Spotify's Wrapped 2024 results arrived this week, and while the whole package seems a little sparse compared to previous years, we're still having fun seeing our listening habits laid bare. Apple Music also scrapped its annual Replay and Tidal's 2024 Rewind has arrived, so non-Spotify users have some data to pore over as well. For those of us who don't use any of the big streaming apps, well, it's still a good time to reflect on this year's personal favorites.
Here are some of the Engadget team's most streamed songs, artists, and albums of 2024 (and how we feel about those picks).
Spotify wrapped
I hate to add to the list because of all the controversy surrounding Spotify recently, but I have to say that the layoffs at the company seem to have impacted the accuracy I found in my Wrapped report. While I certainly heard a lot of Ariana Grande in 2024 (I even wrote about it for our site!), I felt like the sections about what I was listening to in August were inaccurate. According to Spotify he was vibing with Rose and Bruno Mars. SUITABLE in August, but wasn't that song released a little later?
Anyway, judge me or don't judge me based on what I hear; All I can say is that I find the data incorrect and incomplete, but also funny and inconsequential. — Cherlynn Low, Associate Reviews Editor
I was quite sick this year and spent hours in hospital and clinic waiting rooms listening to music on Spotify. Apparently March was my “Pink Pilates Princess Strut Pop” phase, because I was mostly listening to Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande, and Charli xcx. My best artist of the year, however, was Fujii Kaze, whose music brought me a lot of comfort when I needed it most. — Mariella Moon, contributing reporter
RIP new jeans — Aaron Souppouris, executive editor
Apple Music Playback
I have had GNX It's been on repeat since it came out, and it was one of the things that got me through our incredibly busy Black Friday coverage season. I'm very excited to see which of these songs will be played live at the Super Bowl. My guess is that we'll turn off the TV (with at least one shout of “Mustard!”) and, at the very least, get into a fight.
Brat summer turned into brat fall, and it will continue to be brat winter for me. Main songs: “Club classics”, “Sympathy is a knife” and “365”.
Fat It's my true album of the year and is a must for any urban Latin fan. It's a fantastic album experience from start to finish, and any edits you make to your personal preferences are sure to be excellent. My favorite songs, “Legendario”, “Manhattan”, “Menina”, are still on repeat in my personal playlists and will carry over to 2025.
While Renaissance It's still my favorite album in this Beyonce cycle so far, cowboy carter It has no jumps. “Daughter,” “Spaghetti,” and “Sweet Honey Buckin'” are my favorites.
The death of Slim Shady it makes sense like concept album for me and I think it is successful as such. But “Tobey” is what really prompted me to listen to the entire album when it came out, and I'm glad I did. “Tobey” is still one of my favorite songs, along with “Renaissance” and “Somebody Save Me.” —Valentina Palladino, Deputy Editor, Shopping Tips
Even though music streaming services take you to playlists and radio channels, I'm still an Album Guy. And as always, my best album of the year didn't come out this year, even though it's a relatively recent release. daughter Stereo brain game It was near the top of my list last year, but this April it shot up my list and was an obsession for the rest of the summer. This is largely due to a live studio session they released on YouTube that was the only opportunity I had to hear these songs performed in a somewhat live setting since Daughter wasn't on tour. Stereo brain game at all.
And because I'm an album guy, the album's first four songs were the second to fifth most streamed songs of 2024. The absurdly catchy “Blame Brett” by Canadian pop-rockers The Beaches was number one, for its excellent Blame my ex album that also came out last year. I became obsessed with that album in late 2023 and it definitely carried over to the first half of 2024. The same thing happened with Tool's 2019 opus. Inoculum of fear — I saw the band in November 2023 for the first time in 21 years, became obsessed again and continued playing it throughout the year.
Finally, something new from an old favorite: David Gilmour, best known as the legendary Pink Floyd's guitarist and co-principal songwriter, released his first solo album in nine years. It followed with a very short tour that reached only four cities, including New York. I was lucky enough to go see him a few weeks ago; At 78 years old, this could easily be the last tour he does, but he still brings it. He is my favorite guitarist of all time and the last song, “Scattered”, on Lucky and strange He is an all-time great player, as good as almost everything he has done.
Bringing up the rear is another new album from an old favorite, Pearl Jam. More than 30 years after its debut Ten, They still know how to make a really good rock album. Both Pearl Jam and Gilmour chose producers much younger than themselves, trying to find people who were not beholden to the work they had done earlier in their long and impressive careers. If you ask me, it worked in both cases.
There are plenty of other albums by much younger or less established artists that I played throughout the year, including Bathe Alone. I don't do humidity, Adrienne Lenker Bright futureBillie Eilish Hit me hard and softMedium construction Country, The girl in red I'm doing it again baby! and Waxahatchee Tiger blood. They're all worth listening to, but apparently this was a year of comfort and familiarity when I repeat things. —Nathan Ingraham, Deputy News Editor
Tidal Rewind
Apparently this year for me was all about fixating on a handful of new songs and playing them to absolute death. And, well, Ariana Grande. I don't have Spotify, but my Tidal New Year's Eve playlist has all the songs from eternal sun at the top, and I'm a little embarrassed to say I can't argue with the validity of that: I had that album on loop for months after its release. She's really talented, okay? After that, my most listened to songs were “Cry For Me” by Castle Rat, “Bloom” by Baroness (probably one of my favorite songs of all time, 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… contain multitudes…
However, there is a suspicious general lack of emo in my 2024 summary, so I'll take these results with a large grain of salt. I mean, my favorite playlist is titled “rawr xD”. — Cheyenne MacDonald, Weekend Editor
Personal selection
I don't have Spotify, so any memory of particularly catchy music for me will necessarily be inaccurate and skewed by recency bias. That being said: soooo moly, what can we talk about? that cindy lee album?? my trip with Diamond Jubilee It was something like this:
-What is this?
-No seriously, what is this?
-Why can't I hear anything besides this???
Its two-hour runtime plays out like a secret radio station broadcasting an alternative version of '60s girl groups until 2024, and I absolutely fell in love with it, and that was before I even realized Pat Flegel was in Women (another extremely cool, but very different band).
Honorable mentions for the absolutely crushing Bright futurewho helped me recover from major surgery and nerves at Robber Robber's wild divination. As for my most listened to songs? It's probably the things I have on my playlist (Sheer Mag, Every Time I Die, Red Fang, 100 Gecs, IDLES, Femtanyl, Pissed Jeans, etc.). Avery Ellis, Associate Editor, Reports
