The Official biggest songs of 2024 so far
As we enter the final few months of the year, Noah Kahan’s Stick Season holds on to its title as the biggest song of 2024 so far, Official Charts can reveal. However, with several new entries and fast-rising hits from the likes of Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter making an impact over the past quarter, the end-of-year Official Singles Chart crown is very much all still to play for.
Stick Season spent seven weeks at Number 1 at the beginning of this year - the longest consecutive stint at the top in 2024 – and has shifted 1.72 million chart units in 2024 so far, including 201 million combined audio and video streams.
Benson Boone edges closer to the top, lifting one place to land at Number 2 with his own UK chart-topper Beautiful Things, with Boone also claiming another entry further down the list with Slow It Down (35). Benson is followed closely by Teddy Swims with the soulful Lose Control at Number 3, which peaked at Number 2 and is the most downloaded song of the year so far with 60.9k downloads.
Anyone itching for some caffeine? The UK’s Official Song of the Summer, Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter (which spent seven non-consecutive weeks at the top) lands at Number 4 on the year-to-date list, while Hozier’s two-week Number 1 Too Sweet rounds out the Top 5.
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2024 has proven to be the year of country in the UK, with the genre undergoing a massive renaissance over the last few months, so it’s only fitting that several country tracks are on the rise to impact the year-to-date Top 10; A Bar Song (Tipsy) by Shaboozey is up eight places since June at Number 6, Dasha’s Austin comes in at 7, up six, and Beyoncé’s TEXAS HOLD ‘EM at 8 - the superstar’s first UK Number 1 single since 2008, and longest-running to boot - completes the trio of country-tinged hits.
Completing the Top 10, we have Taylor Swift’s jagged New Wave banger Cruel Summer (9) following the arrival of the monolithic Eras Tour on UK shores this year, and Sabrina Carpenter’s former chart-topper Please Please Please (10), the second of a trio of Number 1s for Sabrina this year.
Freshly breaking into the year-to-date Top 20 are huge tracks from Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan. Billie’s Birds of a Feather spent sixteen weeks in the Official Singles Chart Top 10 over the summer and is now on the cusp of breaking the end-of-year Top 10, currently at Number 12. Just one place behind at Number 13 is Chappell Roan’s breakthrough track Good Luck, Babe!, while rising Luton singer-songwriter Myles Smith makes an appearance with Stargazing – his first Top 10 hit – at Number 15.
Other breakthrough hits include British-Cypriot producer Artemas’ I Like The Way You Kiss Me (17), Djo – aka Stranger Things actor Joe Keery – with End of Beginning (20), Michael Marcagi’s Scared to Start (21), Belong Together by Mark Ambor (27), Million Dollar Baby by Tommy Richman (28), and Zach Bryan’s first Top 40, I Remember Everything ft. Kacey Musgraves (34).
The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2024 so far
POS | TITLE | ARTIST |
1 | STICK SEASON | NOAH KAHAN |
2 | BEAUTIFUL THINGS | BENSON BOONE |
3 | LOSE CONTROL | TEDDY SWIMS |
4 | ESPRESSO | SABRINA CARPENTER |
5 | TOO SWEET | HOZIER |
6 | A BAR SONG (TIPSY) | SHABOOZEY |
7 | AUSTIN | DASHA |
8 | TEXAS HOLD 'EM | BEYONCE |
9 | CRUEL SUMMER | TAYLOR SWIFT |
10 | PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE | SABRINA CARPENTER |
11 | PRADA | CASSO/RAYE/D-BLOCK EUROPE |
12 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER | BILLIE EILISH |
13 | GOOD LUCK BABE | CHAPPELL ROAN |
14 | MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR | SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR |
15 | STARGAZING | MYLES SMITH |
16 | GREEDY | TATE MCRAE |
17 | I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME | ARTEMAS |
18 | FORTNIGHT | TAYLOR SWIFT FT POST MALONE |
19 | I HAD SOME HELP | POST MALONE/MORGAN WALLEN |
20 | END OF BEGINNING | DJO |
21 | SCARED TO START | MICHAEL MARCAGI |
22 | LOVIN ON ME | JACK HARLOW |
23 | WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) | ARIANA GRANDE |
24 | UNWRITTEN | NATASHA BEDINGFIELD |
25 | HOUDINI | EMINEM |
26 | MR BRIGHTSIDE | KILLERS |
27 | BELONG TOGETHER | MARK AMBOR |
28 | MILLION DOLLAR BABY | TOMMY RICHMAN |
29 | ALIBI | ELLA HENDERSON FT RUDIMENTAL |
30 | YES AND | ARIANA GRANDE |
31 | HOUDINI | DUA LIPA |
32 | VAMPIRE | OLIVIA RODRIGO |
33 | WATER | TYLA |
34 | I REMEMBER EVERYTHING | ZACH BRYAN FT KACEY MUSGRAVES |
35 | SLOW IT DOWN | BENSON BOONE |
36 | NOT LIKE US | KENDRICK LAMAR |
37 | I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART | TAYLOR SWIFT |
38 | STRANGERS | KENYA GRACE |
39 | EVERYWHERE | FLEETWOOD MAC |
40 | ASKING | SONNY FODERA/MK/DOUGLAS |
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YoCheese
Is there meant to be another one some time now?
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mrstarling
RANKING THE TOP 20 (Dated 7th july)
GOLD AMAZING GREAT TIER:
Lose control (2)
Beautiful things (3)
Too sweet (5)
A bar song (14)
We cant be friends (19)
I REALLY LIKE THIS :
Stick season (1)
Prada (7)
Greedy (10)
End of beginning (12)
Austin (13)
I like the way you kiss me (15)
Yes and? (16)
Unwritten (20)
AVERAGE:
Murder on the dancefloor (8)
Cruel summer (9)
Lovin on me (11)
Fortnight (17)
Scared to start (18)
THIS AINT GOOD:
no songs in this tier yet
REVOLTINGLY HORRIBLE:
Espresso (4)
Texas hold em (6)
BEST EVER: We cant be friends (19)
WORST EVER: Espresso or texas hold em there both 0/10
Piran
Hopefully 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' can make the Top 10 before the end of the year!
Piran
'Stick Season' is an okay leader even if I think Noah Kahan has much better songs.
Pleasantly surprised to see 'Murder On The Dancefloor' in the Top 3 three months into the year! 😊
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haz
Also, this has to be one of the first years last years number 1 is not in the top 10. It could potentially stay top 40 come end of year however.
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haz
Stick Season could potentially stay up there for the rest of the year, unless there is a massive hit in the UK that ultimately dethrones it, which won’t come anytime soon, possibly the only people who could compete are Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Dave or Central Cee, who are set to release albums this year.
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YoCheese
Or Sabrina Carpenter now.