Tunefind Top TV/Movie Synchs of 2024: ‘Love Island’ Dethrones ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
Billie Eilish, meanwhile, is the year’s top artist.
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After seven years in a row as the top TV show for music synchs, Grey’s Anatomy has ben unseated as top dog, according to Tunefind.
Tunefind, a Songtradr company, has announced its top TV shows, movies, songs, artists and composers for the year, and according to Tunefind, the biggest show of the year was the U.S. version of Love Island.
The music discovery website Tunefind’s year-end rankings are based only on traffic and interaction on its website, which helps fans identify what song they heard in a TV show or film. Tunefind’s year-end charts are separate from the monthly Top TV Songs and Top Movie Songs charts, presented with Billboard. The monthly Top TV Songs chart ranks the top songs that appear in TV shows each month, using a combination of metrics from Tunefind and Luminate, while Top Movie Songs does the same for films released in the preceding three months.
Love Island, which premiered in the U.S. in 2019 after multiple years of successful iterations abroad (beginning with the original in the United Kingdom), premiered its sixth season in June via Peacock. The 37-episode season featured a number of synchs in each edition, ranging from well-known tracks old (Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor”) and new (Chappell Roan’s “Red Wine Supernova”), as well as covers of familiar tunes.
It reigns over the return of Arcane, whose second season propels it to No. 2 on Tunefind’s year-end ranking. Netflix’s animated series from the League of Legends video game universe premiered season two in November, three years after the original. Its soundtrack, featuring a variety of original songs from Twenty One Pilots, Freya Ridings, Marcus King and more, debuted at No. 26 on the Billboard 200 dated Dec. 7 and rose to a new peak of No. 24 on the Dec. 17 tally.
Grey’s Anatomy, the ABC series that had reigned for the past seven years since Tunefind began sharing its year-end data with Billboard, still maintains its standing as a TV synch juggernaut, ranking at No. 3 on Tunefind’s year-end report, while FX/Hulu’s The Bear and HBO’s Industry round out the top five. Speaking of HBO, its new series The Penguin tops the five-position ranking of the biggest new shows of the year in synchs.
The top TV song of the year in TV, however, is from none of those shows. The distinction belongs to Mazzy Star’s 1994 hit “Fade Into You,” No. 3 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart that September and the band’s only track to date to reach the Billboard Hot 100.
“Fade Into You”’s year-winning synch came from Netflix’s new series 3 Body Problem, which premiered in March.
Meanwhile, the top movie of the year for synchs was none other than Marvel and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine, which premiered in July, followed by a home video release in October and streaming on Disney+ in November.
In fact, the film takes up the entire top 10 of Tunefind’s biggest movie synchs, led by *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye,” which reached No. 4 on the Hot 100 in 2000 and returned to the ranking in August 2024 at No. 45 following the movie’s theatrical release.
Billie Eilish snags the distinction of the year’s top artist, while Ramin Djawadi takes the top composer honors. Eilish’s year included synchs in Heartstopper, True Detective, Love Island and more, and Djawadi contributed scores to 3 Body Problem, Fallout and the second season of House of the Dragon.
See each of the year-end rankings below.
Top Songs (TV)
- “Fade Into You,” Mazzy Star (3 Body Problem)
- “Only You,” The Platters (Fallout)
- “Heartbeats,” Jose Gonzalez (Brilliant Minds)
- “New Noise,” Refused (The Bear)
- “Hope We Can Again,” Nine Inch Nails (The Bear)
- “Together,” Nine Inch Nails (The Bear)
- “White Rabbit,” Jefferson Airplane (Reacher)
- “You and I,” Leon (Nobody Wants This/English Teacher)
- “Everything In Its Right Place, Radiohead (Everything In Its Right Place)
- “See Her Out (That’s Just Life),” Francis and the Lights (Nobody Wants This)
Top Songs (Film)
- “Bye Bye Bye,” *NSYNC (Deadpool & Wolverine)
- “The Lady in Red,” Chris De Burgh (Deadpool & Wolverine)
- “Only You,” The Platters (Deadpool & Wolverine)
- “Like a Prayer,” Madonna (Deadpool & Wolverine)
- “SLASH,” Stray Kids (Deadpool & Wolverine)
- “I’m With You,” Avril Lavigne (Deadpool & Wolverine)
- “Angel of the Morning,” Merrilee Rush & the Turnarounds (Deadpool & Wolverine)
- “Iris,” Goo Goo Dolls (Deadpool & Wolverine)
- “The Power of Love,” Huey Lewis and the News (Deadpool & Wolverine)
- “The Greatest Show,” Hugh Jackman with Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya & The Greatest Showman Ensemble (Deadpool & Wolverine)
Top TV Shows
- Love Island (U.S.) (Supervisor: Jordan Young)
- Arcane (Jen Malone & Nicole Weisberg)
- Grey’s Anatomy (Justin Kamps)
- The Bear (Josh Senior & Christopher Storer)
- Industry (Ollie White)
- All American (Madonna Wade-Reed)
- The Rookie (Liza Richardson & Marc Mondello)
- True Detective (Susan Jacobs)
- Tell Me Lies (Kristen Higurea & Maggie Phillips)
- Heartstopper (Mat Biffa)
Top TV Shows, New
- The Penguin (Supervisors: Jen Malone & Whitney Pilzer)
- Nobody Wants This (Este Haim, Zachary Dawes & Kristen Higurea)
- Tracker (Robin Urdang)
- The Day of the Jackal (Catherine Grieves)
- English Teacher (Jen Ross)
Top Movies
- Deadpool & Wolverine (Supervisor: Dave Jordan)
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Rupert Hollier)
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (James Balmont)
- Twisters (Rachel Levy)
- It Ends With Us (Season Kent)
- Road House (Randall Poster)
- The Fall Guy (Rachel Levy)
- Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (Sarah Maniquis-Garrisi)
- Challengers (Robin Urdang)
- Venom: The Last Dance (Spring Aspers)
Top Artists
- Billie Eilish
- Taylor Swift
- Radiohead
- The Rolling Stones
- Nina Simone
- Massive Attack
- Beck
- Mazzy Star
- The Cure
- Goo Goo Dolls
Top Composers
- Ramin Djawadi
- Rob Simonsen
- Max Richter
- Hans Zimmer
- Jeff Russo
- Dave Porter
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
- Kris Bowers
- Christopher Lennertz
- Tyler Bates
