How can people listen to “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” that much? No shade to Shaboozey and I get the appeal of the song, but 19 weeks at No. 1? People, we need to make room for a few more songs up top.

Which ones? I am so glad you asked! Here are the Top 5 Songs of 2024 that deserved at least one of the weeks at No. 1 taken by “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”

“Chanel Perfume,” Twisted Pine

This standout from Twisted Pine’s flabbergastingly great 2024 LP “Love Your Mind” could be a sonic mission statement. It could be unassailable proof the Boston-based quartet can do bluegrass and everything else (folk, funk, pop, jazz, Americana…). But ignore the fact it proves the band has no boundaries and just love it. It’s such a hot, hooky, slinky groove. The vocals coo, cry, call, shout, and hypnotize. The lyrics seem to be from some lost Aretha gem. The whole vibe Motown-meets-Prince-meets-Lake-Street-Dive. Just love it!

“Cinderella,” Remi Wolf

Remember the feels you got the first hundred times you listened to Lizzo’s “About Damn Time?” Well, Remi Wolf is ready to give you a hundred more warm, fuzzy, dancey, disco, sad, sublime feels. The whole thing seems expertly calibrated for roller skating — check those whistles. But wrapped in the magic beat are lyrics about mood swings and wondering about wandering: “Is there something wrong with the way that I’m designed?/Can’t find comfort in anything.” There’s nothing wrong with a song that makes you think and dance, that makes you find comfort in uncertainty and a bangin’ boogie.

“Reckless,” St. Vincent

St. Vincent built the 2024 album “All Born Screaming” by herself from the ground up, in a home studio surrounded by modular synths and old drum machines. “Reckless” feels informed by this process. It eschews a traditional structure, constructed out of scraps of melody and broken-hearted existentialism. For nearly three minutes, “Reckless” is a minimalist piano ballad. Then during the last quarter of the track in it crescendos with this big, mean, ugly cacophony. Hidden in the mess, she sings over and over, in an almost angelic voice: “Calling for me/Calling for me.” “Reckless” mirrors the frenetic, emotional lability of grief. It’s hard to listen to and hard to turn away from.

“Scared of Fear,” Pearl Jam

“We used to laugh, we used to sing, we used to dance, we had our own scene… we used to believe,” Ed, we still laugh, sing, dance, have our own scene, and believe, as long as we’re blasting Pearl Jam. Vedder’s lyrics come via “Scared of Fear” from Pearl Jam’s 2024 LP “Dark Matter.” The song is full tilt rock ‘n’ roll and could easily be slotted between “Hail, Hail” and “Porch.”

“The Spark,” Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew

Can kids make a Top 5 song of the year? Not kids in their mid-teens like Lorde was when she released “Royals,” but full on middle schoolers. Listen to “The Spark” and decide for yourself. “The Spark” comes from a bunch of Irish tweens. With an assist from a producer at an arts nonprofit in Cork that runs a songwriting program for youth, a score of wee ones built a bright, buoyant hip hop anthem that could be a club hit. While you’re deciding if this belongs in the Top 5, try not to shout along to, “Think you can stop what we do I doubt it/We got the energy we’ll tell ya all about it/I searched for my spark and I found it/Everybody in the crowd start bouncin’.”