Although The Bias Record is at the start a Ok-pop overview weblog, every month I highlight a handful of “world pop” tracks which have taken maintain of my playlist. To cap off the 12 months, I’d prefer to depend down my prime tracks that weren’t a part of the Ok-pop or J-pop markets.
This was a bizarre 12 months for pop music as a result of there have been so many returns by big artists, but virtually each single one felt completely underwhelming to me. Due to this, my listing is filled with lesser-known artists who made the 12 months extraordinarily strong. The truth is, it was so strong I’m increasing this listing from forty to fifty! Like final 12 months, 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 – Wanting For Love
There’s a motive I champion legendary producers who’ve been round by way of a number of eras and seen tendencies come and go. Xenomania do their factor on Wanting 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 traditional 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 placing association that grows larger and bolder because the track unravels.
8. Benjamin Ingrosso – Again To You
Yep, we’re doing tow Benjamin Ingrosso songs again to again. The album is just 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 rapidly 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 track itself on the forefront.
6. Silence Wang – One Hundred Thousand Volts
Silence Wang has develop 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 sequence of dizzying digital thrives. Like many songs on my listing, it feels gargantuan in scale.
5. Zee Machine & Bentley Robles – Anybody However Him
Sure manufacturing decisions can elevate a track by tenfold. Anybody However Him can 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 prime 5. The track appears like rushing down a freeway.
4. Käärijä x Erika Vikman – Ruoska
Two of Finland’s ballsiest iconoclasts be a part of forces for the pummeling Ruoska. Käärijä’s heavy guitar freakout meets Vikman’s theatrical dance method, leading to a hulking monitor that looks like being run over by a freight practice.
3. Vincint – Lean
File Vincint beneath “indie artists who need to prime each chart.” His vocals, coupled with the heat of this club-ready manufacturing, end in an uplifting anthem that turns into downright transcendent because it unfurls. It’s an prompt traditional 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 more. I Can’t Lose You is like each nice 90’s dance track 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 approach, and that’s on full show throughout each second of Falling Outta Heaven. That is all the pieces Gaga and Katy and Rihanna gave us at their peak, delivered by an artist with a sliver of the funds and recognition. I truthfully don’t understand how she does it, however her expertise as a pop drive is off the charts. I’m trying each mystical ceremony I can to invoke 2025 being her breakout 12 months. Pop music this glistening and massive and affirming must be heard by as many listeners as attainable.
3. Confidence Man – 3AM (La La La)
2. Bentley Robles – Ugly Crier
1. Benjamin Ingrosso – Pink Velvet Theatre
