The music data tracking company Luminate announced on Wednesday (January 15) that Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department was the most popular album of 2024 in the U.S. This marks the third time in Swift’s career that she has topped Luminate’s year-end list, after previously claiming the top album in 2014 with 1989 and in 2009 with Fearless. Luminate also shared that the most-streamed song by on-demand audio streams was Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” while the most-heard song on the radio was Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control.” Luminate’s year-end figures also revealed that total music consumption in the U.S. – measured by audio equivalent album units – increased by 5.6% in 2024.
The Top 10 Albums of 2024 in the U.S.(by total equivalent album units) is rounded out by Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time at No. 2, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet at No. 3, SZA’s SOS at No. 4, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft at No. 5, Noah Kahan’s Stick Season at No. 6, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess at No. 7, Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album at No. 8, Zach Bryan’s Zach Bryan at No. 9, and Future & Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Trust You at No. 10. (Billboard)
