Worst Hit Songs of 2024

 

    2024: the year pop music came back to life. This was a solid year for the genre, so this list was hard to make. There are more "dislikes" than true "hates." Yet there are still some "hates" and I found a new list this year. As I write this, Billboard has not released its year-end list, so I paid a couple bucks to a chart predictor on Twitter, Talk of the Charts, to use their list. With this list, I actually get 100 new songs. Billboard's year-end is 25% Christmas songs and music from last year that stayed on the chart for a long time. So this list goes up to 118. Now that that's settled. let's start with the dishonorable mentions.

• FE!N by Travis Scott feat. Playboi Carti (#97): This unessential song has an obnoxious repetition of "fiend," a synth line that sounds offkey, and a pair of boring verses from Travis and Carti, where the latter sounds awful.
• act ii: date @8 (Remix) by 4Batz feat. Drake (#80): I hate everything that 4Batz does on this song. I am not sure if he is in love or pissed at this girl. She has a boyfriend, but 4Batz bought you all this stuff, so you should date him. Luckily, Drake comes in, and he actually knows how to be romantic.
• Lil Boo Thang by Paul Russell (#78): I hate the song title. Other than that, it's a song with lazy sampling and an obnoxious narrator. 
• Houdini by Eminem (#39): This song is a sequel to "Without Me." That song is a clever and provocative track where he mocks his critics. "Houdini,"  however, is toothless and very tryhard. This song is not necessary with the original.
• Never Lose Me by Flo Milli (#49): It's bland, generic, and uninteresting from a rapper who can do better.

10. High Road by Koe Wetzel and Jessie Murph (#81)

    Let's start this off with the worst new artist. Meet Jessie Murph. She's a singer-songwriter from Alabama who got big on TikTok. She is also a very unconvincing country singer. Case in point: this song. We have a rocky relationship where the two of them are taking the "high" road by doing drugs and not making any attempt to be mature. I am not a fan of hearing these people's drama, especially when both of them are very unlikable. There is not enough detail in the lyrics to make it feel real. As for the singing, Wetzel is okay, but Murph does not have the charisma or credibility to sell her part. They have no chemistry on this song with generic production. 

9. Greedy by Tate McRae (#13) 

    First, I like the production. The clanging sound is interesting. However, the production should have been given to a better singer. Tate McRae is telling off some guy asking her questions. She does not have the vocal power or personality to pull it off. She is trying to be playful and flirty, but she sounds more angry. The chorus also needs her to sound more confident than she does, and her voice is too thin. 

 

8. Miles On It by Marshmello and Kane Brown (#34)

    This is here mostly based on corniness. Kane Brown got a new truck and he wants to break it in with his girl in more than one way. Brown is not smooth enough to sell it, so he sounds dorky. The synthesizers do not mesh well with the acoustic guitars, reducing the track's impact. This song is considered country somehow.

7. Lovin On Me by Jack Harlow (#5)

    Remember when this guy had potential in 2020? Well, it left. Now we have an overrated rapper who relies too much on samples. The Cadillac Dale sample sounds nice, but the production could've used something other than the sample. As for Harlow's lyrics, they are full of cringe for a person trying to be a smooth lover man. He brags about being vanilla in the first line, spells out missionary later on, and uses a weird Shrek reference. This guy wants us to think he gets laid. 

6. Get It Sexxy by Sexxy Red (#55)

    I don't get Sexxy Red, but I understand why people hate Cardi B now. She is an annoying personality. In the song above, Sexxy raps in her basic flow two uninteresting verses. And I don't like her adlibbed moan she does after the chorus. Luckily, it is short.

5. Wild Ones by Jessie Murph feat. Jelly Roll (#36)

    I would criticize Jessie Murph, but she is not the worst part of the song. It's the producer. This song sounds too artificial with the guitar loop and vocal effects on Murph's voice. Jessie Murph is still a problem though. She cannot convincingly sell that she or Jelly Roll is wild. The lyrics talk about how they smoke, drink hard liquor, speed, and have a gun. You know none of these things are particularly wild. she also has zero chemistry with Jelly Roll who is also here.

4. Whiskey Whiskey by Moneybagg Yo feat. Morgan Wallen (#114)

    Morgan is still trying to mix his country style with the world of hip-hop. Too bad Moneybagg Yo, one of the least interesting rappers, is riding his coattails. Moneybagg uses a basic flow to talk about picking some chick at a club where they do tequila shots, not the liquor in the song title. However, in Morgan's verse, he compares his ex, who he misses, to whiskey. I like how you can tell they didn't write these verses together. The production is also a mess. The trap beat combined with the guitar sounds terrible. 

3. Everybody by Nicki Minaj feat. Lil Uzi Vert (#71)

    This song made it on pure laziness. We found a sample from the great dance song " Move Your Feet" by Junior Senior. We just use it way too much because we don't have any other ideas to go with it. The producer even put the sample into the lyrics. This makes the lyrics incoherent. Within her verse, Nicki talks about how she has girls all over her, she buys a lot of clothing, some other girl is jealous because she isn't as famous as Nicki, and Nicki wins another Super Bowl. As for Lil Uzi Vert, they don't even try to integrate the sample into their verse. They just reference "Just Wanna Rock" over and over again.

2. IDGAF by Drake feat. Yeat (#83)

    This song just is a mess. Drake, in an attempt to stay relevant, makes a rage song with Yeat. Rage is a microgenre of the hip-hop subgenre trap. To my best understanding. it's meant to be mosh music. How do you mosh to this? It doesn't go hard enough for that. Both Drake and Yeat sound horrible as they slur their vocals, try multiple unflattering vocal modifiers, and say nothing of value. The 8-bit production is also a badly mixed headache. 

1. Beautiful Things by Benson Boone (#3)

        I don't have much to say about this song. The bad part is obvious. It's called the chorus. Benson Boone can't reach those high notes and someone in the studio decided not to put them an octave lower. So now his voice cracks all over the place. While acts like the Strokes can get away with vocal crack for aesthetic purposes, Boone does not have this luxury. The rest of the song has nothing to write home about. That chorus makes it my worst hit song of 2024. 

Thank you for reading down to this line. I hope to get the Best Hit Songs list out next week.