved a winning formula for Asake, with further hits coming via team-ups with Wizkid on the No. 7-peaking âMMSâ and Gunna (âHappiness,â also with Sarz) and Central Cee (âWaveâ), which both reached No. 8.
In 2024, Elevation Worship, the music collective based in Charlotte, N.C., leads Billboardâs Top Christian Artists in the overall year-end recap. The group also rules as the leading duo/group of 2024.
Elevation Worshipâs eight-song album, Can You Imagine?, is Billboardâs 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: âWeâre blown away by the response to our new album and how itâs pointing people to Jesus,â he said. âItâs reminding us that He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine in and through our lives.â
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Billboardâs 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 titleâs chart run isnât 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 Worshipâs âPraiseâ 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.
âPraiseâ hit No. 1 on the weekly Hot Christian Songs chart in March and became the actâs third chart-topper among 15 top 10s. It was the first leader for Brown, Lakeâs third of five and Mooreâs 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 âPraise,â leads Billboardâs Top Christian Artists â Male roundup. Lake, who hails from Dallas, is No. 2 on the overall Top Christian Artists recap.
Lakeâs 2023 hit âGratitude,â 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: âPraise You Anywhereâ rang up six weeks in the penthouse starting in November 2023, and âThatâs Who I Praiseâ 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.
Billboardâs Top Christian Artists â Female of 2024 is Lauren Daigle, who was 2023âs 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 Daigleâs 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 âStrong,â 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 âNewâ 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. Queenâs rookie single, the albumâs 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 2023âs Top New Christian Artist, is No. 3 among all acts this year. Frankâs âGood Dayâ is the No. 2-ranked Hot Christian Songs title of 2024. âGoodâ reached No. 2 on the weekly version of the list in March, becoming his first of three top 10s. His duet with Connor Price, âUp!â, peaked at No. 8 in April, while âNever Get Used to This,â 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 Billboardâs multi-metric Hot Country Songs tally dated May 4, 2024, Shaboozeyâs âA Bar Song (Tipsy)â hit No. 1. The song, which interpolates J-Kwonâs 2004 hip-hop classic âTipsy,â marked the first leader on the list for the Virginia native (born Collins Obinna Chibueze).
Notably that week, as Shaboozey dethroned BeyoncĂ©âs âTexas Hold âEm,â 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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âTexas Hold âEmâ commanded Hot Country Songs for 10 weeks, making the track the No. 10 title of the year on Billboardâs 2024 year-end Hot Country Songs list. The year-end No. 1 is âA Bar Song (Tipsy),â 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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Billboardâs 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 titleâs chart run isnât 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. BeyoncĂ© is No. 9 on the same ranking, while also placing at No. 2 on the Top Country Artists â Female recap. (The only woman ahead of BeyoncĂ© on either list is Taylor Swift, who is at No. 6 on Top Country Artists, and No. 1 on the Top Country Artists â Female.)
Beyonceâs 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 Billboardâs Top Country Artist in 2024 as well as the leading male.
Wallenâs One Thing at a Time LP is Billboardâs 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 Rhettâs âMamawâs Houseâ led for a week in March; âCowgirls,â featuring ERNEST, had a week at No. 1 in July; and his featured role on Post Maloneâs âI Had Some Helpâ led for four weeks in June-July.
âHelpâ marked the genre-straddling Maloneâs 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. Itâs second to Garth Brooksâ âMore Than a Memory,â which debuted in the penthouse in 2007.
âHelpâ is the No. 2 Country Airplay track of â24, as well as No. 2 on the year-end Hot Country Songs survey. Malone is No. 4 among all Billboardâs Top Country Artists.
Maloneâs 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 Smithâs âWorld on Fire,â which controlled that list for 10 weeks at the end of â23, continuing into â24. It tied with Morgan Wallenâs âYou Proofâ as the longest-running Country Airplay topper in the 34-year history of the list.
Countryâs leading woman of the year is Taylor Swift thanks to her successful craft of re-recording her album catalog. Speak Now (Taylorâs 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 itâs 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 â 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 âWondering Whyâ and âWanna Be Loved.â
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 thereâs one prize Swift had never hoisted â until 2024, that is.
