What Is The Most-Streamed Song On Spotify In 2024?

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Spotify Wrapped 2024 is here. This means personalized year-end listening data for every user, but it also means Spotify reveals the top artists, songs, and albums across all of Spotify in 2024.

What Was The Most-Streamed Song On Spotify In 2024?

One of the biggest superlatives is the most-streamed song, and on both the global and US-only charts, that honor belongs to Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso.” The song, which was released in April, currently has over 1.65 billion streams on Spotify.

On the global chart, it beat out Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things,” while on the US chart, it topped Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”

Find the full lists of the most-streamed songs globally and for the US below.

Spotify Wrapped 2024: Most-Streamed Songs Globally

1. Sabrina Carpenter — “Espresso”
2. Benson Boone — “Beautiful Things”
3. Billie Eilish — “Birds Of A Feather”
4. FloyyMenor & Cris Mj — “Gata Only”
5. Teddy Swims — “Lose Control”
6. Djo — “End of Beginning”
7. Hozier — “Too Sweet”
8. The Weeknd, Jennie, & Lily Rose Depp — “One Of The Girls”
9. Taylor Swift — “Cruel Summer”
10. Bruno Mars & Lady Gaga — “Die With A Smile”

Spotify Wrapped 2024: Most-Streamed Songs, US

1. Sabrina Carpenter — “Espresso”
2. Kendrick Lamar — “Not Like Us”
3. Shaboozey — “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
4. Post Malone — “I Had Some Help” Feat. Morgan Wallen
5. Tommy Richman — “Million Dollar Baby”
6. Chappell Roan — “Good Luck, Babe!”
7. Benson Boone — “Beautiful Things”
8. Billie Eilish — “Birds Of A Feather”
9. Zach Bryan — “I Remember Everything” Feat. Kacey Musgraves
10. Noah Kahan — “Stick Season”

A No. 1 Single Doesn’t Mean What It Used To

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In the 1994 movie Airheads, Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler play members of a rock band with big dreams. The story of the film is that the three decide to hijack a radio station in an effort to get their demo played on the air.

The idea was that fame and riches would follow, presumably. To be frank, I haven’t seen the film (sorry not sorry, my movie backlog is packed and Airheads is not above Air). I’m just aware of the general premise. Regardless, it sets up the point I’m about to get to: That movie synopsis reads as very ’90s and alien in relation to the music industry in 2024. Things are different now, both in terms of music itself and the ecosystem that surrounds it.

In times of change, it’s important to self-reflect and reconsider the things we value, what’s working and what isn’t. As I’ve aged, I’ve come to realize that one serving of vegetables per week isn’t part of a successful plan to remain alive, for example. I’ve also reached this question: Is landing a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart today going the way of getting a demo on the radio in 1994?

My answer, to an extent, is yes: Getting a No. 1 single doesn’t matter like it used to. That’s a big-sounding claim and I don’t want to present it without nuance, so let’s look at some information.

In 2023, 19 songs were No. 1 on the Hot 100. In 2013, that number was only 12. The figures are shaping up similarly for this year, too: We already have 15 chart-toppers so far in 2024 with so much time left, versus just 10 in 2014.

A simple lesson in supply and demand: The more there is of something, the less valuable it is. Please indulge me briefly as we go back to 1953, when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first two people to summit Mount Everest. It was a big deal! Since then, over 6,000 other people have done it, too. Climbing Everest is still a noteworthy challenge, especially when you consider the 200 or so people who didn’t make it and whose bodies are still frozen on the mountain right now. But, the gravity of the feat is definitely diminished. That chilling detour was to illustrate that as the distinction of having a No. 1 single becomes less rare, it becomes less impressive.

There are some external factors that impact the perceived value of a Hot 100 No. 1, too, that have nothing to do with the Billboard charts themselves (or Mount Everest).

For one, more ways of measuring a song’s success are available to us now, and these metrics can have different significance to different audiences. For example, perhaps fans who live their musical lives on Spotify care less about chart placement and more about streaming numbers, which have increasingly come to indicate the music many people most spend their time with.

