Kendrick Lamar tops Apple Music’s 2024 song chart

NEW YORK (AP):

Not Like Us, but people sure like him: Kendrick Lamar’s smash topped Apple Music’s global song chart in 2024 as the giant music streamer released year-end lists Tuesday and provided listeners with data on their own most listened-to tunes.

Not Like Us is Lamar’s first-ever No. 1 on the year-end global songs chart.

He’s followed by Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things in second. Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso follows in third, Shaboozey’s A Bar Song (Tipsy) in fourth and Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer in fifth.

Cruel Summer, of course, is a cut from Swift’s seventh studio album, Lover, released in 2019. It had a resurgence back in summer 2023.

Of the 100 songs included on the list, 39 are from female-identifying artistes, a record first in the global chart’s 7-year history.

And this one may come as a surprise: Japanese hip-hop act Creepy Nuts’ breakthrough track Bling-Bang-Bang-Born topped Apple’s most-read lyrics in 2024. Following Creepy Nuts is Not Like Us, Espresso and Billie Eilish’s Birds of a Feather.