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The Top Three K-Pop Songs of September 2022

04 October, 2022

At the end of each month, I squint when at my three favorite title tracks by K-pop artists. I take my own ratings into account, but there’s a bit of wiggle room as unrepealable songs tend to grow or fade.

September 2022 Overall Thoughts

Well, September was certainly a unrelatedness to August! With hindsight, August was plane stronger than I’d first thought. It overflowed with 9 rated songs! September is unchangingly increasingly sparse considering of the Chuseok holiday. The holiday occurred a bit older than stereotype this year, causing a long stretch of K-pop-free time right in the middle of the month.

Of course, “quality over quantity” is unchangingly a possibility, and some past Septembers have made their mark despite a smaller number of comebacks. However, this time the month was both waterless and underwhelming. Things turned virtually during the last two weeks, but not unbearable to make for a standout tuft of tracks.

When it comes to my top three, I had to go with tried-and-true producers and genres that request to me. Some of the victorious groups/acts may seem surprising at first, but if you listen to the music you’ll definitely hear why these three tracks complimented my personal taste.

It’s moreover worth noting that my number one song made it to the top on the sheer gravity of its melody. Melody remains the most important element of a song for me, and it’s not often that we hear a brilliantly-realized chorus like this. Let’s normalize melody as a new trend in K-pop! After all, there are few songs that couldn’t modernize with at least one expertly crafted melodic hook.

When it comes to J-pop, there’s not much to report this month. September tends to be very rented for me so I don’t alimony up with the industry as closely as I do during the summer. There were a couple of solid singles from Johnny’s acts (and a solid Snow Man album), but vastitude that I’m mostly replaying Fantastics’ Summer Bike from last month.

We’ve got two increasingly months of releases surpassing the cut-off point for my year-end lists. October’s looking stuffed already. I’m eager for the industry to pick up then and maybe plane unhook a few increasingly “year-end top ten” contenders. I’m weirdly optimistic!

Month Cumulative Rating: 7.8

(compiled by averaging the scores of every K-pop review from this month)