Although The Bias Checklist is at first a Okay-pop overview weblog, every month I highlight a handful of “international pop” tracks which have taken maintain of my playlist. To cap off the yr, I’d prefer to depend down my high tracks that weren’t a part of the Okay-pop or J-pop markets.
This was a bizarre yr for pop music as a result of there have been so many returns by enormous artists, but virtually each single one felt completely underwhelming to me. Due to this, my checklist is full of lesser-known artists who made the yr extraordinarily strong. In truth, it was so strong I’m increasing this checklist from forty to fifty! Like final yr, any monitor is eligible whether or not it was promoted with a music video or not.
SONGS 50-31
SONGS 30-11
SONGS 10-1
2024 YEAR-END MASTERPOST
10. Florrie – Trying For Love
There’s a motive I champion legendary producers who’ve been round by means of a number of eras and seen traits come and go. Xenomania do their factor on Trying For Love, paired with Florrie’s wistful vocals and a killer refrain.
9. Benjamin Ingrosso – Look Who’s Laughing Now
Ingrosso’s 2024 music melded basic rock and pop with fashionable touches that made it really feel each timeless and well timed. Look Who’s Laughing Now has bubblegum hooks for the ages, tied to a putting association that grows larger and bolder because the tune unravels.
8. Benjamin Ingrosso – Again To You
Yep, we’re doing two Benjamin Ingrosso songs again to again. The album is solely that good. Again To You brings him to the dancefloor, pairing his surging melodies with Like A Prayer-style bombast. It’s such an evocative sound.
7. Bentley Robles – IAM IAM IAM
IAM IAM IAM opens an unimaginable pop album with aptitude. Its spacey synth sound shortly morphs right into a larger-than-life refrain certain to get your blood pumping. Bentley’s music has such character however at all times places the tune itself on the forefront.
6. Silence Wang – One Hundred Thousand Volts
Silence Wang has change into my go-to C-pop artist, particularly when he dabbles in dance music. One Hundred Thousand Volts jogs my memory of the early-2010’s pageant EDM pattern, climaxing in a collection of dizzying digital prospers. Like many songs on my checklist, it feels gargantuan in scale.
5. Zee Machine & Bentley Robles – Anybody However Him
Sure manufacturing selections can elevate a tune by tenfold. Anybody However Him could be a dynamite monitor no matter association, however its brisk instrumental and searing post-chorus guitar vaults all of it the way in which into my high 5. The tune seems like rushing down a freeway.
4. Käärijä x Erika Vikman – Ruoska
Two of Finland’s ballsiest iconoclasts be part of forces for the pummeling Ruoska. Käärijä’s heavy guitar freakout meets Vikman’s theatrical dance method, leading to a hulking monitor that seems like being run over by a freight prepare.
3. Vincint – Lean
File Vincint beneath “indie artists who need to high each chart.” His vocals, coupled with the heat of this club-ready manufacturing, lead to an uplifting anthem that turns into downright transcendent because it unfurls. It’s an on the spot basic within the vein of emotional membership music like Robyn’s Dancing On My Personal.
2. Confidence Man – I Can’t Lose You
There was no better 2024 earworm than this. I don’t know what crack they laced the vocal manufacturing with, however the tone and texture saved me coming again for increasingly. I Can’t Lose You is like each nice 90’s dance tune funneled into one burst of pop perfection.
1. Madison Rose – Falling Outta Heaven
I’m satisfied Madison Rose is an alien despatched down from a planet whose sole forex is pop music. She simply will get it in a primordial method, and that’s on full show throughout each second of Falling Outta Heaven. That is every thing Gaga and Katy and Rihanna gave us at their peak, delivered by an artist with a sliver of the price range and recognition. I actually don’t know the way she does it, however her expertise as a pop pressure is off the charts. I’m making an attempt each mystical ceremony I can to invoke 2025 being her breakout yr. Pop music this glistening and large and affirming must be heard by as many listeners as potential.
3. Confidence Man – 3AM (La La La)
2. Bentley Robles – Ugly Crier
1. Benjamin Ingrosso – Pink Velvet Theatre
