Over 250 songs have peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100, and despite not hitting No. 1 or even the top 10, many remain memorable years or even decades later.
On the Hot 100 dated July 4, 1964, the Beach Boys celebrated Independence Day with their first No. 1, “I Get Around.” The same week, the single’s B-side, “Don’t Worry Baby,” reached its No. 24 high, and likewise is a beloved hit.
Elton John, Billy Joel and Blondie all scored classic No. 24 Hot 100 hits in the ‘70s, while studio group Wilton Place Street Band took a familiar song to No. 24 in 1977 – in disco form, naturally: “Disco Lucy (I Love Lucy Theme).”
Enya brought new age to the Hot 100 in 1989, rising to No. 24 with her breakthrough hit “Orinoco Flow (Sail Away).” With the song, she charted a course for further success, which includes her No. 10-peaking “Only Time” in 2001 and her featured turn on Mario Winans’ No. 2 hit “I Don’t Wanna Know” in 2004.
In the ‘90s, Faith Evans, Garbage and Amber all sent songs that remain in rotation on streaming and radio playlists to No. 24 on the Hot 100.
Since 2000, Mandy Moore, John Legend, Shawn Mendes, Carrie Underwood and Dan + Shay are among acts with songs that hit No. 24 on the Hot 100 and hold as key tracks in their respective catalogs.
In honor of their enduring legacies, here’s a rundown of 24 No. 24 Hot 100 hits, for 2024.
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The Beach Boys, “Don’t Worry Baby”
Image Credit: Gems/Redferns/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: July 4, 1964
Nearly 60 years later, The Beach Boys are still hitting new highs on the Hot 100: “Little Saint Nick,” from 1963, rises to a new No. 25 best on the Jan. 6, 2024-dated chart.
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The Moody Blues, “Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)”
Image Credit: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: Sept. 21, 1968
The song is one of the group’s 13 top 40 Hot 100 hits logged over three decades, from “Go Now!” (No. 10 peak, 1965) through “I Know You’re Out There Somewhere” (No. 30, 1988).
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Elton John, “Levon”
Image Credit: Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: Feb. 5, 1972
John’s next single just missed the Hot 100’s top 40 but is also one of his signature songs: “Tiny Dancer” hit No. 41 in April 1972.
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Cheech & Chong, “Sister Mary Elephant (Shudd-Up!)”
Image Credit: Trevor James Robert Dallen/Fairfax Media via Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 19, 1974
“I think more than anything,” Tommy Chong told Billboard in 2018 of his and Cheech Marin’s 1978 movie Up in Smoke – and, essentially, their unique, decades-long appeal – “the phenomenon was we painted a positive spin when everybody else was painting a negative spin.”
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Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”
Image Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: Feb. 15, 1975
Hot 100 hits with the word “taxi” in their titles have traveled to a No. 24 best; in 1972, Harry Chapin’s “Taxi” likewise reached that rank. (Your move, writers of songs about Lyft and Uber.)
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Electric Light Orchestra, “Do Ya”
Image Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: April 2, 1977
The Jeff Lynne-led band tallied 20 top 40 Hot 100 hits in 1975-86 – the most among acts of more than two members in that decade-plus-long span. (In that stretch, Billy Joel and Elton John led with 27 each, while only Daryl Hall and John Oates had more top 40 entries, 25, than ELO among non-solo acts.)
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Wilton Place Street Band, “Disco Lucy (I Love Lucy Theme)”
Image Credit: Archive Photos/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: April 9, 1977
The song became a hit 20 years after the iconic sitcom’s final episode. Perhaps that’s not that surprising, considering disco’s reach at the time and the series’ historic run in syndication.
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Billy Joel, “Only the Good Die Young”
Image Credit: Express Newspapers/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: July 8, 1978
Joel also peaked at No. 24 in 1979 with his ballad “Honesty.”
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Blondie, “One Way or Another”
Image Credit: Maureen Donaldson/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: Aug. 4, 1979
The classic is Blondie’s fifth-highest-charting Hot 100 hit, after the band’s four No. 1s: “Heart of Glass” (in 1979), “Call Me” (1980), “The Tide Is High” and “Rapture” (both 1981).
