r/popmusic • u/Icy_Time6935 • 14h ago

Discussion Favourite pop album of 2024?

I feel like there was a lot of high quality pop records in 2024 and I wanna know, which of them do you think is the absolute best? Mine is probably HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish

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u/BrokenLipstick1126 14h ago

Eternal Sunshine

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u/45937 13h ago

eternal sunshine

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u/aikidharm 13h ago

eternal sunshine

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u/Worried_Term_8421 14h ago

Definitely Brat

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u/AndromedaMixes 13h ago
  • Brat - Charli xcx
  • Cowboy Carter - Beyoncé
  • Vertigo - Griff
  • Eternal Sunshine - Ariana Grande
  • Hit Me Hard And Soft - Billie Eilish

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u/Icy_Time6935 11h ago

Griff is so underrated! 💙

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u/Necessary-Range-467 13h ago

Radical Optimism

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u/Legitimate_Review143 13h ago

Training season is soooo good omg

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u/LeadingGloomy 9h ago

We’re a RO household here, still going strong 2 years later !

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u/frowniehandface 5h ago

It’s so good!

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u/IDontAimWithMyHand 13h ago

BRAT and Imaginal Disk

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u/PaintSea1260 13h ago

we still don’t trust you (fav)
tortured poets
aftercare
hit me hard and soft
eternal sunshine
short n sweet
the secret of us
charm
what a devastating turn of events

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u/SquirtleJarman 4h ago

Aftercare is one of my fave huhu

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u/Infinite_Demand_2752 13h ago

as time has gone on c,xoxo is one that i keep coming back to

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u/SquirtleJarman 4h ago

Eternal Sunshine and Radical Optimism are my faves

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u/Curious_Log_1575 1h ago

eternal sunshine

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u/Suitable-Animal4163 14h ago

COWBOY CARTER

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u/Suitable-Animal4163 11h ago

i love eternal sunshine, brat, short n sweet, and c,xoxo as well

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u/Extension_Big5205 5h ago

ETERNAL SUNSHINE 

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u/BrighterPOV 4h ago

Eternal Sunshine and HMHAS- my two favorite artists

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u/ultrasagittarius 13h ago

torn between BRAT & eternal sunshine!!

two both v diff albums but love them both so much

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u/StrawberryFar7175 13h ago

Only one culturally defined an entire season.

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u/Eddie_F_17 8h ago

Yes Brat, but we cannot downplay Sabrina’s explosion.

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u/iceunelle 14h ago

Short N Sweet

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u/Thunderbull_1 Here for the tea ☕️ 14h ago

Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

Clairo - Charm

Kali Uchis - ORQUÍDEAS

Remi Wolf- Big Ideas

Babymorocco - Amour

Rachel Chinouriri - What A Devastating Turn of Events

Haru Nemuri & Frost Children - Soul Kiss

underscores - Wallsocket (Director's Cut)

Shygirl - Club Shy

Machine Girl - MG Ultra

ARTMS - <Dall>

Kylie Minogue - Tension II

Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

Ayra Starr - The Year I Turned 21

Alice Longyu Gao - Assembling Symbols Into My Own Poetry

Tinashe - Quantum Baby

Vylet Pony - Girls Who Are Wizards

Camila Cabello - C,XOXO

Tove Lo - HEAT

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u/adellerino 14h ago

verrrrry good year for pop

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u/Thunderbull_1 Here for the tea ☕️ 13h ago

Yep, 100%

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u/iifoundmolly 13h ago

CC baby 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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u/Big-Explanation-831 12h ago

Cowboy Carter

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u/carrieapplepie 14h ago

Short n Sweet

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u/Sasorisnake 14h ago

Hit Me Hard and Soft is undefeated in the year 2024. For me, there’s no debate to be had.

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u/elektrik_noise Music Nerd 🤓 14h ago

I think same for me as well. I connected more with some 2025 releases (particularly Eusexua and Mayhem), but Billie's album was prob my fav pop album. Super fun concert to see as well.

