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 knowledge 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 mirror on private favorites from this 12 months.
Listed here 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 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 had been inaccurate. In response to 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 information feels incorrect and incomplete but additionally enjoyable and inconsequential. — Cherlynn Low, Deputy Editor, Opinions
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” section, as a result of I largely listened to Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande and Charli xcx. My prime artist for the 12 months, nevertheless, was Fujii Kaze, whose music gave me a whole lot of consolation after 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 bought me by means of our extremely busy Black Friday protection season. Very excited to see which of those tracks will get performed reside on the Tremendous Bowl. My guess is we’ll get “television off” (with at the very least one “Mustard!” shout) and “squabble up,” as a minimum.
Brat summer season turned 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 12 months and it’s a must-listen for any urbano latino followers. It’s unbelievable 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 up to now, Cowboy Carter has no skips. “Daughter,” “Spaghetti” and “Candy Honey Buckin’” are my faves.
The Demise of Slim Shady is smart as a concept album to me and I believe it succeeds as such. However “Tobey” is what actually prompted me to provide your entire album a pay attention when it got here out, and I’m glad I did. “Tobey” stays a prime observe for me, together with “Renaissance” and “Any individual 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 common, my prime 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 season. That’s thanks largely to a reside studio session they launched on YouTube that was the one likelihood I needed to hear these songs carried out in a considerably reside 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 wonderful Blame My Ex album that additionally got here out final 12 months. I bought obsessive about that album in late 2023 and it undoubtedly 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 bought re-obsessed and continued enjoying it all year long.
Lastly, one thing new from a really previous favourite: David Gilmour, greatest 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 quick 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 music “Scattered” on Luck and Unusual is an all-time nice pretty much as good as virtually anything he’s accomplished.
Citing the rear is one other new album from an previous favourite, Pearl Jam. Greater than 30 years after their debut Ten, they nonetheless know 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 accomplished 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 12 months lengthy, together with Bathe Alone’s I Don’t Do Humidity, Adrienne Lenker’s Brilliant Future, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Arduous and Delicate, 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 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 recent 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 (in all probability 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… comprise 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 Decide
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 moreover 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 Girls (one other extraordinarily cool, however very completely different band).
Honorable mentions go to Adrianne Lenker’s completely crushing Bright Future, which bought 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 in all probability the stuff on my working playlist (Sheer Magazine, Each Time I Die, Purple Fang, 100 Gecs, IDLES, Femtanyl, Pissed Denims and so forth.) — Avery Ellis, Deputy Editor, Experiences
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