Assessment
2024 In Assessment
1. Introduction + Finest Album Artwork
2. Tune of the 12 months (January 15, 2025)
3. Album of the 12 months (Jan. 16)
4. R&B and Soul (Jan. 17)
5. Rock and Different (Jan. 18)
6. Rap and Hip-hop (Jan. 19)
7. Dance and Digital (Jan. 20)
8. Pop and Ballad (Jan. 21)
9. People and Nation (Jan. 22)
10. Jazz and Blues (Jan. 23)
11. Crossover and World (Jan. 24)
12. Finest Collaborative Work (Jan. 25)
13. Rookie Artist of the 12 months (Jan. 26)
14. Artist of the 12 months (Jan. 27)
15. Different Recognition (Jan. 28)
16. Concluding Remarks (Jan. 29)
The tip of 2024 has been a turbulent time for Korea and elsewhere, however even via these instances, music stays a continuing that evokes as usually because it soothes. As we ring in 2025, Hellokpop’s 12 months In Assessment sequence is again for the 14th straight 12 months. Maintaining with our annual custom, we’ll spend two weeks in January trying over the perfect in Korean music from 2024, recognizing the expertise and energy that moved and excited us over the 12 months.
For those who’re a returning reader, you recognize the drill; in case you’re coming throughout this for the primary time, we welcome you and hope you benefit from the sequence. This put up serves as an introduction and appetizer; the two-week sequence will start in earnest on January 15, with one put up per day culminating on January 29.
Sequence Construction
- Beginning on January fifteenth, we’ll observe the schedule on the high of this web page, with one put up daily highlighting one musical style or class.
- Every style put up will characteristic twelve albums and twelve songs. This consists of the highest decide, a “runner-up” decide, and the next-best ten picks. We additionally title honorable mentions for each genre-based class.
- The 4 basic classes are Rookie Artist of the 12 months, Artist of the 12 months, Tune of the 12 months, and Album of the 12 months. Except Rookie Artist of the 12 months, these could have no honorable mentions.
- With a purpose to acknowledge as many works as attainable, the Tune of the 12 months, Album of the 12 months, and respective runner-ups won’t be double-counted as winners within the style classes. Certainly, they won’t be named within the style classes in any respect. (For instance: in 2023 we named Kang Huh Dalrim’s Love as our Album of the 12 months, which meant that this album was not reiterated within the Finest Pop Album class.)
- On Day 15, we’ll have some enjoyable and current dozens of whimsical “awards” that acknowledge non-traditional or deliberately cherry-picked accomplishments.
- Lastly on Day 16, we’ll summarize what different publications have been choosing in their very own year-end lists.
- The protection interval is December to November: works launched between December 1, 2023 and November 30, 2024 are eligible to be included within the sequence.
Finest Album Artwork
As has change into custom, we do some prelude by recognizing 100 notable items of album artwork from the 12 months. We decide these throughout a versatile set of standards: a few of them are aesthetically pleasing, others are evocative or significant, and nonetheless others are simply hanging.
Additionally they function a prelude to what’s to come back: lots of the albums and singles represented beneath will even present up within the “award” classes in the primary sequence.
The gallery is organized by alphabetical order of artist title. Photographs courtesy of Bugs Music.
All album artwork from Bugs Music.
Learn our previous sequence: