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
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for June last week. Lots of notable Korean indie music releases came out during the month. Here’s a look at how it managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart June saw the release of several anticipated albums. Kiha & The Faces‘ 4th full-length album was released… Continue reading
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for May ten days ago. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart Plenty of excellent albums were released during May and many of the indie releases did show up on Gaon’s weekly Korean album chart. However, only… Continue reading
In September last year came the fourth of Mint Paper’s compilation project albums, café: night & day. These project albums from Mint Paper come with a theme and for volume 4, as indicated by the title the theme was night and day at a café. Plenty of artists contributed with previously unreleased material and starting… Continue reading
Vocal group Sweet Sorrow will release their third full length album, Viva, on December 31st. Willing to share the spotlight with others the quartet has featured a number of guest vocalists for the album, among them Lucid Fall who participates on the song “노래할게”. Also featured on the album, for bonus track “좋겠다”, are Oh… Continue reading
Since September 2011 Olleh Music has been running its monthly Indie Awards, awarding the best album, artist and rookie of the month. The finalists are selected from submissions by a special jury and netizens get a chance to vote for their favorites little more than a week. The results for January’s Indie Awards, rewarding November… Continue reading