As its season, many calm mood songs have been published to care people’s frozen mind. Indeed, it was pretty busy in last year, 2015 with tons of new singers crowded in the Kpop world. Fans might have been happy, but could have been tired of repetition of same songs playing around street by street. Thus, for the new year and month, musicians released new songs to wake your ears up. The concepts are not too far from the existing styles, but the mood is melted with the season’s aura. Let’s look through which songs were newly released.Among the many albums, the notable 5 albums have been picked by Kpopmap. Some of them are normal, but some are special collaborations. Enjoy the new releases of Jan 2016. GFriend – RoughReleased on Jan 25 as its 3rd mini album, ‘SNOWFLAKE’. This is the final volume of the GFriend’s school series albums. The songs emits the team’s ‘Power and Pure’ concept. The lyrical melody with feeling of distant memories brings it to be alike the season.Released on Jan 25 as his special single album, ‘Break Up 2 Make Up’. ZICO’s urban R&B and ballad album has come. The album consists of double title songs. The first title is ‘I am you, You are me’ and the other is ‘It was Love’, featuring Luna, f(x). Especially, ‘I am you, You are me’ got the first rank as it was released right away.Released on Jan 22 as his single, ‘Don’t Forget’. The desire to keep the lovely moment with the lover forever is melted in the song, ‘Don’t Forget’. Also, the song can bring various meanings up to listener’s feelings, thought, perspective, and reality.Released on Jan 2 as ‘Reply 1988’ OST album. As the drama hit, the OST followed its reputation. The song ‘As Time Passes’ is the remake of the old version, by Choi Ho-Sub. Kihyun is a lead vocal of the hot boy rookie group, MONSTA X. His soft but sensitive voice completes the mood.Released on Jan 7 as their duet single, ‘Dream’. It was hot issue before the duet was announced because of the first collaboration of SM and JYP. The song, based on Jazz and Neo-Soul, is a pop R&B and full of young love. The two hot idol stars’ sweet harmony can be found.
