Just wanted to share what finally worked for me if anyone else is struggling. Here is an advanced query that will display your journal page tags along with a count within a calendar year. I like to do a year end review and this saves me the step of generating the graph myself.
#+BEGIN_QUERY WORKS, Produces graph with data
{
:title “Journal Tags Count – 2024”
:query [:find ?tag (count ?b)
:keys tag count
:in $ ?year
:where
\[?p :block/journal? true\]
\[?p :block/journal-day ?d\]
\[(str ?d) ?date-str\]
\[(subs ?date-str 0 4) ?page-year\]
\[(= ?page-year ?year)\]
\[?b :block/page ?p\]
\[?b :block/refs ?r\]
\[?r :block/name ?tag\]\]
:inputs [“2024”]
:view
(fn [results]
(let \[max-count (apply max (map :count results))\] ; biggest bar width
\[:div
{:style
{:display "flex"
:flex-direction "column"
:gap "4px"
:padding "4px 4px 4px 0"
:background-color "#333"
:color "#eee"
:font-size "80%"}}
(for \[{:keys \[tag count\]} results\]
\[:div
{:style
{:width (str (\* (/ count max-count) 100) "%")
:height "20px"
:padding "2px"
:white-space "nowrap"
:border-radius "0 4px 4px 0"
:box-shadow "1px 1px 2px #111"
:background "lightblue"
:background-clip "padding-box"}}
(str count " " tag)\])\]))}
#+END_QUERY