Max & Chloe
Jonathan Morali
Summertime
My Chemical Romance
Daydreaming
Paramore
Renaissance
Secret Garden
Kids Will Be Skeletons
Mogwai
Starburned and Unkissed
Caroline Polachek
Good Luck, Babe!
Chappell Roan
For Sure
Ethel Cain
Obstacles
Syd Matters
Pae ʻĀina to Palestine
Kauwila & Inalihi
Tu Corazón Es Mío…
Kali Uchis
The Summer Ends
American Football
Overdose
DAM
TEXAS HOLD 'EM
Beyoncé
End Of Beginning
Djo
What Was I Made For?
Billie Eilish
Money Trees
Kendrick Lamar ft. Anna Wise & Jay Rock
Hearts On Fire
The Family Crest
Not Like Us
Kendrick Lamar
f2g
Redveil ft. Mekdelawit
Michelle Pfeiffer
Ethel Cain ft. lil aaron
Sound Inside Me, Waves Inside You
Parannoul
This Is What Remains
Some Are Lonely
Selby Wall
Ethel Cain
NeverKnocked
MIKE
Midnight FM
PRIZM
We Shine At Night
Parannoul
Cellophane
MOMI ft. Hatchie
Locals (Girls like us)
Underscores ft. gabby start
Minecraft (Midwest Emo Version)
TanookiAlex & saddyowner
the girl, so confusing version with lorde
Charli XCX & Lorde
Stay
CJ The X ft. Rachel Bobbitt
Cloudbusting
Kate Bush
Cheerleader
Porter Robinson
Mona Lisa
Porter Robinson ft. Frost Children
Hiss
Megan Thee Stallion
Eyes
The Naked And Famous
Levitation
Beach House
Sweet May
Two Steps From Hell
Five Fold Kiss
The Hex Girls
Shake It Like A
Frost Children ft. Danny Brown
Emta Njawzak Yamma
DAM
Double The Fun
Haviah Mighty
King Kunta
Kendrick Lamar
October Birds
Flower Face
Wake Up
Backxwash
Home
Gabrielle Aplin
Teenage Rebellion
Sarah Barrios
La bohème
Charles Aznavour
Collard Greens
ScHoolboy Q ft. Kendrick Lamar
alarmed!
MIKE ft. Sideshow
Mull Of Kintyre
Paul McCartney & Wings
Wherever You're Goin' (It's Alright)
REO Speedwagon
Obaa Sima
Fireboy DML
Espresso
Sabrina Carpenter
A Little More
Valley
A Guitar And A Heart
M83
Genesis.
RAYE
The Deal
Mitski
Sun Bleached Flies
Ethel Cain
Birds Of A Feather
Billie Eilish
Signal
RedLee ft. Jadasea & MIKE
Taper
Maria BC
Hind's Hall
Macklemore
Astoria
40 Watt Sun
Die With A Smile
Bruno Mars & Lady Gaga
Here With Me
d4vd
Oral
Björk & Rosalía
STANDOUT
MIKE ft. Chip Skylark & Wiki
C.R.E.A.M. (Colonizers Rot Everywhere Around Me)
Kauwila
Keep Your Key
Llunr
DEEP HOLES
Rahim C Redcar
Spiracle
Flower Face
El Camino High
Moody Joody
No Boat No Aeroplane
Angus & Julia Stone
euphoria
Kendrick Lamar
You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon
American Football
Comforting Sounds
Mew
Petty Cash
Navy Blue ft. Demahjiae
Stay Home
American Football
i
Kendrick Lamar
I'm Not That Girl
Idina Menzel
Abigail
Soccer Mommy
Cry For Me
Magdalena Bay
Training Season
Dua Lipa
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Tommy Richman
m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar ft. MC Eiht
Love And Honesty
Hawaiian Style Band
Mist Over The Mountains
Tim Janis
Living In A Sovereign Land
Hawaiian Style Band
Lullaby For Grown-Ups
Secret Garden ft. Espen Grjotheim
So Long, London
Taylor Swift
Lego Ring
Faye Webster & Lil Yachty
HOT TO GO!
Chappell Roan
A Whole Garden
Lowercase Noises
That's Us/Wild Combination
Rahim C Redcar
Swimming Pools (Drank)
Kendrick Lamar
Gifts For The Earth
Deafheaven
February 3rd
Jorja Smith
Please Don't Tell My Father That I Used His 1996 Honda Accord to Destroy The Town of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania in 2002
Pet Symmetry
Author's Notes
2024 was a wild year for me, and this translates to the charts. Many of the trends that were building through the last 2 years saw a massive breakthrough.
For one, this may be the biggest year for hip hop to date. The genre was gaining momentum in 2022 thanks to MIKE's breakthrough, but the casket seemed to blow wide open this year. Not only did Kendrick Lamar's triumphant return into the popular consciousness net him several hits, old and new, but MIKE also saw some success this year, as I began diving into his discography to find new songs to push onto my personal rotation. Other notable entries include Palestinian hip hop group DAM, Hawaiian rapper Kauwila, the return of Macklemore on the pro-Palestine anthem "Hind's Hall", and breakthroughs for Megan Thee Stallion, Redveil, Navy Blue, demahjiae, ScHoolboy Q, YouTuber CJ the X, Haviah Mighty, Backxwash, Lil Yachty and more. This line-up of artists shows the genre is having a huge moment right now, and will likely be a staple going forward.
However, some of the biggest songs this year all share a common root: Life is Strange. To say this game was dominant throughout my 2024 would be underselling it. 3 of the songs in my top 10 are directly ripped from its soundtrack (Max & Chloe, Kids Will Be Skeletons and Obstacles), and fanfics were strong enough to catapult two songs into the top 100 (Spiracle and This Is What Remains, from polluted marrow and The Right Way This Time respectively). A fan film even got to have its soundtrack moment, as City M Productions' What If? notched Five Fold Kiss into the annals of Billie Chart history.
This year was also pretty good for midwest emo, as American Football got to have 3 songs from its iconic first album land in the year-end. Ethel Cain's cover of For Sure also made waves, outperforming all songs from the band itself. Furthermore, an American Football inspired cover of Minecraft's self-titled track caught my attention early that year, arguably the cause for the band's big breakthrough moment. Pet Symmetry's Please Don't Tell My Father, which barely made the top 100, proves the midwest emo genre has staying power as well, and could be a big player in the future.
Overall, although you still have some obvious Billie-core appealing songs like Secret Garden's Renaissance, My Chemical Romance's Summertime, and Chappell Roan's Good Luck Babe, this year feels like a pretty big shake-up from previous years. Though many of its trends are merely culminations from past years, it doesn't make their explosion this year any less impressive. Definitely one of the craziest year-end lists to date, possibly on par with 2015.