The following is a list of notable events and releases that have happened in 2022 in music in South Korea.
Notable events and achievements
January 5 – V's "Christmas Tree" became the first Korean OST to enter the Billboard Hot 100 at number 79, as well as the first song by a Korean soloist to debut at number one on the US Digital Song Sales chart. January 6 – BTS, the Best became the first album by a Korean act in 17 years to sell over 1 million copies on the Oricon Albums Chart in Japan, since BoA's Best of Soul (2005). March 1 – Aespa became the first idol group to win Rookie of the Year at the Korean Music Awards, and the most-awarded girl group in the ceremony's history, with a record three wins at the 2022 ceremony. April 16, 23 – Coachella: 2NE1 reunites for the first time in over 6 years with a surprise performance on the Coachella main stage. Aespa also performs on the festival's main stage the following weekend. May 9 – AleXa performed her song "Wonderland" on the American Song Contest and became the first winner. June 30 – July 2 − The Jeddah K-Pop Festival 2022 is held at the Jeddah Super Dome—Saudi Arabia's first K-pop festival. Performers included Everglow, Ateez, Epex, Victon, CIX, Monsta X, and Verivery. Everglow becomes the first K-pop girl group to ever perform in Saudi Arabia. July 3 – Nayeon became the first K-pop soloist to enter the top 10 on the US Billboard 200 in the chart's history with her EP Im Nayeon. July 31 – J-Hope performed at Lollapalooza and became the first South Korean artist to headline the main stage at a major U.S. music festival. September 23, 25 – Blackpink became the first K-pop girl group to top UK Albums Chart with their second full-length album Born Pink. Blackpink also became the first K-pop girl group to top US Billboard 200 with Born Pink. November 20 – Jungkook performed at the 2022 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony. December 5 – Blackpink was named Time Magazine's Entertainer of the Year. December 26 – RM's Indigo reached a peak of 3 on the US Billboard 200, becoming the highest charting Korean soloist on the chart to-date, and the first to reach the top 5.
Award shows and festivals Award ceremonies + 2022 music award ceremonies in South Korea Date Event Host January 8 36th Golden Disc Awards Ilgan Sports and JTBC Plus January 23 31st Seoul Music Awards Sports Seoul January 27 11th Gaon Chart Music Awards Korea Music Content Association March 1 19th Korean Music Awards Korean Popular Music Awards Committee March 10 6th Korean Hiphop Awards HiphopLE and Hiphopplaya October 8 5th The Fact Music Awards The Fact and Fan N Star November 8 4th Genie Music Awards Genie Music November 26 14th Melon Music Awards KakaoBank November 29 and 30 24th MAMA Awards CJ ENM December 13 7th Asia Artist Awards Star News and Star Continent
Festivals + 2022 televised music festivals in South Korea Date Event Host December 16, 2022 KBS Song Festival Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) December 24, 2022 SBS Gayo Daejeon Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) December 31, 2022 MBC Gayo Daejejeon Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC)
Debuting and disbanding in 2022 Debuting groups
Acid Angel from Asia Aimers Apink Chobom Astro – Jinjin & Rocky ATBO Blank2y Classy CSR Fifty Fifty Got the Beat H1-Key ILY:1 Irris Kep1er Lapillus Le Sserafim Mamamoo+ Mimiirose NewJeans
Nmixx Shinhwa WDJ Superkind TAN Tempest TNX Trendz Viviz Younite
Solo debuts
Baekho Chaeyeon Choi Ye-na Choi Yoo-jung Jin Fatou Kihyun Kino Kim Jong-hyeon (JR) Lee Chan-hyuk Minho Miyeon Nayeon Seulgi Wonpil Xiumin Yerin Yuju
Disbandments
April BugAboo Bvndit D-Crunch Girlkind Hot Issue Lunarsolar NU'EST Redsquare TRCNG
Releases in 2022 First quarter January Date Album Artist(s) 3 Bobbin Blitzers First Impact Kep1er Disharmony: Find Out P1Harmony Novella Up10tion Ruby Woozi 4 Planet Nine : Voyager Onewe 5 Super Yuppers! WJSN Chocome Athletic Girl H1-Key Love Me Like Omega X Blue Set Chapter 1: Tracks Trendz 6 Essay ep. 1 Jang Minho 7 Rewind BZ Boys 10 Dimension: Answer Enhypen Illusion Kim Yo-han 12 Marvelous Mirae 13 Devil Max Changmin 14 Instinct Part. 2 OnlyOneOf Yummy Yummy LoveMomoland 16 Whee Wheein 17 Midnight Guest Fromis 9 Villain Drippin Restore Jinjin & Rocky Smiley Choi Ye-na Complete With You AB6IX 18 Chronograph Victon Rec. Yuju BBamBam 19 6equence Moonbyul 20 Self n Ego Luminous 24 In:vite U Pentagon Rica Rica Nature 25 Love Story (4 Season Project 季) Kyuhyun 26Love.Def.
