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The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2013 in music in South Korea.

Debuting and disbanded in 2013

Debuting groups

Further information: List of South Korean idol groups (2010s) § 2013

Solo debuts

Disbanded groups

Releases in 2013

First quarter

January

Date Title Artist Genre(s)
1 I Got a Boy Girls' Generation Dance, Electronic
4 Just JeA JeA Pop, Ballad
10 I Yah Boyfriend Dance
11 Fly High Infinite H Hip hop
13 Album 4 Part 2 Baechigi Hip hop
14 Re:Blue CNBLUE Rock
15 Superior Speed Speed Pop, Dance
17 I Jaejoong Rock, Ballad
Harvest Moon 2Yoon Dance-pop
Phantom Theory Phantom Hip hop
18 Begins Moon Hee-joon Dance-pop, Dubstep
23 Cloud 9 Eric Nam Pop
Dolls Nine Muses Pop
24 Shut Up and Deal The RockTigers Rockabilly
25 Myname 2nd Single Myname Dance
28 The 5th Album Vol.1 – The True Story 4Men Ballad
29 Eraser Ali Pop
31 Break Down Super Junior-M Dance
Gone Not Around Any Longer Sistar19 Pop

February

Date Title Artist Genre(s)
5 Little Giant Huh Gak Pop, Ballad
Blessed Clazziquai Project Pop, Electronic
11 Ring Ma Bell Two X Dance
12 One Shot B.A.P R&B, Hip hop
13 Rainbow Syndrome Rainbow Dance
Hello NU'EST Dance, Ballad
19 Dream Girl – The Misconceptions of You Shinee Dance, Electropop
20 Blow Speed Speed Dance, R&B
T-Love Kim Tae-woo Dance
25 No. 1 Teen Top Hip hop, R&B, Dance
26 Y Jaejoong Rock, Ballad

March

Day Title Artist Genre(s)
4 Affirmative Chapter 1 D-Unit Dance, Hip hop
5 One Spring Day 2AM Pop, Ballad
7 First Love Part 1 Lee Hi Pop, R&B
Code 01 Bad Girl Ladies' Code Dance, Ballad
Collage U-KISS Dance, Ballad
8 Just Go (Goodbye's the New Hello) RaNia Dance
14 Expectation Girl's Day Dance, Electronic
Beautiful Kisses G.NA Dance, Ballad
Life Heo Young-saeng Dance, Ballad
18 Mystic Ballad Pt. 2 Davichi Ballad
Second Evolution EvoL Dance
21 New Challenge Infinite Dance, Ballad
25 Voulez-vous ZE:A Five Dance
26 Come As You Are Phantom Ballad, Pop
27 Come Back Double A Dance
28 First Love Lee Hi Pop, R&B

Second quarter

April

Day Title Artist Genre(s)
1 In Love Electroboyz Hip hop
4 The Third Album Part.2 'Love Blossom' K.Will Ballad, Dance
8 Romantic Spring Gain and Hyung-woo Pop
10 Money in the Building M.I.B Dance, Hip hop
18 Shaking Heart C-Clown Dance, R&B
22 Should Have Treated You Better uBeat Dance, Hip hop
24 Viva Primavera DickPunks Pop, Rock
25 Fall in L Juniel Pop, Ballad
No. 1 Repackage Special Edition Teen Top Dance
26 Why So Serious? – The Misconceptions of Me Shinee R&B, Dance
Name is 4Minute 4Minute Dance-pop, Hip hop
Entrain N-Train Dance
29 Countryside Life T-ara N4 Dance-pop, Hip hop
30 Letter from Secret Secret Dance

May

Day Title Artist Genre(s)
2 Do You Want Some Tea Hello Venus Dance
6 What's Happening? B1A4 Dance
Grown 2PM Electronic, R&B
8 The 5th Album Vol.2 – Thank You 4Men Ballad
9 Wild Nine Muses Dance
Skirmish LC9 Dance, R&B
14 Forever Young Seo In-young Ballad
16 The Classic Shinhwa Dance, R&B
20 Hyde VIXX Dance
21 Monochrome Lee Hyori Dance
22 My Everything Lee Min-ho Dance
23 Real 100% 100% Dance
27 Love Was Enough Andrew Choi K-pop, R&B
31 Luv Virus Skarf Dance

June

Day Title Artist Genre(s)
3 XOXO Exo R&B, Pop
4 Sexy Beat MBLAQ Dance
Rainbow Syndrome Part.2 Rainbow Dance
7 Trap Henry Dance
Flaming Nuts Crying Nut Post-punk, indie rock
10 Escaping Gravity Nell Rock, Indie rock
11 Give It to Me Sistar Dance
12 2 Cool 4 Skool BTS Hip hop, R&B
Life Is Beautiful Monni Rock
13 First Love After School Pop, R&B
14 Black Tinkerbell Chocolat Dance
17 Bad Boys Led Apple Pop-Rock
A Good Girl Baek A-yeon Pop
19 Young Folk Sunny Hill Dance
20 Be Ambitious Dal Shabet Dance, Electropop
21 Don't Mess With Me 2Eyes Dance
24 Female President Girl's Day Dance, Electropop
25 Mambo A-Prince Dance
Love Love Love Roy Kim Acoustic pop

