The music we listened to probably the most in 2024

Spotify’s 2024 Wrapped outcomes arrived this week, and whereas the entire bundle appears a bit skinny in comparison with earlier years, we’re nonetheless getting a kick out of seeing our listening habits laid naked. Apple Music additionally dropped its annual Replay, and Tidal’s 2024 Rewind has landed, so non-Spotify customers have some information to pore over too. For these amongst us who do not use any of the large streaming apps, properly, it is nonetheless a pleasant time to replicate on private favorites from this 12 months.

Listed here are a few of the Engadget crew’s most listened-to songs, artists and albums in 2024 (and the way we really feel about these picks).

Spotify Wrapped

I hate so as to add to the checklist due to all of the controversy round Spotify just lately, however I’ve to say that the layoffs on the firm do appear to have impacted how correct I discovered my Wrapped report back to be. Whereas I definitely have listened to a whole lot of Ariana Grande in 2024 (I even wrote about it for our website!), I felt that the sections on what I used to be listening to in August have been inaccurate. In line with Spotify I used to be vibing to Rose and Bruno Mars’ APT in August, however did not that track get launched fairly a bit later?

Anyway, choose me or do not choose me primarily based on my listening — all I can say is the information feels incorrect and incomplete but additionally enjoyable and inconsequential. — Cherlynn Low, Deputy Editor, Evaluations

I used to be fairly sick this 12 months, and I spent hours in hospital and clinic ready rooms listening to music on Spotify. Apparently, March was my “Pink Pilates Princess Strut Pop” part, as a result of I largely listened to Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande and Charli xcx. My high artist for the 12 months, nonetheless, was Fujii Kaze, whose music gave me a whole lot of consolation once I wanted it probably the most. — Mariella Moon, Contributing Reporter

RIP New Denims — Aaron Souppouris, Government Editor

Apple Music Replay

I’ve had GNX on repeat because it got here out, and it was one of many issues that received me by means of our extremely busy Black Friday protection season. Very excited to see which of those tracks will get performed stay on the Tremendous Bowl. My guess is we’ll get “television off” (with at the least one “Mustard!” shout) and “squabble up,” at least.

Brat summer time turned Brat autumn, and it’ll proceed to be a Brat winter for me. Prime tracks: “Membership classics,” “Sympathy is a knife,” and “365.”

Grasa is my true album of the 12 months and it’s a must-listen for any urbano latino followers. It’s improbable skilled as an album from begin to end, and any edit you make primarily based on private choice is bound to be glorious. My favourite tracks — “Legendario,” “Manhattan,” “Menina” — are nonetheless on repeat in my private playlists and will likely be carried over into 2025.

Whereas Renaissance stays my most popular album on this Beyonce cycle up to now, Cowboy Carter has no skips. “Daughter,” “Spaghetti” and “Candy Honey Buckin’” are my faves.

The Loss of life of Slim Shady is sensible as a concept album to me and I feel it succeeds as such. However “Tobey” is what actually prompted me to offer your entire album a hear when it got here out, and I’m glad I did. “Tobey” stays a high observe for me, together with “Renaissance” and “Someone Save Me.” —Valentina Palladino, Deputy Editor, Shopping for Recommendation

Even though music streaming companies push you to playlists and radio channels, I stay an Album Man. And as standard, my high album of the 12 months didn’t come out this 12 months, although it’s a comparatively current launch. Daughter’s Stereo Thoughts Recreation was close to the highest of my checklist final 12 months, however this April it rocketed up my checklist and was an obsession for the remainder of the summer time. That’s thanks largely to a stay studio session they launched on YouTube that was the one probability I needed to hear these songs carried out in a considerably stay setting, as Daughter didn’t tour Stereo Thoughts Recreation in any respect.

And since I’m an album man, the primary 4 songs on the album have been my second-through-fifth most performed songs of 2024. The absurdly catchy “Blame Brett” by Canadian pop-rockers The Seashores was primary, from their glorious Blame My Ex album that additionally got here out final 12 months. I received obsessive about that album in late 2023 and it positively carried over to the primary half of 2024. The identical factor occurred with Device’s 2019 opus Worry Inoculum — I noticed the band in November of 2023 for the primary time in 21 years, and received re-obsessed and continued taking part in it all year long.

Lastly, one thing new from a really outdated favourite: David Gilmour, finest often known as the guitarist and co-lead songwriter of the legendary Pink Floyd, launched his first solo album in 9 years. He adopted that with a really brief tour that hit solely 4 cities, New York Metropolis included. I used to be fortunate sufficient to go see him just a few weeks in the past — at 78, this might simply be the final tour he ever does, however he nonetheless brings it. He’s my favourite guitar participant of all time, and the final track “Scattered” on Luck and Unusual is an all-time nice nearly as good as nearly anything he’s completed.

Citing the rear is one other new album from an outdated favourite, Pearl Jam. Greater than 30 years after their debut Ten, they nonetheless know easy methods to make a rattling good rock album. Each Pearl Jam and Gilmour went with producers a lot youthful than they have been, looking for individuals who weren’t going to be beholden with the work that they had completed earlier in lengthy and spectacular careers. For those who ask me, it labored out in each circumstances.

There are tons of different albums from a lot youthful or much less established artists I performed all 12 months lengthy, together with Bathe Alone’s I Don’t Do Humidity, Adrienne Lenker’s Shiny Future, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Arduous and Mushy, Medium Construct’s Nation, Woman in Crimson’s I’m Doing It Once more Child! and Waxahatchee’s Tigers Blood. They’re all price a hear — however apparently this was a 12 months for consolation and familiarity once I put issues on repeat. — Nathan Ingraham, Deputy Editor, Information

Tidal Rewind

This 12 months for me was apparently all about fixating on a handful of latest songs and taking part in them to absolute dying. And, um, Ariana Grande. I don’t have Spotify, however my Tidal year-end playlist has each single track from Everlasting Sunshine on the high, and I’m barely ashamed to say I am unable to argue the validity of that — I had that album on a loop for months after it got here out. She’s actually proficient, okay?? After that my most listened-to songs have been “Cry For Me” by Fort Rat, “Bloom” by Baroness (most likely an all-time favourite track for me, actually), “How Far Will We Take It?” by Orville Peck and Noah Cyrus, “Birds of a Feather” by Billie Eilish, “Bizarre World” by Allie X and “Crimson Wine Supernova” by Chappell Roan. I… include multitudes…

There’s a suspicious total lack of emo on my 2024 wrap-up although, so I’m going to take these outcomes with an enormous grain of salt. I imply, my go-to playlist is titled “rawr xD.” — Cheyenne MacDonald, Weekend Editor

Private Choose

I haven’t got Spotify, so any recollection of notably sticky music for me will essentially be imprecise and skewed by recency bias. With that stated: hooooooly moly can we speak about that Cindy Lee album?? My journey with Diamond Jubilee went one thing like this:

-What is that this?

-No actually, what is that this??

-Why cannot I take heed to something apart from this???

Its two hours of runtime play out like a secret radio station beaming some alternate model of ’60s lady teams into 2024 and I completely fell in love with it — and that was earlier than even realizing Pat Flegel was in Ladies (one other extraordinarily cool, however very totally different band).

Honorable mentions go to Adrianne Lenker’s completely crushing Bright Future, which received me by means of restoration from a serious surgical procedure and the nervy bops on Robber Robber’s Wild Guess. As to my precise most-listened songs? It is most likely the stuff on my working playlist (Sheer Magazine, Each Time I Die, Crimson Fang, 100 Gecs, IDLES, Femtanyl, Pissed Denims and many others.) — Avery Ellis, Deputy Editor, Experiences