Singles, music videos, remixes, album covers: it all pays off for Charli xcx, her boy The album grabbed headlines and topped the charts. She ranks first in: advertising billboard‘s annual Top Dance/Electronic Artists rankings, and her Lime Green Takeover ranks #1 on the 2024 Top Dance/Electronic Albums rankings.
Published on June 7, boy debuted at No. 1 on Hot Dance/Electronic Albums and held that position for every remaining week of the 2024 tracking period, reaching the top spot for 18 consecutive times by mid-October. Since the chart’s inception in 2001, the only subsequent year-end number one on the album chart is Drake’s Honestly, it doesn’t matter (June 17, 2022).
Charli is the fifth woman to simultaneously top the year-end charts, joining Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, MIA and Madonna. Charli continues her streak of year-end chart toppers, following Beyoncé in 2023 and Drake in 2022, who reached No. 1 after not charting at all the previous year. The last time this happened was Lady Gaga’s breakthrough in 2009.
Billboard’s Year-End Music Review represents aggregated metrics for every artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from October 28, 2023 through October 19, 2024. Units, Plays tracks sales or streams during the weeks in a year when a title appears on the corresponding chart. These rankings do not take into account any activity registered before or after the game leaderboard is run. The details of the methodology and the October-to-October time period explain some of the differences between these lists and the calendar year review compiled independently by Luminate.
Not only is Charli the leading singles artist among all dance/electronic artists and albums, but she is also the leading singles artist in the genre. She doesn’t have a #1 hit dance/electronic song, but she covers the charts for the year-end wrap-up with the following songs: boy. “360” took the lead at No. 6, and “Guess”, a collaboration with Billie Eilish, ranked No. 9.
This means Charli has 11 songs on the year-end list. Dua Lipa, Odetari, and even Charli’s teammate Troye Sivan all have multiple wins on the leaderboard, but none have more than three indivual. Additionally, she performed on more songs in this year’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Review than any artist in history, dating back to 2013. song.
Charlie didn’t do it alone. Although the original iteration of each boy The song was fully credited to Charli, and a series of remixes expanded her network and influence. In addition to Eilish on “Guess,” Lorde joins “Girl, So Confusing” at No. 17, and Troye Sivan guest-stars on “Talk Talk” at No. 22.
one boy The reissue, released on October 11, featured additional artists on 17 of the 18 deluxe editions, thus influencing the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart on October 26, the first edition of the track in 2025 period. She holds 8 of the top 10 spots on this ranking, indicating that she will have even greater success in the coming year. Drake’s previous record has just been broken, with only one song on the weekly charts at the start of 2023.
But with “360” ranking sixth among Charli’s works, a handful of artists also cracked the top five. Dua Lipa scores No. 1 on the year-end Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart with “Houdini.” She ranked fifth and seventh with “Illusion” and “Training Season” respectively.
The songs were at No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 for three weeks in a row in April and May. The Chainsmokers and Drake have both done this once before, but Lipa became the first artist in Hot Dance/Electronic Songs history to block the entire top three for consecutive weeks, extending her streak to April 27, May 4, and chart on May 11th.
“Houdini” debuted at the top of the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart on November 25, 2023, and has been at the top for a total of 17 non-consecutive weeks. Beyond that, after spending the first six months in the top three, it only dropped to sixth place throughout the 2024 tracking period.
“Phantom” spent two weeks at No. 1, while “Training Season” spent two weeks at No. 2, held back by “Houdini.” This is Lipa’s first chart-topping hit as an unaccompanied vocalist, although she spent 36 weeks at the top of the charts with Elton John on “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix).” The combined strength of these three songs propelled Lipa to No. 2 on the year-end list of top dance/electronic artists.
Lady Gaga and Beyoncé follow at Nos. 3-4, respectively, although there are few new tracks on the dance/electronic charts. Gaga’s last post was Dawn of Chromaticais a remix of her 2020 studio LP, which won the 2021 Best Dance/Electronic Album crown. But mainstays like 2008 reputation and 2011 Born this way Both albums reached the top ten.
Beyoncé reached No. 2 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart with “My House,” which stayed on the chart for 19 weeks as of April. Beyond that, her high ranking comes from continued success on the 2022 charts revivalDuring the 2024 window (57 weeks in total), it ranked No. 1 for 12 consecutive weeks and never left the top five.
