This is KBS' 49th year, and its team selected 49 greatest performances from Gayo Top 10 (up to 1997) and Music Bank (since 1998).
They are not the greatest hits, but what the selection team deemed to be the greatest performances.
Performances by Steve Yoo, MC Mong and others the general public consider as persona non grata are not included in this list.
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For singers popular before the KPop era, I will only list the names. (None of the hyperlinks works correctly. Click at your own risk.)
1 . Lee Sunhee
6. Deuce
9. Seo Taiji and Boys - Come Back Home (includes YG, who is very relevant for the KPop era)
12. Lee Moonsae
13. Cool
14. Boowhal
15. Taisaja
16. Zaza
17. Shin Seunghoon
19. Um Junghwa, Sechs Kies (collabo)
20. Drunken Tiger
21. Finkl
22. Space A, S#arp, Koyote (collabo of their hits)
24. Jo Sungmo
28.. Im Changjung, featuring Psy at the final song
30. Buzz
31. Lee Seungchul
32. Rain
33. Jewelry
34. Geobugi(Turtle)
35. SG Wannabee
36. Lee Hyori, Kara (before Goo Hara and Kang Jiyoung had joined.)
37. Chaeyeon, Seo Inyoung
38. CSJH, Baby Vox Love
39. Wonder Girls- Kissing You. WG's one and only attempt on cutesy concept, it is very valuable.
40. SNSD - Tell Me
41. Lee Hyori - U Go Girl and one other song
42. 2NE1 - Pretty Boy, I don't Care . Probably one of their few perfs at Music Bank.
43. After School -Bang
45. IU - The Red Shoes
46. Mamamoo - Yes I a
47. BTS - DNA
49. Twice - What is Love.
EXO and quite a few famous names are nowhere to be found, and the list stops at 2017 since from around that time the major acts began to shun music shows , leaving them for newer acts.
But here it is, for the good, or for the bad.