Well, according to data from Luminate (as shared by Billboard), the most-streamed song in the US of the first half of 2024 was Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things,” with 448.7 million plays. Yet, despite being early 2024’s most popular song by a widely valued and impactful metric, “Beautiful Things” never wore the Hot 100 crown. It spent many weeks in the top 10 and even some time at No. 2, but never in the captain’s seat.

More anecdotally speaking, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is a contender for the 2024 song of the summer. But, it never hit No. 1, despite consistently out-performing, for example, Taylor Swift and Post Malone’s No. 1 hit “Fortnight” on the weekly US Spotify charts after the collaboration’s first week (half-fortnight, if you will). It could be the year’s biggest song so far, but it’s not a No. 1 single in the US.

Then there’s TikTok. That’s a world that’s beyond me (aside from seeing viral TikToks on Instagram three weeks after they’ve already blown up), but I won’t diminish the impact it has on music culture and the value of musical success on the platform. Songs like Tinashe’s “Nasty,” Artemas’ “I Like The Way You Kiss Me,” and, somehow, Pharrell’s Despicable Me 4 song “Double Life” have all gotten major attention on one of the internet’s most-trafficked spaces. None of them have hit even the top 10 on the Hot 100.

(My June claim that “Double Life” “probably won’t be a world-changing single like ‘Happy’” is starting to age like milk that’s been sneezed in and left outside.)

To music fans who are mostly on TikTok and aren’t paying attention to the big Spotify favorites (a valid type of person that I’m guessing isn’t uncommon among the app’s users), those are the biggest songs, not some Hot 100 hit they stopped listening a hundred trends ago.

To be clear, this isn’t Billboard‘s fault. They haven’t passively rotted away as the world blooms around them. They regularly tweak the Hot 100 rules as they deem necessary, like they did with major changes in 2013 and 2018. But, it’s seemingly just impossible to keep up, to perfectly quantify and represent how consumers interact with the always-changing music industry.

I don’t mean to diminish the value of a No. 1 single. It’s still a tremendous achievement: Of the thousands and thousands of songs that have been released this year, only 15 of them have gone No. 1. 15! My point is more so that with how diverse and splintered the infrastructure around music consumption has become, the Hot 100 is no longer the singular, be-all-end-all authority on what the biggest songs are. It’s not the metric anymore.

Like getting a demo on the radio, it doesn’t mean what it used to.

Lollapalooza 2024 Has A Stacked Set Of Aftershows By Tyla, Vince Staples, Tate McRae, And Others

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Lollapalooza has a loaded lineup for the 2024 festival, featuring Tyler The Creator, SZA, Hozier, Future x Metro Boomin, Stray Kids, The Killers, Blink-182, Skrillex, and plenty more. Chicago is set to be bustling outside of the core festival, too: Today (May 28), Coachella organizers announced the lineup for the official late-night aftershows.

Artists set to perform at various venues in the city include Benson Boone, Blondshell, Blu DeTiger, Chappell Roan, d4vd, Dillon Francis x Valentino Khan, Ethel Cain, Faye Webster, Geese, The Japanese House, Kesha, Kevin Abstract, Killer Mike, Labrinth, The Last Dinner Party, Militarie Gun, Raye, Tate McRae, Teezo Touchdown, Two Door Cinema Club, Tyla, and Vince Staples, among others.

The shows all run between July 30 and August 4. Tickets for the events go on sale starting on May 31 (this Friday) at 10 a.m. CT. Find more information about that on the Lollapalooza website.

Lollapalooza is set to go down from August 1 to 4 at Chicago’s Grant Park. Tickets went on sale a while ago now, but some are still available. The festival website currently lists 1-day general admission tickets starting $149, 2-day general admission tickets for $318, 4-day general admission tickets for $409, and other tiers of tickets are other price points. Check out the website for more information.

Jack Harlow Is Back At No. 1 Yet Again And 2024 Grammy Favorites Saw Significant Gains On The New Hot 100 Chart

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Every week, Billboard unveils the top 10 songs on the latest Hot 100 chart. The most recent rankings, for the chart dated February 17, are out now, so let’s run down who had this week’s biggest hits.

10. Miley Cyrus — “Flowers”

Three songs that had big moments at the 2024 Grammys saw some noteworthy chart movement this week, with Cyrus’ former No. 1 “Flowers” re-entering the top 10 after spending last week at No. 32.

