The top of the 12 months countdowns are lastly right here! As all the time, we’ll kick off with the massive one: The Bias Record’s high 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 high 50 checklist, songs will need to have had a Korean launch as a title observe, follow-up or promotional video between Dec. 1st, 2023 and Nov. thirtieth, 2024.
Interested by 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 observe wafted in like a nice spring breeze. The falsetto-kissed refrain is the whole lot. (full overview)
29. ITZY – Untouchable
ITZY had a powerful 12 months and opened with their strongest blow. Untouchable‘s beat recollects clanging equipment, rumbling with addictive pressure. (full overview)
28. Younger Posse – Ate That
I’ll all the time be biased towards nineties hip-hop, even when the track in query is little greater than a pastiche. Ate That hits its aim after which some, providing a jolt of cartoonish power buoyed by automobile rattling bass. (full overview)
27. DKB – Flirting X
DKB earn their first inserting on this countdown with a dynamic summer season observe 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 – Endlessly
I’d be mendacity if I mentioned Endlessly wasn’t right here just because it jogs my memory of higher YG Leisure songs of the previous, however play depend information doesn’t lie and I performed the hell out of this throughout the summer season of 2024. I like Endlessly‘s model of Eurodance cheese. (full overview)
25. The Wind – Hi there, My First Love
My high 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 observe 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 throughout the track’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 season-esque Daddy’s Woman to be probably 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 immediately 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 consider in “responsible pleasures,” but when I did Geekin can be my 2024 alternative. The track is relentlessly silly in the very best manner, incomes its glories by a superb hip-hop beat and among the most ridiculous lyrical conceits of the 12 months. (full overview)