February Date Album Artist(s) 7 Pilmography Wonpil 8 Love&Fight Ravi Fighting Rolling Quartz 9 You Ha Sung-woon Beam of Prism Viviz 10 Born Big Mama 14 Horn Apink Epik High Is Here 下 (Part 2) Epik High INVU Taeyeon 15 The Second Step: Chapter One Treasure Lovender Han Seung Yun American GothicDeVita 21 Be Together BtoB Young-Luv.com STAYC 22 Ad Mare Nmixx 23 The Collective Soul and Unconscious: Chapter One Billlie 24 Dance with God Craxy 25 First Letter Solji 28 Yellow Punch Rocket Punch The Road: Winter for Spring Super Junior
March Date Album Artist(s) 2 Cherry Wish Cherry Bullet It's Me, It's We Tempest 2 Bang Yong-guk 7 3rd Desire (Reve) Kim Woo-seok Play Game: Awake Weeekly 10 1TAN TAN 14 I Never Die (G)I-dle Thank You Brave Girls 15 Voyager Kihyun Refuge Moonbin & Sanha Needle & Bubble NU'EST 16 容: Face Solar Love Pt. 1: First Love WEi Dimension Xia 18 Oddinary Stray Kids 21 The ReVe Festival 2022 – Feel My Rhythm Red Velvet Daydream Highlight 22 Liberty: In Our Cosmos Cravity 24 Customary Place Lee Seok-hoon 28 Glitch Mode NCT Dream Real Love Oh My Girl 29 MemeM Purple Kiss 30 End Theory: Final Edition Younha Intersection: Blaze BAE173 New World 31 History of Kingdom: Part IV. Dann Kingdom
Second quarter April Date Album Artist(s) 4 Grey Suit Suho Color Kwon Eun-bi Love in Bloom ILY:1 5 Love Dive Ive 6 A Business Proposal OST 7 Arcade: V Ghost9 11 Dice Onew 12 Apocalypse: Save Us Dreamcatcher Chase Episode 2. Maum DKZ 14 Just Begun Just B 19 Estrena Jang Yoon-jeong 20 Seoul Bolbbalgan4 Youni-birth Younite 21 The Song of Love Song Ga-in 22 Savior Sungkyu 25 Series "O" Round 3: Whole Verivery 26 Shape of Love Monsta X My Name Lee Su-jeong 27 My Miyeon Miro Yoon Ji-sung Roar E'Last Melo Drama 4Men Day&Night Soyou Bridge of Dreams Ichillin' 28 Rebel DKB Cheese in the Trap (C.I.T.T) Moonbyul 29 Psy 9th Psy
May Date Album Artist(s) 2 Im Hero Lim Young-woong Fearless Le Sserafim 3 Flashback iKon A Wild Rose Ryeowook Invitation MeloMance 4 Colorful Trauma Woodz 5 Y: Class Is Over Classy 9 Minisode 2: Thursday's Child Tomorrow X Together 10 Jannabi's Small Pieces II: Grippin'TheGreen Jannabi 11 The Code Ciipher Where Is My Garden! Jeong Se-woon 12 By My Side Hwang Chi-yeul 16 Drive to the Starry Road Astro Deep Hyoyeon Season Note Davichi 17 Trickster Oneus Way Up TNX Sory Lee Soo-young 18 A to B AB6IX Aria Yerin 20TimelessOnewe 23 Got7 Got7 24 The Story Kang Daniel Into the Light Lightsum Lucky Charms! Moon Soo-jin K2Y I: Confidence [Thumbs Up] Blank2y 25 Re-Original Bvndit 26 Lives Across Classy 27 Face the Sun Seventeen 30 Beatbox NCT Dream The Beginning: World Tree Forestella 31 Chaos Victon
June Date Album Artist(s) 2 Op.22 Y-Waltz: in Major Jo Yu-ri LostDvwn 6 Happy Birthday Son Dong-woon 8 Blue Set Chapter 2. Choice Trendz Doomchita Secret Number The Four Season 9 Joy Woo!ah! NangmanBig Naughty 10 Proof BTS 13 Facade Wonho Pop BugAboo 14 Star Paul Kim Love&LoveSeo In-guk15Blue SkyBDC Reborn Pixy Villain: Zero Drippin Story Written in Music Omega X 16 Seven, Yim Jae-beom 20 Doublast Kep1er Flip That Loona Hit Ya! Lapillus 21 Sugar Youngjae W Series '2TAN' (Wish ver) TAN 22 Re: Kard CronicleSung Hoon 23 Room Vol.1 Lee Mu-jin 24 Im Nayeon Nayeon 27 From Our Memento Box Fromis 9 Boom Lee Min-hyuk AloneCoogie 30 Undo Heize