Third quarter

July

Day Title Artist Genre(s)
4 Memories of Summer Davichi Ballad
Myname 1st Mini Album Myname Dance
5 Secret Garden Apink Dance, Electropop
8 Waiting For U Mr. Mr Dance
10 Don't Let It Get You Down SHU-I Dance
I Like 2 Party Jay Park Hip hop
Insane A-Jax Dance
11 A's Doll House Ailee Dance, R&B
15 Incredible Xia Junsu Pop, R&B
16 Destiny Infinite Dance, Electronic
19 Hard to Love, How to Love Beast Dance, Hip hop
22 Round 3 Kim Hyun-joong Dance
25 Five Beats of Hearts Tahiti Dance
29 Black Box Brown Eyed Girls Pop, R&B
Pink Tape f(x) Dance, Electropop
30 Since 1971 F-ve Dolls Dance
31 Jekyll VIXX Dance

August

Day Title Artist Genre(s)
1 U R So Cute 24K Dance
2 Burn It Up E.S.Q Dance
5 Growl Exo Electropop, R&B
6 Badman B.A.P Hip hop, R&B
8 Bound – The Misconceptions of Us Shinee Dance, R&B
Hang Out Big Star Dance
Spectacular Tasty Dance
9 Illusion ZE:A Dance
12 Love Beat MBLAQ Dance
13 Always Love You Kim Hyung-jun Ballad
19 Let's Talk About Love Seungri R&B, Pop
OK About It AA Dance
20 Just Now History Dance
22 Sleep Talking NU'EST Dance
23 L’Homme Libre Vol.1 Defconn Hip hop
26 Shout Out Royal Pirates Pop-rock
Teen Top Class Teen Top Dance
Stardust Lunafly Pop
28 I Like This Song Lyn Pop, Ballad

September

Day Title Artist Genre(s)
2 Full Bloom Kara Dance
Coup d'Etat G-Dragon Hip hop
3 Tremendous Global Icon Dance
5 Pretty Pretty Ladies' Code Dance, R&B
Ordinary Girl Piggy Dolls Dance
9 Thriller BtoB Dance
Halftime J.Y. Park Dance
Her Voice Lim Kim Jazz, Pop
10 Stupid in Love Soyou X Mad Clown Hip hop
11 O!RUL8,2? BTS Hip hop
12 The Cure Drunken Tiger Hip hop
16 In Stardom V3.0 Cho PD Hip hop
17 First Love F-ve Dolls Dance
23 Thanks To F.T. Island Rock
25 Busker Busker Vol. 2 Busker Busker Pop, Acoustic
26 The Streets Go Disco Crayon Pop Dance
30 Hope Torture Song Ji-eun Pop, Ballad

Fourth quarter

October

Day Title Artist Genre(s)
2 Very Good Block B Hip hop, Dance
2nd Part.2 Vanilla Acoustic Ballad, Indie pop
4 Shine Standing Egg Ballad, Pop
8 Modern Times IU Ballad, Retro
Identity Boys Republic Dance
Shooting Star 2Eyes Dance
10 The Sense of an Ending Jung Joon-young Pop-rock
Who Are You? Kahi Pop, R&B
Again T-ARA Dance
Wedding Day Pure Dance
11 Myname 3rd Single Album My Name Dance
14 Prima Donna Nine Muses Dance, Synthpop
Everybody Shinee Electropop, R&B
16 Red Motion AOA Dance
17 Will in Fall K.Will Ballad, R&B
22 Welcome to My Zone Samuel Seo Hip hop
23 School Bell Delight Dance
Teen Top Class Addition Teen Top Dance
24 Dogg's Out Topp Dogg Hip hop
25 Into the Light N:Sonic Dance
28 Chemistry Trouble Maker Dance
29 WWW Jaejoong Rock, Ballad
31 Moments U-Kiss Dance

November

Day Title Artist Genre(s)
1 Curious Fiestar Dance
6 Hush Miss A Dance, R&B
8 Ringa Linga Taeyang EDM, Hip hop
11 Reminisce Huh Gak R&B, Pop
Trip Untouchable Hip hop
15 Doom Dada T.O.P Alternative hip hop
18 The Mood F.T. Island Rock, Ballad
The Meaning of Solitude Lee Juck K-pop
20 Nom Nom Nom Wassup Hip hop, Dance
Voice 100% V Ballad
22 The Truth Electroboyz Hip hop
25 Voodoo VIXX Dance
26 Love & Hate Hyolyn Ballad, Pop
27 Nocturne 2AM Ballad, Pop
Hello Goodbye DickPunks Ballad
28 Blue Spring History Dance
Chapter II The Boss Dance

December

Day Title Artist Genre(s)
4 Again 1977 T-ara Dance
6 Deulgukhwa Deulgukhwa Rock
9 Gift from Secret Secret Dance
Miracles in December Exo Ballad
13 Flower Junhyung Dance, Rap
Dogg's Out Repackage Topp Dogg Dance
18 Musical December 2013 with Kim Junsu Xia Junsu Ballad, Pop
20 Modern Times – Epilogue IU Ballad, Retro

Deaths

Charts

See also

References

  1. ^ "K-pop stars BTS top US album charts". BBC News. 28 May 2018. Archived from the original on 8 November 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. ^ Lee, Sun-min (July 16, 2013). "'Superstar K2' singer making debut". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on December 24, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  3. ^ "Deulgukhwa to split after drummer's death". The Korea Herald. December 26, 2013.
  4. ^ Jeon, Won (February 10, 2015). '김태우 제자' 키스, 알고보니 해체된 DMTN 지수. Mydaily (in Korean). Archived from the original on September 6, 2020. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  5. ^ "Singer Kim Ji-hoon Kills Himself". Archived from the original on 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
  6. ^ "K-Pop Idol Who is Deaths Under 40 Age: Accident, Suicide and Disease | Channel-K - Part 3". Archived from the original on 2020-09-06. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
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