Not Like Us, however folks positive like him: Kendrick Lamar‘s smash topped Apple Music’s international tune chart in 2024 as the enormous music streamer launched year-end lists in a single day and supplied listeners with knowledge on their very own most listened-to tunes.
Not Like Us is Lamar’s first-ever No. 1 on the year-end international songs chart.
He is adopted by Benson Boone’s Stunning Issues in second. Sabrina Carpenter‘s Espresso follows in third, Shaboozey’s A Bar Track (Tipsy) in fourth and Taylor Swift‘s Merciless Summer time in fifth.
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Merciless Summer time, after all, is a reduce from Swift’s seventh studio album, Lover, launched in 2019. It had a resurgence again in summer time 2023.
Of the 100 songs included on the listing, 39 are from female-identifying artists, a file first within the international chart’s seven-year historical past.
And this one could come as a shock: Japanese hip-hop act Creepy Nuts’ breakthrough observe Bling-Bang-Bang-Born topped Apple’s most-read lyrics in 2024. Following Creepy Nuts is Not Like Us, Espresso and Billie Eilish’s Birds of a Feather.
Bling-Bang-Band-Born additionally topped Apple Music’s Sing chart, which permits customers to view which songs followers sang alongside to essentially the most. Clearly, Japanese music is rising in worldwide recognition: In 2023, one other Japanese group, YOASOBI, topped the Sing chart in its inaugural 12 months, with アイドル (Idol). This 12 months, Idol continues to dominate, reaching No. 2.
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New to 2024’s suite of year-end charts is the inclusion of a Shazam World Radio Spins chart, which makes use of Shazam to uncover what songs are being performed on radio stations across the globe.
Dua Lipa’s Houdini tops that one, adopted by Teddy Swims’ Lose Management, and Tate McRae’s Grasping.
Additionally out there on Tuesday is Replay – Apple’s various to Spotify’s Wrapped playlist –which permits Apple Music subscribers to interact with what music was hottest on the streaming service this 12 months. Artists can now share their year-end knowledge, too, utilizing Apple Music for Artists.
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In November, Apple Music named Eilish its artist of the 12 months, following her remarkably profitable 2024.
This 12 months, Eilish grew to become the youngest individual to ever win two Academy Awards, launched her critically acclaimed third album, Hit Me Exhausting and Gentle, which has ranked in seven 2025 Grammy Award nominations.
On the awards this 12 months, she took house two new gramophone-shaped trophies – regardless of not having launched a brand new album – each for What Was I Made For? from the blockbuster Barbie movie.
“It is at all times particular when a younger artist can join with so many individuals so shortly,” Rachel Newman, Apple Music’s senior director of Content material and Editorial stated in an announcement.
“However what’s been really exceptional about watching her evolve over the course of this final 12 months is not simply that her voice and artistry have continued to resonate so broadly. It is that she’s blossomed as bravely and actually as she has — on her personal phrases, in her personal method.”
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