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Stevie Wonder, “Overjoyed”
Image Credit: NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: April 12, 1986
The song became the most recent of Wonder’s eight No. 1s on the Adult Contemporary chart.
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Enya, “Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)”
Image Credit: Bob King/Redferns Hot 100 peak date: April 15, 1989
Parent album Watermark led BiIlboard’s New Age Albums chart for one week, while Enya boasts the three longest-leading titles since the survey began in 1988: The Very Best of Enya, which also includes “Orinoco Flow” (152 weeks at No. 1), A Day Without Rain (93) and Amarantine (80).
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Faith Evans, “You Used To Love Me”
Image Credit: Catherine McGann/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: Aug. 19, 1995
The song became Evans’ first Hot 100 hit. On Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, it rose to No. 4, marking her first of 10 top 10s.
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Garbage, “Stupid Girl”
Image Credit: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: Sept. 21, 1996
The single marked the Shirley Manson-fronted group’s first of five top 10s on the Alternative Airplay chart.
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Amber, “This Is Your Night”
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 25, 1997
The Dutch singer-songwriter’s breakthrough hit also reached No. 7 on Pop Airplay.
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Mandy Moore, “I Wanna Be With You”
Image Credit: George DeSota/Liaison Hot 100 peak date: Aug. 12, 2000
The multitalented Moore broke through as a singer-songwriter before scoring notable acting turns in movies and on TV, including NBC’s This Is Us. In 2022, she released her seventh studio album, In Real Life. “I wrote this whole record during the pandemic and when I was pregnant,” she told Jimmy Fallon. “It’s filled with songs about impending parenthood and thinking of my own childhood, and trying to make sense of what was happening in the world. It was very cathartic to write it.”
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Keith Urban, “You’ll Think of Me”
Image Credit: Rusty Russell/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: May 15, 2004
The wistful ballad became Urban’s fourth of 16 career Hot Country Songs No. 1s. It also crossed over to the top 10 on Adult Contemporary and Adult Pop Airplay and is his only song to have hit the Pop Airplay chart.
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John Legend, “Ordinary People”
Image Credit: Theo Wargo/WireImage for VH-1 Channel – New York Hot 100 peak date: March 26, 2005
Legend earned his first top 40 Hot 100 hit with the song. His second, “Green Light,” featuring André 3000, also hit No. 24, in 2008. He then ruled the chart for three weeks in 2014 with his signature piano ballad, “All of Me.”
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Michael Bublé, “Haven’t Met You Yet”
Image Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: June 5, 2010
The song is one of Bublé’s six No. 1s on the Adult Contemporary chart.
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DJ Khaled feat. T-Pain, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg & Rick Ross, “All I Do Is Win”
Image Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: July 24, 2010
The all-star collab also hit the top 10 on both Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs.
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5 Seconds of Summer, “She Looks So Perfect”
Image Credit: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: June 14, 2014
The song sparked the group’s Hot 100 debut. In 2018, the act notched its first top 10, when “Youngblood” hit No. 7.
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Shawn Mendes, “Life of the Party”
Image Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images for iHeartMedia Hot 100 peak date: July 12, 2014
As with 5SOS, 2014 brought Mendes’ Hot 100 debut, with this single. He has since tallied six top 10s, including the No. 1 “Senorita,” with Camila Cabello, in 2019.
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Carrie Underwood, “Something in the Water”
Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/Billboard Awards 2014/WireImage Hot 100 peak date: Oct. 18, 2014
The song became Underwood’s 14th and most recent leader on Hot Country Songs – and her first of three No. 1s on Hot Christian Songs, where it dominated for 26 weeks.
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Ruth B, “Lost Boy”
Image Credit: Sonia Recchia/Getty Images Hot 100 peak date: July 2, 2016
The Peter Pan-themed track also flew to the Adult Pop Airplay top 10, while parent EP The Intro hit the top 10 on Americana/Folk Albums.
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Dan + Shay, “Speechless”
Image Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for dick clark productions Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 12, 2019
“Speechless” became Dan + Shay’s fifth of eight Country Airplay No. 1s, and their first of three leaders on the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart. “We’ve been fortunate enough in our career to have songs used in weddings and first dances,” the duo’s Dan Smyers recently told Billboard of his and Shay Mooney’s catalog. “If all else goes away, people will always be getting married … so it gives us a bit of job security.”
