Top 10 Worst Songs of 2024
You know a song is bad when it's already ranked #2 on RateYourMusic's "Bottom Singles of All Time" chart. Considering the hype that surrounded it at the time of its release and the fact that it was made by an artist as high-profile as Nicki Minaj, this ranking is totally justified.
It is currently the #2 worst song of all time according to the RYM community, behind only "You Done Goofed" by Blood on the Dance Floor.
Edit: RYM's bottom charts don't exist anymore since the update.
This song is just a diss track that shouldn't have been released on any large streaming platforms because it's just embarrassing.
If you compare it to Megan Thee Stallion's track, it loses the race in every way. No one wants to listen to the same, uninteresting beat with a singer just rambling on the whole time.
Ben "Rap Isn't Music" Shapiro, as per usual, shows how little any of his takes on anything matter to him and how little they should matter to anyone. Clearly, he'll be willing to forego all kinds of beliefs he (supposedly) has, regardless of how much he's passionately yapped about them, if he sees it as convenient for his relevancy.
In this case, he takes one of his classics, "Rap isn't music," and does what every person with a baseball cap and sunglasses in their car as their profile pic does after seeing Tom MacDonald say things they like for the first time.
I guess to Ben, his stupid little rule about how rap only has rhythm, as opposed to also having melody or harmony, just isn't as important as he claims it is. Unless he's willing to add an asterisk that says, "Unless they say things I like. In that case, it's music."
What would your "music expert" father have to say about this, Ben?
Jesus Christ, the person who made this song is so immature and obnoxious. I want to die after hearing this.
I can't believe the person who made this is in their 20s. You should be much smarter to know that making a song like this is never okay.
I am done with making this comment, so I will end it here. Goodbye.
Why does this song with this title get attention in the first place? I assume nobody likes this except for people who like dark humor or a bunch of neo-Nazis.
Is the name supposed to be like the "Jesus Christ is My (n-word)" line from Rapping for Jesus (aka the priest rapping video)?
I discovered today the line where he defends Chris Brown in this, and for me, that's a serious catalyst for having this song either be #1 or #2 for me.
But of course, there still is that Nicki track.
I am just so tired of Chris Brown getting all these passes, and Kanye has the audacity to say, "what they did to him." Exactly what did they do to him? He still consistently gets singles on the Year-End list. He still has a mass of people who will try to defend him.
Between that, this song, and this album, it's become clear that nothing is off-limits if you have the audience for it.
This song needs to be in the top 3 over "Carnival." It's much worse than the latter. While "Carnival" may have reprehensible lyrics by Ye, Playboi Carti salvages the song, and the production is fire.
As for "Karma," it's a terrible song with outdated production and laughably edgy lyrics.
I don't understand how JoJo Siwa even became a music artist, let alone a singer. I don't know how any of the girls on Dance Moms became singers. How are these girls, who are clearly talented dancers, suddenly expected to be talented vocalists? I will never know.
This is a Lil Dicky song that is 8 minutes long. Yes, 8 minutes.
If you're wondering, is there any musical switch-up to warrant that length? Is it linear enough to warrant it? No. This is a normal track from Lil Dicky, with him rapping at a length equivalent to 3 to 5 of his normal songs combined.
He uses this absurd length of time to tell a long and convoluted, very unfunny story that includes themes of indecent exposure and lots of prison-related SA. For almost ten minutes.
Admittedly, this does come from his TV show Dave, and it's supposed to function like its soundtrack, but this thing was released like an album, and this is certainly a song. A reprehensible, completely awful song in every way.
I've seen things like this happen before with a one-hit wonder doing a follow-up that is just like their first. However, this has got to be the worst one.
This is basically "Daylight 2.0."
While "Daylight" has grown on me since its release and success, this new song might just not. David Kushner's vocals are too one-dimensional, and the melodrama sounds more forced than ever.
What on earth is this crap? Who told this girl to sing when she can't even sing? AutoTune is not enough to cover up her lack of skills, sadly.
The autotune is overdone, and the song itself is just very agitating.
Ice Spice is not a good musician. She talks about the same exact stuff every song and just relies on being provocative to get attention. She could do a collab with Yuno Miles and he would carry.