Third quarter July Date Album Artist(s) 1Happy 25th JaurimJaurim 4 MMM Young Tak Manifesto: Day 1 Enhypen 5 Sequence WJSN Holiday Winner 6 Run H1-Key Wanna KnowIrris Summer Vibe Viviz PodiumYou Chae Hoon 7 The Earth: Secret Mission Chapter.2 MCND 8 Girls Aespa 11 Bare & Rare Chungha Tropical RomanceBusters 12 Copycat Apink Chobom The Road: Keep On Going Super Junior Delicious Woo Jin-young 13 The Wave OF9 SF9 14Daft Love 15 Checkmate Itzy Jack in the Box J-Hope 18 Ice Hyolyn Sector 17 Seventeen 19 Que Sera Sera ILY:1 We Need Love STAYC Ego 90'S Babylon 20 Win-Dow Blitzers Harmony: Zero In P1Harmony Nabillera Hyuna Hello, World! Xdinary Heroes We're Not Alone Final: Only YouGreatGuys22Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night IIJusthis24Hook UpAhn Byeong-woong 25 Youni-Q Younite Geekyland Purple Kiss 26 Genuine Sunye W Series '2TAN' (We ver) TAN 27YOU.FONicole Panorama Kim Ho-joong Grown Ass Kid Zico The Beginning : 開花 ATBO Sequence : 7272 CSR 28 Why Not?? TO1 337DalsoobinOmnibus Pt. 1: KaleidoscopeShaun 29 The World EP.1: Movement Ateez
August Date Album Artist(s) 1 Count on Me New Jeans NewJeans 3 Smartphone Choi Ye-na Genzi3 8 Forever 1 Girls' Generation Aura Golden Child 9Leviosa Tri.be PoseKino10The End of PubertyD.Ark 16 Be Aware The Boyz Who Am I Craxy Storage of ONF ONF 17 Odyssey: Dash BAE173 Luminous in Wonderland Luminous Childhood Lucy My Sun Kim Hyun-joong 22 After Like Ive OK Episode 1: OK Not CIX 24 Strange World Ha Sung-woon K2Y II: Passion [Fuego] Blank2y 25 Autumn DKB 26 Between 1&2 Twice 29 5ight Lee Jin-hyuk Shining Up Tempest Flash Rocket Punch 30 Gasoline Key 31 The Billage of Perception: Chapter Two Billlie
September Date Album Artist(s) 5 Malus Oneus Empty Dream Kim Jae-hwan 6 To Whom It May Concern Bernard Park 7 Eyes on You Kangta 12 Love&Holiday Ravi 13 Born Gene Kim Jae-joong 14 Sunflower Choi Yoo-jung 15But for Now Leave Me AlonepH-1 16 Born Pink Blackpink AwesomeMimiirose 2 Baddies NCT 127 Imagine Club 19 Entwurf Nmixx 20 Thousand Years Peppertones 21 Be Yourself Jay B 22 Girl's Round Part.1 Lapillus 26 Brand New Xiumin Adorable REbirth Adora 27 New Wave Cravity 28 Ourturn Mirae 29 Five Senses Be'O X EXID
Fourth quarter October Date Album Artist(s) 4 The Second Step: Chapter Two Treasure 28 Reasons Seulgi Take a Chance AB6IX 5 One Bad Night Jamie History of Kingdom: Part V. Louis Kingdom Let's Koyote Koyote 6 Chase Episode 3. Beum DKZ 7 Maxident Stray Kids 10 Luv Sign 11 Mic On Mamamoo Apocalypse: Follow Us Dreamcatcher Dream & Deurim TAN 12 Lethality Kwon Eun-bi Absolute Zero Baekho The Answer Park Ji-hoon Code Name: Arrow Up10tion Hush Rush Chaeyeon 13 Troubleshooter Kep1er Reddy Action Reddy 14 Bittersweet Wonho 17 I Love (G)I-dle Antifragile Le Sserafim Dearest N.Flying Error Lee Chan-hyuk Abandoned Love.Def.18Studio We : Recording #3Onewe 19 Love Pt. 2: Passion WEi MeantimeLil Boi 24 Youth Kihyun Op.22 Y-Waltz: in Minor Jo Yu-ri 25 And Roy Kim 26 Prelude of Love Chapter 1. Puppy Love Epex Day & Night Classy The Beginning: 始作 ATBO Before Sunrise Part. 4 TFN 27 Dance On Alice 28 Access Acid Angel from AsiaThe Astronaut Jin29DirtPaloalto 31 Youni-On Younite
November Date Album Artist(s) 6 Nature World: Code W Nature 7 After Sunset Highlight 8 Meridiem Kim Jong-hyeon I (Part. 1) Eternal Jang Minho 9 The Lights Jukjae 10 Loner Yong Jun-hyung 11 Girls Gone Vogue AleXa Log Jung Eun-ji Overload Xdinary Heroes 12 Blue Set Chapter. Unknown Code Trendz 14 Last Scene Chen Liminality – Ep.Love Verivery Selfish YooA 15 Choice Victon Villain: The End Drippin Pieces of _ Kevin Oh 16 = (Neun) Just B Pit-a-Pat Woo!ah! Tap Secret Number Magic Artbeat 17 Sequence: 17& CSR 18 Love or Loved Part.1 B.I Lowlife Princess: Noir Bibi The Fifty Fifty Fifty 22 On and On Tempest Forgive Me BoA 23 Latecomer NTX Up2U TO1 First of All Hynn 24 The Story: Retold Kang Daniel Comma Woo Won-jae 28 The ReVe Festival 2022 – Birthday Red Velvet A to Z Niel 29 Move Again Kara Cold Day Kassy 30 Cheshire Itzy Harmony: Set In P1Harmony
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