Shaboozey, Beyoncé, Morgan Wallen & Extra

All through the ultimate yr the rustic tune charts, together with nation radio, welcomed a variety of acts.

On Billboard’s multi-metric Scorching Nation Songs tally dated Might 4, 2024, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy)” hit No. 1. The music, which interpolates J-Kwon’s 2004 hip-hop vintage “Tipsy,” marked the primary chief at the record for the Virginia local (born Collins Obinna Chibueze).

Significantly that week, as Shaboozey dethroned Beyoncé’s “Texas Hang ‘Em,” two Black artists reigned back-to-back for the primary time since Scorching Nation Songs changed into an all-encompassing style score in 1958.

“Texas Hang ‘Em” commanded Scorching Nation Songs for 10 weeks, making the observe the No. 10 identify of the yr on Billboard’s 2024 year-end Scorching Nation Songs record. The year-end No. 1 is “A Bar Track (Tipsy),” which spent 18 weeks at No. 1 all through the 2024 eligibility length (charts dated Oct. 28, 2023, thru Oct. 19, 2024).

Discover All of Billboard’s 2024 Yr-Finish Charts

Billboard’s year-end tune recaps constitute aggregated metrics for each and every artist, identify, label and tune contributor at the weekly charts from Oct. 28, 2023, thru Oct. 19, 2024. Ratings for Luminate-based recaps mirror an identical album gadgets, airplay, gross sales or streaming all through the weeks that the titles gave the impression on a respective chart all through the monitoring yr. Any job registered sooner than or after a identify’s chart run isn’t regarded as in those scores. That technique element, and the October-October period of time, account for one of the crucial distinction between those lists and the calendar-year recaps which might be independently compiled through Luminate.

Shaboozey additionally finishes because the Best New Nation Artist of 2024 and ranks at No. 7 at the general year-end Best Nation Artists roundup. Beyoncé is No. 9 at the similar score, whilst additionally hanging at No. 2 at the Best Nation Artists – Feminine recap. (The one lady forward of Beyoncé on both record is Taylor Swift, who’s at No. 6 on Best Nation Artists, and No. 1 at the Best Nation Artists – Feminine.)

Beyonce’s nation album, Cowboy Carter, ranks at No. 5 at the year-end score for Best Nation Albums. The set, launched March 29, debuted at No. 1 at the weekly Best Nation Albums score, making her the primary Black lady to steer the Best Nation Albums tally.

Wallen Dominates Once more

Simply as he did ultimate yr, Morgan Wallen reigns as Billboard’s Best Nation Artist in 2024 in addition to the main male.

Wallen’s One Factor at a Time LP is Billboard’s No. 1 nation identify of 2024. At the chart dated March 18, 2023, One Factor stormed atop each the all-genre Billboard 200 in addition to Best Nation Albums with a whopping 501,000 an identical album gadgets earned in its first week. The set has ruled for far of 2024. In the meantime, his 2021 LP, Unhealthy: The Double Album, is the No. 3 album of 2024.

Plus, nation radio was once type to Wallen, as he scored 3 Nation Airplay No. 1s in 2024: his featured activate Thomas Rhett’s “Mamaw’s Space” led for per week in March; “Cowgirls,” that includes ERNEST, had per week at No. 1 in July; and his featured position on Publish Malone’s “I Had Some Assist” led for 4 weeks in June-July.

“Assist” marked the genre-straddling Malone’s front into the rustic structure. (He had in the past positioned albums on each the Best Rap Albums and the Best Rock & Choice chart.) The music finished a rapid seven-week jaunt to the Nation Airplay summit, making it the second one fastest run because the chart was once began in 1990. It’s 2nd to Garth Brooks’ “Extra Than a Reminiscence,” which debuted within the penthouse in 2007.

“Assist” is the No. 2 Nation Airplay observe of ’24, in addition to No. 2 at the year-end Scorching Nation Songs survey. Malone is No. 4 amongst all Billboard’s Best Nation Artists.

Malone’s maiden nation album, F-1 Trillion, made a dash when it arrived on the Best Nation Albums apex in August, in addition to the Billboard 200.

The No. 1 Nation Airplay music for 2024 is relative newcomer Nate Smith’s “Global on Hearth,” which managed that record for 10 weeks on the finish of ’23, proceeding into ’24. It tied with Morgan Wallen’s “You Evidence” because the longest-running Nation Airplay topper within the 34-year historical past of the record.

Nation’s main lady of the yr is Taylor Swift because of her a hit craft of re-recording her album catalog. Discuss Now (Taylor’s Model) is No. 6 at the year-end Best Nation Albums score. That set began at No. 1 on Best Nation Albums and the Billboard 200 in July 2023 with a staggering 716,000 an identical album gadgets earned (with 507,000 in conventional album gross sales).

Whilst it’s no longer been a stellar length for nation teams, indisputably because the glory days of bands like Alabama, Stressed Middle and others, some outfits have been in a position to reach a footing within the structure. The Best Nation Artists – Duo/Workforce is The Crimson Clay Strays. Hailing from Cell, Ala., the quintet has earned a big following and is in a position to promote out venues around the U.S. The band landed its first best 10 on Best Nation Albums in August when Made through Those Moments entered at No. 9. In the meantime, the act additionally accrued a couple of best 30-charting tunes at the weekly Scorching Nation Songs chart all through the 2024 eligibility length, with “Questioning Why” and “Wanna Be Beloved.”