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Apple Music’s Year-End Lists: Only 2 Australian Artists Make the Cut

CYRIL’s ‘Stumblin’ In’ is the top-ranked homegrown track on Apple Music’s Top Songs tally for Australia, appearing at No. 33

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Apple Music’s year-end charts are dominated by US artists – specifically, Kendrick Lamar and Benson Boone. Just two homegrown artists waved the flag, bagging hits in their homeland.

Lamar, the hip-hop superstar, reigns over the streaming giant’s global 2024 Year-End Chart with “Not Like Us”, the fiery rap cut which emerged from his ugly beef with Drake.

“Not Like Us” is the Compton rapper’s biggest hit to-date on Apple Music, topping a leaderboard ahead of Benson Boone’s ballad “Beautiful Things” and Sabrina Carpenter’s catchy pop hit “Espresso” respectively.

Shaboozey’s breakthrough country number “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” enters at No. 4, while Taylor Swift’s 2019 Lover cut “Cruel Summer” completes the top 5.

Lamar’s latest title is announced today, December 4th, as the west coast artist reigns over the ARIA Chart with his surprise release album, GNX.

American artists boss the Apple Music top 50. The exceptions include Canadian artists Tate McRae (“greedy” at No. 7), Hozier (“Too Sweet” at No. 17) and Drake (“Rich Baby Daddy” featuring Sexyy Red & SZA at No. 26 and “Best I Ever Had” at No. 42) and a slew of Japanese acts: Creepy Nuts, Omoinotake, YOASOBI and Tuki.

For Australian streamers, no song was played on Apple Music as frequently in 2024 as Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things”.

The US singer and songwriter’s breakthrough hit was also the most Shazammed song globally this year, a list that has an Australian flavour.

NSW-raised DJ and producer CYRIL (real name: Cyril Riley) lands two songs in the Top Shazams list, with Disturbed’s “The Sound of Silence (CYRIL Remix)” at No. 4 and “Stumblin’ In” at No. 6.

The artist’s two-time ARIA Award-nominated cut “Stumblin’ In” is the top-ranked homegrown track on Apple Music’s Top Songs tally for Australia, appearing at No. 33, while Vance Joy’s evergreen “Riptide” is close behind at No. 35.

While Aussies are locked out of the Apple Music Global Songs Chart, it’s a particularly strong year for female artists.

According to Apple Music, 39 songs on the worldwide Top Songs of 2024 are recorded by or feature female-identifying artists, marking the biggest year for women in the chart’s seven-year history.

And who locks up the greatest number of songs on the full list? Drake and US country artist Morgan Wallen with eight each, followed by Taylor Swift with seven.

Top Songs on Apple Music in 2024 (Global Chart)

  1. Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
  2. Benson Boone – Beautiful Things
  3. Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
  4. Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
  5. Taylor Swift – Cruel Summer
  6. Post Malone – I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen)
  7. Teddy Swims – Lose Control
  8. Metro Boomin, Kendrick Lamar, Future – Like That
  9. Billie Eilish – BIRDS OF A FEATHER
  10. Creepy Nuts – Bling-Bang-Bang-Born
  11. SZA – Snooze
  12. Morgan Wallen – Last Night
  13. Noah Kahan – Stick Season
  14. Jack Harlow – Lovin On Me
  15. Zach Bryan – I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
  16. Sabrina Carpenter – Please Please Please
  17. Hozier – Too Sweet
  18. Tate McRae – greedy
  19. Tommy Richman – MILLION DOLLAR BABY
  20. Taylor Swift – Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
  21. Lil Baby – Freestyle
  22. Cris Mj, FloyyMenor – Gata Only
  23. Metro Boomin, Playboi Carti, Future, Travis Scott – Type Shit
  24. Rich The Kid, Kanye West, ¥$, Ty Dolla $ign – CARNIVAL (feat. Playboi Carti)
  25. ILLIT – Magnetic
  26. Drake – Rich Baby Daddy (feat. Sexyy Red & SZA)
  27. Morgan Wallen – Thinkin’ Bout Me
  28. Ariana Grande – we can’t be friends (wait for your love)
  29. Travis Scott – FE!N (feat. Playboi Carti)
  30. Doja Cat – Agora Hills
  31. Luke Combs – Fast Car
  32. YOASOBI – アイドル
  33. tuki. – 晩餐歌
  34. Taylor Swift – Lover
  35. Doja Cat – Paint The Town Red
  36. 21 Savage – redrum
  37. Omoinotake – 幾億光年
  38. Future – WAIT FOR U (feat. Drake & Tems)
  39. Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
  40. SZA – Saturn
  41. Latto, Jung Kook – Seven
  42. Drake – Best I Ever Had
  43. Lil Baby – Sum 2 Prove
  44. Morgan Wallen – Cowgirls (feat. ERNEST)
  45. Tyla – Water
  46. SZA – Kill Bill
  47. Taylor Swift – Anti-Hero
  48. Mrs. GREEN APPLE – Que Sera Sera
  49. Beyoncé – TEXAS HOLD ‘EM
  50. Travis Scott – HIGHEST IN THE ROOM

