It’s New Year’s Eve eve. So if you’re tidying the house preparing for a big one or gearing up for a healthy walk but still not quite ready to talk to anyone, then you need my best of 2024 in your life. Five-and-a-half hours of solid bangers from the last year and already downloaded by FIVE Spotify users (making it officially a fifth as popular as 2020, but then we all have busy lives, and Gavin and Stacey’s 12m was hardly To the Manor Born). Sorry for shamelessly dumping it here for your consideration, but I do it most years and some of you seem to l give it a whirl. Whether or not this list continues into 2025 is a moot point. It’s actually 20 songs shorter than most years, suggesting either that I have finally discovered quality control, or that there isn’t quite as much good new music to keep me listening. I’d be interested in your thoughts.