Top10 Worldwide Music Selection From Concerty - April 2025

Delaossa - Still Luvin feat. Quevedo & Bigla the Kid (SPAIN)

Let’s start this month’s Concerty Worldwide column in Spain, where local hip hop artist Delaossa got himself a hit. “Still Luvin,” a catchy, upbeat track with a groovy synth line in the beat, is about reaching out and reconnecting with an old lover. Fellow Spanish artists Quevedo and Bigla The Kid are also featured on the track. This has been charting high with Spanish Spotify users all last month.

Jennie - like JENNIE (SOUTH KOREA)

Jennie from BLACKPINK is an international pop star by now. Capitalizing on her K-pop girl group fame, she released her debut solo album “Ruby” in March of this year. As most people expected, it became a massive hit, and not just in her home country of South Korea. It was also charting as high as #7 on the famous Billboard 200 chart in the US.

The track “like JENNIE” is not a pop song like most of the others on the record - rather, it is a hip hop track that goes quite hard, even with some touches of Brazilian funk. But why does Jennie turn into a goddam capybara at the end of the music video for the song? Well, on that, your guess is as good as any of the millions of South Korean music fans who pushed this track to the top of the country's Spotify chart.

Ati242 - Keşke feat. Blok3 (CYPRUS)

Up next, let’s go to a country where we’ve never been before in this column, the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus. There, the single “Keşke” by German-Turkish rapper Ati242 was a popular listen in April, featuring none other than ‘bona fide’ Turkish hip hop artist Blok3. That’s no surprise, given that the Northern half of the country is de facto controlled by Turkey.

KeBlack - Mood (FRANCE)

Not-so-breaking news: local black rappers are still very popular in France. Last month, it was KeBlack, hailing from Creil, France, who had one of the winners in the genre. His new track “Mood” was on the Spotify playlists for many, many music fans in his home country.

Alex Warren - Ordinary (CANADA)

American folk-pop singer Alex Warren’s single “Ordinary” from February of this year continues to be popular not just in his home country of the US, but in other English-speaking nations as well, such as Canada. Starting with a soft acoustic intro, it’s quite a melancholic but pleasant tune, while Warren is singing in his buttery voice about his desire to find love and make something special about his ordinary life. 

KAJ - Bara Bada Bastu (SWEDEN)

Get ready for some really goofiness, as we have a song from a Finnish-speaking Swedish comedy band for you. The three boys in KAJ are singing about - what else, being Finnish - sauna. Music fans up North in Sweden seem to have taken a real delight in that, as not only did it chart high on Spotify in the country, but they also entered it in the 2025 Eurovision song contest. 

Fourtwnty - Mangu feat. Charita Utami (INDONESIA)

Meanwhile in Indonesia, people have been really enjoying listening to the folk pop band with a name that the enjoyers of a certain plant in the West probably have a particular liking to - it is Fourtwnty with their 2022 hit, still high on the charts, “Mangu”.

Galin - Звъня ти, ало (BULGARIA)

Up next, how about a cool, epic electro-pop song out of Bulgaria? It is brought to you by the musical stylings of Galin. He is almost a veteran on the local music scene, having been putting out music since 2012. However, he just started posting on the YouTube channel which hosts this music video, linked below, earlier this month, and thus it still only has around 33,000 subscribers.

Kendrick Lamar - luther feat. SZA (NEW ZEALAND)

Looks like Drake hatred is still in fashion in the US and above, as Kendrick Lamar has decided to team up with his arch nemesis’ ex, fellow A-list music celeb SZA - just like they did for this year’s Super Bowl Half Time Show. However, on this track, they are not taking shots at Drake, it’s a soft love ballad instad - unless you take the lines “If this world was mine, I'd take your enemies in front of God / Introduce 'em to that light, hit them strictly with that fire” as shots at “Drizzy”.

The name “luther” in the title, by the way, does not refer to American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. as one might expect, but rather to late music producer Luther Vandross, whose music was sampled for the song.

YOUNGOHM - นครดารา (THAILAND)

And, to wrap it up, here’s a song from Thailand. It is by a young local hip hop artist YOUNGOHM, and bears the title “Nakorn dara,” or “นครดารา” in Thai script.