The Best Songs of 2024

NPR | By Hazel Cills,

Sheldon Pearce, Robin Hilton

Published December 10, 2024 at 8:58 AM EST

Our special coverage of the year in music continues with a look at the best songs of 2024, featuring Clairo, Tinashe, Chief Keef, Laura Marling and more.

See NPR Music's complete list of the 124 best songs of the year.

See NPR Music's list of the 50 best albums.

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Questions, comments, suggestions or feedback of any kind always welcome: allsongs@npr.org

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Hazel Cills

Hazel Cills is an editor at NPR Music, where she edits breaking music news, reviews, essays and interviews. Before coming to NPR in 2021, Hazel was a culture reporter at Jezebel, where she wrote about music and popular culture. She was also a writer for MTV News and a founding staff writer for the teen publication Rookie magazine.

Sheldon Pearce

Robin Hilton

Robin Hilton is a host and senior producer for the All Songs Considered podcast and Tiny Desk, a series he helped create -- and named -- in 2008.

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