Swiftâs 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 Drakeâs 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 (Taylorâs Version) in October 2023, begetting a two-week No. 1 in âIs It Over Now? (Taylorâs Version) [From the Vault]â 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 âFortnightâ 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, Swiftâs top appearance on the year-end Streaming Songs chart is from neither of those releases. âCruel Summer,â at No. 20, was first released on 2019âs 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 â one week before the release of 1989 (Taylorâs Version) â 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.
âFortnightâ follows at No. 23 on the year-end recap, while The Tortured Poets Departmentâs âI Can Do It With a Broken Heartâ (No. 36) and âDown Badâ (No. 67) are also on the year-end, 75-position Streaming Songs list, as is âIs It Over Now?â at No. 61.
Swiftâs âCruel Summerâ 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 Weekndâs âThe Hillsâ 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 Bryanâs âI Remember Everything,â 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 âLast Nightâ 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 wasnât the ceiling. In 2024, three of the top 10 â Wallen, Bryan and Combs â are musicians whose fare is always snugly within the country genre (even if Bryanâs also often blurs the line between singer-songwriter output in both the country and rock worlds). Theyâre joined by Post Malone; the genre chameleonâs 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. âI Remember Everythingâ 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.
Thatâs the Zach Bryan way, though. The troubadourâs catalog has long had an impressive shelf life, with 2022âs âSomething in the Orangeâ No. 11 on the year-end Streaming Songs chart after being No. 3 in 2023. âPink Skiesâ (No. 21) and â28â (No. 55) both appear on the album he released during the chart year, Julyâs The Great American Bar Scene.
Shaboozeyâs âA Bar Song (Tipsy),â Maloneâs Wallen-featuring âI Had Some Helpâ and Wallenâs âLast Nightâ (last yearâs 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 wasnât all about Swift and countryâs 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 âEspressoâ at No. 9, followed by âPlease Please Pleaseâ at No. 17 and âTasteâ at No. 54. Roan, at No. 8, also snags three appearances on the song-based ranking: âGood Luck, Babe!â at No. 19, âHot To Go!â at No. 42 and âPink Pony Clubâ at No. 73. And while Boone (No. 10) only has one song on the ranking, itâs also the highest-ranking of the trio, as âBeautiful Thingsâ 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).
Billboardâs 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 titleâs chart run isnât 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 Billboardâs 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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Billboardâs 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 titleâs chart run isnât 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 Winansâ 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 siblingsâ 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 âThatâs My Kingâ began a length run atop the list in May. It spent 24 weeks atop the chart during the eligibility period. âThatâs My Kingâ is the No. 3 title of the leading Hot Gospel Songs of the year.
Billboardâs 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 âJireh,â Maverick City Musicâs 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 Musicâs âIn the Room,â with Chandler Moore and Naomi Raine and featuring Tasha Cobbs Leonard, is the No. 3 Hot Gospel Songs track of the year. âIn the Room,â reached a high of No. 2 in October 2023, and has stayed in the top 3 ever since.
Maverick City Musicâs third of three songs in the year-end top 10 is âGod Problems,â a collaboration with Chandler Moore and Naomi Raine, which is the No. 6 Hot Gospel Songs title of â24.
Maverick City Music finished 2023 with the release of The Maverick Way Complete: Complete Vol. 2Â 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 Musicâs collaborative project with Christian act Elevation Worship, ranks as the yearâs 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.
Yeâs 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. Heâs No. 13 among all acts.
Thompsonâs âThis Year (Blessings),â with Gunna and featuring Thompsonâs brother and duo partner Ehis âDâ Greatest, topped the weekly Hot Gospel Songs chart on Oct. 28, 2023 (the first week of the 2024 chart year).
âThis Yearâ is the No. 5 Hot Gospel Songs title for 2024. Itâs 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 Thompsonâs lone chart entry to date.
For the second consecutive year, Taylor Swift is both Billboardâs 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, âFortnight,â featuring Post Malone.
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Hereâs a look at all 56 of Swiftâs 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 yearsââAnti-Hero,â 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 Swiftâs 2024 year-end Hot 100 Songwriters ranking because it was still charting.
