Best of 2024
The process of creating and absorbing new music is one of the most profound and basic of human experiences, and each year there are countless incredible songs and albums released into the world. The fact of the matter is that artistic expression requires bravery and vulnerability, as well as an unbelievable amount of time and effort. Because of this, we have always aimed to not be another website built to be overly critical of expression, but to share, celebrate, and discuss that which moves us and that we are genuinely excited about. In the age of streaming, the sheer volume of new music that is released into the world each year is astonishing, and 2024 was no exception to this, so naturally we were not able to cover everything that we felt connected to. To remedy that, we polled all of our contributors to share the music that we loved from this year, and compiled year end lists representative of what resonated with us the most, both as CHARM and as individual contributors to this platform. You can find all of these lists below, and we truly believe that there is something for everyone be found here. We thank you for an incredible and busy year, and can’t wait to see what is in store for all of us in 2025.
10. Balance And Composure
With You In Spirit
9. Counterparts
Heaven Let Them Die
8. No Cure
I Hope I Die Here
7. Tyler, The Creator
CHROMAKOPIA
6. One Step Closer
All You Embrace
5. Charli xcx
BRAT
4. Sabrina Carpenter
Short n’ Sweet
3. Knocked Loose
You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
2. Kendrick Lamar
GNX
The Story So Far
I Want To Disappear
Silent Planet - Mindframe
Charli xcx - Spring breakers
Missing Link - New York Minute
Movements - Afraid To Die
Thursday - Application For Release From The Dream
Combat - Stay Golden
Taylor Swift - I Look In People’s Windows
Balance And Composure - closer to god
The Cure - Alone
Action/Adventure - Real Juicer Hours
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Silent Planet - Mindframe
Charli xcx - Spring breakers
Missing Link - New York Minute
Movements - Afraid To Die
Thursday - Application For Release From The Dream
Combat - Stay Golden
Taylor Swift - I Look In People’s Windows
Balance And Composure - closer to god
The Cure - Alone
Action/Adventure - Real Juicer Hours
Silly Goose - Tsunami
The Plot In You - Forgotten
Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
Simulakra - Dead On The Cross
Microwave - Bored of Being Sad
Budman. - Stringz
Prince Daddy & The Hyena - La Da Da
Invent Animate - How We Used To Say Goodbye
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
The Story So Far - White Shores
Foxing - Hell 99
The Raven Autarchy - Shunya
Amyl and The Sniffers - Doing IN Me Head
Orthodox - The Other Side Of The Nail
Xana - Better Kind Of Best Friend
Gatecreeper - The Black Curtain
The Funeral Portrait - You’re So Ugly When You Cry
Slow Joy - Pulling Teeth
red sun - life sucks, then it gets better, and then it sucks again
Greyhaven - Sick and Lavish
Individual Contributor Lists
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Album Of The Year:
Charli XCX - BRAT
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology
Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet
Halsey - The Great Impersonator
Griff - Vertigo
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Xana - The Sex Was Good Until It Wasn’t
The Story So Far - I Want To Disappear
ELIO - something in the air
Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
Song Of The Year:
Charli xcx - Spring breakers
Taylor Swift - I Look In People’s Windows
Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
Xana - Better kind Of Best Friends
Sabrina Carpenter - Bed Chem
Kendrick Lamar - wacced out murals
Halsey - Ego
Action/Adventure - Real Juicer Hours
Charli xcx - 365
ELIO - allofthat
Griff - Vertigo
Taylor Swift - Down Bad
Girl in Red - You Need Me Now? (Ft. Sabrina Carpenter)
Fontaines D.C. - In The Modern World
Charli xcx - Girl, so confusing featuring Lorde
SZA - Saturn
Rebecca Black - Sugar Water Cyanide
Slow Joy - Pulling Teeth
Militiarie Gun - I Thought You Were Waving
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Album Of The Year:
Missing Link - Watch You Bleed
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss
Balance and Composure - With You In Spirit
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
The Story So Far - I Want to Disappear
