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Staff List: The 10 Best U.K. & Ireland Songs of 2024
Dua Lipa, Charli XCX and more U.K. and Irish acts have consistently raised the bar in 2024. Here's the 10 best moments as ranked by Billboard UK.
Ireland’s Hozier managed it for a pair of weeks with his single “Too Sweet,” but aside from that, the rest was heavily imported almost exclusively from the US: Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams, Benson Boone, Noah Kahan and more all dominated throughout. The British polymath has explained that “Eusexua” – the term she’s coined for her forthcoming third album – means to reach a heightened state of euphoria or sensuality, or, in her own words “the pinnacle of human experience.” Heavily inspired by techno, the lead single builds steadily, then furiously at its climax; this is some of her finest work to date, and quite the rush. “New London Boy” from that record details singer Neil Tenant’s sexual awakening in the capital in the ‘70s, referencing Bowie, Roxy Music and the queer pioneers that fought back against prejudice (“Skinheads will mock you, call you a f-g/ Last laugh is yours, there’s a brick in your bag”).
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