Of the 56 songs that contributed to Swiftâs No. 1 placement, all but âAnti-Heroâ peaked on the chart during the eligibility period. âCruel Summer,â 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 Abramsâ âUs.,â on which she was featured.
Peak Position, Title (co-songwriters in addition to Taylor Swift
No. 1, âAnti-Heroâ (Jack Antonoff)No. 1, âCruel Summerâ (Jack Antonoff, St. Vincent)No. 1, âIs It Over Now? (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â (Jack Antonoff)No. 1, âFortnightâ (Jack Antonoff, Post Malone)No. 2, âNow That We Donât Talk (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â (Jack Antonoff)No. 2, âDown Badâ (Jack Antonoff)No. 3, âSlut! (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â (Jack Antonoff, Patrik Berger)No. 3, âI Can Do It With A Broken Heartâ (Jack Antonoff)No. 4, âThe Tortured Poets Departmentâ (Jack Antonoff)No. 5, âSay Donât Go (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â (Diane Warren)No. 5, âSo Long, Londonâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 6, âMy Boy Only Breaks His Favorite ToysâNo. 7, âBad Blood (Taylorâs Version)â (Max Martin, Shellback Kendrick Lamar)No. 7, âBut Daddy I Love Himâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 8, âFlorida!!!â (Florence Welch)No. 9, âStyle (Taylorâs Version)â (Max Martin, Shellback, Ali Payami)No. 9, âWhoâs Afraid of Little Old Me?âNo. 10, âSuburban Legends (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â (Jack Antonoff)No. 10, âGuilty As Sin?â (Jack Antonoff)No. 11, âFresh Out The Slammerâ (Jack Antonoff)No. 12, âBlank Space (Taylorâs Version)â (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 12, âlomlâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 13, âThe Alchemyâ (Jack Antonoff)No. 14, âWelcome to New York (Taylorâs Version)â (Ryan Tedder)No. 14, âThe Smallest Man Who Ever Livedâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 16, âOut of the Woods (Taylorâs Version)â (Jack Antonoff)No. 19, âWildest Dreams (Taylorâs Version)â (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 20, âAll You Had To Do Was Stay (Taylorâs Version)â (Max Martin)No. 20, âI Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)â (Jack Antonoff)No. 21, âClara Bowâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 23, âThank You Aimeeâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 24, âSo High Schoolâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 25, âThe Black DogâNo. 26, âimgonnagetyoubackâ (Jack Antonoff)No. 27, âYouâre Losing Me (From The Vault)â (Jack Antonoff)No. 28, âShake It Off (Taylorâs Version)â (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 29, âNew Romantics (Taylorâs Version)â (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 30, âClean (Taylorâs Version)â (Imogen Heap)No. 30, âThe Albatrossâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 31, âI Wish You Would (Taylorâs Version)â (Jack Antonoff)No. 32, âThe Prophecyâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 34, âI Hate It Hereâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 35, âHow Did It End?â (Aaron Dessner)No. 36, âI Know Places (Taylorâs Version)â (Ryan Tedder)No. 36, âChloe Or Sam Or Sophia Or Marcusâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 36, âUs.â (Gracie Abrams feat. Taylor Swift) (Gracie Abrams, Aaron Dessner)No. 39, âWonderland (Taylorâs Version)â (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 39, âI Look In Peopleâs Windowsâ (Jack Antonoff, Patrik Berger)No. 40, âHow You Get The Girl (Taylorâs Version)â (Max Martin, Shellback)No. 42, âThis Love (Taylorâs Version)âNo. 43, âYou Are In Love (Taylorâs Version)â (Jack Antonoff)No. 44, âCassandraâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 46, âPeterâNo. 47, âThe Bolterâ (Aaron Dessner)No. 51, âThe ManuscriptâNo. 55, âRobinâ (Aaron Dessner)
Swiftâs 56 songs above are from four different albums: Midnights (No. 1 peak in 2022), Speak Now (Taylorâs Version) (No. 1; 2023), 1989 (Taylorâs Version) (No. 1; 2023) and The Tortured Poets Department (No. 1; 2024). The lattermost album is Billboardâs No. 1 Billboard 200 album of 2024. Itâs 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 Billboardâs 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, Swiftâs 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 âPlease Please Pleaseâ) as well as Quavo and Lana Del Reyâs âTough.â
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 âNot Like Usâ and âLike Thatâ 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 Carpenterâs No. 1 album Short nâ Sweet, including her No. 1 âPlease Please Please.â Also contributing are songs by Tate McRae (âGreedy,â âRun For The Hillsâ), Koe Wetzel & Jessie Murph (âHigh Road,â âSweet Dreamsâ), Justin Timberlake (âSelfishâ) and Olivia Rodrigo (âScared of My Guitarâ).