This song is identical to many of Ice Spice's older songs and tries to ride on earlier fame present this year. Lyrics are also not great.
Ice Spice is one of the worst rappers ever! Gen Alpha, you have terrible taste in music.
This song isn't that bad, but it's too generic and it tries too hard to sound sexy. The music video is pretty fun to watch, though.
If it wasn't for the attempt at sexy-sounding vocals, I wouldn't mind this song. It's not bad, but the vocals kind of ruin it for me.
The Newcomers
This tasteless deep house remix of an already mediocre cover needs to be at least in the top 5. Not only is it poorly executed, especially the part when David Draiman's screamed vocals are drenched in AutoTune, but it has become a hit in some European countries such as France, Hungary, and Poland. This is truly a disgrace not only to the original song but also to music.
This remix simply deserves to burn in dumpster hell and never come back.
Such a useless remix of an already mid cover. Plus, AutoTune doesn't work on David Draiman's vocals.
Coming from two music artists who made good songs, this is just cheap. What happened to authenticity in music nowadays? Just a pointless rehash of Whenever, Wherever. This trend is getting annoying.
Yet another bland radio-fodder EDM-pop song that features a lazy interpolation of a well-known, much better track. This trend really needs to disappear ASAP. Please don't let 2024 be another year of gimmicky samples, amen.
Oversampled and made to fit an audience from about a decade ago.
I had the misfortune of hearing this dreadful song during a car trip once. It was the most god-awful thing I've ever heard. He looks like a typical pretty boy but has that awful Lewis Capaldi-sounding voice that irritates me to no end. I know people like to clown on Chad Kroeger's voice, but at least Chad Kroeger can have some good songs. This guy sounds like a weird hybrid between Aaron Lewis and Lewis Capaldi, but even worse.
Beautiful things? More like boring things! To be honest, this is the most boring song to exist.
Not a great song by Camila. It sounds like a bad Charli XCX hyperpop song, and Playboi Carti's appearance is kind of disappointing.
Sounds like an early Charli XCX reject.
Why is Sia screeching like a wounded cat on this song? Somebody give her some throat pills because her vibrato during the verses is straight-up unlistenable and makes her sound like a female version of Lewis Capaldi.
Also, I'll never forgive you, Sia, for making this travesty known as Music and for rudely dragging poor Maddie Ziegler into this mess and ruining her career in the process.
It's not as bad as "Whatever" by Kygo, but it suffers from the same issue as the latter: it's cannibalized by a lazy sample of a well-known, much better track. Ella Henderson managed to ruin "Gangsta's Paradise" on this song, so much so that Coolio must be rolling in his grave (RIP Coolio, your music doesn't deserve such treatment).
Edit: The more I hear this song, the more I wish it could just burn in hell. Simply inexcusable! If Coolio were still alive today, he surely wouldn't allow this to be released.
Why Gangsta's Paradise? Some songs just need to be left alone. I wish this sampling trend died out already.
Music continues its downfall. Pop Baby is shaping up to be one of the worst pop artists ever. Right now, he's emerging, and hopefully, he will stay obscure. He better not get popular, though that might unfortunately happen by next year because of TikTok.
This sounds like yet another troll artist who deserves no attention whatsoever.
Enough is enough. Delilah Bon has been wrecking the music industry along with other terrible artists including Joost, ¥$, Yoko Ono, ppcocaine, Crazy Frog, Tom MacDonald, and Tekashi69. But people still praise her for this abomination. People's taste in music has declined.
Delilah Trash Bon just sounds like a dying cat in all her songs, but people STILL praise her for every abomination she creates. I think I'm gonna say it... music is DOOMED!
Think first before saying "Big Foot" or "Boycott Target" is the worst song ever!
What on earth is this crap? David Guetta is ruining yet another well-known song, "Like a G6" by Far East Movement. How much lower can he go?
What the heck happened to Mumford & Sons? Who told them to collaborate with Pharrell Williams? This song is just incredibly bland and shows that R&B and folk do not mix.
What the hell is this? The lyrics are terrible, and everything else sounds extremely annoying. What is happening to music nowadays?!
This is definitely one of his worst songs. It sounds like if Panic! at the Disco made a dance-pop song while on drugs.