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The following is a list of notable events and releases that musically occurred in 2015 in South Korea.

Debuting and disbanded in 2015

Debuting groups

Further information: List of South Korean idol groups (2010s) § 2015

Solo debuts

Disbanded groups

Releases in 2015

First quarter

January

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
02 First Ferlyn G Ballad, Pop
05 Day By Day High4 Ballad
09 Piece Of Mine Mad Clown Hip-hop
Surprise HALO Dance
12 Base Jonghyun Dance, R&B
14 Fall Into Temptation Tahiti Dance
15 Season of Glass GFriend Pop
16 Cigarette & Liquor Untouchable Hip-hop
19 Coming Home G.Soul R&B
20 One Fine Day Jung Yong-hwa Pop rock
21 Davichi Hug Davichi Ballad
Sing Sing Sing Eddy Kim Ballad
23 Drama Nine Muses Dance
Always U-KISS Dance
The Anthem 1Punch Hip hop
26 Fly Again Infinite H Dance, Hip-hop
29 Sunny Blues Part.B Sunny Hill Dance
30 365 Hanhae Hip-hop

February

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
02 Young Zion.T & Crush R&B
05 Just One Day JeA Ballad
09 Crazy 4Minute Trap, Electronic
12 Myname 2nd Mini Album Myname Dance, Ballad
13 Life Rubber Soul Dance, Hip-hop
16 oNiely Niel Dance
Beautiful Amber Dance, Hip-hop
23 Innocent Rainbow Dance
A Little Lovin eSNa R&B
24 Boys' Record VIXX Dance
26 Seenroot Seenroot Folk
We Shinhwa Dance

March

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
02 Song For You MC Mong Hip-hop
03 Flower Kim Jun-su Ballad
Hi~ Lovelyz Dance, R&B
Stop Love Koyote Hip-hop
04 Black Label Fiestar Dance
05 Eighteen Shannon Williams Dance, Ballad
06 The Beat Goes On Donghae & Eunhyuk Dance
09 Boyfriend in Wonderland Boyfriend Dance
10 Good Bye Tomorrow Lee Ji-young Ballad
Sentimental MeloMance Ballad
12 hawwah Gain Dance, R&B
Welcome to MADTOWN Madtown Dance
Pride & Prejudice Outsider Hip-hop
13 Time Forgets Yoon Hyun-sang Ballad
16 I Am A Woman Too Minah Dance, R&B
17 Snow Of April Huh Gak Ballad
Back and Forth Giriboy Hip-hop
Ice Cream Cake Red Velvet Pop, R&B
18 HEIIVEN Untouchable Hip-hop
19 First Love CLC Dance, Ballad
Wondaland MFBTY Dance, Hip-hop
20 Sincerely NS Yoon-G Dance, R&B
RM RM Hip-hop
Unpretty Rapstar Semi Final Various artists Hip-hop
23 I Will FT Island Rock
24 Another Progress N-SONIC Dance
Lucky You! Primary & Ohhyuk Hip-hop
25 RE: K.Will Ballad
27 FM Crayon Pop Dance
Sugar Sugar Laboum Dance
30 EXODUS EXO Dance, R&B
Colors Miss A Dance, R&B
31 Renovation Blady Dance

Second quarter

April

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
01 Kim Kwang Seok Hommage My Song Part 2 Various artists Folk
Unpretty Rapstar Semi Final 2 Various artists Hip-hop
02 Rainbow Taste Park Si-hwan Rock
07 New Direction Lee Moon-se Ballad
13 Ah Yeah EXID Dance, Hip-hop
Play With Me Cross Gene Dance
14 Spring Love Niel Dance
Zero For Conduct BASTARZ (Block B) Hip-hop
15 Joker Is Alive Dal Shabet Dance, R&B
Tell Me One More Time Jinusean Hip-hop
Time-Limit Jeong Jong-hyun Ballad
16 I'm Not a Pigeon Defconn Hip-hop
Cottage Industry M&D Rock
20 Oh My Girl Oh My Girl Dance, Pop
R.O.S.E Wooyoung (2PM) Dance
23 The Boy Who Cried Wolf San E Hip-hop
Celepretty Park Bo-ram Pop, Ballad
24 EOEO UNIQ Hip-hop
Am I Hotshot? Hotshot Dance
Out Mr.Mr Dance
27 Simple Mind Lim Kim Dance, Folk
RelAcian A.cian Dance
28 Crumple Code Kunst Hip hop
Green Light Play the Siren Hip-hop
29 The Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 1 BTS Hip-hop, R&B