Billboardâs 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 titleâs chart run isnât 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: Swiftâs âAnti-Hero,â âCruel Summer,â âIs It Over Now (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â and âFortnight,â featuring Post Malone, as well as Carpenterâs âPlease Please Please.â
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Hereâs a look at all 31 of Antonoffâs 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 yearsââAnti-Hero,â 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 Antonoffâs 2024 year-end Hot 100 Producers ranking because it was still charting. Itâs 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 doesnât share credit with many other individuals).
âAnti-Hero,â notably, is the only song on the list below that didnât peak during the eligibility period. âCruel Summerâ 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, âAnti-Heroâ (Taylor Swift)No. 1, Taylor Swift, âCruel Summerâ (Taylor Swift)No. 1, Taylor Swift, âIs It Over Now? (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â (Taylor Swift)No. 1, Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone, âFortnightâ (Taylor Swift)No. 1, Sabrina Carpenter, âPlease Please PleaseâNo. 2, Taylor Swift, âDown Badâ (Taylor Swift)No. 2, Taylor Swift, âNow That We Donât Talk (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â (Taylor Swift)No. 3, Taylor Swift, âSlut! (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â (Taylor Swift, Patrik Berger)No. 3, Taylor Swift, âI Can Do It with A Broken Heartâ (Taylor Swift)No. 4, Taylor Swift, âThe Tortured Poets Departmentâ (Taylor Swift)No. 5, Taylor Swift, âSay Donât Go (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â (Taylor Swift)No. 6, Taylor Swift, âMy Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toysâ (Taylor Swift)No. 7, Taylor Swift, âBut Daddy I Love Himâ (Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner)No. 8, Taylor Swift, âFlorida!!!â (Taylor Swift)No. 9, Taylor Swift, âWhoâs Afraid of Little Old Me?â (Taylor Swift)No. 10, Taylor Swift, âSuburban Legends (Taylorâs Version) (From The Vault)â (Taylor Swift)No. 10, Taylor Swift, âGuilty As Sin?â (Taylor Swift)No. 11, Taylor Swift, âFresh Out The Slammerâ (Taylor Swift)No. 13, Taylor Swift, âThe Alchemyâ (Taylor Swift)No. 16, Taylor Swift, âOut of the Woods (Taylorâs Version)â (Taylor Swift)No. 20, Taylor Swift, âI Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)â (Taylor Swift)No. 21, Sabrina Carpenter, âSharpest ToolâNo. 23, Taylor Swift, âthanK you aIMeeâ (Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner)No. 25, Taylor Swift, âThe Black Dogâ (Taylor Swift)No. 26, Taylor Swift, âimgonnagetyoubackâ (Taylor Swift)No. 27, Taylor Swift, âYouâre Losing Me (From The Vault)â (Taylor Swift)No. 27, Sabrina Carpenter, âSlim PickinsâNo. 31, Taylor Swift, âI Wish You Would (Taylorâs Version)â (Taylor Swift)No. 39, Taylor Swift, âI Look in Peopleâs Windowsâ (Taylor Swift, Patrik Berger)No. 41, Sabrina Carpenter, âLie to GirlsâNo. 43, Taylor Swift, âYou Are in Love (Taylorâs Version)â (Taylor Swift)
The 31 songs above are from several different albums: Swiftâs Midnights (No. 1 peak on the Billboard 200 in 2022), Speak Now (Taylorâs Version) (No. 1; 2023), 1989 (Taylorâs Version) (No. 1; 2023) and The Tortured Poets Department (No. 1; 2024), along with Carpenterâs Short nâ 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 Abramsâ âUs,â though she isnât 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 Roanâs âGood Luck, Babe!â 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.
Billboardâs 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 titleâs chart run isnât 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.