9. Doja Cat — “Agora Hills”

“Agora Hills” was at its Hot 100 high of No. 7 this week before sliding down to No. 9 this time around.

8. Luke Combs — “Fast Car”

Combs’ “Fast Car” cover had a Cyrus-like rise after he performed the song with Tracy Chapman herself, bouncing up to No. 8 from No. 20.

7. Tate McRae — “Greedy”

While “Greedy” slid down a couple spots from No. 5 last week, it did sell some more copies after McRae performed the song at the NHL All-Star Game on February 3.

6. Zach Bryan — “I Remember Everything” Feat. Kacey Musgraves

“I Remember Everything” once again leads various Billboard charts, ranking No. 1 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs charts for a 24th week and the Hot Country Songs for a 20th time.

5. SZA — “Snooze”

“Snooze” was barely hanging onto a top-10 placement last week, but after it was included in SZA’s Grammys performance medley, it gained a few spots to return to the top 5.

4. Taylor Swift — “Cruel Summer”

Swift has a new album, The Tortured Poets Department, on the way, but in the meantime, “Cruel Summer” is maintaining a strong chart presence for Swift before her new songs inevitably take over.

3. Benson Boone — “Beautiful Things”

Boone’s viral hit hit the top 10 for the first time at No. 8 last week, and now its ascent continues as it climbed all the way to a new high at No. 3.

2. Teddy Swims — “Lose Control”

Similar story for Swims: “Lose Control” was No. 4 last week and now it’s angling for the top spot after its rise to No. 2 this week.

1. Jack Harlow — “Lovin On Me”

Harlow’s hit has been jostled in and out of the No. 1 spot a handful of times now, but it’s on top once again for a fifth total week after spending last week at No. 2, behind Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hiss” (which didn’t make this week’s top 10 after its chart-topping debut).

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Megan Thee Stallion Has No Beef With The ‘Billboard’ Hot 100 Chart As Her Diss Track ‘Hiss’ Debuts At No. 1

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Every week, Billboard unveils the top 10 songs on the latest Hot 100 chart. The most recent rankings, for the chart dated February 10, are out now, so let’s run down who had this week’s biggest hits.

10. SZA — “Snooze”

“Snooze” was released as a single back in April 2023, and it’s had an impressive chart run. It’s just barely hanging onto the top 10 now after dipping from No. 9 last week.

9. 21 Savage — “Redrum”

Savage did the ol’ switcheroo with SZA’s hit single, leaping from No. 10 to No. 9, two weeks after debuting in the No. 5 spot.

8. Benson Boone — “Beautiful Things”

TikTok really is helping form the future of music: Boone gained popularity on the platform and now he has his first top-10 single with “Beautiful Things” which debuted on the chart at No. 15 last week.

7. Doja Cat — “Agora Hills”

Doja’s “Agora Hills” is hanging strong, matching its previous high at No. 7 this week. Now, about that face tattoo

6. Zach Bryan — “I Remember Everything” Feat. Kacey Musgraves

Bryan and Musgraves’ hit continues to dominate the charts: Aside from No. 6 on the Hot 100, it’s No. 1 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, the Hot Rock Songs chart (for the 23rd week for both), and the Hot Country Songs chart (19 weeks).

5. Tate McRae — “Greedy”

A lot of songs have been sticking around the top 10 for weeks now, and that includes “Greedy,” which remains just a few spots off its previous high at No. 3.

4. Teddy Swims — “Lose Control”

Like Boone, Swims recently landed his first top-10 single. “Lose Control” reached a new high of No. 4 last week, and that’s where it remains this frame.

3. Taylor Swift — “Cruel Summer”

“Cruel Summer” continues to dominate, but get ready for a new crop of Swift songs to charge up the Hot 100 soon.

2. Jack Harlow — “Lovin On Me”

Harlow had four weeks at No. 1 with “Lovin On Me,” including a chart-topping stint last week. Now, though, we have a new Hot 100 champion.

1. Megan Thee Stallion — “Hiss”

Megan is No. 1 with her new single “Hiss,” which is bound to upset a number of people, as the diss track goes after some of her fellow artists. “Hiss” is Meg’s third chart topper, following “Savage” and “WAP,” with “Hiss” being Meg’s first solo No. 1.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.