Favourite Songs of 2022

I'm working on my annual Best Of post featuring the best of Star Sparkle Blog from this year. However, I won't be able to finish it before the end of the year, so I'm doing a post sharing my favourite songs from 2022 instead.

I have an occasional feature called Current Favourite Songs and my last one was in February. You can see that here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/02/current-favourite-songs.html

They aren't always new songs though, just what I'm currently listening to.

So here are my favourite songs from this year! :)  

 

Sinead Harnett- Let Go

Back in January, British singer Sinead Harnett released the single Let Go, which was from the deluxe version of her 2nd album studio Ready is Always Too Late. I featured it as a Weekly Music Video in February: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/02/weekly-music-video_23.html

BANKS- Holding Back

In April American singer BANKS released her 3rd album Serpentina. My favourite song from it is Holding Back, which was the 3rd single, released in February. I featured the audio and lyric videos in a new music post, (along with a B Young video): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/02/new-music-b-young-and-banks.html

 

Justin Bieber feat. Don Toliver- Honest

In April Canadian singer Justin Bieber teamed up with American rapper and singer Don Toliver for the single Honest, an R'n'B song with a laidback beat. It was a Weekly Music Video in May: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/05/weekly-music-video_11.html

 

XG- Tippy Toes

Japanese girl group XG made their debut with the single Tippy Toes back in March. I remember seeing them performing it at the time on the Korean music show Simply K-pop CON-TOUR, but I came across it again when I was doing a Dance Videos post last month. I featured a dance cover of the song by Australian dance crew Hustle and ended up buying the single after hearing it again.

XG consists of 7 members- leader JURIN (full name Asaya Jurin), CHISA (Kondou Chisa), Hinata (Sohara Hinata), HARVEY (Amy Jannet Harvey),  Juria (Ueda Juria), Maya (Kawachi Maya) and Cocona (real name Akiyama Kokona). * Their group name stands for Xtraordinary Girls.

While the members are Japanese (HARVEY is mixed Japanese and Australian, and Hinata is Japanese and Korean, but both are from Japan), they are considered a global group and their songs have been in English so far. To date they have released two singles- Tippy Toes and Mascara, which came out in June.

Tippy Toes was a digital single and was released in March. 

For more on XG visit these links:

Kprofile: https://kprofiles.com/xg-members-profile/

Official site (English translation): https://xgalx.com/en/xg/ 

Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xgofficial/

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC12HMtO5MYph9dCZZ7yygng  

 

Gen Neo- RELAPSE

I just came across some new music by the Singaporean singer Gen Neo, which was released earlier this year. My favourite is Relapse, a song about "relapsing" by wanting to go back to your lover. I love the R'n'B vibes of this. :) 

It's an English language song (he also sings in Chinese/Mandarin) and was released in August.

 

Also check out his latest single Till The Morning (released in November): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHEJsjsAkxc

RINI- Haunt Me

Finally, Australian singer RINI just released his new EP Ultraviolet this month. I featured the song Pressure as a Weekly Music Video a couple of weeks ago. I also really like Haunt Me, a song about being haunted by a past lover. 

The video premiered in October. 

 

Hope you enjoyed the post! What are your favourite songs of 2022?

It's almost New Year's Eve now (or already is, depending where you are) so Happy New Year! This will be the last post of the year. Thank you for reading Star Sparkle and see you in 2023! :)

 

 

*These are Japanese names with the surname/family name written first.