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As you see, Crayon Pop have my top song. But for the long run I'd lay my bets on ChoColat. Crayon Pop have to rely on being insanely catchy every time out, while ChoColat only need reasonably good tunesmanship and dramatic timing and Melanie's passionate wail — all of which ChoColat can rely on.

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1. Crayon Pop "Bar Bar Bar"
2. Gaeko & Choiza & Simon D & Primary "난리good!!! (AIR)"
3. GLAM "I Like That"
4. Baauer "Harlem Shake"
5. MBLAQ "Smoky Girl."



6. will.i.am ft. Britney Spears "Scream & Shout"
7. Evol "Get Up"
8. Cassie ft. Rick Ross "Numb"
9. Tiny-G "Minimanimo"
10. ChoColat "Black Tinkerbell"
11. Z.Hera "Peacock"
12. Miranda Lambert "Mama's Broken Heart"
13. 2YOON "24/7"
14. G-Dragon ft. Jenova "Crayon (Lam Suet Remix)"
15. Margaret Berger "I Feed You My Love"



16. Sistar19 "Gone Not Around Any Longer"
17. Nyusha "Naedine"
18. Stromae "Papaoutai"
19. Baek Ji Young "떠올라"
20. D-Unit ft. Zico "Talk To My Face"
21. Psy "Gentleman"
23. Baek Ji Young "Acacia"
22. Baek Ji Young "I Hate It"
24. D-Unit ft. Vasco "Stay Alive"
25. Girl's Day "Expectation"



26. After School "First Love"
27. Qri "Do We Do We"
28. Tyga ft. Wiz Khalifa & Mally Mall "Molly"
29. Rocko ft. Rick Ross & Future "U.O.E.N.O"
30. Gaeko "Rhythm Is Life"
31. Yelle "L'Amour Parfait"
32. Vixx "On And On"
33. A$AP Rocky ft. 2 Chainz, Drake, Kendrick Lamar "Fuckin' Problems"
34. Annie "Tube Stops And Lonely Hearts"
35. Bomba Estéreo "Caribbean Power"



36. Pet Shop Boys "Axis"
37. T-ara, The Seeya, 5Dolls & Speed "Painkiller"
38. Tom Keifer "Solid Ground"
39. BoA "Between Heaven And Hell"
40. When Saints Go Machine ft. Killer Mike "Love And Respect"
41. Angel Haze "No Bueno"
42. Selena Gomez "Come & Get It"
43. GLAM "In Front Of The Mirror"
44. Fidlar "Cheep Beer"
45. Boram "Maybe Maybe"



46. Lee Hyori "Miss Korea"
47. Delight "Mega Yak"
48. MYNAME "Just That Little Thing"
49. SHINee "Dream Girl"
50. Lim Kim "All Right"

Continuing the ChoColat/Crayon Pop theme: Both groups release very few tracks over a long period of time, all of high quality. (GLAM, with three singles, are attempting something similar. And Chi Chi do it/did it too (my uncertainty as to tense is due to my not knowing if they're still in business).) And both groups — as well as GLAM, Evol, Tiny G. Z.Hera, and D-Unit (and those are just from my top twenty) — are commercial flops. Or seem to be. They're barely charting. I don't know the business models, and these groups do have pockets of fans so maybe enough income to keep going if the agencies are committed to the music and not the megabucks.

The reason I put ChoColat and Crayon Pop in my title (as opposed to, say, Evol and Tiny G) is that they're the ones that a particular fan pocket — the lj/ilX K-pop klatch that I'm part of — is getting excited about this month. Our excitement won't help either group any, and they and their prime audience will never hear of us. But we're the ones who might be keeping their memory alive ten years from now in strange places — academia, bohemia — might keep 'em a part of history and therefore might give 'em a delayed musical impact. Or not.

Adventures in musical form: Baauer and, to a lesser extent, Psy made tracks that were bracingly nondevelopmental. I haven't followed through on Baauer or the genre "trap," where some people place him. The little I've heard of the latter doesn't have nearly the gripping, maddening tension of "Harlem Shake."

Gaeko under his own name raps his way around giant boulders and deep chasms — as opposed to in Dynamic Duo, where the raps tend to embed in moods and backgrounds.

GLAM: In the verses of "I Like That" the individual singers sound isolated, exposed, alone — and they like that.

Over on K-pop 2013 I had to resort to poetry to justify my tolerance for Lim Kim — though I thought the two T-arans everyone forgets about, Qri and Boram, did a better example of getting high impact out of low-impact vocals, maybe because their voices are genuinely light (not to mention weak).

Speaking of T-ara and impact, "Painkiller" demonstrates my T-ara thesis: that there's simply no explicable reason why T-ara are good so consistently. T-ara have top billing but their only presence is Soyeon in a mid-song verse and Jiyeon murdering herself in the video. Yet this track is better than anything I've heard by the Seeya or Speed or 5dolls that doesn't have T-ara in the credits. And it survives the Speedsters terrible rapping. Magic.

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