Billboard’s Top 10 Artists of 2024: Nos. 10-6

Billboard is counting down the Top Artists of 2024, as based on weekly chart activity, as we build toward the Billboard Music Awards on Thursday (Dec. 12) and the reveal of nearly 500 year-end charts on Friday (Dec. 13).

Starting Monday and Tuesday, we unveiled the No. 10 through No. 7 acts on the year-end Top Artists recap, and now we’re announcing the No. 6 top artist.

The No. 1 top artist, among the top five finalists, will be revealed at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. Tune in to the show on Thursday to find out who the year’s top artist is, and then return to Billboard.com on Friday to learn the entire top 10 (and complete 100 Top Artists), in ranked order. Beyond the Top Artists category, nearly 500 other year-end charts will be unleashed on Friday, including recaps for the year’s top new artist, Billboard 200 albums, Billboard Hot 100 songs and Billboard Global 200 songs.

But first, the fine print: Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024. Rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate. The Top Artists category ranks the best-performing acts of the year based on activity on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart and all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as well as Billboard Boxscore (touring), for the 2024 tracking period.

Below, find the No. 10 through No. 6 artists of 2024.