Twostepcub's Biggest Hits of 2024: Part 10 - #10 to #1 and the whole she-bang...
Well, we've come to the final part of my (late - sorry) countdown of the biggest hits on my weekly personal music chart for 2024. You can catch up with the rest of the series by clicking here. Now let's gets things wrapped up...
#10 - Die With A Smile - Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
from the single (2024)
2scchart peak: #1 (ten weeks) (still at #1)
Weeks on the chart (in 2024): 14 (still charting)
Points: 2495
As with last year's "What Was I Made For?", I heard this song once and said to myself "this is going to be the Grammy Song of the Year". We still has yet to see if this is true, but this is certainly the musical pinnacle of this year. It's still #1 as we speak on my list, and I don't see what's going to replace it as yet. A fatalistic song for these pessimistic times. Flawless.
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#9 - A Bar Song (Tipsy) - Shaboozey
from the album Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going (2024)
2scchart peak: #2 (two weeks)
Weeks on the chart (in 2024): 30 (still charting)
Points: 2532
In a musical landscape that saw success after success of white rappers turning to country music, it was so damn refreshing to see a black man outdo them all with the now record-tying #1 streak with this re-appropriation of 2000s one-hit wonder "Tipsy" by J-Kwon. Beyonce may have given him exposure by having him on her Cowboy Carter album, but this came to the top on its own merits. And it's legs are much more assured that the other 19-week charttopper - Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road".
#8 - Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan
from the single (2024)
2scchart peak: #1 (seven weeks)
Weeks on the chart (in 2024): 23 (was still on chart at end of year)
Points: 2532
This year's breakout star is the Midwest Princess, who didn't even need a music video to sell this throwback to the synthpop of the 80s to kiss off a shitty ex. And this did so well her older album ended placing five more songs on the charts (including "Hot To Go!" which I had on here earlier). Her meteoric rise is perilous right now, as the stress of fame has certainly affected her, but hopefully she will grace us in 2025. We need it.
#7 - The Door - Teddy Swims
from the album I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 1 (2023)
2scchart peak: #1 (two weeks)
Weeks on the chart (in 2024): 31 (was still on chart at end of year)
Points: 2715
There's only one act that has more than one song in my top ten, and it's this bluesy belter, with this scathing but self-affirming breakup jam that is in my eyes his best. The mood definitely gives me the same as Amy Winehouse, and this kind of neo-sophist-pop needs to be a trend.
#6 - Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter
from the album Short N' Sweet (2024)
2scchart peak: #2 (four weeks)
Weeks on the chart (in 2024): 31 (still charting)
Points: 2746
Leave it to the small but mighty pop starlet to meld quotable lines to a Japanese City Pop-like sample to make this like the revenge Ocean Drive music needed. She's working late, cause she's a singer. There's so many reasons I should hate this, but I simply cannot. Sorry, Olivia.
#5 - Beautiful Things - Benson Boone
from the album Fireworks & Rollerblades (2024)
2scchart peak: #7 (one week)
Weeks on the chart (in 2024): 43 (still charting)
Points: 2816
On the other hand, I offer no defense to this one. Oof. But actually there's ONE reason to hate this - if this had its chorus, which has Boone screeching like a stabbed water buffalo, removed and replaced, the wistful country rock would be much easier to swallow. But the damn song stayed on the charts forever, and it's lucky climb and linger on the list simply made the math not math. Even with extra points given to weeks at #1, this song which didn't even make the top five simply racked up enough time in the top-40 to counter it. That's the way the cookie crumbles, I guess. (Well, it ain't Morgan Wallen, at least.)
#4 - Stick Season - Noah Kahan
from the album Stick Season (2022)
2scchart peak: #1 (three weeks)
Weeks on the chart (in 2024): 36 (was on the chart for 11 weeks in 2023)
Points: 2837
This second-coming of Paul Simon-esque folk-rock went from being a COVID-era anthem to a Christmas playlist inclusion to a whole winter vibe to a modern day classic. Being forlorn didn't seem so jovial as this.
#3 - Dilemma - Green Day
from the album Saviors (2024)
2scchart peak: #2 (one week)
Weeks on the chart: 41
Points: 2985
Billie Joe Armstrong laid his struggles with his mental health and the bottle to bare in this sing-along anthem for the disaffected and alcoholically diseased. He makes the refrain "I don't want to be a dead man walking" into a battle cry that we needed in this fucked-up year.
#2 - Too Sweet - Hozier
from the EP Unheard (2024)
2scchart peak: #1 (ten weeks)
Weeks on the chart (in 2024): 35 (still charting)
Points: 4295
It seemed unfathomable that the gloomy Irish folkster that brought us "Take Me To Church" would ever come close to that success, but an extended play single of outtakes from his album delivered this smoldering song that cast him as the lothario that knows he's the bad guy in his relationship, and sold it to throngs of women (and men, as well). If there's a song to beat "Die With A Smile" at the Grammys, it's this one. (The two songs tied for the longest stay at #1 on my chart this past year.)
and here we go...
