There is a distinct dance, trance, rap, remix flavour to the songs in featured Spotify‘s Australian Music Global Impact List, covering all of 2024. The most played song on Australian radio last year was Darwin DJ CYRIL‘s remix of Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman‘s Stumblin’ In. Atop the Global Impact List it’s CYRIL again, but this time a different remix, of Disturbed cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence. Listen below:
It has had just shy of 400 million streams globally.
CYRIL said:
“I’m incredibly honoured to have three tracks featured on the Spotify Global Impact List, including a No.1 spot, alongside so many talented artists. It makes me proud that my music can show the world that Australians aren’t here to f*** spiders.
“I’ve always wanted to show the world just how incredible Aussie music is, so topping the Global Impact List alongside so many idols of mine is absolutely unreal. None of this would’ve been possible without the support of Spotify Australia not just locally, but on a global scale.”
No 2 is from Melbourne rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer Lithe. His track Fall Back was No 1 on this list at the halfway point last year where we noted at the time it had had 127 million streams. It has doubled that. Lithe was triple j’s 2024 Unearthed J Awards winner but didn’t make the Hottest 100 interestingly, despite its global appeal.
Also in top ten was Neverender, the song which recently won Tame Impala a Grammy. The Kid LAROI featured the most, five times. Several others appeared twice including two Royel Otis covers, one they did for triple j and another for Sirius XM.
The top 30 is below.
Jen Seyderhelm is a writer, editor and podcaster for Radioinfo.