2024: A Year In Review, Pt. 2

For this post, I'll be talking about all the songs that hit #1 on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and the AT40 throughout the year, all of the Hit Bound dropouts, the shortest and longest tenured songs of the year, and the biggest whiff of the year. I really hope you enjoy this post.

First off, let's talk about every song that hit #1 on both countdowns. As far as this goes this year, some of them are pretty amazing songs, and some of them are decent songs. Though some of them were going to be in my Top 10 Songs of the year coming up very soon which was actually the best thing. So, here are all the songs that hit #1 on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and the AT4o throughout the year.

Hits 1 Weekend Countdown:

Tate McRae - Greedy (4 Weeks/7 Weeks In 2023) (11 Total)

Dua Lipa - Houdini (8 Weeks)

Sabrina Carpenter - Feather (4 Weeks)

Benson Boone - Beautiful Things (2 Weeks)

Hozier - Too Sweet (6 Weeks)

Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso (6 Weeks)

Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) (3 Weeks)

Post Malone/Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help (3 Weeks)

Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please (1 Week)

Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! (2 Weeks)

Chappell Roan - Hot To Go! (2 Weeks)

Sabrina Carpenter - Taste (3 Weeks)

Billie Eilish - Birds Of A Feather (3 Weeks)

Lady Gaga/Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile (3 Weeks)

American Top 40:

Tate McRae - Greedy (7 Weeks)

Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me (3 Weeks)

Doja Cat - Agora Hills (2 Weeks)

Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now (2 Weeks)

Sabrina Carpenter - Feather (1 Week)

Teddy Swims - Lose Control (3 Weeks)

Benson Boone - Beautiful Things (4 Weeks)

Ariana Grande - We Can't Be Friends (Wait For Your Love) (1 Week)

SZA - Saturn (2 Weeks)

Hozier - Too Sweet (4 Weeks)

Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso (4 Weeks)

Post Malone/Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help (2 Weeks)

Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) (2 Weeks)

Tommy Richman - MILLION DOLLAR BABY (1 Week)

Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please (2 Weeks)

Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! (1 Week)

Billie Eilish - Birds Of A Feather (7 Weeks)

Lady Gaga/Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile (2 Weeks)

Next, let's talk about the Hit Bound dropouts. As far as Hit Bound goes this year, we do have a lot of great songs that failed to make it to the weekend countdown this year. So, in order by date, here are all the songs that made it on Hit Bound but never made the weekend countdown this year.

PinkPantheress/Central Cee - Nice To Meet You

Noah Kahan/Gracie Abrams - Everywhere, Everything

Pitbull/Nile Rodgers - Freak 54 (Freak Out)

AJR - Touchy Feely Fool

The Kid Laroi - Bleed

Neiked/Ayra Starr - You're Hired

Beyonce - My House

Dove Cameron - White Glove

Dominic Fike - Mama's Boy

Patrick Martin - Dandelion Eyes

Petit Biscuit/AJ - You Don't Ignore (Too Late)

Boys Like Girls - Miracle

Alec Benjamin - I Sent My Therapist To Therapy

Knox - Girl On The Internet

Tate McRae - Run For The Hills

AJR - Inertia

Central Cee - Entrepreneur

Willow Avalon - Honey Ain't No Sweeter

Crash Adams - Good Side

Eliza Rose/Calvin Harris - Body Moving

24kgoldn - Good Intentions

Smallpools - Night Shift

Knox - Here's To Us

Zara Larsson - You Love Who You Love

AJ Mitchell - Foolish

Kygo/Ava Max - Whatever

Ice Spice - Think You The S***

Lil Nas X - Where Do We Go Now

Flyana Boss - Candyman

The Kid Laroi - Heaven

Charlieonafriday - Somebody New

Nooah Kahan/Brandi Carlile - You're Gonna Go Far

Conan Gray - Lonely Dancers

Em Beihold - Maybe Life Is Good

Emei - Love Me Not

Nicky Youre - S.A.D.

