Was 2024 the biggest year ever for female pop stars?

on The 66th Annual Grammy Awards in February, it was hard not to notice a pattern when artists took the stage to accept their awards: most of them were women.

He won Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist – the so-called “big four”. Taylor Swift (Midnight), Miley Cyrus (“Flowers”), Billie Eilish (“What was I made for?”) a Victoria Monetrespectively And the girl power didn’t stop there.

The women dominated across several genres, with the best jazz performance becoming Samara Joy for “Tight” SZA‘with SOS winning Best Progressive R&B Album, Kylie Minogue“Padam Padam” won Best Pop Dance Recording, and all-female supergroup Boygenius won Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song.

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The Grammys weren’t always so feminine. Back in 2018, the hashtag #GrammysSoMale was trending with a single woman — Lord — getting nominated for album of the year and two women — Alessia Cara and Julia Michaels — nominated for song of the year. No woman was nominated for the record of the year he won Bruno Marsalong with Album of the Year and Song of the Year.

Times have changed since 2018 list of nominees and winners at the 2024 Grammy Awards foreshadowed what was to come the rest of the year: a truly exciting time to be a pop music fan with women at the helm.

We can remember 2024 as a year Chappell Roan was catapulted into superstardomor that year Sabrina Carpenter’with “Espresso” literally stuck in everyone’s head. Maybe it’s that year Charli XCX easily ended any “song of the summer” contest when Brat became the album, meme, aesthetic and lifestyle of the summer all at once. It’s hard to pick just one female-led cultural phenomenon to define the year it gave Our so many of them.

In addition to launching Carpenter, Roan and Charli to new levels of household name fame, 2024 also saw the re-emergence of several veteran pop princesses. Swift released her 11th studio album, Department of Tortured Poetsin the middle of it breaking records Eras TourFinding herself more vulnerable—and angrier—with her fans than ever before, Beyoncé broke free from the confines of genre and released her sprawling country concept album, Cowboy Carterand Ariana Grande she proved her acting skills in the film adaptation Evil in addition to the release of her critically acclaimed recording, Eternal sun.

In an industry where women are often pitted against each other, 2024 seemed to have room for everyone. Swift invited Carpenter and Gracie Abrams — whose November single “That’s So True” peaked at No. 6 Billboard Hot 100 — on stage in Eras Tour Charli and Lorde openly explored and he cured their dynamic of insanity on the “Girl, So Confusing” remix, and Roan shared that Grande was her Artist no. 1 on Spotify Wrapped.

Of course there were some men who made waves this year – Kendrick Lamar‘with Drake The diss track “Not Like Us” earned five Grammy Awards, Shaboozey“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” was inevitable Post by Malone has been featured on songs with Swift, Beyoncé and Morgan Wallen — but Our believes it’s safe to say 2024 was for the girls.