May

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
01 M (MADE Series #1) Big Bang Dance, Hip-hop
Two Of Me Sungha Jung Folk
07 Remember HeartB Ballad
Fantasia Jun Hyo-seong Dance
The Romeo Romeo Dance
08 Love Emotion BESTie Dance
My Jang Hyun-seung Dance
11 27 Kim Sung-kyu Dance
12 Kiss My Lips BoA Pop, R&B
Take Part.1 Take Ballad
13 The 4th Single Album Myname Dance
14 Trespass Monsta X Dance, Hip-hop
I'm Good Elsie Ballad
15 Merry Go Round Jung-yup Ballad
18 Odd SHINee R&B, Electronic
19 She's Alright Horan Rock
20 Awesome N.Flying Rock
21 Beyond The History History Dance
22 Normal Lim Seulong Ballad
Young Standing Egg Folk
26 In Love Kara Dance
Time, So Quickly Lee Seung-chul Rock
27 Deviation JJY Band Rock
28 Question CLC Dance
UZ Urban Zakapa R&B
Grow Up HALO Dance
Dokkun Project Eddy Kim Ballad
29 17 Carat Seventeen Dance, Funk

June

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
01 A (MADE Series #2) Big Bang Dance, Hip-hop
Speed On Speed Dance
03 Love Me Right EXO Dance, R&B
09 Re Birth Seo In-young Ballad
Mirror MBLAQ Dance
#LoveMe MelodyDay Ballad
10 And... Lee Seung-gi Ballad
11 LIQUID Jang Jane R&B
15 No.5 2PM Dance, R&B
18 T-ROAD Kim Tae Woo Ballad
19 Suprassion Jeong Jong-hyun Dance, R&B
Pink Funky Mamamoo R&B, Funk
22 Shake It Sistar Dance
Heart Attack AOA Dance, Electropop
Natural Born Teen Top Teen Top Dance
23 Multillionaire Dok2 Hip-hop
24 Studying Abroad 4Men Ballad
25 Woman Verbal Jint X Sanchez Phantom Hip-hop, R&B
26 Together Forever 18 Kim Hyun Jung Dance
29 Complete BTOB Ballad
Honey Summer NS Yoon-G Dance

Third quarter

July

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
01 D (MADE Series #3) Big Bang Dance, Hip-hop
02 9Muses S/S Edition 9Muses Dance
Love Shake Minx Dance
I'm a Hotshot Hotshot Dance
07 Love Girl's Day Pop, R&B
08 Chewy D.Holic Dance
13 Reality Infinite Dance, Electronic
Just Right Got7 Dance, Hip-hop
14 Alohara Hara Pop
16 Devil Super Junior Dance, R&B
Pink Memory Apink Dance
20 Rise as God TVXQ! Dance, R&B
Vibrato Stellar Pop, Disco
Cushion Sonamoo Dance, Ballad
22 I'm Ill Hello Venus Dance, Electronic
23 Flower Bud GFriend Pop, Ballad
27 Ordinary Beast Dance, R&B
29 You're Beautiful Yoo Seung-woo Ballad
31 Reggae Smash (Summer Night OST) Skull & Haha Hip-hop

August

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
03 Reboot Wonder Girls Synthpop, Retro
Married To The Music SHINee R&B, Electronic
04 So Good T-ara Dance, Ballad
I Can Sing Lee Michelle R&B
05 E (MADE Series #4) Big Bang Dance, Hip-hop
Hitomio Tojite HeartB Ballad
06 Heavy Armour Baechigi Hip-hop
10 Sweet Girl B1A4 Dance
12 2 Primary R&B
17 Beautiful Liar Vixx LR Dance, Hip-hop
19 Lion Heart Girls' Generation Pop, Electropop
The Voice SG WANNABE Ballad
20 Ackmong JJCC Dance
21 A+ Hyuna Pop, Trap
￦ & ONLY Simon D Hip-hop
24 Dreaming April Bubblegum
25 BestDriver Hangzoo Hip-hop
27 That.Is.Lee. Jo Su-mi Drama
28 Insatiable Beatwin Dance
The Anecdote E-Sens Hip-hop
31 Yeoja Verbal Jint & Sanchez Hip-hop, R&B
Let's Make Love Sweet Sorrow Ballad

September

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
01 Lonely 4songs Giriboy Hip-hop
Pour DinDin Hip-hop
02 Once Upon A Time Unicorn Dance
04 Shine a Moonlight Bigstar Dance
#Real# Jun Jin Dance
07 The Day Day6 Pop rock
Rush Monsta X Hip-hop, Electronic
08 Ga Ga Live Black Nut Hip-hop
09 9X9th LYn R&B
The Red Red Velvet Pop, R&B
10 Chocolate Kangnam Ballad, Rock
Dirty G.Soul Electronica
Boys Be Seventeen Dance, Hip hop
11 Top Secret UP10TION Dance
14 One Junho Ballad, Rock
Love & Hate Fly to the Sky Ballad
2gether CNBLUE Rock
15 Do It Amazing DIA Dance, Ballad
美Story HeartB Ballad
Whoami iamnot Rock
16 Feeling Roh Ji-hoon Ballad
Magic Super Junior Dance, R&B
17 Story Op.1 Jonghyun Ballad, R&B
18 Continue ZE:A Dance
21 2002 Gary Hip-hop
22 Love Again Im Chang-jung Ballad
23 Piano Yiruma New age
29 Mad Got7 Dance, Hip hop
30 Vivid Ailee Pop, R&B