Jessie Murph - Son Of A

Justin Timberlake - Drown

Alec Benjamin - Pick Me

Surfaces/Jvke - Don't Let Me Down

Hayes Warner/Billy B/Kevin Rudolf - Just A Girl

Galantis/David Guetta/5 Seconds Of Summer - Lighter

Charli XCX - Von Dutch

Lay/Lauv - Run Back To You

Pharrell/Miley Cyrus - Doctor (Work It Out)

Zayn - What I Am

24kgoldn - Clarity

Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust

Camila Cabello/Playboi Carti - I Luv It

Jvke - Clouds

Liam Payne - Teardrops [R.I.P. Liam]

Alec Benjamin - King Size Bed

Kenya Grace - It's Not Fair

Alex Warren - Before You Leave Me

Paul Russell - Eat Pray Love

Haiden Henderson - Hell Of A Good Time

Tori Kelly - Thing U Do

Jagwar Twin - Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa)

Nicky Youre - Part Time Lover

Benson Boone - Cry

Ava Max - My Oh My

Doja Cat/Teezo Touchdown - MASC

Mimi Webb - Mistake

Vaultboy - You're My Moon

Girl In Red/Sabrina Carpenter - You Need Me Now?

Porter Robinson - Cheerleader

People R Ugly - DUMB

Kygo/Zak Abel/Nile Rodgers - For Life

OneRepublic - Nobody

Teddy Swims - Apple Juice

Michael Marcagi - Scared To Start

The Chainsmokers/Fridayy - Friday

Lauv - Potential

Jax/Hardy - Zombieland

Jessie Murph - Cold

RM - Come Back To Me

Forrest Frank/Connor Price - UP!

Stephen Sanchez - Baby Blue Bathing Suit

Alec Benjamin/Khalid - Ways To Go

Charlie Puth - Hero

Meghan Trainor/Niecy Nash - I Wanna Thank Me

PinkPantheress - Turn It Up

Saweetie - NANi

Dua Lipa - These Walls

Tyla/Gunna/Skillibeng - Jump

Halsey - The End

Knox - Change Your Mind

Teddy Swims - Hammer To The Heart

Lay Bankz - Tell Ur Girlfriend

Wallows - Calling After Me

Henry Moodie - Drunk Text

Post Malone/Blake Shelton - Pour Me A Drink

Raye - Genesis, Pt. II

Ashe - Running Out Of Time

BIA/JID - Lights Out

Moneybagg Yo/Morgan Wallen - Whiskey Whiskey

Gracie Abrams/Taylor Swift - Us.

Henry Moodie - Bad Emotions

Imagine Dragons - Nice To Meet You

Bibi/Jackson Wang - Feeling Lucky

Eminem/Jelly Roll - Somebody Save Me

Isabel LaRosa - Favorite

KATSEYE - Debut

Alessia Cara - Dead Man

FlowerOvLove - Boys

Post Malone/Luke Combs - Guy For That

CYRIL - Stumblin' In

Benson Boone - Death Wish Love

LISA - Rockstar

Madison Beer - 15 Minutes

Joe Jonas - Work It Out

Finneas - For Cryin' Out Loud!

Post Malone - What Don't Belong To Me

Role Model - Scumbag

Hozier - Nobody's Soldier

Maren Morris - Push Me Over

All Time Low - Dear Maria, Count Me In (ATL's Version)

Halsey - Lonely Is The Muse

Jessie Murph/Teddy Swims - Dirty

Andy Grammer/Maddie & Tae - I Do

Katy Perry - Lifetimes

Dasha - Didn't I

The Chainsmokers/Kim Petras - Don't Lie

Beabadoobee - Beaches

Koe Wetzel/Jessie Murph - High Road

Alex Warren - Troubled Waters

Mike Posner - Beautiful Day

Tinashe - Nasty

Fifty Fifty - SOS

Henry Moodie - Right Person, Wrong Time

Haiden Henderson - Sweat

Jimin - Who

Camila Cabello - Godspeed

Alex Warren - Catch My Breath

Coldplay/Ayra Starr - Good Feelings

Nightly - Every Part

Natalie Jane - Somebody To Someone (I Just Wanna Fall In Love)

