Although The Bias Record is at first a Ok-pop assessment weblog, every month I highlight a handful of “international pop” tracks which have taken maintain of my playlist. To cap off the yr, I’d prefer to depend down my high tracks that weren’t a part of the Ok-pop or J-pop markets.
This was a bizarre yr for pop music as a result of there have been so many returns by large artists, but virtually each single one felt completely underwhelming to me. Due to this, my record is full of lesser-known artists who made the yr extraordinarily stable. In truth, it was so stable I’m increasing this record from forty to fifty! Like final yr, any observe is eligible whether or not it was promoted with a music video or not.
SONGS 50-31
SONGS 30-11
SONGS 10-1
2024 YEAR-END MASTERPOST
10. Florrie – Wanting For Love
There’s a purpose I champion legendary producers who’ve been round by a number of eras and seen developments come and go. Xenomania do their factor on Wanting For Love, paired with Florrie’s wistful vocals and a killer refrain.
9. Benjamin Ingrosso – Look Who’s Laughing Now
Ingrosso’s 2024 music melded basic rock and pop with trendy touches that made it really feel each timeless and well timed. Look Who’s Laughing Now has bubblegum hooks for the ages, tied to a placing association that grows greater and bolder because the track unravels.
8. Benjamin Ingrosso – Again To You
Yep, we’re doing two Benjamin Ingrosso songs again to again. The album is solely that good. Again To You brings him to the dancefloor, pairing his surging melodies with Like A Prayer-style bombast. It’s such an evocative sound.
7. Bentley Robles – IAM IAM IAM
IAM IAM IAM opens an unbelievable pop album with aptitude. Its spacey synth sound rapidly morphs right into a larger-than-life refrain sure to get your blood pumping. Bentley’s music has such character however at all times places the track itself on the forefront.
6. Silence Wang – One Hundred Thousand Volts
Silence Wang has develop into my go-to C-pop artist, particularly when he dabbles in dance music. One Hundred Thousand Volts jogs my memory of the early-2010’s competition EDM pattern, climaxing in a collection of dizzying digital prospers. Like many songs on my record, it feels gargantuan in scale.
5. Zee Machine & Bentley Robles – Anybody However Him
Sure manufacturing decisions can elevate a track by tenfold. Anybody However Him can be a dynamite observe no matter association, however its brisk instrumental and searing post-chorus guitar vaults all of it the way in which into my high 5. The track feels like rushing down a freeway.
4. Käärijä x Erika Vikman – Ruoska
Two of Finland’s ballsiest iconoclasts be a part of forces for the pummeling Ruoska. Käärijä’s heavy guitar freakout meets Vikman’s theatrical dance method, leading to a hulking observe that looks like being run over by a freight practice.
3. Vincint – Lean
File Vincint below “indie artists who need to high each chart.” His vocals, coupled with the heat of this club-ready manufacturing, end in an uplifting anthem that turns into downright transcendent because it unfurls. It’s an instantaneous basic within the vein of emotional membership music like Robyn’s Dancing On My Personal.
2. Confidence Man – I Can’t Lose You
There was no larger 2024 earworm than this. I don’t know what crack they laced the vocal manufacturing with, however the tone and texture stored me coming again for increasingly. I Can’t Lose You is like each nice 90’s dance track funneled into one burst of pop perfection.
1. Madison Rose – Falling Outta Heaven
I’m satisfied Madison Rose is an alien despatched down from a planet whose sole foreign money is pop music. She simply will get it in a primordial means, and that’s on full show throughout each second of Falling Outta Heaven. That is the whole lot Gaga and Katy and Rihanna gave us at their peak, delivered by an artist with a sliver of the price range and recognition. I actually don’t know the way she does it, however her expertise as a pop pressure is off the charts. I’m trying each mystical ceremony I can to invoke 2025 being her breakout yr. Pop music this glistening and large and affirming must be heard by as many listeners as doable.
3. Confidence Man – 3AM (La La La)
2. Bentley Robles – Ugly Crier
1. Benjamin Ingrosso – Pink Velvet Theatre
