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As I'm starting a new year of music (many thanks to those who have already released songs this year and got me working straight away 😂 - you can find the playlist for the month embedded to the right ➡️), I don't want loads of links to playlists past to confuse anyone looking for the newer music. For the moment I'm only going to be listing my K-pop (all Asian except Chinese) playlists as I didn't really have a chance to listen to the Chinese ones.
However, as I have no idea whether it's possible to put all the lists in a single folder for 2023 or something and I quite honestly can't be bothered to waste time looking when I have much better things I could be doing (like work on my EOY lists), I'm going to list them all in this post for ease of access and leave the sidebar for the 2024 lists.
For this year, I have decided to start with only one playlist per month, which includes Chinese songs and see how we get on. This might have to change as releases increase, especially as I'm finding new artists all the time, but hopefully, with my new and improved spreadsheet, it should be easier to keep track of everything - just as long as I don't get too far behind with logging the entries 😂.
As a reminder, all releases are based on Spotify categorisation. I may think a 10-track release is an album, but if Spotify/the artist list it as an EP I have no choice but to accept it, as heartbreaking as that can be sometimes when tough choices have to be made at the end of the month. I have also put collaborations (or soloists with featuring artists) under the group category.
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These are, obviously, my top 3 singles each month listed in monthly order.
TOP 3 FAVOURITE EPs EACH MONTH
Guess what these are 🤔😂
TOP 3 FAVOURITE ALBUMS EACH MONTH
I think you get the idea . . . .
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These were my absolute favourite K-pop songs of the year
TOP 20 A-SIDES (EPs and ALBUMS) (SOLOISTS)
TOP 20 A-SIDES (EPs and ALBUMS) (GROUPS)
These are the best of all the A-sides from all the EPs and albums released in 2023 by groups or collaborations.
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(2023) TOP 20 FAVOURITE K-POP SINGLES
Okay, so there are 22 songs. But EXO has to be in there (because it's the law - well, my law anyway) so they can count as 1 entry and I really couldn't decide between the last 4 songs. Plus Dear My Light and Hybrid are both in first place anyway so . . . .
TOP 20 K-POP SINGLES (SOLOISTS)
I know it says 20, but this is a playlist of all the boy bands who debuted in 2023 (32 of them) and their debut track as they all deserve their moment of glory. They are listed in favourite order.
TOP 20 JAPANESE SONGS (JAPANESE ARTISTS)
TOP 20 JAPANESE SONGS (NON-JAPANESE ARTISTS)
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I really am hopeless at keeping it to 20 😂. However, the top 3 all deserve to be first place so I added another 2.
Look, I managed to stick to 20. Yay, me!
Okay, so it's 21 - who's counting?
(2023) TOP 20 NON-KOREAN LANGUAGE EPs
These songs are in English, Japanese, Thai etc.
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More tough choices, but I did manage to stick to 20. I'm getting better at this 😉
(2023) TOP 20 NON-KOREAN LANGUAGE ALBUMS
These songs are in English, Japanese, Thai etc.
Please note that I managed to stick to 20 for all of these, although it was really, really hard.
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Each month, I somehow (and believe me it's really tough) get the list down to 8 singles from which I then have to choose the top 3. As you may recall from March, this is sometimes an almost impossible task to achieve and takes a long, long time (December 23 is shaping up to be the same). This list contains the 8 singles from each month that I considered for the top 3 because I couldn't bear to lose any of them. Hopefully, I don't need to explain the name but feel free to ask if you don't know.
This is a playlist of the songs the Receiptify app tells me are my top 10 most listened-to songs of the month. It will be interesting to see if it matches with the Lastfm information in the coming year - it hasn't always in the past. I only add the song once, even though several of them crop up regularly. I honestly thought that it would only be about 30 songs as I know there are songs I listen to almost daily which would take up most of the list, but once I started listening to monthly singles repeatedly to work out the top 3 it began to fill out with other artists, so out of the possible maximum of 120 songs, I'm actually only missing 26. There is 1 song that I have no idea how it made it onto the list as I don't particularly like it, and don't recall hearing it sufficiently enough times for it to make the list, but there it is anyway.
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These are the monthly playlists which contain all the songs I listened to each month (it's about 7,224 in total). And yes, I have listened to every single one at least once, and in lots of cases much more than once. There were actually more songs on there, but in the early days I removed the ones I didn't enjoy or felt were better suited to other playlists (like Trot, traditional Korean and OSTs). These days I keep everything on there whether I like it or not so I have a record of what I listened to.
I do remove instrumental tracks (Koreans love instrumental versions, maybe for karaoke?) as my time is short enough already without having to trawl through instrumental versions of a song. If the whole EP or album is instrumental I will have listened to enough of each track to count as listening to it. Fortunately, these don't happen often.
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Contrary to popular opinion, I don't just listen to K-pop and Asian music all the time (no, honestly, I don't). This list is the other releases outside of Asia that came out in 2023 that I listened to. I'm not up on new Western artists as I stopped listening to the Top 40 (UK singles chart programme on the radio) back in the 90s and I gave up with Now That's What I Call Music (old UK singles compilation CDs) at about the same time (yes, I really am that old), so it'll mainly be new releases by my old favs, and I also listen to their previous works when the mood takes me.
These were my 10 favourite songs from the best song contest in the world 🏳️🌈.
I'm not sure how interesting it would be to others, but posting here for completeness. It does show what I actually listened to most over the year, which isn't always what is shown in any of the other lists.
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