The National Post reports in its Wednesday edition that Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us topped Apple Music's global song chart in 2024 as the streamer released year-end lists Tuesday and provided listeners with data on their own most listened-to tunes. An Associated Press dispatch to the Post says that Not Like Us is Mr. Lamar's first No. 1 on the year-end global songs chart. He is followed by Benson Boone's Beautiful Things in second. Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso follows in third, Shaboozey's A Bar Song (Tipsy) in fourth and Taylor Swift's Cruel Summer in fifth. Cruel Summer is a cut from Ms. Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, released in 2019. It had a resurgence back in summer 2023. Of the 100 songs on the list, 39 are from female-identifying artists, a record first in the global chart's seven-year history. Perhaps surprisingly, Japanese hip-hop act Creepy Nuts' breakthrough track Bling-bang-bang-born topped Apple's most-read lyrics in 2024. Following Creepy Nuts is Not Like Us, Espresso and Billie Eilish's Birds of a Feather. Bling-bang-bang-born also topped Apple Music's Sing chart, which lets users view the songs fans sang along to the most. In November, Apple Music named Ms. Eilish its artist of the year.