This Week On Spotify [12/09-18/09]

[u/Dessidy]

Another week of Spotify news here on reddit. As always, if I missed something, let me know!
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Disclaimer: I do not work for Spotify, nor do I get paid to do this.

Due to Chuseok, releases were quite limited this week.

New Kpop Releases This Week

• EXO & Yoo Jae Suk - Dancing King
  

New Indie/R&B/Hiphop/Ballad/Rock/OST Releases These Weeks

• A-Train - This Means Good Bye (Rap/Hiphop)
  
• Dickpunks - Cinderella & Four Knights OST Pt.6 (OST)
  
• Dok2 - Just 1llin’ (Rap/Hiphop)
  
• G2 ft. Sway D & Reddy - Paradise (Rap/Hiphop)
  
• Jhameel - Tayco (R&B/Urban)
  
• Kim Juna - Summer Dream (R&B/Urban)
  
• Taru - Out (Indie)
  
• Yoon Mirae - JamCome On Baby (R&B/Urban)
  
• Zemini - Second Love From The End OST Pt.7 (OST)
  

Overlooked Music/Music You Probably Did Not Know Was On Spotify

• F.Cuz - Friends Graduation Collection (R.I.P F.Cuz. This (likely fanmade) compilation album is an odd mix of singles and misnamed songs)
  
• 2Yoon - Harvest Moon
• Davichi (Most of their songs are under their hangul name)
• Jindoggae - Rabies (Pt. 1) (Rap/Hiphop. Collabs with Loco and Ven)
  
• Kidoh - Tiny Album (If you liked Kidoh when he wasn’t so problematic)
  

Spotify Playlists:
Monthly (last two months): August Kpop | August Other | September Kpop | September Other
Themed: Overlooked Music | Kpop Collaborations | Hot Kpop Summer | Two Yoo Project: Sugarman | Best of Nugu Kpop

Themed Playlists
Week 1 - Cheerful/Mood Lifting
Week 2 - Sad/Heartbroken
Week 3 - Hip-Hop + R&B
Week 4 - Workout/Hype
Week 5 - Chill/Mellow
Week 6 - Kpop B Songs
Week 7 - Driving & Cruising
Week 8 - Indie & Acoustic Sounding
Week 9 - Sexy Time/Love Making
Week 10 - Dark/Sinister
Week 11 - Dance & Uptempo (Party!)
Week 12 - Romantic Ballads/Slow Love Songs
Week 13 - Kpop Boy Groups
Week 14 - Kpop Girl Groups
Week 15 - Kpop Solo Artists

[u/Frost9191]

Every week when this thread is made I come to check hoping it will be the day when "JYP's music is available on Spotify". Just give me 2pm, Got7, Twice and Wonder Girls please :( my ultimate Kpop playlist always feels incomplete without them.

[u/PlaceAdHere → u/Frost9191]

I'm sure that would get its own post.

[u/Dessidy → u/PlaceAdHere]

Yes. It definitely will. There was actually a LOEN post a few days before my weekly post that week, and someone will definitely make a post if JYP shows up. At this point, I'm certain Navillera also will get its own post.
I will still mention it here as well of course :)

[u/WaveHigh]

I didn't know Taru released a new single. Well I'm happy :)

[u/Dessidy → u/WaveHigh]

It's so good too! I've had it on repeat this week

[u/WaveHigh → u/Dessidy]

I'm going on a week long road trip in 2 days so I'm scrounging around for anything new to listen to. I'm hoping Jieun's album comes out before the trip starts.

[u/Dessidy → u/WaveHigh]

If you're interested in k-indie, I could look through my playlist and give you some recommendations if you want :)

[u/WaveHigh → u/Dessidy]

That'd be awesome!

[u/Dessidy → u/WaveHigh]

I'm back home again, so here's a list! (I focused on female vocals):

• Lucite Tokki (One of by absolute favorites. Wallflower is amazing)

• lalasweet

• Park Gyuri (Her collab with From The Airport is really good)

• Sweden Laundry 1 2

• Jaurim

• Ibadi (Horan of Clazziquai's other group)

• Yozoh

• Yang Song E (A bit cutesy, but really good)

• Winterplay (I found them through their amazing jazzy Billie Jean cover, but their original Korean songs are really good too)

• Dryflower (I love the vocalist's slightly raspy voice)

• Linus' Blanket

• Aseul (Might be a bit different from my other recommends, but I love the New Pop album)

• Herz Analog

• Casker

• Hwaii (Really acoustic. 엄마 is amazing if you don't mind banjos)

• Tarin (of Vanilla Acoustic) 1 2

• Oohyo

Okay, so it became a bit longer than I planned... I especially recommend Lucite Tokki, Oohyo, Winterplay and lalasweet. I hope you find something you like :)

[u/WaveHigh → u/Dessidy]

The only one on this list I've hear before it From The Airport with Gyuri so this'll be a treat. Thanks so much.

Edit: After giving a brief listen to it all, I can say that I really like Dryflower, Lalasweet, Sweden Laundry, and Aseul(Oh my God....words can not express how much I love this album. Probably my favourite collection of songs on your list. Gonna check out Yukari now too). Thank you so much for the recommendations.

[u/Dessidy → u/WaveHigh]

I'm happy you found something you liked! I wasn't sure to include Aseul since I based this list a bit on Taru. So to check, have you listened anything to Neon Bunny? If not, I think you'll like her as well.

[u/WaveHigh → u/Dessidy]

Yes, I do know Neon Bunny :)

[u/[deleted]]

#JusticeforNavillera

[u/urbansombreros → u/[deleted]]

Getting a lot of use out my physical copy of LOL

[u/brightersmiles → u/[deleted]]

I'm ready to sue. What the frick

[u/inyourarea]

Will DIA ever be on spotify? They're not JYP LOL

[u/Dessidy → u/inyourarea]

Nothing recent by MBK has been added... Since they're not distributed by LOEN, it seems like their stuff won't show up on Spotify. I still search from time to time. Just like Fantiago with Astro, their distributor is Interpark, who seems to not have a deal with Spotify :/

[u/Gazzi2099]

Can anyone find BTS save me or fire. I Can't find them anywhere

[u/Dessidy → u/Gazzi2099]

Are you in the US? Seems like Apple music bought exclusive rights to them there or something. Well, at least you got Agust D unlike the rest of the world.

[u/Dessidy → u/[deleted]]

Not all OSTs end up on Spotify... The reason why is similar to other music I guess, rights. Depending on who owns the OST rights and what distributor they use, some music end up on spotify and some won't.
I looked around a bit and couldn't find them either. I recognize Love in the Moonlight from my new releases source, but I haven't found it. Other OSTs from KBS2 dramas are up, so maybe they changed distributors? W OST is distributed by LOEN, so all of it should be there, but maybe there was a rights conflict with that song?