Fourth quarter

October

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
01 Welcome Back iKon Hip hop, Dance
Lovelyz8 Lovelyz Dance, Synthpop
Super Fly 24K Dance
3+3 Lee Seung-hwan Ballad
Frameworks Samuel Seo Hip hop
04 Monni 10th Anniversary Best Album 'Fix' CD1 Monni Rock
06 Return 2BiC 2BiC Ballad
07 I Taeyeon Ballad, Pop rock
Speed Up Melody Day Dance
08 Closer Oh My Girl Electronic, dream pop
Incant Bigflo Dance
12 I Mean BtoB Ballad
13 Top Secret Stephanie Dance
15 Fall, Once Again Kyuhyun Pop, R&B
White Hole ALi Rock
1 Life 2 Live The Quiett Hip hop
For Losers Only Sweet Sorrow Ballad
19 Yesterday Kim Jun-su Dance
The Beat Topp Dogg Dance
20 The Story Begins Twice Dance
21 D Kim Dong-wan Dance
22 Monni 10th Anniversary Best Album 'Fix' CD2 Monni Rock
Hero Monsta X Hip hop, Dance
Lonely N.Flying Rock
23 Chat Shire IU Disco, Pop
27 4 Walls f(x) Electronica, R&B
The First Letter Postmen Ballad

November

Date Title(s) Artist(s) Genre(s)
02 Under the Moonlight VAV Hip hop
W.D.W MC Mong Hip hop
03 Hello Gavy NJ Ballad
Boys and Girls Zico Hip hop
04 Believe Year 7 Class 1 Ballad, Dance
05 Basic Brown Eyed Girls Dance, Electropop
₩ORLD₩IDE Jay Park Hip hop
Zero In Romeo Dance
Demonstrate Rania Dance, Hip house
B-Kite 2 MC Sniper Hip hop
10 Chained Up Vixx Dance, Ballad
Skip Tahiti Dance
12 Murphy & Sally D.Holic Dance
Once in a Lifetime Johan Kim K-pop
16 Matrix B.A.P Hip hop, R&B
Shall We Snuper Synthpop
17 Grand Carnival Dynamic Duo Hip hop
SYI Seo In-young Dance, Ballad
SBS MTV Mash Up K-Pop Remix Part.1 Various artists Electronica
18 Hot Pink EXID Dance, Hip hop
FM302 Lee Hong-ki Ballad
23 A Winter Fairy Tale Huh Gak Ballad
Mad Winter Edition Got7 Dance, Hip hop
Monster Park Si-hwan Ballad
24 Lost Nine Muses Dance
I Don't Know Raina Ballad
25 ROAD PROJECT #1 Gill R&B
Boing Boing April Bubblegum
27 W Dongwan Dance
BRAVO! UP10TION Dance
After Sunset, White Night Yim Jae-beom R&B, Rock
30 The Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 2 BTS Hip hop, R&B
Frank Baek Ye-rin R&B, Ballad

December

Date Title (s) Artist (s) Genre (s)
1 Chiljip Psy-da Psy Hip hop
3.3 Royal Pirates Rock
B-Hind (Live Compilation BBANG Club 4) Various artists (Cogason) Rock, Electronica
2 Unpretty Rapstar 2 Vol.2 Compilation Various artists Hip hop
3 Young Love HALO Dance
#REAL# In LA Jun Jin Dance, Ballad
4 The Great Dipper Roy Kim Ballad
Dear Santa Girls' Generation-TTS Pop, Christmas
Inner Standing Egg Folk
6 Aalow Aalow Laboum Dance, Funk
7 Gallery Zico Hip hop
Lovelinus Lovelyz Dance, Ballad
8 Home (Soul Cooke) Brown Eyed Soul R&B
10 Sing For You EXO R&B, Ballad
14 Here's To Youth J.Heart Dance
15 Someone, Somewhere Lucid Fall Folk
16 Make.D Davichi Ballad
Yolhoon Yi Sung-yol & DJ Clazzi Rock
BC Street Box Project Various Artists (Dillon) Rock, New Age
17 A Day Without Sound Choi In-young, Koo Hye-sun Ballad
18 Age Of Innocence Im Tae-kyung Ballad
29 DickPunks Rock
19 Go Hard Part 1: Amount Value Verbal Jint Hip hop
21 Snowman April Christmas
Again Turbo Dance, Hip hop
22 Mixtape "MADMAX" Vasco Hip hop
23 Confession Postmen Ballad
You Are My 5tion Ballad
24 Welcome Back iKon Hip hop, Dance
28 When It Rains Melody Day Ballad

See also

References

  1. ^ Yoon, Min-sik (September 13, 2017). "'iamnot' what you expect". The Korea Herald (in Korean). Herald Corporation. Archived from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
  2. ^ "Monsta X in London review: A thrilling spectacle of K-Pop perfection". Metro. June 18, 2018. Archived from the original on October 8, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
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