Top Songs in Australia on Apple Music in 2024

  1. Benson Boone – Beautiful Things
  2. Taylor Swift – Cruel Summer
  3. Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
  4. Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
  5. Noah Kahan – Stick Season
  6. Post Malone – I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen)
  7. Tate McRae – greedy
  8. Jack Harlow – Lovin On Me
  9. Teddy Swims – Lose Control
  10. Luke Combs – Fast Car
  11. Morgan Wallen – Last Night
  12. Taylor Swift – Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
  13. Billie Eilish – BIRDS OF A FEATHER
  14. Doja Cat – Paint The Town Red
  15. Taylor Swift – Anti-Hero
  16. Hozier – Too Sweet
  17. Sabrina Carpenter – Please Please Please
  18. Zach Bryan – I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
  19. Taylor Swift – Lover
  20. Dasha – Austin (Boots Stop Workin’)
  21. Miley Cyrus – Flowers
  22. cassö, RAYE & D-Block Europe – Prada
  23. Beyoncé – TEXAS HOLD ‘EM
  24. Taylor Swift – You Need To Calm Down
  25. Dua Lipa – Dance The Night
  26. Olivia Rodrigo – vampire
  27. Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
  28. Kenya Grace – Strangers
  29. Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
  30. Zach Bryan – Something in the Orange
  31. Taylor Swift – Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault]
  32. Ariana Grande – we can’t be friends (wait for your love)
  33. CYRIL – Stumblin’ In
  34. The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
  35. Vance Joy – Riptide
  36. Dua Lipa – Houdini
  37. Tommy Richman – MILLION DOLLAR BABY
  38. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
  39. Post Malone – Chemical
  40. Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
  41. Tate McRae – exes
  42. The Killers – Mr. Brightside
  43. Eminem – Houdini
  44. The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
  45. Dua Lipa – Training Season
  46. Post Malone & Swae Lee – Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
  47. Myles Smith – Stargazing
  48. Taylor Swift – I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
  49. Luke Combs – When It Rains It Pours
  50. Taylor Swift – Blank Space (Taylor’s Version)

Top Shazams in 2024 (Global Chart)

  1. Benson Boone – Beautiful Things
  2. Teddy Swims – Lose Control
  3. FloyyMenor & Cris Mj – Gata Only
  4. Disturbed – The Sound of Silence (CYRIL Remix)
  5. Artemas –  i like the way yozzu kiss me
  6. CYRIL – Stumblin’ In
  7. ZERB & Sofiya Nzau – Mwaki
  8. Hozier – Too Sweet
  9. Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
  10. Tyla – Water
  11. Tate McRae – greedy
  12. Tommy Richman – MILLION DOLLAR BABY (VHS)
  13. Sevdaliza, Pabllo Vittar & Yseult – Alibi
  14. Kenya Grace – Strangers
  15. Jack Harlow – Lovin On Me
  16. Billie Eilish – BIRDS OF A FEATHER
  17. Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
  18. Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina – Stereo Love
  19. Djo – End of Beginning
  20. The Weeknd, JENNIE & Lily Rose Depp – One Of The Girls
  21. Tom Odell – Another Love
  22. Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
  23. George Michael – Careless Whisper
  24. ADAM – Zhurek
  25. YG Marley – Praise Jah In the Moonlight
  26. JID – Surround Sound (feat. 21 Savage & Baby Tate)
  27. TitoM & Yuppe – Tshwala Bam (feat. S.N.E & EeQue)
  28. Doja Cat – Agora Hills
  29. Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
  30. KAROL G – Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido
  31. Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With A Smile
  32. Loreen – Tattoo
  33. Lady Gaga – Bloody Mary
  34. Iñigo Quintero – Si No Estás
  35. Peggy Gou – (It Goes Like) Nanana (Edit)
  36. Doja Cat – Paint The Town Red
  37. Chris Brown – Angel Numbers / Ten Toes
  38. Dasha – Austin (Boots Stop Workin’)
  39. Hanumankind & Kalmi – Big Dawgs
  40. Noah Kahan – Stick Season
  41. BENNETT – Vois sur ton chemin (Techno Mix)
  42. Orso, Adam Port, Keinemusik, Stryv & Malachiii – Move (Mixed)
  43. Ofenbach – Overdrive (feat. Norma Jean Martine)
  44. Gotye-  Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra)
  45. Mary J. Blige – Family Affair
  46. Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten
  47. Jaxomy, Agatino Romero & Raffaella Carrà – Pedro
  48. Rema – Calm Down
  49. Ed Sheeran – Perfect
  50. Yamê Bécane – A Colors Show