We look forward to year-end music charts to learn what we have been listening to throughout the year. Among the earliest to deliver this year is Apple Music. The music streaming service has unveiled Replay 2024 and some of the Top 100 charts.

You have been listening to…

Apple Music Replay is the section that focuses on what you have been listening to this year — a song or a musician on repeat play.

Unlike in previous years, Apple Music subscribers can access the experience directly from the music app, discover expanded listening insights and share motion videos from their personal highlight reel. To access, make sure your iPhone is using iOS 18.1 or later.

This year, listening insights include ‘Top 100, 500, 1000 Listeners’. Expanding the Top 100 listener insight from previous years, listeners can now discover whether they’ve made it to the Top 500 or Top 1000 listeners of any of their favourite artistes or genres. There is also ‘Listening Streaks’: Users can learn the longest consecutive number of days they’ve played from Apple Music. ‘Top Artiste Streak’ is based on your most-played music of each month.

Apple Replay 2024 interface

There is also a new ‘Replay for Artistes’. Available on their Apple Music for Artistes dashboard, artistes can share insights to help them celebrate the year. Insights include total minutes (total number of minutes Apple Music subscribers have listened to their music in 2024), total listeners (total number of Apple Music subscribers that listened to their music in 2024), top cities and top Shazam (song discovered the most via Shazam this year).

The world has been grooving to…

The year-end charts are out and there are some pleasant surprises. First, the Global list or Apple Music’s biggest tracks of the year. With 39 songs on the list from women artistes, it’s the biggest year for women in the chart’s history. Sitting on top is Kendrick Lamar with Not Like Us. Following him are Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things, Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso and Shaboozey’s A Bar Song (Tipsy) while Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer completes the top five.

The Sing 2024 chart offers a different perspective as this one captures hits listeners around the world sang along to the most this year. Leading the list is Creepy Nuts’s Bling-Bang-Bang-Born, followed by YOASOBI’s Idol, Swift’s Cruel Summer, Billie Ilish’s Birds of a Feather and Tuki’s Bansanka.

Radio Chart Global 2024 is about what’s trending on radio stations around the world. Leading the list are Dua Lipa’s Houdini, Teddy Swim’s Lose Control, Tate McRae’s Greedy, Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things and Miley Cyrus’s Flowers.

Equally interesting is Shazam 2024 chart or songs that received the most Shazams globally this year. Leading the pack are Boone’s Beautiful Things, Teddy Swim’s Lose Control, FlyyMenor and Cris Mj’s Gata Only, Disturbed’s The Sound of Silence and Artemas’s I Like The Way You Kiss Me.

The popularity of Japanese music continues to be on the rise. Japanese hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts’ global breakout hit Bling-Bang-Bang-Born not only ranks among top 10 of the Top Songs of 2024: Global and among the top three hip-hop songs of the year, but manages to take the crown on two year-end charts: The Most-Read Lyrics chart the Top 100: Sing. Bling-Bang-Bang-Born, which this year became the fifth Japanese-language song in history to reach the top two on the Global Daily Top 100, is one of three Japanese-language songs in the top five of the Top 100: Sing.

India has been listening to…

Top Songs of 2024: It’s a triumph for Indian artistes and only five global hits made the top 100 (in India). Here’s the top five — Pehle bhi main (Vishal Mishra and Raj Shekhar), Husn (Anuv Jain), Softly (Karan Aujla and Ikky), Akhiyaan gulaab (Mitraz) and Lalkara featuring Sultaan (Diljit Dosanjh).

Bollywood Hits: Best of 2024 proved Arijit Singh continues to rule. The top five: Sajni (Ram Sampath, Prashant Pandey and Arijit Singh), Akhiyaan gulaab (Mitraz), Naina (Raj Ranjodh, Diljit Dosanjh and Badshah), Teri baaton mein aisa uljha jiya (Raghav, Tanishk Bagchi, Nina Mathur and Asees Kaur) and Soni soni (Darshan Raval, Jonita Gandhi and Rochak Kohli)