Best of 2024 music lists

Ryan LaCroix's list includes albums from Kaitlin Butts, Chat Pile, Beau Jennings & the Tigers and more.

Elecktra Stanislava, a local musician and audio engineer who runs the community platform Make Oklahoma Weirder with Evan Jarvicks, shares their top 24 songs of 2024.

NPR Music's pop critic says her favorite albums of this tumultuous year demonstrated the value of embracing fragility and vulnerability.

For NPR Music's hip-hop and R&B editor, no list could capture an accurate picture of the year, yet there's still value in calling out the albums that felt unignorable.

So many of 2024's big music stories were about freshly minted stars reaping the benefits of the long game.

Ryan LaCroix's favorites list includes songs by Soccer Mommy, Fontaines D.C., The Decemberists and more.

There's no neat, bow-tied trend to explain this year in Latin music because maybe, more than ever before, Latin music was allowed to be just music.

The Alt.Latino co-host found inspiration in the deeply sincere drive to test the outer and inner limits of creativity.

For some listeners, discovering our favorite music of the year proves the old adage: No risk, no reward.

Matthew Viriyapah, host of the Oklahoma Music Minute and the music interview podcast Songwriters and Tour Riders, shares his top 10 songs of 2024.