Whilst I started keeping track of the music I listened to each month back in 2010 I started doing a yearly overview of my Top 100 in 2013, tracking the number of tracks I listened to across each band courtesy of LastFM’s Scrobbler that pulls all my listening data from various devices and sources.

Some bands appear on the list every year – probably 20% of the list features bands that always get enough plays every year to make the top 100 on repeat… with several making the Top 10 their regular home. But what still amazes me is that about 30-40% of each years music are bands that I discover that year – either relatively new bands or bands that I, for whatever reason, had never listened to in the past but just discovered or bands that I listen to rarely but got a bit more airtime over the last 12 months.

Here’s my Top 100 Bands for 2024…

CHVRCHES feat. Robert Smith – How Not To Drown

Top 100 Bands – 2024

Position	Last Year (2023)	Band
1	35	CHVRCHES
2	8	Fields of the Nephilim
3	34	Kalandra
4	1	Conjure One
5	NE	Of Verona
6	4	New Model Army
7	38	Akoviani
8	NE	Midnight Smoke
9	NE	Kerli
10	2	Enigma

Of Verona – Dark In My Imagination

11	6	Halsey
12	41	All About Eve
13	97	The Cure
14	96	So Below
15	5	The Mission
16	46	MXMS
17	24	London Grammar
18	12	Mind.In.A.Box
19	7	Mothica
20	3	Taylor Swift

So Below – Ruin

21	92	Clannad
22	NE	Somewhere off Jazz Street
23	20	The Sisters of Mercy
24	14	CASHFORGOLD
25	NE	Ari Mason
26	43	God Is an Astronaut
27	RE	If These Trees Could Talk
28	15	Kite
29	13	Meg Myers
30	51	Max Richter

Somewhere off Jazz Street – Maybe Tomorrow

31	22	Hunter as a Horse
32	74	Nicole Dollanganger
33	RE	Denmark + Winter
34	10	Holly Humberstone
35	59	Gunship
36	50	Kaelan Mikla
37	NE	Klergy
38	NE	Zeal & Ardor
39	NE	Ethel Cain
40	65	Saint of Sin

Zeal & Ardor – Devil is Fine

41	RE	Joni Mitchell
42	RE	Luna Shadows
43	NE	Frank Turner
44	66	Sleepthief
45	RE	Chelsea Wolfe
46	16	Emily Jane White
47	NE	Flower Face
48	RE	Fischerspooner
49	RE	Brand New
50	17	Carbon Based Lifeforms

Frank Turner – Girl From The Record Shop

51	RE	Nouvelle Vague
52	48	Delerium
53	NE	Manet
54	NE	Murcof
55	88	Toni Castells
56	RE	Oh Hiroshima
57	NE	Annie
58	57	Levellers
59	79	Linkin Park
60	NE	Red Mecca
61	RE	Wolf Alice
62	NE	Hania Rani
63	RE	Green Day
64	NE	Midas Fall
65	9	Sidewalks and Skeletons
66	NE	Aleister Crowley
67	94	Croom
68	58	Equador
69	NE	N O W A V E
70	RE	Dua Lipa
71	11	machineheart
72	NE	Snakes of Russia
73	NE	The Lovecraft Sextet
74	NE	APPLE & STONE
75	39	Nine Inch Nails

Annie – Anthonio

76	RE	Funker Vogt
77	45	CLANN
78	RE	Mind Cinema
79	98	Gracie Abrams
80	NE	Lowering
81	NE	Snow Ghosts
82	NE	The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation
83	NE	Kyla La Grange
84	NE	CLAVVS
85	RE	Ladytron
86	67	Billie Eilish
87	NE	Christine
88	NE	Edelis
89	RE	Sneaker Pimps
90	68	Kendra Dantes
91	RE	Wardruna
92	44	HEALTH
93	NE	Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra
94	RE	PJ Harvey
95	NE	Equana
96	RE	Marilyn Manson
97	RE	Cinephile
98	54	In Strict Confidence
99	NE	The Underground Youth
100	RE	Transvision Vamp

Murcof feat. Alina Corona – Going Home