Genre

Pop

8.0
Charli XCX

360

Charli XCX opens Brat with a name-drop of her own scene and a hook built to be screamed back — the song that turned a lime-green album cover into a summer-long cultural bit.

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Cher

Believe

Throwback Thursday, 1998: a pitch-correction tool pushed hard enough to break, and a production team that lied about what it was for as long as they could.

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8.5
Billie Eilish

Birds of a Feather

Billie Eilish trades whisper-horror for an open-throated devotion vow, and the results became the longest-running Hot Rock & Alternative Songs No. 1 of her career — and one of the biggest songs of 2024.

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6.3
IngaRose

Celebrate Me

IngaRose isn't a person, and her breakout single doesn't pretend otherwise — a warm, well-built self-love anthem that scores better than it should for being honest about what it is.

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6.0
Ariana Grande

Hate That I Made You Love Me

Ariana Grande's Petal lead single debuted at No. 1 on the reputation of the writer's room behind it, then cooled to No. 5 as the actual listening caught up with the mixed reviews — a rare case where the chart's second act is more honest than its first.

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5.5
KATSEYE

Hootie Frutti

KATSEYE's WILD title track has a genuinely great phonk beat buried under maximalist pop vocals that keep getting in its own way.

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6.3
Taylor Swift

I Knew It, I Knew You

Taylor Swift's Toy Story 5 tie-in debuted at No. 1 on the strength of the franchise and the name attached to it, not because it's a top-tier Swift single — a pleasant three minutes doing very little most of her catalog hasn't already done better.

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8.1
FLO

Leak It

FLO's lead single from Therapy At The Club turns the impulse to overshare into the year's tightest R&B hook, and the group's harmonies do the rest.

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8.8
Olivia Dean

Man I Need

Olivia Dean's gospel-flecked demand for reciprocal effort has already cleared a billion Spotify streams and topped charts on four continents, and — unlike most of this week's chart — the acclaim genuinely tracks with the record.

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7.2
Sabrina Carpenter

Manchild

The lead single and title-setting joke of Sabrina Carpenter's second straight No. 1 album is a tight, funny breakup song built on a bit she's already run once — this time with the cameras a little too close to the punchline.

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7.2
Troye Sivan

She's the Best

Troye Sivan trades performance for flatness on his Interscope debut single, and the risk of sounding bored turns out to be the whole point.

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6.5
BTS

Swim

BTS's first single since the full group's military service ended is a tight, likable synth-pop record that plays the comeback safer than the moment asked for.

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a-ha

Take On Me

Throwback Thursday, 1985: released three times in about a year before it worked. The song never changed — the delivery did, at roughly 3,000 hand-drawn frames.

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7.6
Forrest Frank

Your Way's Better

Forrest Frank wrote 'Your Way's Better' as a prayer while driving, released it to no fanfare, and watched a TikTok trend turn it into a Hot 100 single seven months later with no radio push behind it.

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