base talk The top 3 songs of 2024 were more acclaimed than #1 songs of the last 3 years. Why?

[bielneira]

 

According to AOTY's year-end aggregator, the top 3 songs of last year were more acclaimed than the #1 songs of 2023, 2022 and 2021. What went right in 2024?

 

 

 

In comparison, these are the #1 songs of previous years:

2023: Lana Del Rey, "A&W" [26 lists | 137 points]
2022: Steve Lacy, "Bad Habit" [26 litsts | 123 points]
2021: Lil Nas X, "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)" [29 lists | 111 points]

[Illuminati]

Less competition maybe, these do stand out amongst everything that was released last year

[Into The Void]

Didn't even know they had song rankings 

[Just a Gay on ATRL]

People are forgetting just how much the pandemic affected music output not just in 2020 but the following two years as well. 

[bielneira]

1 hour ago, Just a Gay on ATRL said:

People are forgetting just how much the pandemic affected music output not just in 2020 but the following two years as well. 

What's the correlation?

[RoseBud]

 

As explained to you before, you can't compare these ratings across years the way you are trying to do it...

[Slayn]

A&W best song here by far, so rankings void

[Gerardo]

More publications and magazines making lists each year, plus there's a consensus of praise amongst critics for those 3 songs 

[burninredhot]

4 hours ago, bielneira said:

2021: Lil Nas X, "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)" [29 lists | 111 points]

2021 was really not a good year for music it seems 

[bielneira]

1 hour ago, RoseBud said:

 

As explained to you before, you can't compare these ratings across years the way you are trying to do it...

And yet you weren't able to prove me wrong

[bielneira]

9 minutes ago, burninredhot said:

2021 was really not a good year for music it seems 

Terrifying

[Wicked]

The crazy part is AOTY omits a lot of lists, so this isn't even that definitive but yeah, I think music journalism has boomed this year and might continue to get bigger. There's new publications, more critics and the Uproxx Critics Poll (a successor to Pazz & Jop) is gonna get the most submissions ever this year.

[Blackout2006]

Where can I find the year-end aggregator for songs? (2024 specifically)

[bielneira]

19 minutes ago, Wicked said:

The crazy part is AOTY omits a lot of lists, so this isn't even that definitive but yeah, I think music journalism has boomed this year and might continue to get bigger. There's new publications, more critics and the Uproxx Critics Poll (a successor to Pazz & Jop) is gonna get the most submissions ever this year.

Yes, that's why I prefer Acclaimed Music. They gather reviews from all around the world, which unfortunately makes their list take longer to be posted

[bielneira]

3 minutes ago, Blackout2006 said:

Where can I find the year-end aggregator for songs? (2024 specifically)

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/songs/best/2024/

They started in 2016, so you'll find for other years there too

[k4rmabutterfly]

Well, 2024 was the best and most exciting year of this decade so far musically  so I'm not really surprised. 

[Wicked]

2 hours ago, bielneira said:

Yes, that's why I prefer Acclaimed Music. They gather reviews from all around the world, which unfortunately makes their list take longer to be posted

Yeah, and the guy that usually makes the spreadsheet is busy rn so it'll be a while before we have a wider picture. One discrepancy is boygenius being #1 on AOTY's aggregate but Javelin being #1 on AM.

[K$Ellie]

well the three songs from this year are all classics, the ones from the last three years are all terrible especially that meme song A&W 

[bielneira]

10 hours ago, k4rmabutterfly said:

Well, 2024 was the best and most exciting year of this decade so far musically  so I'm not really surprised. 

Agreed! It was a good year for good music

[bielneira]

8 hours ago, Wicked said:

Yeah, and the guy that usually makes the spreadsheet is busy rn so it'll be a while before we have a wider picture. One discrepancy is boygenius being #1 on AOTY's aggregate but Javelin being #1 on AM.

I noticed it's usually discrepant, but that might happen because of how many more sources they base their lists from. For instance, Lorde's "Green Light" was #5 on AOTY's aggregate, but #1 on AM's.