Consequence’s Annual Report continues with our most large record of the season: the 200 Best Songs of 2024. As the yr winds down, we’ve acquired tons of awards, lists, and interviews about the perfect music, movie, and TV 2024 needed to supply, together with our lists of the 50 Best Albums of the Year.
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In 2024, extra music is launched in in the future than the complete calendar yr of 1989. Gone are the occasions when singles had been solely acquired at a report retailer, albums had been launched (principally) on Tuesdays, and variety was restricted to every week’s choices.
Today, music is at our fingertips, and it’s coming quicker and in higher portions than ever. It’s not the usual to easily report an album in a studio and look forward to the label to bodily distribute it. In 2024, extra musicians are bypassing conventional launch methods by way of DIY recordings, the shock album drop, or the very platforms the place the music lives. Essentially, in case you have selection paralysis on the subject of catching up on new music, you’d be forgiven for being left within the mud.
This was the yr of the double album and, equally, the companion album — as evidenced by Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, and Kacey Musgraves. This was the yr of music launched exterior of the same old cadence or distribution techniques, like Artist of the Year Jack White’s mysterious No Name drop, Tyler, the Creator releasing CHROMAKOPIA on a Monday morning, and Cindy Lee sharing their opus Diamond Jubilee on a geocities web site (and, to at the present time, refusing to place the album on streaming).
It was additionally the yr of one-off releases shortly dominating the dialog: Charli XCX and Lorde publicly “working it out on the remix” simply days after the discharge of Brat; Kendrick Lamar casually dropping “Not Like Us” mid-feud and immediately silencing his critics; Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter every providing promotional singles the week of their Coachella debuts, which then turned their largest career-boosting catalysts but.
Everywhere you look, throughout all genres and mediums, there’s an increasing number of and extra. Hence, our choice to stretch this Best Songs of 2024 record all the best way to 200 tracks — there’s a lot noise on the market that it’d be pointless to restrict ourselves to 50 and even 100 songs. While we at Consequence have realized to give up to the truth that we will’t hearken to all the good new music that comes every year, we will nonetheless highlight the tracks we couldn’t get out of our heads this yr, in addition to some under-appreciated gems and forgotten bangers. Check out our record of the perfect songs of 2024 under.
— Paolo Ragusa
Associate Editor
