{"id":119030,"date":"2024-12-31T18:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/31\/the-year-in-music-2024-2024-was-the-year-of-the-woman-at-least-in-music\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T18:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T18:04:19","slug":"the-year-in-music-2024-2024-was-the-year-of-the-woman-at-least-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/31\/the-year-in-music-2024-2024-was-the-year-of-the-woman-at-least-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year in Music 2024: 2024 was the Year of the Woman &#8230; at least in music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-27\/ABC_Audio_TheYearInMusic_2024_v02_ag_6.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t just <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> who was making the headlines, releasing the albums, ruling the charts and grabbing the Grammy nods in 2024 \u2014 these other pop women kept pretty busy, too:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miley Cyrus<\/strong> won her first-ever Grammy in February for her chart-topping hit &#8220;Flowers.&#8221; In August, at age 31, she became the youngest person ever to be named a Disney Legend. In November, she received a Grammy nomination for Best Country Duo\/Group Performance for &#8220;II MOST WANTED,&#8221; the duet she and <strong>Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong> recorded for Bey&#8217;s album<em> Cowboy Carter. <\/em>She also won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmmawards.com\/2024-hmma-winners-nominations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hollywood Music In Media Award<\/a>\u00a0and was nominated for a Golden Globe award for &#8220;Beautiful That Way,&#8221; the song she wrote for the <strong>Pamela Anderson<\/strong> film <em>The Last Showgirl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong> topped the album and singles charts with her album <em>eternal sunshine<\/em>, and its singles &#8220;yes, and?&#8221; and &#8220;we can&#8217;t be friends (wait for you love).&#8221; She topped the box office with her long-awaited movie musical\u00a0<em>Wicked<\/em>, getting rave reviews, a Golden Globe nomination and Oscar buzz for her performance as Galinda. Her turn hosting <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u00a0in October drew just under 5.6 million viewers, giving the show its biggest audience since a May 2021 episode with<strong> Elon Musk<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The musical guest on Ariana&#8217;s <em>SNL<\/em> episode was <strong>Stevie Nicks<\/strong>, marking her first performance on the show in 41 years. She sang women&#8217;s rights anthem &#8220;The Lighthouse,&#8221; her first new original song since 2020. In 2024, Stevie also headlined stadiums with <strong>Billy Joel<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TaylorSwift\/comments\/1c7uu2a\/the_poem_by_stevie_nicks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">penned<\/a> a special poem for her pal Taylor&#8217;s album <em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em> and duetted with <strong>Harry Styles<\/strong> at the BST Hyde Park Festival. In November, she released a charity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A_Eyn8yuL2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas duet<\/a> with <strong>Jason Kelce<\/strong>, brother of Taylor&#8217;s boyfriend,\u00a0<strong>Travis Kelce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lady Gaga<\/strong>&#8216;s movie <em><span>Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux<\/span> <\/em>may not have set the box office on fire, but her companion album,\u00a0<em>Harlequin<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>got decent reviews. Her duet with <strong>Bruno Mars<\/strong>, &#8220;Die with a Smile,&#8221; grabbed two Grammy nods and became the fastest song ever to hit\u00a01 billion streams in Spotify history. Gaga also got engaged to her longtime boyfriend, <strong>Michael Polansky<\/strong>, sang at the Summer Olympics \u2014 in French! \u2014 and released &#8220;Disease,&#8221; the first single from her seventh studio album. She&#8217;ll headline Coachella in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dua Lipa<\/strong> released her long-awaited sophomore album,\u00a0<em>Radical Optimism<\/em>, featuring the singles &#8220;Houdini,&#8221; &#8220;Training Season&#8221; and &#8220;Illusion.&#8221; She made her big-screen debut in the film<em> Argylle<\/em>, fulfilled a lifelong dream by headlining the U.K.&#8217;s Glastonbury Festival, launched a world tour, sang with <strong>Cher<\/strong> at the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame, got her own CBS TV special and released her first live LP.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. 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