Brace yourselves, K-Pop fans, as the upcoming month of April 2024 is set to be filled with even more exciting debuts and comebacks. Check out the April 2024 K-Pop Comeback/Debut Schedule.

In this post, you can see the artists’ debut, comeback, K-Drama OST, and special Music all in one place!

Which comeback and debut will have you waiting in anticipation?

Let's find out who's making a comeback this April and what songs they're coming back with at a glance!

You can check the list below!

 

April 2024 K-Pop Comeback/Debut Schedule

Apr. 1

- BABYMONSTER

1st Mini Album "BABYMONS7ER"

- TXT

6th Mini Album "minisode 3: TOMORROW"

- QWER

1st Mini Album "MANITO"

- LUCAS

1st Single 'Renegade'

- VVUP

Debut Single 'Locked On'

 

Apr. 2

- Lee MuJin

6th Digital Single '청혼하지 않을 이유를 못 찾았어'

- NOWADAYS

1st Single 'NOWADAYS'

- Bang YeDam x Winter (aespa)

Digital Single ‘Officially Cool’

 

Apr. 3

- I.M (MONSTA X)

Mini Album "Off The Beat"

- KISS OF LIFE

1st Single Album 'Midas Touch'

- Catch The Young

2nd Mini Album "Catch The Young: Fragments of Odyssey"

 

Apr. 4

- DRIPPIN

4th Single Album "Beautiful MAZE"

- ILY

2nd Digital Single 'IMMM'

 

Apr. 5

- (G)I-DLE's Yuqi

Digital single 'Could It Be' (pre-release)

 

Apr. 8

- ONF

8th Mini Album "BEAUTIFUL SHADOW"

- woo!ah!

2nd Digital Single 'Blush'

 

Apr. 9

- EPEX

1st Full Album "YouthChapter1 : YOUTH DAYS"

- NCHIVE

1st Single 'DRIVE'

 

Apr. 11

- ViV

Debut 1st EP "Bomb"

- M (Lee MinWoo)

Single 'Again'

 

Apr. 12

- DKZ

2nd Mini Album "REBOOT"

 

Apr. 15

- BOYNEXTDOOR

2nd Mini Album "HOW?"

- Loossemble

2nd Mini Album "One of a Kind"

 

Apr. 16

- KISUM

'서, 어른'

 

Apr. 17

- ONEWE

3rd Mini Album "Planet Nine: ISOTROPY"

- Lay Zhang (Former EXO's Member)

Single 'PSYCHIC (ver. Korea)'

- UNICODE

Debut Album "Hello world code: J Ep.1"

- Crush

"essential; With Artist" Project Single 'By Your Side'

- BEWAVE

Debut / 1st Mini Album "BE;WAVE"

Apr. 18

- RIIZE

 Prologue Single 'Impossible'

- As One

Single 'Better'

- ONEWE

3rd Mini Album "Planet Nine : ISOTROPY"

Apr. 19

- Park Won

3rd Full Album "my fuxxxxx romance"

 

Apr. 22

- NCT's DoYoung

1st Mini album "YOUTH"

- Kim WooJin

3rd Mini album "I LIKE THE WAY"

 

Apr. 23

- (G)I-DLE's Yuqi

1st Mini album "YUQ1"

- Lee JinHyuk

6th Mini album "NEW QUEST: JUNGLE"

 

Apr. 24

- BE'O

2nd Mini album "Affection"

- LA POEM

Single 'MIRROR'

- ZEROBASEONE

3rd Mini Album Pre-release Song 'SWEAT'

 

Apr. 26

- ZICO

11th Digital Single 'SPOT! (feat. Jennie)

Apr. 28

- Lee Yejoon

'새벽 감송' Project 1 'Late Night'

Apr. 29

- SEVENTEEN

Best album "17 IS RIGHT HERE"

- IVE

2nd EP "IVE SWTICH"

- 82MAJOR

1st Mini Album EP "BEAT by 82"

 

Apr. 30

- The KingDom

Mini Album "REALIZE"

- MAMAMOO's Solar

2nd Mini Album "COLOURS"

- Xdinary Heroes

1st Full Album "Troubleshooting"

 

Did you finish checking the April 2024 K-Pop Comeback/Debut Schedule? If you are curious about Kpopmap's May 2024 comeback & debut schedule, you can check it out at the link below!

