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, nicely, it is nonetheless a pleasant time to replicate on private favorites from this 12 months.
Listed below are a few of the Engadget staff’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 listing due to all of the controversy round Spotify 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 actually have listened to plenty 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 tune get launched fairly a bit later?
Anyway, decide me or do not decide me based mostly 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 unwell 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 principally listened to Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande and Charli xcx. My high artist for the 12 months, nevertheless, was Fujii Kaze, whose music gave me plenty of consolation after I wanted it essentially 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 obtained me by way 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 “tv off” (with at the very 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: “Club 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 incredible skilled as an album from begin to end, and any edit you make based mostly on private desire is bound to be wonderful. 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 to this point, Cowboy Carter has no skips. “Daughter,” “Spaghetti” and “Sweet Honey Buckin’” are my faves.
The Demise of Slim Shady is sensible as a idea album to me and I feel it succeeds as such. However “Tobey” is what actually prompted me to present the whole album a pay attention when it got here out, and I’m glad I did. “Tobey” stays a high monitor for me, together with “Renaissance” and “Somebody Save Me.” —Valentina Palladino, Deputy Editor, Shopping for Recommendation
Although music streaming companies push you to playlists and radio channels, I stay an Album Man. And as common, my high album of the 12 months didn’t come out this 12 months, although it’s a comparatively latest launch. Daughter’s Stereo Thoughts Recreation was close to the highest of my listing final 12 months, however this April it rocketed up my listing 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 wonderful Blame My Ex album that additionally got here out final 12 months. I obtained obsessive about that album in late 2023 and it positively carried over to the primary half of 2024. The identical factor occurred with Instrument’s 2019 opus Concern Inoculum — I noticed the band in November of 2023 for the primary time in 21 years, and obtained re-obsessed and continued taking part in it all year long.
Lastly, one thing new from a really outdated favourite: David Gilmour, finest referred to 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 a couple of 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 tune “Scattered” on Luck and Unusual is an all-time nice pretty much as good as virtually the rest he’s accomplished.
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 find out how 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 they’d accomplished earlier in lengthy and spectacular careers. When you 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 Vivid Future, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Smooth, Medium Construct’s Nation, Lady in Crimson’s I’m Doing It Once more Child! and Waxahatchee’s Tigers Blood. They’re all price a pay attention — however apparently this was a 12 months for consolation and familiarity after 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 tune from Everlasting Sunshine on the high, 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 proficient, okay?? After that my most listened-to songs have been “Cry For Me” by Fort Rat, “Bloom” by Baroness (in all probability an all-time favourite tune for me, actually), “How Far Will We Take It?” by Orville Peck and Noah Cyrus, “Birds of a Feather” by Billie Eilish, “Weird World” by Allie X and “Red Wine Supernova” by Chappell Roan. I… comprise 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 stated: hooooooly moly can we discuss 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 moreover 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 Ladies (one other extraordinarily cool, however very totally different band).
Honorable mentions go to Adrianne Lenker’s completely crushing Vivid Future, which obtained me by way 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 in all probability 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, Stories
