Spotify Wrapped: These are L.A.'s top songs of 2024
Every year, Spotify users wait for the day the streaming service tells them something they already know: who they like to listen to. On Wednesday, Spotify dropped its 2024 Wrapped, which provides each user a detailed breakdown of their most often played artists, songs and podcasts, as well as how their listening habits stack up [...]
Every year, Spotify users wait for the day the streaming service tells them something they already know: who they like to listen to.
On Wednesday, Spotify dropped its 2024 Wrapped, which provides each user a detailed breakdown of their most often played artists, songs and podcasts, as well as how their listening habits stack up with other users.
In the hours that followed, social media feeds were filled with screenshots from friends, family and acquaintances who had definitive proof they, in fact, like Taylor Swift.
It's the tenth year that the streaming company has released its popular campaign, which Spotify exec Marc Hazan says is a "thank-you to fans around the world."
While each person's Spotify Wrapped is crafted by their specific listening experience over the past 12 months, Spotify says streaming habits are "largely shaped by the people and places around us."
With that, Spotify has also released the 2024 Wrapped Map, which shows the top songs streamed throughout the year in some of the most populous cities in the world, including locally in Southern California.
These were the most-streamed songs in 2024 in Los Angeles:
- "Like Crazy" - Jimin
- "Not Like Us" - Kendrick Lamar
- "Espresso" - Sabrina Carpenter
- "Birds of a Feather" - Billie Eilish
- "Good Luck, Babe!" - Chappell Roan
It's no surprise to see Kendrick Lamar near the top of L.A.'s streaming charts, as the Compton native's Drake diss-track became the unofficial song of the summer and the Los Angeles Dodgers World Series title run.
Eilish, another Angeleno, landing in the top 5 is to be expected, as "Birds of a Feather" proved to be one of the most successful and well-regarded songs in her brief, yet celebrated catalog. It probably helped that she performed it live in front of the world as part of the LA28 Olympic Handover.
Los Angeles happily played a role in Sabrina Carpenter's and Chappell Roan's breakout years, helping propel them to superstardom.
But the top spot on the year, Jimin's "Like Crazy," may come as a surprise to casual observers. The South Korean singer-songwriter is one of the frontmen of Kpop supergroup BTS.
"Like Crazy" peaked at No. 1 on the U.S. and World charts and went certified platinum, his biggest song ever as a solo artist. Jimin's other megahit single "Who" also was the No. 1 streamed song in Atlanta.
Elsewhere in California, "Espresso" was the top song in both San Francisco and San Diego, followed by "Birds of a Feather." Both Roan's "Good Luck, Babe!" and K-Dot's "Not Like Us" also landed in the top five in those cities.
In San Francisco, Jimin's "Who" rounded out the top five, while in San Diego, the fourth-most streamed song was, no joke, "Clean Baby Sleep White Noise (Loopable)" by Baby Sleeps, Background White Noise, Dream Supplier.
We would venture to guess that a few households in San Diego with fussy babies did much of the heavy lifting for that song. According to Spotify, the 2:22 track of soft ambient noise has been played more than 1.4 billion times globally.
To see other major cities included in Spotify's Wrapped Map, click here.
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