Updated On: 30 December, 2024 07:24 AM IST | Mumbai | The Hitlist Team
From desi artistes taking centrestage on global platforms, and videsi artistes turning attention to India, here’s all the hot music news that hit headlines in 2024

Hanumankind
Sooraj Cherukat aka Hanumankind, a 31-year-old rapper from India, gripped the attention of music aficionados from across the world and dominated the Billboard charts. His track, Big dawgs, created in collaboration with producer Kalmi Reddy and directed by Bijoy Shetty, amassed over a whopping 184 million views in five months. Hanumankind performed inside a “Wall of Death” (known as Marana Kinar in Malayalam), where motorcycles and cars are driven along vertical walls. In August, the rapper entered the Top 10 tracks on the Billboard Global 200 singles. Hanumankind also performed at the Nassau Coliseum in New York in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian diaspora.
Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa and Maroon 5 were among the artistes who performed here