2024, A Year of Music in Review

2024, A Year of Music in Review

Jan 1, 2025·
Jakob M. Helton
Jakob M. Helton
· 4 min read
This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) was taken by the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, program. The NIRCam data was used to determine which galaxies to study further with spectroscopic observations. In the background image, blue represents light at 0.90, 1.15, and 1.50 microns (filters F090W + F115W + F150W), green is 2.00 and 2.77 microns (F200W + F277W), and red is 3.56, 4.10, and 4.44 microns (F356W + F410M + F444W). The pullout image shows light at 0.90 and 1.15 microns (F090W + F115W) as blue, 1.50 and 2.00 microns (F150W + F200W) as green, and 2.77 microns (F277W) as red. Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Phill Cargile (CfA).

I listened to lots of music in 2024, primarily digital media with Apple Music and YouTube, but also analog media with vinyls that I have been collecting. In this blog post, I will summarize the music that I listened to in 2024, starting with the top artists and albums that I listened to on Apple Music, followed by the best live performances that I listened to on YouTube, and concluding with the vinyls that I acquired this year.

Digital Media | Apple Music

According to Apple Music, I listened to 21,582 minutes of music, which corresponds to roughly 360 hours or 15 days. This means that roughly 4% of my time in 2024 was spent listening to Apple Music! In total, I listened to 441 unique artists and 234 unique albums. I was a top 100 listener for MUST DIE!, a top 500 listener for Pond, and a top 500 listener for Ternion Sound. My top genres were dubstep, electronic, alternative, hip-hop and dance.

Here were my top artists for the year:

  1. Daft Punk: I listened to this artist for 2,224 minutes (or 37.07 hours).
  2. Pond: I listened to this artist for 2,156 minutes (or 35.93 hours).
  3. A Tribe Called Quest: I listened to this artist for 1,838 minutes (or 36.03 hours).
  4. MUST DIE!: I listened to this artist for 1,691 minutes (or 28.18 hours).
  5. Ternion Sound: I listened to this artist for 1,300 minutes (or 21.67 hours).
  6. Cage the Elephant: I listened to this artist for 1,151 minutes (or 19.18 hours).
  7. Brutalismus 3000: I listened to this artist for 952 minutes (or 15.87 hours).
  8. Stevie Wonder: I listened to this artist for 753 minutes (or 12.55 hours).
  9. Charli xcx: I listened to this artist for 693 minutes (or 11.55 hours).
  10. SVDDEN DEATH: I listened to this artist for 674 minutes (or 11.23 hours).
  11. Excision: I listened to this artist for 603 minutes (or 10.05 hours).
  12. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: I listened to them for 550 minutes (or 9.17 hours).
  13. Prince: I listened to this artist for 388 minutes (or 6.47 hours).
  14. Emorfik: I listened to this artist for 383 minutes (or 6.38 hours).
  15. Kendrick Lamar: I listened to this artist for 373 minutes (or 6.22 hours).

Here were my top albums for the year:

  1. “Stung!” by Pond: I listened to this album for 986 minutes (or 16.43 hours).
  2. “CRISIS VISION” by MUST DIE!: I listened to this album for 905 minutes (or 15.08 hours).
  3. “We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service” by A Tribe Called Quest: I listened to this album for 889 minutes (or 14.82 hours).
  4. “Digital Artifice” by Ternion Sound: I listened to this album for 886 minutes (or 14.77 hours).
  5. “Neon Pill” by Cage the Elephant: I listened to this album for 826 minutes (or 13.77 hours).
  6. “Midnight Marauders” by A Tribe Called Quest: I listened to this album for 705 minutes (or 11.75 hours).
  7. “9 (Deluxe Edition)” by Pond: I listened to this album for 689 minutes (or 11.48 hours).
  8. “Daft Club” by Daft Punk: I listened to this album for 605 minutes (or 10.08 hours).
  9. “The Crazy World of Arthur Brown” by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: I listened to this album for 508 minutes (or 8.47 hours).
  10. “Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition)” by Daft Punk: I listened to this album for 486 minutes (or 8.10 hours).
  11. “GOODBYE SALÒ - EP” by Brutalismus 3000: I listened to this album for 486 minutes (or 8.10 hours).
  12. “Homework (25th Anniversary Edition)” by Daft Punk: I listened to this album for 485 minutes (or 8.08 hours).
  13. “Innervisions” by Stevie Wonder: I listened to this album for 469 minutes (or 7.82 hours).
  14. “FERAL FANTASY” by MUST DIE!: I listened to this album for 431 minutes (or 7.18 hours).
  15. “Digital Artifice / Recompiled” by Ternion Sound: I listened to this album for 387 minutes (or 6.45 hours).

Digital Media | YouTube

Here were the best live performances for the year:

  1. Charli xcx | Boiler Room & Charli xcx presents: PARTYGIRL Ibiza
  2. Ladies of Leisure | Boiler Room & Charli xcx presents: PARTYGIRL Ibiza
  3. Brutalismus 3000 | GOODBYE SALÒ: REWORKED LIVESET
  4. EMORFIK | EDC LAS VEGAS 2024: LIVE AT BASSPOD
  5. Zack Fox | Boiler Room: New York

Analog Media | Vinyl

Here were the vinyls acquired for the year, in chronological order:

  1. “Midnight Marauders” by A Tribe Called Quest
  2. “Starboy” by The Weeknd
  3. “Stung!” by Pond
  4. “9 (Deluxe Edition)” by Pond
  5. “Tell Me I’m Pretty” by Cage the Elephant
  6. “Anchor Me” by Lara Ruggles
  7. “Violator” by Depeche Mode
  8. “OK Computer” by Radiohead
  9. “The Dark Side of the Moon: Live at Wembley 1974 (Remastered)” by Pink Floyd
  10. “Unpeeled” by Cage the Elephant