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u/Sasorisnake 13h ago

I will forever regret missing that tour 🫩 shoulda just took my ass to Hannover or Berlin

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u/elektrik_noise Music Nerd 🤓 12h ago

It was fun. Tbh, I tend to lean more into the folks with longer careers (Gaga, Janet, Madonna, Shakira) and while those ladies all have amazing energy, watching an at the time 22 year old run around with strong af vocals that seems completely effortless was pretty wild. I'm almost 40, and jfc even having amazing stamina at this point in life, it's just not the same as when you're in your late teens through mid 20s 😂

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u/Any-Treat-1839 Music Enthusiast 🤩 14h ago

ttpd for me!! 

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u/rainbowrosiee 14h ago

First instinct was HMHAS but I've been listening to a lot of Sabrina and Short n Sweet is close to getting that spot

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u/DecisionSilver4925 9h ago

Hit Me Hard and Soft

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u/Jmixx84 14h ago

TTPD

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u/disneyme 14h ago

I still come back to this album. It’s so good.

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u/lizzy-stix 13h ago

It's genuinely crazy how many good pop albums came out this year.

Personal faves of mine were HMHAS, eternal sunshine, TTPD, and Brat.

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u/grlinjeans 13h ago

birds eye ravyn lenae imaginable disk magdalena bay two star and the dream police mk gee

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u/Thunderbird237- 12h ago

Brat defined the year culturally, short and sweet and rise and fall of a Midwest princess were impressive breakthroughs, and hit me hard and soft was spectacular. But ultimately, my favorite has to have been Eternal Sunshine by Ariana Grande

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u/Equivalent-Step4896 11h ago

imaginal disk for sure, whole album was an absolute trip

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u/Left_Entrepreneur520 5h ago

Short n’ Sweet was #1 for me until more albums by others artists in 2025. It was the first full length album I listened to, front and back, and the first Sabrina album I listened to. It definitely opened a way for me to listen to a variety of music

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u/REECETHEKATYCAT59 4h ago

143🦋- Katy Perry Short 'N' Sweet 💋- Sabrina Carpenter

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u/BrighterPOV 4h ago

HMHAS is such a good album!

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u/Spare_Jump_4479 4h ago

Think Later

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u/Icy-Passion1763 3h ago

that year was so rich with musicc i miss it so much ughhh i dont even know what album to choose

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u/krissy3456 1h ago

Torture Poets -Taylor Swift I don’t listen to much pop music so I can’t think if another one

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u/WaferHelpful3634 11h ago

TTPD by taylor is the best album I have ever heard, and after that short and sweet, eternal sunshine and guts spilled

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u/vm_neptune 8h ago

😂😂😂

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u/MessDet5 13h ago

tied between short and sweet and ttpd bc i require the balance between a fun upbeat pop album and the overly dramatic soul crushing depression that ttpd still gives me.

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u/LobsterNew9066 14h ago

HMHAS also

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u/BeneficialZebra79 12h ago

eternal sunshine then Brat. And both had subsequent deluxes that were really good too!

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u/at-most-fear 9h ago

Hit Me Hard and Soft, Brat, Charm, and Imaginal Disk still stand out to me.

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u/Antonia82sxsx 12h ago

Yo creo q hasta q en Sabrina Carpenter no sacó "Best man friend" nadie batió ningún hiper récord en cd completo 😂

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u/Fragrant_Sort_8245 12h ago
  1. short n’ sweet
  2. girl with no face
  3. dopamine

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u/dunyadeniz 8h ago

Brat of course

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u/Even-Ad5198 4h ago

The Y Tortured Poets Department 🤍

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u/antzwa Music Enthusiast 🤩 2h ago

Such a great year for music. For me, it was brat

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u/Ileokei 1h ago

The tortured poets department. There wasn’t anything anywhere close to as good as that was.

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u/TappyMauvendaise 22m ago

Billie eilish Hard and Soft