It's finally time to celebrate the musical year of 2024 with annual lists ranking my favorite music. Here are my top 50 favorite songs of the year along with honorable mentions.
Now that we've brought in the new year that is 2025, here at The Peach Pitch, I'd like to look back at the year we just wrapped up and celebrate the music that this blog's founder and sole writer, myself, has loved the most. Full of impactful bangers, vengeful statements, elegant comebacks, and surprising left turns, 2024 brought a lot of eventful musical moments. Each year, I like to celebrate the end of the year by ranking my top 50 favorite songs and my top 25 favorite albums of the year, including honorable mentions. As always, it's quite the challenge coming up with what is my favorite music of the given year and 2024 was no exception. I've finally been able to compile my yearly lists and can now take a well earned nap. See you next time, dear reader! Below you will find my top 50 favorite songs of the year along with honorable mentions. The albums list is featured in another post.
Top 50 Best Songs of 2024:
1. Kendrick Lamar - “Not Like Us”
2. Vampire Weekend - “Mary Boone”
3. Charli XCX - “360”
4. MGMT - “Mother Nature”
5. Kesha - “Joyride”
6. Darkside - “Graucha Max”
7. Real Estate - “Water Underground”
8. Yard Act - “Dream Job”
9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - “Wild God”
10. Declan McKenna - “Elevator Hum”
11. Mannequin Pussy - “I Don’t Know You”
12. Geordie Greep - “Holy, Holy”
13. Jlin & Philip Glass - “The Precision of Infinity”
14. The Smile - “Wall of Eyes”
15. Christopher Owens - “No Good”
16. Cindy Lee - “Kingdom Come”
17. Creed Bratton - “Having a Ball”
18. Liam Gallagher & John Squire - “Just Another Rainbow”
19. Coldplay - “Moon Music”
20. Dent May & Jordana - “Coasting On Fumes”
21. Beyoncé - “Bodyguard”
22. DIIV - “Brown Paper Bag”
23. Chastity Belt - “I-90 Bridge”
24. Cloud Nothings - “Final Summer”
25. Japandroids - “Chicago”
26. Lil Nas X - “J Christ”
27. Kim Gordon - “Bye Bye”
28. Dawes - “Mister Los Angeles”
29. Helado Negro - “LFO (Lupe Finds Oliveros)”
30. METZ - “Light Your Way Home”
31. The Cure - “Alone”
32. English Teacher - “Nearly Daffodils”
33. Mdou Moctar - “Modern Slaves”
34. Billie Eilish - “Birds of a Feather”
35. Phish - “Hey Stranger”
36. Laetitia Sadier - “Une Autre Attente”
37. Jack White - “Tonight (Was a Long Time Ago)”
38. Future Islands - “The Tower”
39. Kaktus Einarsson & Damon Albarn - “Gumbri”
40. Julia Holter - “Spinning”
41. Iron & Wine - “You Never Know”
42. Foster the People - “Chasing Low Vibrations”
43. The Boxer Rebellion - “Lightness Out of Darkness”
44. Heems, Lapgan & Saul Williams - “Accent”
45. The Hard Quartet - “Earth Hater”
46. Jamie xx & Honey Dijon - “Baddy On the Floor”
47. Sabrina Carpenter - “Espresso”
48. Tierra Whack - “Shower Song”
49. Kacey Musgraves - “Deeper Well”
50. Justice & Tame Impala - “One Night/All Night”
Honorable Mentions:
Ariana Grande - “Yes, and?”
Bad Bad Hats - “TPA”
Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom - “Snow Is Falling In Manhattan”
E.D.A. & Conan O’Brien - “Velkommen Til Klubben”
Franz Ferdinand - “Audacious”
IDLES - “Gift Horse”
Squid - “Fugue (Bin Song)”
Thurston Moore & Laetitia Sadier - “Sans Limites”
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - “Compress / Repress”
Wilco - “Hot Sun”
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