2024 In Assessment
1. Introduction + Greatest Album Artwork
2. Track of the 12 months
3. Album of the 12 months
4. R&B and Soul
5. Rock and Various
6. Rap and Hip-hop
7. Dance and Digital
8. Pop and Ballad (Jan. 21)
9. Folks and Nation (Jan. 22)
10. Jazz, Crossover and World (Jan. 23)
11. Greatest Collaborative Work (Jan. 24)
12. Rookie Artist of the 12 months (Jan. 25)
13. Artist of the 12 months (Jan. 26)
14. Different Recognition (Jan. 27)
15. Concluding Remarks (Jan. 28)
The idol scene continued to form the frontier of the digital scene in 2024, and a great share of the yr’s greatest idol pop had an experimental bent to it. Elsewhere, ambient electronica had a robust displaying as properly, following the zeitgeist of slower and extra deliberate soundscapes.
The “Subsequent 10” and honorable point out lists are sorted by artist title. Bolded honorable mentions acquired significantly critical consideration for the Subsequent 10.
Greatest Dance and Digital Album 2024
Cifika – Bonfire
In comparison with 2020’s Hana or final yr’s Ion (each both a winner or runner-up decide in our collection in these years), Bonfire was a lot much less artificial and extra acoustic and tactile; much less futuristic, extra grounded. The manufacturing of Cifika and Nancy Boy borrows liberally from rock and people to create these earthy tunes, whereas shrouding them in a pervasive intrigue of background pads and synths. Some beautiful melodies escape of that cloud, “Babes within the Wooden” and “Bonfire” and extra, including themselves to Cifika’s rising canon.
The Runner-up
ARTMS – Dall
Dall carried ahead the dreamy ardour that characterised Loona’s greatest work whereas grafting an excellent stronger narrative for the descendant group ARTMS. A way of longing and need for connection pervade the album’s most memorable tracks, from explosive “Digital Angel” to the reminiscing “The Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy” and “Butterfly Impact” (a purported follow-up to our 2019 Greatest Dance and Digital Track). This temper gave Dall a particular taste synergizing with the dramatic path that the group itself has taken. “Misery” and particularly the glitchy, horror-infused “Start” broadened the expressive vary and gave glimpses into the longer term.
The Subsequent 10
Aespa – Armageddon
Archie – Right here, This Is Occurring
Hwi – Humanly Attainable
Kwon So-jeong – Born
Nmixx – Fe3O4: Break
Oxford Dropkick – Upside Down
Piano Shoegazer, Jang Myung-sun – Wooden Extensive Net
Swimrabbit – 접속 (Join)
TripleS – Assemble24
Uju – Metropolis.exe
Greatest Dance and Digital Track 2024
ARTMS – Digital Angel
Lyrics by Jaden Jeong and Sungwoo Kim
Composition by El Capitxn, Maria Marcus, Andrew Choi, Distributors (Nano), Distributors (Arte), Distributors (Zenur), Jongsoo Kim
Association by El Capitxn, Distributors (Nano), Distributors (Arte), Distributors (Zenur)
A tireless beat kilos alongside the length of “Digital Angel”, as chords blossom and synths and vocal chops swirl throughout it. This ethereal dance wrapped round a defiant spirit mirrored the lyrics’ mild dedication, as ARTMS sang of affection and attachment blooming between digital strangers, separated by circuitry and glass. “I’ll be there for you when your wings break // Letting go of you, that’s a heartbreak” proved one probably the most memorable hooks of the yr, and the managed explosion of the bridge and last refrain capped a type of spellbound second that solely comes so typically, as near perfection as Ok-pop dared to fly in 2024.
The Runner-up
Hwi – 기도문 (Prayer)
Composition and association by Hwi
The titular prayer that opens this monitor and Humanly Attainable appears an exhortation, for freedom from nervousness, weak point, innocence. The composed and picked up melody of the petitioner begins flanked solely by a wispy, buzzing counter; however in the identical approach that emotion can enter and shade and form prayers, over the following few traces the monitor provides cavernous synth and bass, a choir of vocoders and guitars, and a beat of tearing drums and glitches. The imposing spectacle of the instrumentation quickly swallows the voice – the blending appears deliberate right here – and shortly there’s solely awe, solely the wordless groan.