In recent years, Y2K has become the hottest new trend in K-Pop. From reviving actual Y2K music and style, such as Lee HyoRi's '10 Minutes' and the 2000s makeup trend that it inspired, to contemporary K-Pop groups incorporating the Y2K style and sound, such as NewJeans and tripleS, the K-Pop industry is making the absolute most of this trend. However, we have to admit, we just can't get enough.

Why is Y2K so popular, you ask? Well, Y2K, as a buzzword in today's day and age, started with the Y2K aesthetic, which, in turn, came from social media and mainly TikTok. As trend cycles are said to repeat periodically, usually every 20 years, such a surge in the popularity of Y2K was predicted, especially with COVID-19 amplifying the need to escape to simpler times.

Demand led to supply and the K-Pop industry quickly picked up on the trend to bring us some Y2K bangers. Be it remakes of hits from the 2000s or modernized reinterpretations of the Y2K sound, this trend was not to be missed. Retro was already on the rise, with tracks like BTS' 'Dynamite', so Y2K found the perfect environment to grow and expand, which ultimately birthed the representative Y2K-inspired girl group - NewJeans.

With NewJeans, Y2K-inspired music exploded in popularity, gaining more traction than ever before in the mainstream, and we got more music that was just hitting different. Why? Because there was science backing it up!

What's the first word you think of when you listen to Y2K music? For a lot of people who experienced Y2K, it is nostalgia. For listeners who weren't born in the era where these trends are drawn from, it is arguably anemoia. Just a general longing for a time long gone that seemed much happier than now is what lies behind this attraction but there's also something very interesting happening in your brain that is making you jam out to all these Y2K hits.

It's called neural nostalgia. The music we listen to between the ages of 12 and 22 is imprinted into our brains stronger than any other music we will ever listen to. Due to the brain's rapid neurological development during these formative years, combined with the heightened emotions during this time of life, especially as we're becoming young adults, the music we listen to becomes intertwined with our lives forever.

So, if you were listening to 1st or 2nd generation K-Pop during this time, science says that you'll still sing along to those bops with just as much passion and joy as you did before, and you might even argue that it was the peak of K-Pop, simply from an emotional perspective, putting aside critical analyses. So, with the current generation of K-Pop bringing back that nostalgic sound, it's hard not to be taken back to the golden years of life, our coming of age.

This is the key to the NewJeans sound. The group doesn't just stop at Y2K but instead taps into the nostalgia of the bygone era in a timeless way so anyone and everyone can relate to the essence of their music.

For young people who are growing up with the 5th generation of K-Pop, years into the future, they will remember this generation more vividly than anything else. The importance that SHINee holds in my life may be similar to the love our future generation will have for RIIZE, and so it will go on.

Until then, take this as a life hack, and whenever you're feeling down, put on some Y2K K-Pop, and escape reality.

Some idols are complete introverts who are amazingly charismatic on stage, yet are internally shy when the cameras turn off. To bring them out of their shell, sometimes a mood maker is needed for their electrifyingly good vibes and refreshing personality. This type of person is important to any group to keep everyone's spirits positive and up in any situation.

So how do you say "mood maker" in Korean? Let's find out below!

분위기 메이커

bun-wi-gi mae-keo

mood maker

In essence, it takes the Korean word for 'mood'/'atmosphere' and combines it with the Konglish pronunciation of 'maker'. When used together, they form "mood maker". You can use it to describe the happy vitamin of your group who brings all the smiles and laughter. You can also see how to say it down below with TXT's BeomGyu on "JaeFriends".