The music we listened to probably the most in 2024

Spotify’s 2024 Wrapped outcomes arrived this week, and whereas the entire package deal 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 massive streaming apps, nicely, it is nonetheless a pleasant time to mirror on private favorites from this yr.

Listed here are a number 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 record due to all of the controversy round Spotify not too long ago, 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 actually have listened to lots 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 had been inaccurate. In keeping with Spotify I used to be vibing to Rose and Bruno Mars’ APT in August, however did not that music get launched fairly a bit later?

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

I used to be fairly sick this yr, 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 principally listened to Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande and Charli xcx. My prime artist for the yr, nonetheless, was Fujii Kaze, whose music gave me lots of consolation after I wanted it probably the most. — Mariella Moon, Contributing Reporter

RIP New Denims — Aaron Souppouris, Govt 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 not less than one “Mustard!” shout) and “squabble up,” in any case.

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

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

Whereas Renaissance stays my most popular album on this Beyonce cycle thus far, 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 all the album a hear when it got here out, and I’m glad I did. “Tobey” stays a prime observe for me, together with “Renaissance” and “Any person 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 regular, my prime album of the yr didn’t come out this yr, although it’s a comparatively latest launch. Daughter’s Stereo Thoughts Recreation was close to the highest of my record final yr, however this April it rocketed up my record 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 had 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 yr. 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 Software’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 enjoying it all year long.

Lastly, one thing new from a really outdated favourite: David Gilmour, greatest generally 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 quick 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 music “Scattered” on Luck and Unusual is an all-time nice nearly as good as nearly the rest he’s achieved.

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 the best way to make a rattling good rock album. Each Pearl Jam and Gilmour went with producers a lot youthful than they had been, looking for individuals who weren’t going to be beholden with the work they’d achieved earlier in lengthy and spectacular careers. In the event you ask me, it labored out in each instances.

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

Tidal Rewind

This yr for me was apparently all about fixating on a handful of latest songs and enjoying them to absolute dying. And, um, Ariana Grande. I don’t have Spotify, however my Tidal year-end playlist has each single music from Everlasting Sunshine on the prime, and I’m barely ashamed to say I can not argue the validity of that — I had that album on a loop for months after it got here out. She’s actually gifted, okay?? After that my most listened-to songs had been “Cry For Me” by Fortress Rat, “Bloom” by Baroness (most likely an all-time favourite music 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 “Purple Wine Supernova” by Chappell Roan. I… include multitudes…

There’s a suspicious general 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 Decide

I haven’t got Spotify, so any recollection of significantly sticky music for me will essentially be imprecise and skewed by recency bias. With that mentioned: 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 hearken to something apart from this???

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

Honorable mentions go to Adrianne Lenker’s completely crushing Bright Future, which received me by means of restoration from a significant 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, Purple Fang, 100 Gecs, IDLES, Femtanyl, Pissed Denims and so on.) — Avery Ellis, Deputy Editor, Studies