Staff List: The 100 Best Songs of 2024

As we build toward the 2024 Billboard Music Awards on Dec. 12 and Billboard’s Year-End Charts reveal on Dec. 13, check out our editorial list of staff picks for the best songs of the year.

If you thought this was a big year for albums in pop music — and it was — then you probably couldn’t get enough of this year in pop singles. It was just an absurdly dynamic year for big hits: songs that trumpeted the arrival of new superstars and songs that reintroduced the greatness of older ones, songs that pointed the way towards pop’s future and songs that reinvigorated its past, songs that made headlines and spawned catchphrases and inspired SNL sketches. It was a pop year for the history books, or at least for the karaoke ones.

And it went deep. A lot of this year’s biggest artists had a good five or six songs we really struggled this year to pick our one or two favorites from — and at the more middle level of pop success, there were a ton of artists we’d never heard from before (or hadn’t heard from in a while) who made their presence known in particularly memorable fashion. And while it felt like pop music overwhelmed the discussion this year, there were still plenty of winners to be found outside of the mainstream, from all genres and from all over the world.

Find our favorites below from a year that might go down as an all-timer, see the list of our staff’s 50 favorite albums of 2024 here, and check back over the next couple weeks as we unveil our 10 Greatest Pop Stars of 2024.