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 replicate on private favorites from this 12 months.
Listed below 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 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 quite a 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, Critiques
I used to be fairly in poor health 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 quite a lot of consolation once 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 received 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 least one “Mustard!” shout) and “squabble up,” at least.
Brat summer season grew to become 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 implausible skilled as an album from begin to end, and any edit you make primarily based on private choice is certain 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 up to now, 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 believe it succeeds as such. However “Tobey” is what actually prompted me to offer your entire album a pay attention when it got here out, and I’m glad I did. “Tobey” stays a high observe for me, together with “Renaissance” and “Somebody Save Me.” —Valentina Palladino, Deputy Editor, Shopping for Recommendation
Even though music streaming providers push you to playlists and radio channels, I stay an Album Man. And as typical, 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 record final 12 months, however this April it rocketed up my record and was an obsession for the remainder of the summer season. That’s thanks largely to a stay studio session they launched on YouTube that was the one likelihood 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 undoubtedly carried over to the primary half of 2024. The identical factor occurred with Device’s 2019 opus Concern 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 previous 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 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 pretty much as good as nearly anything he’s accomplished.
Mentioning the rear is one other new album from an previous favourite, Pearl Jam. Greater than 30 years after their debut Ten, they nonetheless know the right way 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. In case 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 Vibrant Future, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Laborious and Gentle, Medium Construct’s Nation, Woman in Crimson’s I’m Doing It Once more Child! and Waxahatchee’s Tigers Blood. They’re all value a pay attention — 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 recent songs and enjoying them to absolute loss of life. 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 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 Citadel 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, “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 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 mentioned: 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 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 completely different band).
Honorable mentions go to Adrianne Lenker’s completely crushing Vibrant Future, which received me by way 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, Crimson Fang, 100 Gecs, IDLES, Femtanyl, Pissed Denims and so on.) — Avery Ellis, Deputy Editor, Stories