The tip of the 12 months countdowns are lastly right here! As at all times, we’ll kick off with the massive one: The Bias Listing’s prime 50 songs of the 12 months! Every day this week, I’ll be counting down ten of the 12 months’s greatest, till primary is revealed on Friday.
To be eligible for this prime 50 checklist, songs will need to have had a Korean launch as a title monitor, follow-up or promotional video between Dec. 1st, 2023 and Nov. thirtieth, 2024.
Interested in previous countdowns? Try the masterpost right here!
Honorable Mentions
Songs 50-41
Songs 40-31
30. DXMON – Women, Love Boys, Love Women
After an early-2024 debut marked by swaggering hip-hop, this attractive drum and bass monitor wafted in like a pleasing spring breeze. The falsetto-kissed refrain is all the pieces. (full overview)
29. ITZY – Untouchable
ITZY had a robust 12 months and opened with their strongest blow. Untouchable‘s beat recollects clanging equipment, rumbling with addictive drive. (full overview)
28. Younger Posse – Ate That
I’ll at all times be biased towards nineties hip-hop, even when the music in query is little greater than a pastiche. Ate That hits its objective after which some, providing a jolt of cartoonish power buoyed by automotive rattling bass. (full overview)
27. DKB – Flirting X
DKB earn their first inserting on this countdown with a dynamic summer season monitor that showcases their vocals. The ad-libs that pepper the majority of Flirting X are completely sensible and provides it such spice. (full overview)
26. BABYMONSTER – Perpetually
I’d be mendacity if I stated Perpetually wasn’t right here just because it jogs my memory of higher YG Leisure songs of the previous, however play rely information doesn’t lie and I performed the hell out of this in the course of the summer season of 2024. I like Perpetually‘s model of Eurodance cheese. (full overview)
25. The Wind – Hi there, My First Love
My prime rookies of 2023 didn’t disappoint this 12 months. Hi there, My First Love echoes melodies of Ok-pop’s previous, standing because the group’s sweetest monitor but. Pet love sounds good on them. (full overview)
24. RIIZE – Love 119
You all know I bristle instantly after listening to a chanted boy group refrain, which explains my lackluster response to Love 119 initially. However then Sohee is available in with these ridiculously satisfying energy notes in the course of the music’s finale and all musical sins are forgiven. (full overview)
23. Simply B – Daddy’s Woman
Many teams tried their hand at a pop-punk sound this 12 months, however I discovered Simply B’s 5-Seconds-Of-Summer time-esque Daddy’s Woman to be essentially the most over-the-top enjoyable of the bunch. To be clear, it’s their foolish specific model that earns this spot on the checklist. (full overview)
22. ZEROBASEONE – Good So Dangerous
Good So Dangerous‘s refrain is like cotton sweet, spun from sugar and ensuing instantly head rush. The group is at their greatest when leaning into this melodic magic, and that strategy cements their highest year-end placement but. (full overview)
21. YOUNITE – Geekin
I don’t imagine in “responsible pleasures,” but when I did Geekin could be my 2024 selection. The music is relentlessly silly in the very best approach, incomes its glories by a superb hip-hop beat and among the most ridiculous lyrical conceits of the 12 months. (full overview)