The Subsequent 10
CIX – Lovers or Enemies
Ive – 해야 (Heya)
Kep1er – Taking pictures Star
Kwon So-jeong – Hallucination
Nmixx – Sprint
Rosé, Bruno Mars – APT.
Saay – Domino
Trampauline – The Metropolis You Known as Your Personal
TripleS – Ladies By no means Die
TWS – 첫 만남은 계획대로 되지 않아 (Plot Twist)
Albums
Billlie – Of All We Have Misplaced
Cravity – Evershine
Enhypen – Memorabilia
Gimeunbee – Love Like Algorithm
Guinneissik – 710A
ID:Earth – Area Station
Illit – Tremendous Actual Me
Jang Myung-sun – 스팟라이트, 평평한 무덤들에게 (Highlight, to the Flat Graves)
Jeongseosa – Squanchy !
Joonie – No One Can Hunt Me
Jung Cha-sik – 밝은미래 (Vibrant Future)
Kep1er – Kep1going On
Kontrajelly – 미사여구뿐 (Rhetoric)
Le Sserafim – Loopy
NCT 127 – Stroll
NCT Dream – Dreamscape
QWER – Manito
Rainbow99 – Spring 1
Rainbow99 – Summer season 1
Room306 – 작은 숲 (Petite Jungle)
Scorched Evrth – 그림자와 마침표 (Shadow and Full Cease)
TWS – Summer season Beat!
Taemin – Everlasting
Trampauline – The Shard Will Discover Me
Trickyneko – Sound of Thoughts
TripleS Visionary Imaginative and prescient – Performante
Twice – With You-th
snzae – Plan B
Songs
(G)I-dle – Imaginative and prescient
(G)I-dle – 나는 아픈 건 딱 질색이니까 (Destiny)
8rosh Peridot – 마음의 춤 (Sway of Hearts)
8turn – Ru-Pum Pum
ARTMS – Start
ARTMS – Butterfly Impact
ARTMS – 은하수를 여행하는 히치하이커를 위한 안내서 (The Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy)
Ab6ix – Seize Me
Ace – Easy
Ace – My Lady
Aespa – Armageddon
Aespa – Licorice
Aespa – Supernova
Ahn Maru – Depend
Archie – Lovers’ Arms
BAE173 – Fifty-Fifty
Bagagee Viphex13 – Catastrophism
Balming Tiger – Large Butt
Bang Ye-dam – O-He
Billlie – BTTB (Again to the Fundamentals)
BoA – 정말, 없니? (Vacancy)
CSR – Fairly Mob
Cho Kyu-chan – 춤 (Dance)
Chuu – Strawberry Rush
Cifika – Babes within the Wooden
Cifika – Little Drama
Cravity – C’est la Vie
Cravity – Love or Die
DKB – Flirting X
DPR Artic – Do or Die (Feat. DPR Ian)
Dreamcatcher – Justice
Drippin – Stunning Maze
Drippin – Black Mirror
E’final – Gasoline
Enhypen – Legal Love
Epex – 청춘에게 (Youth2Youth)
Evnne – Badder Love
Evnne – Festa
Evnne – Ok.O. (Preserve On)
Fromis_9 – Supersonic
G-Dragon – Residence Candy Residence (Feat. Taeyang, Daesung)
Giriboy – Peak (Feat. Camo)
H1-Key – 뜨거워지자 (Let It Burn)
HUS – Champion
Haepaary – 그러나 욕심은 없단다 (Eclipse)
Haepaary – 생각의 무덤 (Tomb of Thought)
Spotlight – Really feel Your Love (48.6Hertz)
Hwi – 너의 전생 (Your My Previous Lives)
Hwi, Kim Han-joo – Humanly Attainable
ID:Earth – Lay Again
ID:Earth – Sky The place you Are
IU – 홀씨 (Holssi)
Ichillin – On My Lips
Illit – Fortunate Lady Syndrome
Illit – Magnetic
Illit – Midnight Fiction
Irene – Like a Flower
Itzy – Gold
Itzy – Imaginary Buddy
Izna – Timebomb
Jacqui – Suicidal
Jeongseosa – Charrarie
Joonie – Doomed
Jung Cha-sik – Large Metropolis Driver
Jung Cha-sik – 호박빌리진 (Pumpkin Billie Jean)
Kang Daniel – Get Free
Kep1er – Double Up!
