— Year-End Charts —
The Best-Selling Albums and Songs of 2024
Swift held the year’s top two albums — the first artist to do that since The Monkees in 1967 — and swept all three artist titles.
Artists of the Year
Top ArtistTaylor SwiftCombined albums + singles performance
Top Albums ArtistTaylor Swift
Top Singles ArtistTaylor Swift
Top 10 Albums of 2024 Billboard 200
- 1The Tortured Poets DepartmentTaylor Swift
- 21989 (Taylor’s Version)Taylor Swift
- 3One Thing at a TimeMorgan Wallen
- 4Stick SeasonNoah Kahan
- 5For All the DogsDrake
- 6SOSSZA
- 7Zach BryanZach Bryan
- 8Dangerous: The Double AlbumMorgan Wallen
- 9LoverTaylor Swift
- 10MidnightsTaylor Swift
Top 10 Songs of 2024 Hot 100
- 1Lose ControlTeddy Swims
- 2A Bar Song (Tipsy)Shaboozey
- 3Beautiful ThingsBenson Boone
- 4I Had Some HelpPost Malone ft. Morgan Wallen
- 5Lovin on MeJack Harlow
- 6Not Like UsKendrick Lamar
- 7EspressoSabrina Carpenter
- 8Million Dollar BabyTommy Richman
- 9I Remember EverythingZach Bryan ft. Kacey Musgraves
- 10Too SweetHozier
What the 2024 Charts Show
- Taylor Swift swept all three artist titles in 2024: combined, albums and singles.
- Taylor Swift placed 4 albums inside the year-end top 10 — a share of the chart almost nobody manages.
- 3 albums held their top-10 places from 2023: One Thing at a Time, SOS and Midnights — the streaming era’s long tail at work.
How the 2024 charts were compiled
Every position here is a chart placement — measured sales, radio airplay and streaming across Billboard’s tracking year — not an editorial ranking. Albums come from the year-end Billboard 200, songs from the year-end Hot 100.
Billboard’s tracking year runs from roughly late October to mid-October rather than January to December, which is why a late-autumn release can win the following year and why a song can appear on two consecutive year-end lists.
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