2024 Most Popular Music on YouTube

Well, now everyone and their dog is doing some kind of Spotify Wrapped style year in review, but we’ve been doing this gig for a few years now and we’re not about to stop. So who’s ready to take a trip down memory lane and look at some of the very best music that soundtracked your videos in 2024? 

This article will reveal all the top music artists and songs that were the most popular with creators on YouTube and other social platforms in 2024. Hopefully providing you with some inspo along the way!

Most popular music artists on YouTube in 2024

1. Coldplay

No one has come close to taking the top spot from big hitters Coldplay since we got the rights to a bunch of their music in 2023. Not even our girl Sabrina! A lot of this is because Coldplay has such a big catalog and they’ve shared the rights to a lot of it with us (and therefore you, creators).

Top Tracks: Viva La Vida, Paradise, Fix You, Yellow

2. Sabrina Carpenter

The pop queen of 2024, she had the hearts of the Lickd team and clearly many creators in 2024. Not just one of the most popular on Lickd, but across the music industry. Thanks to our relationships with the music industry we were able to get many of Sabrina’s tracks while they were trending.

Top tracks include: Espresso, Please Please Please, Nonsense, Taste

3. Linkin Park (The Emptiness Machine, In The End)

New to Lickd in 2024! Top Tracks include: In The End, Numb, Faint, and brand new The Emptiness Machine

 

4. Dua Lipa

Top tracks: Don’t Start Now, Break My Heart, Physical, Kiss and Make Up (ft BLACKPINK)

 

5. Green Day

Top Tracks include: Basket Case, American Idiot, Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), When I Come Around

 

 

6. Bruno Mars

Top tracks include: Just The Way You Are, Marry You, 24K Magic, Finesse, Runaway Baby

 

7. David Guetta

Top tracks include: Memories (ft. Kid Cudi), Family Affair (Dance For Me), Would I Lie To You

 

8. Macklemore

Top tracks include: Can’t Hold Us, Thrift Shop, Wing$

 

 

9. Daft Punk

Top tracks include: Around The World, Veridis Quo, Something About Us, Da Funk

 

10. The Offspring

Top tracks include: The Kids Aren’t Alright, You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid, Pretty Fly (For A White Guy), Why Don’t You Get A Job

 

 

Most popular copyrighted music tracks on YouTube in 2024

Here are the top 20 most popular mainstream tracks on Lickd, as licensed by our creators:

1. Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso (Song of the summer! Everyone has been loving Sabrina in 2024 so this one comes as no surprise.)
2. Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Ray Dalton – Can’t Hold Us
3. Coldplay – Paradise
4. Coldplay Viva La Vida
5. KALEO – Way Down We Go
6. Bruno Mars – 24K Magic
7. Glass Animals – Heat Waves
8. Daft Punk – Around The World
9. Kenya Grace – Strangers
10. Linkin Park – The Emptiness Machine
11. Coldplay – Yellow
12. Drake & BlocBoy JB – Look Alive
13. Sabrina Carpenter – Taste
14. Bastille – Pompeii
15. Caesars – Jerk It Out
16. Christina Perri – A Thousand Years
17. David Bowie – Let’s Dance
18. The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
19. Odetari – KEEP UP
20. Linkin Park – In The End

Check out more top licensed tracks and keep up to date with the most popular mainstream tracks available for your content in this Lickd Most Licensed playlist which is updated regularly!

 

 

Most popular royalty-free music tracks on all social platforms in 2024

For the moments when a simpler royalty-free, copyright-free track is needed, you can get those from Lickd too – included unlimited with any Lickd subscription. Below are the 10 most popular tracks with our creators in 2024:

Curtis Clacey | Jamie Elder | Thom Franck – Recognition

George Georgia – Sunshine Beat

Lincoln Grounds | Pat Reyford – Little Bit Of Rock

Andy Cooper – Tropical Funk

George Georgia – Diamonds

Adam Skinner | Dan Skinner – Brave

Matt Goodman | Matthew Bento – Drunk On Me

Elliot Devine-King | Marc Jackson Burrows – Think About You

George Georgia – London Beat

Aaron John Shapiro | Kelly Mac – Smoked

Get more of the most licensed Included (royalty-free) tracks in this dedicated playlist:

 

 

That’s a wrap! (pun intended) Now you know what music has been most popular with other creators on YouTube in 2024, you can start using them yourself in 2025 to grow your channel. Because using Lickd mainstream music has proven to grow your views and engagement!

We appreciate we don’t have ALL of the 25M most streamed tracks and artists in the world, but we’re the only ones fighting to make them available to you and we won’t stop until we do! We’re already at 1.4 million tracks and every year we do this article, more of the world’s biggest artists get on board. If you want to see more artists and tracks added to the Lickd catalog, make sure to sign up – giving us more firepower to get the music you really want.

Subscriptions start from $22.99 including unlimited free stock music and at least 1 mainstream track license per month!