Kep1er – Drip
Kep1er – Coronary heart Surf
Kep1er – Drawback
Kimsoohyeon – Linear
Kirara & Siwa – 소라에게 (To. Sora)
Kirara – 여야 (Two Events)
Le Sserafim – 1-800-Sizzling-N-Enjoyable
Le Sserafim – Loopy
Lee Dong-yeol – Drip Drop
Leevisa – Keystone
Lim Kim – 궁 (Ult)
Limelight – If U Know U Know (Suhye Solo)
Limelight – Twenty Twenty (MiU Solo)
Loossemble – Moonlight
Loossemble – TTYL
MCND – X10
Madein – Dopamine
Minji Ma – 시간을 내줘요 (Make Time)
N.SSign – Funk Jam
NCT 127 – 삐그덕 (Stroll)
NCT 127 – 영화처럼 (Can’t Assist Myself)
NCT Dream – Carat Cake
NCT Want – Regular
Nayeon – ABCD
Necta – Darling
Necta – Serotonin
Nmixx – Run for Roses
Nmixx – Soñar (Breaker)
Nuitnuit – Coloration
ONF – Bye My Monster
OddSong – Present Me Your Love
Oh My Lady – Labeled
Onew – 매력 (Beat Drum)
Oxford Dropkick – Flight
Oxford Dropkick – Upside Down
Parkjiwoo – Fourth Crack
Piano Shoegazer & Jang Myung-sun – Treegaze
Piano Shoegazer & Jang Myung-sun – 네트워크 (Community)
Piano Shoegazer & Jang Myung-sun – 부식토 (Humus)
QWER – 고민중독 (T.B.H)
QWER – 달리기 (Run! Run! Run!)
QWER – 지구정복 (G9JB)
Rainbow99 – 4월의 비 1 (Rain in April 1)
Rainbow99 – Rainbow
Rainbow99 – 산책 1 (Stroll 1)
Rainbow99 – 언덕 (Hill)
Rainbow99 – 지금은 호랑이가 없다 1 (There Are No Tigers Now 1)
Purple Velvet – Cosmic
Riize – Growth Growth Bass
Riize – Love 119
Room306 – 3
STAYC – GPT
Scorched Evrth – 그림자와 마침표 (Shadow and Full Cease)
Scorched Evrth – 총신 (Gun Barrel)
Seori – Excessive
Seventeen – Rain
Soojin – Drop Prime
Soojin – Summer season Daze
Sunburst Membership – Goddamn (Feat. Loeki)
Sunwoojunga – Shimmer
Swimrabbit – 기억나지 않는 표정 (Face) (Feat. George)
Swimrabbit – 신기루 정원 (Mirage Backyard)
TWS – Hey! Hey!
TWS – 내가 S면 넌 나의 N이 되어줘 (If I’m S, Can You Be My N?)
TWS – 너+나=7942 (You+Me=7942)
TXT – Deja Vu
Taemin – Horizon
Taemin – Say Much less
Taeyeon – Heaven
Ten – Nightwalker
The Boyz – Nectar
The Credit score – 831 (Feat. Julo)
Tony – Fairy Story
Tri.be – Diamond
TripleS – Non Scale
TripleS NXT – Simply Do It
TripleS Visionary Imaginative and prescient – Hit the Ground
TripleS Visionary Imaginative and prescient – 연애소설 (Love Soseol)
TripleS Visionary Imaginative and prescient – 춤 (Choom)
Twice – One Spark
Uju – Magical Midnight
Uju – Pacific Land
Uju – 그대 나의 빛이 되어줘 (Please Be My Mild)
Ultramodernista – Flying Spirit
Weeekly – Twenties
Woo!ah! – Pom Pom Pom
Xikers – Break a Leg
YooA – Rooftop
Younger Posse – Skyline
Yves – Loop (Feat. Lil Cherry)
Yves – Viola
Zerobaseone – Good So Dangerous
Zerobaseone – Insomnia
Lyric translations by creator. Artist profile and album cowl photos from Bugs Music.
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