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Variety Names Hitmakers’ Top 25 Songs of 2024: ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy),’ ‘I Had Some Help’ and More
Variety has unveiled its Hitmakers Top 25 songs of 2024: 'A Bar Song (Tipsy),’ ‘I Had Some Help,' 'Beautiful Things,' 'Not Like Us' and more!
Well, at what passed for everywhere back in the day: blasting from open windows, backyards, cars, stores, boomboxes, maybe transistor radios (remember those?). It’s like the old metaphor about a butterfly’s sneeze being the spark that leads to a hurricane thousands of miles away: One person puts a song on a TikTik video — new, old, niche, or an old hit our parents or grandparents rocked to on a Walkman or transistor radio — and it moves and moves until even the old-school gatekeepers have to pay attention because it’s about to be the biggest song in the country. Yes, Shaboozey, Teddy, Tommy and Benson lit up the top end of the charts, but Kendrick, Post, Sabrina, Zach, Hozier and Future + Metro came in strong as well, making for a stylistically diverse Top 25 with more than a few artists, songs and situations we certainly wouldn’t have seen coming a year ago (like a Kendrick-Drake beef?).
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