The List Hot 100 2024: 100-50

Who's made the list this year? 

Cream of the crop, pick of the litter, top bananas. Call them what you will, but here they are: our Hot 100 countdown of those who made their mark on Scotland’s cultural scene over the last 12 months. Despite the sustained financial pressures facing artists and businesses, from the cost-of-living crisis to under-attack arts budgets, the resilience and abundance of talent based in and from Scotland continues to astonish. So join us and raise a glass to the award-winning, genre-bending, mind-expanding creatives who have helped shape the cultural face of our nation in 2024.

57. Dara Dubh 
The Irish-born, Edinburgh-based harpist has thundered into ‘one to watch’ territory with her promising EP In My Element, which showcased a dynamic pop sensibility. Already selling out small venues, we’d be surprised if Dubh isn’t higher up this list in a few years’ time.