Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things is Global Single of the Year according to IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide. The IFPI Global Single Award is presented to the artist with the world’s best-selling single of the year across all digital formats – including paid subscription streaming, ad-supported platforms, and single-track downloads.
Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things took the #1 spot in this year’s IFPI Global Single Chart, his first appearance in an IFPI Global Chart Top 10. The hit song, which was released in January 2024, has won accolades at the Billboard Music Awards, Los 40 Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, and NRJ Music Awards. Boone won Best New Artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA’s) and was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2025 GRAMMYs, where he gave a high-energy performance of Beautiful Things.
The year was marked by breakout and breakthrough artists, with each of the top three tracks (and four of the top five) coming from artists making their first appearance in an IFPI Global Chart this year.
Aside from Boone’s Beautiful Things, Sabrina Carpenter was also a new entry into the charts with her single Espresso at #2 and Teddy Swims with Lose Control at #3.
Nine of the Top 10 places in the chart were taken by US artists with the exception coming from Ireland’s Hozier with Too Sweet at #6, marking a return to the IFPI Global Single Chart for the first time since Take me to Church reached #19 in 2015.
IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year, Taylor Swift, featured once in the Top 10 with Cruel Summer, from 2019’s Lover, at #9 following a resurgence in popularity of her older catalogue thanks to her record-breaking Taylor Swift |The Eras Tour.
Top 20 IFPI Global Singles Chart 2024
| Position | Artist | Track | Global subscription streams equivalent (billions) |
| 1 | Benson Boone | Beautiful Things | 2.11 |
| 2 | Sabrina Carpenter | Espresso | 1.79 |
| 3 | Teddy Swims | Lose Control | 1.70 |
| 4 | Billie Eilish | BIRDS OF A FEATHER | 1.52 |
| 5 | Shaboozey | A Bar Song (Tipsy) | 1.51 |
| 6 | Hozier | Too Sweet | 1.35 |
| 7 | Post Malone | I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen) | 1.33 |
| 8 | Kendrick Lamar | Not Like Us | 1.28 |
| 9 | Taylor Swift | Cruel Summer | 1.17 |
| 10 | Noah Kahan | Stick Season | 1.14 |
| 11 | Chappell Roan | Good Luck, Babe! | 1.12 |
| 12 | Sabrina Carpenter | Please Please Please | 1.12 |
| 13 | Tommy Richman | MILLION DOLLAR BABY | 1.11 |
| 14 | Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars | Die With A Smile | 1.08 |
| 15 | Artemas | i like the way you kiss me | 1.03 |
| 16 | Zach Bryan | I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves) | 1.02 |
| 17 | ROSÉ & Bruno Mars | APT. | 1.00 |
| 18 | Tate McRae | greedy | 0.99 |
| 19 | FloyyMenor, Cris MJ | Gata Only | 0.98 |
| 20 | Ariana Grande | we can’t be friends (wait for your love) | 0.93 |
(Source: IFPI)
