2024 In Overview
1. Introduction + Finest Album Artwork
2. Music of the 12 months
3. Album of the 12 months (Jan. 16)
4. R&B and Soul (Jan. 17)
5. Rock and Various (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, Crossover and World (Jan. 23)
11. Finest 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)
Welcome again to Hellokpop’s 2024 In Overview sequence. (In case you don’t know what that is about, the Day 1 put up has you lined.) Right now we start the meat of the sequence with a have a look at the Music of the 12 months and the runner-up. Tomorrow comes Album of the 12 months, after which we dive into the genre-specific recognition.
Concerns for Music of the 12 months embody each subjective assessments of musical high quality in addition to ones of impression, affect, and recognition. On this approach, this class differs from the style picks: typically the winner has each kinds of traits, and typically one is simply so dominant as to make the opposite irrelevant.
The “subsequent 10” are listed in alphabetical order, to keep away from style class winner spoilers. (Most of those contending tracks will get extra detailed remedy within the style class posts.)
Bibi – Bam Yang Gang
Lyrics, composition, and association by Chang Kiha
Bibi isn’t any stranger to large, imposing manufacturing, however “Bam Yang Gang” is maybe the best and most austere track to have ever topped our listing: clocking in at underneath two and a half minutes, pushed by about 5 devices, the track was okay with leaving so much unsaid and unsounded. Within the verses as she reminisces, Bibi glides throughout Chang Kiha’s melody with a melancholy delicacy; when she refutes the ex-lover’s parting shot, she and the piano flip to an immediately iconic staccato. “All I wished to eat was the oh-so-sweet chestnut yanggaeng,” she mutters, and the finer and fancier issues by no means mattered that a lot. So it was with this track, with good writing, easy melody and no-frills composition nonetheless marking one of many yr’s nice hits.
Lee Seung-yoon – 역성 (Anthems of Defiance)
Lyrics by Lee Seung-yoon
Composition and association by Lee Seung-yoon, Cho Hee-won, Ji Yong-hee, Lee Jung-won
On the maximalist finish of the spectrum, Lee Seung-yoon has by now established a singular model of rousing shout-along epics. “Anthems of Defiance” is his most refined work but. Driving on the grandeur of sweeping strings and expansive guitars, Lee sings a crisp melody however is simply as content material to fade away in falsetto, into the choir and instrumentation that fills each inch of the combination. Because the narrator vows to reclaim the “title of an period, spirit and soul of the battle” on behalf of a era, and the orchestra actualizes the “noise of deserted melodies”, “Anthems of Defiance” took up a mantle held by the people classics of yesteryear.
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)
Danpyunsun and the Moments Ensemble – 독립 (Unbiased)
Lyrics and composition by Danpyunsun
Association by Danpyunsun, Lee Bo-ram, Music Hyun-woo, Park Jae-jun, Park Jang-mi, Shin Ye-hun
Hwi – 기도문 (Prayer)
Composition and association by Hwi
Kim Livingstone – 춘천의 밤 (A Evening of Chuncheon)
Lyrics, composition, and association by Kim Livingstone
Significant Stone – 미카엘 (Mikael)
Lyrics and composition by Significant Stone
Association by Significant Stone and Cloud
Park Ji-yoon – 사랑을 사랑하고 싶어 (Love Was My Music)
Lyrics and composition by Hen
Association by Moonseorim
Rosé & Bruno Mars – APT.
Lyrics and composition by Rosé, Amy Allen, Christopher Brody Brown, Rogét Chahayed, Omer Fedi, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Theron Thomas, Henry Walter, Michael Chapman, Nicholas Chinn
Association by Bruno Mars, Cirkut, Omer Fedi, Rogét Chahayed
Silica Gel – Apex
Lyrics, composition, and association by Silica Gel
TripleS – Ladies By no means Die
Lyrics by Jaden Jeong
Composition by El Capitxn, Maria Marcus, Arineh Karimi, Distributors (Zenur), Distributors (Nano), Distributors (Coll!n), Distributors (JNX’s), Jongsoo Kim
Association by El Capitxn, Distributors (Zenur), Distributors (Nano)
Yoon Ji-young – Love Is All over the place
Lyrics, composition, and association by Yoon Ji-young
Lyric translations by writer. Artist profile and album cowl photos from Bugs Music.
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