Headline : The Best Songs of 2024 So Far

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It’s been a big year for moody guitar bangers, boundary-pushing Latin pop, dazzling pop spectacle, and uplifting Afropop. The song of the summer sweepstakes are off and running. Superstars like Usher, Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, and Kacey Musgraves rolled through with unforgettable tunes, and rising artists from Sabrina Carpenter to Carin Leon announced their presence with authority. There’s a ton going on in hip-hop beyond headline-hogging beef. Great country records are coming out that look past Nashville for inspiration. To capture it all, we’ve sequenced our (unranked) list of favorites into a Spotify playlist.

Each instrument in Irish post-punk band’s scowling “Starburster” is ushered in one-by-one like a grand reintroduction. A seesaw of fuzzy synths lays the groundwork. Enter: a jangly piano, cascading sustained background vocals, a propulsive drumbeat … and then a total free-fall once frontman Grian Chatten’s punchy, grungy flow kicks in. Call it what you want — a sonic departure, a sexy reinvention — but one thing’s for sure: Fontaines D.C. are so back, and at their best. —L.L.

This Cowboy Carter highpoint applies the anything-goes spirit of late-Eighties hip-hop to Bey’s wide-open idea of American music. Over a stompin’, clappin’, snappin’ beat and a Nancy Sinatra sample, she evokes Tina Turner’s rock-soul sass, James Brown’s Black-and-proud testifying, and, most directly, the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations.” Her lyrics place her own family’s struggles against a backdrop of American economic, racial, and social hypocrisy, and wrap her anti-erasure gospel in a music that radiates freedom, resistance, and joy. –J.D.

“I’m-a hit the gas if you ready to go,” Kehlani sings. Since their forthcoming album is titled Crash, the romantic acceleration they’re singing about might end up taking a hard turn, but in the space of this moment of club-levitating R&B gorgeousness, the future sounds like nothing but endless horizons and shattered speed limits. It’s also a hot flash of early-2000s nostalgia, with Kehlani vibing along to the Coolie Dance dancehall riddim that lit up several hits 20 years ago. They make the groove their own, lighting up one of 2024’s finest summer jams. —J.D.

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