Favorite Songs of 2024

I’m working on my list of the Top 10 albums of the year, and, as a necessary-ish part of that, I’ve been thinking, too, about the songs that spoke to me this year. Here’s the list. What songs called out to you in 2024?

  • “All in Good Time,” Iron & Wine + Fiona Apple
  • “Alone,” The Cure
  • “America,” Charley Crockett
  • “Angankári,” Teitur & Girls in Airports
  • “Arrival,” Isaac Friend
  • “Arrow,” The Head and the Heart
  • “Baby Ain’t It Cold Outside,” Jeremie Albino
  • “Bored,” Waxahatchee
  • “Breaking the Girl,” Sticks N’ Thorns
  • “Brighter Shade,” Lost Dog Street Band
  • “Cicadas,” Ken Pomeroy
  • “Concrete and Barbed Wire,” Bella White
  • “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other,” Orville Peck & Willie Nelson
  • “Dollar Bill Bar,” Sierra Ferrell
  • “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” Rhiannon Giddens (feat. Silkroad Ensemble & Benmont Tench)
  • “Don’t Mind the End,” Mipso
  • “Episode III,” Svitlana Nianio
  • “Gatlohiha (I’m Crying),” Agalisiga
  • “Getting Reminders,” Efterklang (feat. Beirut)
  • “God Person,” Madi Diaz
  • ”The Good Life,” Joshua Burnside
  • “Good Luck, Babe!,” Chappell Roan
  • “Habits,” Gary Clark, Jr.
  • “Here We Are,” Parker Millsap & Robert Ellis
  • “I Ain’t the Man,” Benjamin Tod
  • “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” Hayes & the Heathens
  • “II Most Wanted,” Beyoncé & Miley Cyrus
  • “Ist Ist,” Einstürzende Neubauten
  • “Like a Window,” Klara Goliger (feat. Christian Kjellvander)
  • “Lonely Dancers,” Conan Gray
  • “Modesto,” Pedro the Lion
  • “A New Bohemia (radio edit),” Pet Shop Boys
  • “No Surprises,” Jeremiah Fraites (feat. Gregory Alan Isakov)
  • “One Last Time,” Benjamin Tod (feat. Sierra Ferrell)
  • “Piss and Vinegar,” Rachel Baiman & Caroline Spence
  • “Real Love,” Willie Watson
  • “Remember I Was a Dancer,” Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
  • “The Rocky Road to Dublin,” Lankum
  • “Safer,” Tyla
  • “Save It for Later,” Eddie Vedder
  • “Say Goodbye to Christopher,” Jeb Loy Nichols & Jennifer Carr
  • “Send in the Clowns,” PRISM Quartet & Miguel Zenón
  • “Shining Like Gold,” JD McPherson
  • “Si Ya Sabemos,” Gerardo Coronel & Adriana Ríos
  • “Sick of Myself,” Trace Mountains
  • “Silence,” Valentina Goncharova
  • “Singing to the Mandolin,” Bonny Light Horseman
  • “Step Into Your Power,” Ray LaMontagne
  • “Sun Without the Heat,” Leyla McCalla
  • “Sunshine Getaway,” JD McPherson
  • “The Truth,” Wyatt Flores
  • “The Vine That Ate the South,” Rachel Baiman & Nicholas Jamerson
  • ”To the Doves,” JP Harris
  • “Waterloo Sunset,” Ann Savoy
  • “We Built This City (Live from Oakland, CA, 2022),” Ryan Adams
  • “Welcome to the Plains,” Wyatt Flores
  • “What’s Fair,” Blondshell
  • “What’s Going on with Ordinary People,” The Reds, Pinks, and Purples
  • “When Doves Cry (Live from Minneapolis, MN, 2022),” Ryan Adams
  • “Worthy,” Mavis Staples
  • “Your Local Neighborhood Bar,” St. Lenox
  • “Your Worst Song Is Your Greatest Hit,” The Reds, Pinks, and Purples

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