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Drug Church - PRUDE
Gleemer - End of the Nail
Vince Staples - Dark Times
Song Of The Year:
Missing Link - “New York Minute”
Balance and Ckmposure - “Closer to God”
Simulakra - “Dead on the Cross”
The Story So Far - “White Shores”
Gatecreeper - “The Black Curtain”
Gleemer - “The Body’s Worth”
Kendrick Lamar - “wacced out murals”
Chat Pile - “Masc”
Drug Church - “Hey Listen”
Hold My Own - “So True to My Own”
Ulcerate - “Further Opening the Wounds”
Fontaines D.C. - “Starburster”
ScHoolboy Q - “THank god 4 me”
The Chisel - “Cry Your Eyes Out”
Vince Staples - “Étouffée”
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Album Of The Year:
The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
Microwave - Let's Start Degeneracy
Foxing - Foxing
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Until You're Supposed To
The Funeral Portrait - Greetings From Suffocate City
Song Of The Year:
Movements - Afraid To Die
The Cure - Alone
Microwave - Bored of Being Sad
Foxing - Hell 99
The Funeral Portrait - You're So Ugly When You Cry
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Album Of The Year:
Gouge Away - Deep Sage
Megan Thee Stallion - Megan: Act II
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Album Of The Year:
Like Moths To Flames - The Cycles of Trying To Cope
Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
No Cure - I Hope I Die Here
Counterparts - Heaven Let Them Die
Casey - How To Disappear
Boundaries- Death Is Little More
The Story So Far - I Want To Disappear
Foreign Hands - What’s Left Unsaid
Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
Songs Of The Year:
Silent Planet - Mindframe
The Plot In You - Forgotten
Invent Animate - How We Used To Say Goodbye
Orthodox - The Other Side Of The Nail
Greyhaven - Sick and Lavish
Knocked Loose - Suffokate
Real Friends - Waiting Room
Cane Hill - The Midnight Sun
Bring Me The Horizon - Kool-Aid
Senses - Good Luck, Babe
Daisy Grenade - Taste
The Home Team - Loud
Speed - THE FIRST TEST
Balance and Composure - with you in spirit
Billie Ellish - BLUE
GEL - Persona
156/Silence - Better Written Villain
Poppy - they’re all around us
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Album Of The Year:
Fit For An Autopsy - The Nothing That Is
Distant - Tsukuyomi: The Origin
Filth - Southern Hostility
SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup De Grace
Neck Deep - Neck Deep
Thrown - Excessive Guilt
VCTMS - Pain Processing
Generation of Vipers - Guilt Shrine
Movements - RUCKUS!
Oceano - Living Chaos
Sabrina Carpenter - Short and Sweet
Songs Of The Year:
Thursday - Application For Release From The Dream
Action/Adventure - Real Juicer Hours
Budman - Stringz
The Raven Autarchy - Shunya
Silent Planet - Mindframe
Slow Joy - Pulling Teeth
Spiritbox - Pefect Soul
Armor For Sleep - What A Beautiful World
The Dali Thundering Concept - Nobody
Touche Amoure - The Appolo Progamme Was A Hoax
Hail The Sun - Secondary Worship
Wilderado - In Between
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Album Of The Year:
Stay Golden by Combat
Cartoon Darkness by Amyl and The Sniffers
Casually Crashing by Arcadia Grey
Double Bind by Excuse Me, Who Are You?
best buds:) by red sun
PRATTS & PAIN by Royel Otis
The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty by Carly Cosgrove
One Step Closer - What You Embrace
FISSION by Dead Poet Society
CHROMAKOPIA by Tyler, The Creator
Free Help by Heart to Gold
Song Of The Year:
Stay Golden by Combat
Tsunami by Silly Goose
La Da Da by Prince Daddy & the Hyena
Doing In Me Head by Amyl and The Sniffers
life sucks, then it gets better, and then it sucks again by red sun
You Old Dog by Carly Cosgrove
All Your Friends by Kerosene Heights
TNT by Heart to Gold
If Our Love Is Dead by Royel Otis
Bad Behavior by Silly Goose
Prove Me Wrong by Stay Here
Navigating by Twenty One Pilots
Burn No Bridges by Teen Mortgage
Jerkin’ by Amyl and The Sniffers
LA Queen by Dead Poet Society
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Album Of The Year:
Sabrina Carpenter - Short n Sweet
One Step Closer - All You Embrace
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Charli xcx - BRAT
Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
Tyler, the Creator - CHROMAKOPIA
Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
Future, Metro Boomin - WE DON’T TRUST YOU
Kehlani - While We Wait 2
The Story So Far - I Want To Disappear
