
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.