Morgan Wallen/ERNEST - Cowgirls

Damiano David/Labrinth - Silverlines

Halsey - I Never Loved You

Jon Bellion - Kid Again

Ava Max - Spot A Fake

Kylie Minogue - Lights Camera Action

Knox - Invisible

Jelly Roll/Halsey - Take A Bow

The Weeknd/Annita - Sao Paulo

Lawrence - Whatcha Want

Jason Derulo/Jawsh 685 - Make Me Happy

Hayes Warner - ZIP

Halsey - Panic Attack

Lil Nas X - Light Again!

The Kid Laroi/Quavo - Slow It Down

Myles Smith - Wait For You

Lil Nas X - Need Dat Boy

Rose - Number One Girl

So now, I'm going to tell you my Lights Over Paris award of the year. So, I decided to give this award to:

2024 Lights Over Paris Hit Bound Hero Award: Kygo/Ava Max - Whatever

Now, let's talk about the shortest and longest tenured songs on the countdown. As far as that goes, we had a lot of songs that was on the countdown for the shortest time this year. But some of them lasted a long time on there. So, here are the songs that have their shortest and longest tenured countdown run on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown this year.

Shortest Tenured Songs:

Akon - Akon's Beautiful Day (1 Week) (Debuted On November 16, 2024; Exited On November 23, 2024)

Bruce Melodie/Shaggy - When She's Around (Funga Macho) (1 Week) (Debuted On January 13, 2024; Exited On January 20, 2024)

Charli XCX/Ariana Grande - Sympathy Is A Knife (Remix) (1 Week) (Debuted On October 19, 2024; Exited On October 26, 2024)

Coldplay - Feelslikeimfallinginlove (1 Week) (Debuted On June 29, 2024; Exited On July 6, 2024)

Fletcher - Lead Me On (1 Week) (Debuted On February 17, 2024; Exited On February 24, 2024)

LANY - XXL (1 Week) Debuted On February 17, 2024; Exited On February 24, 2024)

MAX/Huh Yunjin - Stupid In Love (1 Week) (Debuted On February 24, 2024; Exited On March 2, 2024)

Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine (1 Week) (Debuted On January 13, 2024; Exited On January 20, 2024)

P1Harmony - Fall In Love Again (1 Week) (Debuted On February 10, 2024; Exited On February 17, 2024)

Paul Russell/Meghan Trainor - Slippin' (1 Week) (Debuted On September 7, 2024; Exited On September 14, 2024)

UPSAHL - Summer So Hot (1 Week) (Debuted On August 10, 2024; Exited On August 17, 2024)

Longest Tenured Songs:

Dasha - Austin (32 Weeks) (Debuted On March 30, 2024; Exited On November 9, 2024)

Taylor Swift - I Can Do It With A Broken Heart (32 Weeks) (Debuted On May 4, 2024; Exited On December 14, 2024)

And the last thing I want to mention is the Biggest Whiff Of The Year. That means it's the biggest song on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 chart that failed to be on Hits 1. So, here's the biggest song of the year on Billboard that failed to be on Hits 1.

2024 Biggest Whiff Of The Year Award Winner: Future/Metro Boomin/Kendrick Lamar - Like That

And there you have it. I hope you enjoyed reading this post. Also, the Top 10 Songs Of 2024 post will be out soon. We also have Hits 1's Top 30 Songs of 2024 coming soon. So please stay tuned for those posts. Hit me with your thoughts and any interesting facts that you have about everything I said on this post.