By newsfirstusa 
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — “Not Like Us,” however community positive like him: Kendrick Lamar’s damage crowned Apple Tune’s international track chart in 2024 because the gigantic track streamer released year-end lists Tuesday and supplied listeners with records on their very own maximum listened-to tunes.
“No longer 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,” after all, is a shorten from Fast’s 7th studio novel, “Lover,” absolved in 2019. It had a resurgence back in summer 2023.
Of the 100 songs included on the list, 39 are from female-identifying artists, 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.”
“Bling-Bang-Band-Born” also topped Apple Music’s Sing chart, which allows users to view which songs fans sang along to the most. Clearly, Japanese music is growing in international popularity: In 2023, another Jap workforce, YOASOBI, crowned the Sing chart in its inaugural year, with “アイドル (Idol).” This year, “Idol” continues to dominate, achieving Refuse. 2.
Fresh to 2024’s suite of year-end charts is the inclusion of a Shazam International Radio Spins chart, which makes use of Shazam to discover what songs are being performed on radio stations all over the world. Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” tops that one, adopted through Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” and Tate McRae’s “Greedy.”
Additionally to be had Tuesday is Replay — Apple’s extra to Spotify’s Wrapped playlist — which permits Apple Tune subscribers to have interaction with what track used to be maximum usual at the streaming provider this 12 months. Artists can now percentage their year-end records, too, the use of Apple Tune for Artists.
In November, Apple Tune named Eilish its artist of the 12 months, following her remarkably a hit 2024. This 12 months, Eilish changed into the youngest particular person to ever win two Academy Awards, absolved her significantly acclaimed 3rd novel, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” which has ranked in seven 2025 Grammy Award nominations. On the awards this 12 months, she took house two brandnew gramophone-shaped trophies — regardless of now not having absolved a brandnew novel — each for “What Was I Made For?” from the blockbuster “Barbie” movie.
“It’s always special when a young artist can connect with so many people so quickly,” Rachel Newman, Apple Music’s senior director of Content and Editorial said in a statement. “But what’s been truly remarkable about watching her evolve over the course of this last year isn’t just that her voice and artistry have continued to resonate so widely. It’s that she’s blossomed as bravely and honestly as she has — on her own terms, in her own way.”