December is usually the slowest month of the year for releasing new music, but we still managed to curate a dope, best new songs of the month list featuring 50 hot tracks. Our best new songs released in December 2024 feature a variety of independent and non-mainstream artists, along with some popular names you might recognize. Stream songs from Ethel Cain, Little Simz, Elea Calvet, Girl Scout, FKA twigs, Koreless, Junior Varsity, Fake Dad, Rey Pila, Cyn, CIAO MALZ, brookelen, YDE, Altara, Vlad Holiday, and more.
Most of these tracks were selected from our submission playlist, and many received full-page editorials. Check them out below and press play.
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Best New Songs Released in December 2024
| SONG TITLE | ARTIST/BAND |
|---|---|
| Punish | Ethel Cain |
| Image – Grimes Special | Magdalena Bay, Grimes |
| Keep Rocking Don’t Stop! | G2PAD, Guapsexmolly, XERO |
| Better | Alice Phoebe Lou |
| Letter from the abattoir | Elea Calvet |
| My Songs, Pt. 2 | La Shana Latrice |
| Helium (Feat. Marie Davidson) | Curses, Marie Davidson |
| Starwriter | daste. |
| Dumb Crush | Klypi |
| Ember / Collective Liberation | Raiika, Torii Wolf |
| Fossil Brain | Harsh Symmetry |
| I’m So Sorry | Girl Scout |
| last night’s mascara | Griff |
| Give My Heart | Junior Varsity |
| SPJ | Matt Champion |
| Sports Day | Man/Woman/Chainsaw |
| Settle | Nina Nevra |
| You Resemble Everything | Ralph Castelli |
| Heaven II | Julia Michaels |
| Songs | half•alive, Jordana |
| LO QUE DIGA HOY | Vita Set |
| Manson | Work |
| Whatever You Like | Asha Jefferies |
| maze | brookelen |
| Fading Light | JUNEBAE |
| Drums of Death | FKA twigs, Koreless |
| Mirror (with Kota the Friend and cr1tter) | TRY, Kota the Friend, Sam i, Shmuck the Loyal, cr1tter |
| Right On Time | Felix Cartal, Tegan and Sara |
| Hot Brains | Jagged Baptist Club |
| JUST LIKE THAT (with Ari Lennox) | Jessie Reyez, Ari Lennox |
| LOCUM | JVLY |
| Planet Blue | Carlita, Cleo Simone |
| When Did I Lose You | Holly Lovell |
| TOOTHACHE | Victor |
| City of Lost Souls | Matters |
| Found You Again | fantasy of a broken heart, Jordana |
| Our Way | Niccokick |
| Beautiful Blur | Izzy Outerspace |
| Two Feet Tall | CIAO MALZ |
| Milan | Altara |
| HEY | Oliver Keane |
| Father Figure | Vlad Holiday |
| Parachute | YDE |
| Riot X | D.W. Waterson, Tanya Tagaq |
| Flash In The Pan | Wallice |
| Saudade – Remix | Colby Lafayette, Benjamin Carter, RUTHEE |
| Long Journey | Nora Yuyue Zheng, Tore Thorsen, Torii Wolf |
| Purple Snowflakes | Say She She |
| São Paulo (feat. Anitta) | The Weeknd, Anitta |
| Sun | Rahill |
| This is Blood | The Bloody Beetroots, N8NOFACE, Teddy Killerz |
| La Tijera | LA LOM |
| lick the star | Glixen |
| Love | Lambrini Girls |
| All In My Head (feat. Elohim) | Alice Ivy, Elohim |
| December | illuminati hotties, Hopelessly Devoted To You |
| DALOONA | Saint Levant, 47SOUL, Shadi Alborini, Qasem AlNajjar |
| Easy | Leeann Skoda |
| Eva | Madison Steinbruck |
| Sexy Clown | Marie Davidson |
| Rendición | Delaporte, bruno |
| Hiatus (David Bay Remix) | ÄTNA, David Bay |
| Feel So Different | Sharon Van Etten, Ezra Furman |
| THEN THERE’S ONE | Ecca Vandal |
| The Lion’s Share | Taxi Girls |
| The Möbius Oblivion | Rose Haze |
| Perfect Too | Blood Lemon |
| Love You Like I Want To | Cyn |
| Girls Like Sade | June Freedom, Nana Fofie |
| Taxi Man | DITZ |
| When The Summer Calls | Moorea Masa & the Mood |
| Under Fire | Marlon Funaki |
| Look Around | Katy Pinke |
| Rest | Decant |
| Shadow | Decant, YASSOU |
| Sleepless | Kestrels |
| Runner | KAPUT |
| Big Wave | Possible Oceans |
| I am | Clay and Kelsy |
| Waffles & Syrup | foamboy |
| I Feel Numb | Rosa Bordallo |
| Fade Away | Gold Star |
| Over It | Fwango |
| Luna | Naomi Aguilera |
| Ballad 4 (Second Nature) | HerOrangeCoat |
| Landslide | Elea Calvet |
| HOT SPACE | Mars Rodriguez |
| The Pull | Queen of Nothing |
| No Regrets | Bonnie Darco |
| Sea Song | Hope Justice |
| squabble up | Kendrick Lamar |
| star signs | Liv Hanna |
| Elevate | Nao |
| 450 | Leikeli47 |
| Running Blood | Rey Pila |
| The Smiths | Cyn |
| ON/OFF | Fake Dad |