#1 - Lose Control - Teddy Swims
from the album I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 1 (2023)
2scchart peak: #1 (five weeks)
Weeks on the chart (in 2024): 52 (was on the chart for 10 weeks in 2023, and still charting now)
Points: 4926
Well, the #1 song on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 year-end list matches mine, and apart from a valiant effort from Hozier this wasn't even a close race, as Teddy's bluesy track started the year in my top ten, and was still in the top-40 at the end, the only song to be on the chart for the entire chart year. (By contrast, the longest stay on last year's list, Rema and Selena Gomez's "Calm Down", was on for 46, with the #1 placing "Flowers" from Miley Cyrus a week behind.) At least it's definitely not an embarrassment, for while "The Door" was my favorite, it wouldn't have had the exposure it didn't without this paving the way. And years of American Idol contestants will be belting this one out.
So there is it, here's the whole list as well as it Spotify playlisted...
1. Lose Control - Teddy Swims
2. Too Sweet - Hozier
3. Dilemma - Green Day
4. Stick Season - Noah Kahan
5. Beautiful Things - Benson Boone
6. Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter
7. The Door - Teddy Swims
8. Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan
9. A Bar Song (Tipsy) - Shaboozey
10. Die With A Smile - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
11. Save Me - Jelly Roll & Lainey Wilson
12. Austin - Dasha
13. Landmines - Sum-41
14. World On Fire - Nate Smith
15. Birds Of A Feather - Billie Eilish
16. Million Dollar Baby - Tommy Richman
17. Lovin' On Me - Jack Harlow
18. Made For Me - Muni Long
19. Greedy - Tate McRae
20. Feather - Sabrina Carpenter
21. Water - Tyla
22. Please Please Please - Sabrina Carpenter
23. Stargazing - Myles Smith
24. End Of Beginning - DJO
25. I Had Some Help - Post Malone f/Morgan Wallen
26. Neon Pill - Cage The Elephant
27. We Can't Be Friends (Wait For Your Love) - Ariana Grande
28. Texas Hold 'Em - Beyonce
29. Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift (was #24 for 2023)
30. Is It Over Now? - Taylor Swift
31. One More Time - blink-182
32. Ain't No Love In Oklahoma - Luke Combs
33. On My Mama - Victoria Monet
34. What Was I Made For? - Billie Eilish (was #31 for 2023)
35. Where It Ends - Bailey Zimmerman
36. I Am Not Okay - Jelly Roll
37. Houdini - Dua Lipa
38. The Glass - Foo Fighters
39. Pretty Little Poison - Warren Zeiders
40. Not Like Us - Kendrick Lamar
41. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart - Taylor Swift
42. Good Good - Usher f/Summer Walker & 21 Savage
43. Leave A Light On (Talk Away The Dark) - Papa Roach
44. Saturn - SZA
45. Miles On It - Marshmello & Kane Brown
46. Loving You - Cannons
47. Tuscon Too Late - Jordan Davis
48. Wreckage - Pearl Jam
49. Lil Boo Thang - Paul Russell
50. Illusion - Dua Lipa
51. Fortnight - Taylor Swift f/Post Malone
52. Get Him Back! - Olivia Rodrigo
53. A Symptom Of Being Human - Shinedown (was #48 for 2023)
54. Slow It Down - Benson Boone
55. Outskirts - Sam Hunt
56. I Remember Everything - Zach Bryan & Kacey Musgraves (was #61 for 2023)
57. Rainbow - Cage The Elephant
58. That's How I'm Feeling - Jack White
59. Hot To Go! - Chappell Roan
60. Bulletproof - Nate Smith
61. Heartless - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
62. Strangers - Kenya Grace
63. Snooze - SZA (was #21 for 2023)
64. Obsessed - Olivia Rodrigo
65. Dirt Cheap - Cody Johnson
66. Murder On The Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis-Bextor
67. feelslikeimfallinginlove - Coldplay
68. Where The Wild Things Are - Luke Combs
69. Beautiful People (Stay High) - Black Keys
70. Agora Hills - Doja Cat
71. Selfish - Justin Timberlake
72. White Horse - Chris Stapleton
73. The Painter - Cody Johnson
74. Dark Matter - Pearl Jam
75. Good People - Mumford & Sons f/Pharrell Williams
76. Take Her Home - Kenny Chesney
77. The Craving - twenty-one pilots
78. Fast Car - Luke Combs (was #2 for 2023)
79. Burn It Down - Parker McCollum
80. Turn The Lights Back On - Billy Joel
81. Run Away With Me - Cold War Kids
82. Lunch - Billie Eilish
83. The American Dream Is Killing Me - Green Day
84. Chevrolet - Dustin Lynch f/Jelly Roll
85. Back Then Right Now - Tyler Hubbard
86. Make It All Right - The Offspring
87. Home - Good Neighbours
88. Your Place - Ashley Cooke
89. Love Like That - Phillip Phillips
90. The Emptiness Machine - Linkin Park
91. I Can Feel It - Kane Brown
92. Used To Be Young - Miley Cyrus (was #77 for 2023)
93. Eyes Closed - Imagine Dragons
94. Young Love & Saturday Nights - Chris Young
95. Lovers In A Past Life - Calvin Harris & Rag N' Bone Man
96. Murder On The Dancefloor (Like A Version) - Royel Otis
97. Friendly Fire - Linkin Park
98. Taste - Sabrina Carpenter
99. She's Somebody's Daughter (Reimagined) - Drew Baldridge
100. Scared To Start - Michael Marcagi
I'll be taking a break for health issues I have to take care of, but I'll be back with the weekly chart and hopefully soon enough with the song of the day. Be well.
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