2024 – Wrapped
With 2024 coming to an end, let’s look back on some of the most used things of this year. We created “superlatives” for each of the 5 categories, starting with the most used app and ending with the most attended sporting event.
Most Used App – Instagram
Instagram was the most used app, with over 213.9 million people who downloaded it in 2024. Instagram has over 2.4 billion users now, since the app first opened in 2010. The app itself is worth over $200 billion. Meta: the company who owns Instagram is worth over $1.42 trillion. Along with Instagram, Meta also owns Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, and many more. After multiple years of being the most used app, it’s not a big surprise that it also happened to be in 2024. 35.6% of the world’s population has Instagram, resulting in it being the most used app in 2024.
Song With the Most Streams – Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter
The song, “Espresso”, by Sabrina Carpenter is the most streamed song in 2024 with 1.6 billion streams on Spotify alone . Espresso has been on the Top 100 Billboard since July 23 2024. Sabrina Carpenter has made approximately 12 million dollars from the song. “Espresso” was released on June 14th on the album Short n’ Sweet. Much of the fame around “Espresso” came from being used extensively on TikTok. Over 360k posts used this song, causing Sabrina to win the #1 artist on TikTok in 2024.
Most Popular TV Series – Bridgerton
The most watched TV series this year was Netflix’s Bridgerton. Starting in 2020 Bridgerton is set in the time era of 1813 – 1827, and follows the romance life of the eldest daughter in the Bridgerton family. The TV series brought in around 7 million dollars, along with over 91,000,000 views. The most viewed season would be season three, which was released in two parts. Part one and first half of the season was released on May 16th 2024, and the second half released on June 13, 2024. Releasing the season in two parts really helped to keep the viewership of the show, helping it to become the most viewed series in 2024.
Most Popular Movie – Inside Out 2
Inside Out 2 was the most popular movie this year getting 30.5 million views on Disney+ alone. This was a sequel to the original movie released in 2015. It was the second best film that premiered on Disney+ behind Walt Disney’s Encanto. $1.673 billion is the amount of money Inside Out 2 has already made in the box office. It was Disney’s biggest hit in 5 years.
Most Viewed Sporting Event – Paris Olympics
An event that only happens once every four years is often the most viewed event of that year, and that’s the case with this year’s 2024 Paris Olympics. The Olympic games included 24 sports with the most popular ones being basketball, football (soccer), and swimming. In the US the average TV audience for all the competitions was 31.3 million people even when some events were starting at 5am Eastern Standard Time (EST). In total over 5 billion people viewed these events worldwide. New to the 2024 Olympics was what they named it as Breaking but more commonly known as break dancing. Breaking wasn’t a huge hit in the 2024 games and will not be returning in the 2028 Olympic games in Los Angeles, United States.