End of Year Singles Chart on 1/1/2024

This is such a sad chart.

Almost a quarter of it is more than 5 years old and either had no massive virality this year or is a Christmas song. Only Murder on the Dancefloor and Unwritten had the kind of year deserving of placing them on a 2024 year end list imo. Everything else is unnecessary and robbing songs that peaked higher and were more defining this year than most of the random older stuff festering in the latter half of this chart.

It's a shame the ACR system doesn't prevent these old songs from being here like Billboard's recurrency rules do. Because there's no way Mr Brightside is a song people remember for being a big 2024 hit. And every year we get more songs like it until in about a decade there'll be no 2034 songs on the year end list

Outside of that, really great year for music on and off the charts :)

This is out a lot earlier than it normally is. 

I like that ‘Eapresso’ and ‘Too Sweet’ are among the Top 5 hits of the year, as well as ‘Good Luck, Babe’ jumping a few places to eighth since October! 

I wish everyone reading this an incredible 2025. May you hit your news years resolutions, may this lead up to be the best year of your life. 2024 has been great but we can do better in 2025. See you there!

great:

1. Central Cee ft. Lil Baby - BAND4BAND
2. Dave x Central Cee - Sprinter
3. Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso
4. Wham! - Last Christmas
5. Cassö ft. D-Block Europe & Raye - Prada
6. Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
7. Chase & Status ft. Stormzy - Backbone
8. Charli XCX ft. Billie Eilish - Guess
9. Billie Eilish - Birds Of A Feather
10. Ariana Grande - we can’t be friends (wait for your love)
11. Sabrina Carpenter - Feather

12. Tate McRae - Greedy

13. Fred Again.. & Baby Keem - leavemealone

14. Harry Styles - As It Was

15. Noah Kahan - Stick Season

16. Chase & Status x Bou ft. IRah, Flowdan, Trigga & Takura - Baddadan

17. Charli XCX - 360

18. Tyla - Water

19. Sabrina Carpenter - Taste

20. Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please

21. Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me

22. Eminem - Houdini

23. Adam Port, Stryv & Keinemusik - Move

24. Newera - Birds In The Sky

25. Sonny Fodera, MK & Clementine Douglas - Asking

26. Raye ft. 070 Shake - Escapism.

27. Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For?

28. Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer

29. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

decent: 

30. Vance Joy - Riptide

31. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

32. Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero

33. Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)

34. Teddy Swims - The Door

35. Sonny Fodera ft. Jazzy & DOD - Somedays

36. Becky Hill x Chase & Status - Disconnect

37. Benson Boone - Beautiful Things

38. David Guetta & OneRepublic - I Don’t Wanna Wait

39. Taylor Swift - I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

40. Dua Lipa - Houdini

41. YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight

42. Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO!

43. Walk The Moon - Shut Up & Dance

44. Tom Odell - Another Love

45. Dua Lipa - Training Season

46. Brenda Lee - Rockin Around The Christmas Tree

47. Jungle - Back On 74

mid: 

48. Artemas - I like the way you kiss me

49. Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby

50. Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved

51. Oasis - Wonderwall

52. Billy Gillies ft. Hannah Boleyn - DNA (Loving You)

53. Myles Smith - Stargazing

54. Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone - Fortnight

55. Coldplay - Yellow

56. Olivia Rodrigo - vampire

57. Kenya Grace - Strangers

58. Zach Bryan ft. Kacey Musgraves - I Remember Everything

59. Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile

60. Lord Huron - The Night We Met

61. Noah Kahan - Dial Drunk

62. Billie Eilish - Lunch

63. Kygo x Ava Max - Whatever

64. Hozier - Too Sweet

65. Ariana Grande - yes, and?

66. Djo - End Of The Beginning

67. Miley Cyrus - Flowers

68. BL3SS x Camrin Watson ft. bbyclose - Kisses

69. The Blessed Madonna ft. Clementine Douglas - Happier

70. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

bad: 

71. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

72. Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse - Valerie

73. Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over

74. Ella Henderson ft. Rudimental - Alibi

75. The Killers - Mr Brightside

76. Post Malone ft. Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help

77. Billie Eilish - Wildflower

78. Zach Bryan - Something In The Orange

79. Teddy Swims - Lose Control

80. Chappell Roan - Good Luck Babe!

81. Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I’m Sorry

82. Beyoncé - Texas Hold Em

83. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

awful: 

84. Benson Boone - Slow It Down

85. Gigi Perez - Sailor Song

86. Hozier - Take Me To Church

87. Bryan Adams - Summer Of 69

88. Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners - Evergreen

89. Michael Marcagi - Scared To Start

90. Mark Ambor - Belong Together

91. Tears For Fears - Everyone Wants To Rule The World

92. Cranberries - Linger

93. Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’

94. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

95. Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark

96. Dasha - Austin

97. Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere

98. The Kooks - Naive

99. Disturbed - Sound Of Silence

I think it would be rude not to talk about Sabrina Carpenter in this instance, because what a year she has had. From countless number 1 singles and topping it all off with a number 1 album it just goes to show how much you have to grind to get into what you want to do in the end. She really does inspire us all.

Congratulations to Noah Kahan for achieving a number 1 year end song with ‘Stick Season’. Crazy because this probably wouldn’t have happened if Olivia Rodrigo didn’t do that live performance in the BBC Live Lounge.