I listened to 59 kpop albums released in the first half of 2024 and here are my favorites (+ my top 30 kpop songs of 2024 so far)

Cut-off date is June 30 See if your faves made it.

TOP 5 full albums:

1. 🎲 tripleS - <ASSEMBLE24> (rate: 8.41/10.00)
2. 🐍 aespa - Armageddon (8.06)
3. 💣 RM - Right Place, Wrong Person (8.00)
4. 🔭 Kep1er - Kep1going On (7.86)
5. 🌙 ARTMS - Dall (7.85)

TOP 10 mini-albums:

1. 🎒 xikers - HOUSE OF TRICKY: Trial And Error (9.04)
2. 🍰 Red Velvet - Cosmic (8.99)
3. 🪐 SUHO - 1 to 3 (8.70)
4. 🎢 NMIXX - Fe3O4: BREAK (8.66)
5. 🧬 OnlyOneOf - Things I Can't Say LOve (8.61)
6. 🎆 IVE - IVE SWITCH (8.54)
7. 🌤 RIIZE - RIIZING (8.52)
8. 🚧 EVNNE - Un: SEEN (8.40)
9. 🏴‍☠️ ATEEZ - GOLDEN HOUR: Part.1 (8.38)
10. 💭 NCT DREAM - DREAM( )SCAPE (8.33)

TOP 30 songs (aka Butter Hot100 Charts):

1. 🐍 aespa - Supernova (10.00)
2. 🌤 RIIZE - Impossible (10.00)
3. 🌙 Yves - DIORAMA (10.00)
4. 🍰 Red Velvet - Cosmic (9.95)
5. 🌙 Yves - LOOP (feat.Lil Cherry) (9.95)
6. 🍜 YOUNG POSSE - XXL (9.95)
7. 🔭 Kep1er - Flowers, Flutter, Your Heart (9.95)
8. 🎒 xikers - Supercalifragilistic (9.90)
9. 🪐 SUHO - 1 to 3 (9.85)
10. 💭 NCT DREAM - icantfeelanything (9.85)
11. 📚 TWS - plot twist (9.80)
12. ➖ ENHYPEN - Teeth (9.80)
13. 🍰 Red Velvet - Sunflower (9.80)
14. 🎒 xikers - We Don't Stop (9.80)
15. 🐍 aespa, TOKiMONSTA - Die Trying (9.75)
16. 🧩 SF9 - BIBORA (9.75)
17. 🐰 NewJeans - Supernatural (9.75)
18. 🎆 IVE - Accendio (9.75)
19. 🛫 TEN - Nightwalker (9.70)
20. 🐍 aespa - Set The Tone (9.70)
21. 🌙 ARTMS - Birth (9.70)
22. 🌠 ROCKY - Masterpiece (9.70)
23. 🎢 NMIXX - DASH (9.70)
24. 🚲 CHUNG HA - I'm Ready (9.65)
25. 🌤 RIIZE - Boom Boom Bass (9.65)
26. 💋 KISS OF LIFE - Midas Touch (9.65)
27. 💠 TOMORROW X TOGETHER - I'll See You There Tomorrow (9.60)
28. 🛫 WayV - She A Wolf (9.60)
29. 🍰 Red Velvet - Love Arcade (9.60)
30. 🧬 OnlyOneOf - O (9.55)

Congrats to the winners:

Main take aways:

• Fantastic year for aespa
• RM had the most musically interesting album
• xikers, EVNNE, tripleS and Yves were the nicest surprises
• Kep1er and OnlyOneOf discographies are underrated
• Suho best soloist of all time
• Red Velvet best group of all time
• Grower of the year: LE SSERAFIM's EASY.

I'll do a year-end update, interested to know how this ranking changed.

And you? Feel free to share your 2024 faves so far.

Quote from bartkun

I knew tripleS will be here woohooo

their music is no joke

Quote from bartkun

Lovelution and Evolution units albums have similar style to Assemble24. It's like trifecta

the ASSEMBLE mini is insanely good, too

Quote from xx-jenn-xx

my 2024 faves according to last.fm

is probably skewed lol

I literally dropped kpop i guess lol

Artists:

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Top Songs:

only went to 21

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Top Albums

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I will be listening to INFINITE entire discography soon-ish, I'm excited because I heard good things.

Quote from OnceMidzy4ever

Is curious. You have RM album in your TOP 3, but there is not a single RM song in your top 30 songs? Mmmm, that top 3 could be PAYOLA?

Out of Love and Domodachi /almost/ made the top 30.

Quote from Elliah

Literally had no idea about the Aespa + TOKiMONSTA song lol

But yes amazing year for Aespa! Even the Japanese debut I love 2/3 songs. For me honestly this year is just Aespa so far, but I have also only listened to the biggest releases and not checked out that many songs.

Supernova is my #1 too Rn I'd say #1. Supernova #2. Armageddon #3. Untouchable

ooooh you should check it out. It's very good! And yeah, a lot of people don't know this song because it was not promoted and was only released silently. I only know about it because I got a notification from Spotify when it came out.