Time to think about the "best of the year."
For me, this year has been dominated by Dreamcatcher and their Sahara was the best of 2020:
Best MV of the year, from the best album of the year that was packed with great tracks. From fun J-rockish
Tension to completely unique tracks like
Red Sun,
Jazz Bar, and
Black or White, their album Dystopia: The Tree of Language was wall-to-wall amazing. Their singles
Scream and
Boca also got a fair amount of attention and it's great to see them getting bigger in Korea.
There were a lot of great releases from solo artists. Perennial favorite Sunmi's
PPorappippam was great, as was another former Wonder Girl, Yubin's
Me time. Hwasa also had a couple of excellent solo releases with
LMM and
Maria, and I've been playing Hyolyn's
Say My Name a lot.
But the best solo release (and nearly the best song overall) of 2020 was BIBI's
Restless. She had a great year in general with
Kazino and rounding out the year by featuring on Heechul and Min Kyunghoon's
Hanryang which was another great track spawned from a variety show.