The Korean music year of 2017 was off to an excellent start with the release of 3rd Line Butterfly’s fifth full-length album Divided By Zero already on January 6th. As the year progressed I found my attention gravitating more towards singles and EPs than full-length releases, but the last couple of months of 2017 illustrated… Continue reading
Since a few years ago, I’ve reached the age by which I’ve had to realize that listening to old favorites is generally more rewarding for me personally than seeking out new music. Nevertheless, I can’t really stop looking for new music to check out–much like how I will usually order my way through a menu… Continue reading
Although buying physical media is still how I add to my music collection, as circumstances would have it most of my actual music listening during 2017 turned out to be streaming via Spotify. One benefit to this is that for once I have somewhat reliable statistics of what I’ve actually listened to throughout the year… Continue reading
A few weeks into 2018 Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the top 100 charts for 2017. While the idol side of Korean music is still what is more popular internationally, going through all of the charts I found much more diversity than I’ve registered in previous years. Gaon Korean Album Chart Given the emphasis… Continue reading
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the overall charts for 2016 back in January. Gaon provided another look back at 2016 last week, February 22nd, as the winners of the 6th annual Gaon Chart Music Awards were announced. Gaon Korean Album Chart Much like in 2015 the Korean boy bands had a good year in… Continue reading
This article listing Anna’s favorite releases of 2010 was edited by Philip Gowman and first posted on London Korean Links Another year is coming to an end, and in what has become an unfortunate trend I’ve found that I’ve listened to much less music than the year before. However judging from the limited number… Continue reading
This article listing Anna’s favorite releases of 2009 was edited by Philip Gowman and first posted on London Korean Links Since finally giving up my life as a student to get out into the real world a couple of years ago my relation to new music has changed a lot. I see an interesting looking… Continue reading
It’s been a month since the year of 2015 came to an end, so it’s well about time to summarize the year. In what has been a trend of recent years, I didn’t listen to as much music as I should have–something I’m working to change in 2016. Even so, I must say 2015 was… Continue reading
Korea’s national music chart Gaon has published its charts for 2015. It was the year of Hyukoh for sure, something clearly visible on all the charts. Gaon Korean Album Chart The Korean boy bands had a good year in 2015, according to Gaon’s Korean album chart for 2015. The top is all EXO, but strangely… Continue reading
Honoring Indieful ROK’s original intent of being a manual aggregator of sorts, I’ve had a look at what some Korean music blogs around have listed as the best releases of 2015 and made a summary. The blogs in question are Weiv, IZM, Music Y, and DiffSound. And to get some more input I also weighed… Continue reading