Top Played 2023!
Feb. 5th, 2024 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kpopwinemomI procrastinated on this because I hate playing favorites. It's so hard for me to pick my top of anything, but I will admit Spotify stats DO make that a bit more possible for me. So again, the rules are: songs released in 2023 that showed up on my Spotify Wrapped. Let's go!
In no particular order...
1) Rover by Kai
This song was so fun! What a wild earworm. I also really enjoyed seeing all the dance covers. This was my top played song of 2023, which did surprise me. I thought it was going to be Because by Rie, but that ended up as number 2.
2) Perfume by DoJaeJung
My number 3 song! I ADORE this. It sounds like old kpop music! It's so fun to listen to, and I love the usage of the split track. Beautiful harmonies, perfect melody...I have no comments.
3) Kangaroo by NCT U
This song is FOR ME. This was my year of falling in love with NCT (terrible) and particularly Chenle (wretched) and this song completely absorbed me. It's so fun! I have it on loop.
4) Phantom by WayV
While technically released in 2022, I'm including this because it came out AFTER my previous 2022 music write up! This album is so good, and I'm so glad to see WayV back making music. This is a cheater entry, because I'm counting the single here, but I actually love the whole album! Both this and On My Youth are contenders for Album of the Year imo.
5) ISTJ by NCT Dream
Is it cheating to include 3 NCT subunits? Whatever, then we cheat. I hated this song at first! But in peak Kmac, I quickly became obsessed with it. It's so weird and fun! I saw a summary saying that this song is about forgetting stereotypes and meeting each other as you are...LOL. This song is about hooking up. (You're so hot. Hot like soup. What lyrics are they giving these boys?)
6) Icky by Kard
Wow this song. I'm feral. BM's verse! WhAT. I have nothing to say. I love this video. I love this album. It's fun and dancy and horny and a complete and total blast. I want to pump this in the club and dance.
7) Sweet Juice by Purple Kiss
Cabin Fever is also in the running for my Album of the Year. I love it, and frequently listen to the whole album. This spot on the list could have just as easily gone to Autopilot! A seriously no skips album. I loved the concept, too.
8) Say My Name by Say Yes (Boys Planet Competition Group)
It would be disingenuous of me to not include a Boys Planet song when I spent so much of this year watching and obsessing over Boys Planet! I ended up not liking the final group even though the boys I voted for made it in...but there were plenty of songs along the way I really enjoyed. This was one of them!
9) Good & Great
This was a year for the working girl music! Key and BSS provided us with some really excellent songs to get us through our work outs and our work days. I have both this and fighting on loop, and I'm cheating and counting them both here.
10) Skyscraper by Vanner
I spent so much of 2023 watching reality tv, wow! Peak Time was the second show that absorbed my year, and the group that I ended up falling in love with through it, Vanner, really shined during this song that I have had on loop since.
Runners up, AKA songs released so late in the year I don't think they got their due respect on my wrapped.
1) On My Youth by WayV
The ENTIRE Album. SM seems to like wrapping the year up with WayV! They dropped Phantom in the last moments of 2022, and On My Youth at the tail end of 2024. What's up with that???? Anyway, I am simply obsessed with this. It's solidly my favorite album of the year.
2) Rebel by TVXQ
I love this song! I see why it came out so close to Christmas, with the Carol of the Bells sample. It slid in right at the end of the year and it is perfect. So weird and spooky and wintery.
This has been sitting in my drafts for like a month y'all. I was really dragging. Since I started this, Vanner has dropped a new EP and it is DELICIOUS. Also loving what Evnne has going on!
In no particular order...
1) Rover by Kai
This song was so fun! What a wild earworm. I also really enjoyed seeing all the dance covers. This was my top played song of 2023, which did surprise me. I thought it was going to be Because by Rie, but that ended up as number 2.
2) Perfume by DoJaeJung
My number 3 song! I ADORE this. It sounds like old kpop music! It's so fun to listen to, and I love the usage of the split track. Beautiful harmonies, perfect melody...I have no comments.
3) Kangaroo by NCT U
This song is FOR ME. This was my year of falling in love with NCT (terrible) and particularly Chenle (wretched) and this song completely absorbed me. It's so fun! I have it on loop.
4) Phantom by WayV
While technically released in 2022, I'm including this because it came out AFTER my previous 2022 music write up! This album is so good, and I'm so glad to see WayV back making music. This is a cheater entry, because I'm counting the single here, but I actually love the whole album! Both this and On My Youth are contenders for Album of the Year imo.
5) ISTJ by NCT Dream
Is it cheating to include 3 NCT subunits? Whatever, then we cheat. I hated this song at first! But in peak Kmac, I quickly became obsessed with it. It's so weird and fun! I saw a summary saying that this song is about forgetting stereotypes and meeting each other as you are...LOL. This song is about hooking up. (You're so hot. Hot like soup. What lyrics are they giving these boys?)
6) Icky by Kard
Wow this song. I'm feral. BM's verse! WhAT. I have nothing to say. I love this video. I love this album. It's fun and dancy and horny and a complete and total blast. I want to pump this in the club and dance.
7) Sweet Juice by Purple Kiss
Cabin Fever is also in the running for my Album of the Year. I love it, and frequently listen to the whole album. This spot on the list could have just as easily gone to Autopilot! A seriously no skips album. I loved the concept, too.
8) Say My Name by Say Yes (Boys Planet Competition Group)
It would be disingenuous of me to not include a Boys Planet song when I spent so much of this year watching and obsessing over Boys Planet! I ended up not liking the final group even though the boys I voted for made it in...but there were plenty of songs along the way I really enjoyed. This was one of them!
9) Good & Great
This was a year for the working girl music! Key and BSS provided us with some really excellent songs to get us through our work outs and our work days. I have both this and fighting on loop, and I'm cheating and counting them both here.
10) Skyscraper by Vanner
I spent so much of 2023 watching reality tv, wow! Peak Time was the second show that absorbed my year, and the group that I ended up falling in love with through it, Vanner, really shined during this song that I have had on loop since.
Runners up, AKA songs released so late in the year I don't think they got their due respect on my wrapped.
1) On My Youth by WayV
The ENTIRE Album. SM seems to like wrapping the year up with WayV! They dropped Phantom in the last moments of 2022, and On My Youth at the tail end of 2024. What's up with that???? Anyway, I am simply obsessed with this. It's solidly my favorite album of the year.
2) Rebel by TVXQ
I love this song! I see why it came out so close to Christmas, with the Carol of the Bells sample. It slid in right at the end of the year and it is perfect. So weird and spooky and wintery.
This has been sitting in my drafts for like a month y'all. I was really dragging. Since I started this, Vanner has dropped a new EP and it is DELICIOUS. Also loving what Evnne has going on!
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Date: 2024-02-06 06:41 am (UTC)I also loved the purple kiss album, I think it was the first time I’ve listened to them so a lot of their other songs ended up on my 2023 playlist too. They’re good!
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Date: 2024-02-06 12:35 pm (UTC)This song is so fun! I kind of want to rewatch the show, so I can be feral and write more fic, but there is so little time in the day and so many things I want to do.
PurKi is great! I've liked them for a while, but this was def a fav album for me...I loved everything about it!
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Date: 2024-02-09 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-02-10 03:40 pm (UTC)