The US of A was the singular power in hitmaking last year, led by newcomer Benson Boone.
The 21-year-old American artist is declared winner of the IFPI Global Single Award for 2024 with “Beautiful Things” — the official best-selling single worldwide across all digital formats, The Music Network reports.
Released in January 2024, “Beautiful Things” was a smash everywhere, including Australia where it led the ARIA Chart for six weeks.
As the song rolled up charts, and raked in more than 2 billion subscription equivalent streams (a methodology used by the Federation), Boone collected trophies around the globe, including the Billboard Music Awards, Los 40 Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, NRJ Music Awards, and the MTV Europe Music Awards, where he scooped best new artist.
With a smash in his bag, Boone embarked on an arena tour of Australia and New Zealand last month, produced by Frontier Touring, plus a headliner spot at AO Live in Melbourne. 
Australian acts were locked out of a top 10 that was dominated by American acts.
Indeed, artists from the US of A accounted for nine of the top tier, with Ireland’s Hozier the exception, dropping in at No. 6 with “Too Sweet”.
BLACKPINK’s Rosé gives an Australasian flavour to the IFPI top 20 with “APT.”, her collaboration with Bruno Mars. The ARIA Chart leader appears at No. 16 on the IFPI year-end singles chart. Rosé was born in Auckland, raised in Melbourne and moved to Seoul as a teen, where she signed with YG Entertainment and set about crushing records with BLACKPINK.
The IFPI’s chart is a gauge of music consumption and includes remixes and alternative versions Paid subscription streaming, ad-supported platforms, and single-track downloads are counted, and translated into “chart units” by IFPI according to a “rigorous methodology” based on the relative economics of each format in each region globally.
Earlier this week, Taylor Swift was confirmed as the biggest recording artist in the world for 2024, an honour she has collected a record five times, including three years in a row.
The chart, says Victoria Oakley, CEO, IFPI, “is a wonderful reflection of how emerging artists – working in partnership with their record labels – are finding international success.”
Top 20 IFPI Global Singles Chart 2024:
| Position | Artist | Track | Global subscription streams equivalent (billions) |
1 | Benson Boone | Beautiful Things | 2.11 |
2 | Sabrina Carpenter | Espresso | 1.79 |
3 | Teddy Swims | Lose Control | 1.70 |
4 | Billie Eilish | BIRDS OF A FEATHER | 1.52 |
5 | Shaboozey | A Bar Song (Tipsy) | 1.51 |
6 | Hozier | Too Sweet | 1.35 |
7 | Post Malone | I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen) | 1.33 |
8 | Kendrick Lamar | Not Like Us | 1.28 |
9 | Taylor Swift | Cruel Summer | 1.17 |
10 | Noah Kahan | Stick Season | 1.14 |
11 | Chappell Roan | Good Luck, Babe! | 1.12 |
12 | Sabrina Carpenter | Please Please Please | 1.12 |
13 | Tommy Richman | MILLION DOLLAR BABY | 1.11 |
14 | Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars | Die With A Smile | 1.08 |
15 | Artemas | i like the way you kiss me | 1.03 |
16 | Zach Bryan | I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves) | 1.02 |
17 | ROSÉ & Bruno Mars | APT. | 1.00 |
18 | Tate McRae | greedy | 0.99 |
19 | FloyyMenor, Cris MJ | Gata Only | 0.98 |
20 | Ariana Grande | we can’t be friends (wait for your love) | 0.93 |
