From WOOAH's four seconds to the '삭제하라고' ("delete") of 'Mise en scène': ten songs chosen for the spot to replay — October's NONOL Pick 10

Every day from October 1 to 30 at 11 AM (KST), we chose one song as a NONOL Pick, thirty songs in all. From those thirty, we picked ten again. We mixed idol songs with band, jazz and ballad tracks, and kept the songs where the spot to replay from is clear down to the second. There's no ranking. The songs are in the order the picks ran, and the times follow the measurements in each pick article.

At a glance

Pick date	Song	Spot to replay
October 3	WOOAH 'VOODOO DOLL'	2:02, the sound dips for about 4 seconds
October 7	Wednesday Off 'Lie (Live)'	3:08, 16 seconds of voice alone (audio)
October 9	YENA 'Dime Girl'	0:05, '예쁜 건 나니까' ("I'm the pretty one")
October 10	Biuret × Rhydian Vaughan 'Tropical Night'	1:09, from reggae to rock
October 12	Hearts2Hearts 'ICONIC HEART (Korean Ver.)'	1:17, '우린 ICONIC HEART' ("we're ICONIC HEART") (audio)
October 17	Yoon Jong Shin 'One of Them'	2:56, 1 second of voice alone
October 20	LIMA 'Gypsy Song'	0:36, the first line arriving late
October 23	KIM JAE HWAN 'Call It Love'	3:03, nearly 3 seconds of silence
October 25	A2O LITE 'NEON'	0:57.6, 1.6 seconds with the drums and bass out
October 27	Epik High x DAVICHI 'Mise en scène'	2:04.7, '記憶' being erased

The ten songs

October 3 · WOOAH 'VOODOO DOLL'

A digital single released on September 29. In under three minutes, the title 'Voodoo Doll' comes up 23 times, yet right before the last big shout the song leaves the sound empty. From 2:02 the sound drops sharply for about 4 seconds, then at the final 'Voodoo Doll' (2:07–2:08) it bursts out at the loudest point of the whole video. The spell is only complete after four held-breath seconds, which is why we picked it again. October 3 pick · Apple Music

October 7 · Wednesday Off 'Lie (Live)'

Wednesday Off, a band rooted in blues, Southern rock and country, re-recorded 'Lie' from their June EP with everyone playing together at the Jeju Music Creation Center (JEMU). It's about 13% faster than the original, yet 23 seconds longer. At 3:08 all the backing stops and only the voice remains for 16 seconds; from 3:24 the instruments come back one at a time, and from 3:40 to 4:05 it drives harder than anywhere else. The original let the same passage fade out quietly for nearly 50 seconds. We picked it because you can hear, to the second, the moment the ending of a song changes on stage. The times for this song follow the official audio. October 7 pick · Apple Music

October 9 · YENA 'Dime Girl'

A single in which YENA re-sings Block B's 2014 song together with NOWIMYOUNG. In the original, a man says to the other person '예쁜 건 넌데 왜 내가 피곤한 거죠' ("You're the pretty one, so why am I the one worn out?"); YENA turns it into '예쁜 건 나니까 네가 피곤한 거죠' ("I'm the pretty one, that's why you're worn out"). The 'You are' in 'You are not an ordinary girl' became 'I am' too. From the first chorus at 0:05, who is singing to whom has flipped, which is why we picked it. At 1:03 the backing stops all at once for a little over a second, and NOWIMYOUNG comes in through the gap. October 9 pick · Apple Music

October 10 · Biuret × Rhydian Vaughan 'Tropical Night'

A Mandarin-language single sung together by the rock musician Biuret and Rhydian Vaughan (鳳小岳), a Taiwanese actor and singer-songwriter. For a little over a minute it walks through the night streets of Taipei to a relaxed reggae rhythm, then at 1:09, with 'Forgive everything', it crosses over into rough-edged guitar rock. At that moment the sound gets about 5 decibels louder, and the share taken up by low sounds drops to under half. The decibel is a scale for loudness, and 5 decibels is a difference big enough to feel as a clear jump. We picked it because you can pinpoint, to the second, the border where the genre changes inside one song. October 10 pick · Apple Music

October 12 · Hearts2Hearts 'ICONIC HEART (Korean Ver.)'

Hearts2Hearts re-sang in Korean, on October 5, a single released in Japan in August. The backing and the places where the voices come in and drop out are the same as in the Japanese version; only the English 'We are ICONIC HEART' changed, to '우린 ICONIC HEART'. Listen at 1:17, at 2:08, and at 2:56, the song's very last word, '우린!'. The Japanese lyrics never once had a word for "I", but the Korean version has '나·난·우린·우리' ("I" and "we") eight times. Just a few changed words make the same melody sound closer, which is why we picked it. Times follow the official audio. October 12 pick · Apple Music

October 17 · Yoon Jong Shin 'One of Them'

The September issue of '2026 Monthly Yoon Jong Shin'. As the title says, it's a song about accepting that, to the other person, I'm one of many. The first two choruses start together with the backing, but in the final chorus at 2:56, for the first second the drums, bass, keyboard and guitar all drop out and only the voice remains. Then '할수 없지 뭐 너니까' ("well, it can't be helped, because it's you") turns into '소중하지 뭐 나니까' ("well, it's precious, because it's me"). After one second of emptiness, the center of the song moves from "you" to "me", which is why we picked it. October 17 pick · Apple Music

October 20 · LIMA 'Gypsy Song'

A song from 'The Moments', the first full-length album by the jazz vocalist LIMA. In the music video of six people playing in one room, the guitar opens alone for 20 seconds, the drums count the beat for 4 seconds, and the band comes in all at once at 0:28. LIMA's first line, 'I, I'm just a drifter', doesn't arrive until 0:36. From 1:46, for 33 seconds, the voice steps aside and the guitar takes over the song. We picked it because you can follow, by ear and by eye together, the order in which the instruments take turns at the front. For the trend of recent charts where the first lyric comes sooner and sooner, see today's 2 p.m. KST data story. October 20 pick · Apple Music

October 23 · KIM JAE HWAN 'Call It Love'

The title track of a single that KIM JAE HWAN wrote alone and also played guitar on. When the bridge ends on '나처럼 멈추는 날이면' ("on days you stop like me"), from 3:03 almost no sound is heard for close to 3 seconds. It's about 30 decibels down from just before, close to silence for 3 seconds. We picked it because the song stops right after the lyrics say it stops. The final chorus at 3:06 starts again small, with only the guitar and the voice. October 23 pick · Apple Music

October 25 · A2O LITE 'NEON'

The debut single of A2O LITE, a nine-member girl group from A2O Entertainment, led by Lee Soo-man. It held No. 1 on the Bugs daily chart for 11 days in a row, from October 14 to 24. It's a song that leaves the drums and bass out right before it bursts. After 1.6 seconds with only the voices left, from 0:57.6, the first chorus bursts out, and before the second chorus the drums are out for 3.6 seconds from 1:49.2. We picked it because it stretches the second gap to more than twice the length of the first. October 25 pick · Apple Music

October 27 · Epik High x DAVICHI 'Mise en scène'

A single Epik High and DAVICHI released together on October 13. Kim Hanjoo of Silica Gel handled the arrangement, and the music video restages scenes from '(500) Days of Summer', 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', 'In the Mood for Love' and 'La La Land'. From 2:04.7, for a little over 3 seconds, as the second '모든 기억 속 날 / 삭제하라고' ("to delete me from every memory") plays, the wall with the characters '記憶' (memory) burns black and is erased. The lyrics and the screen say the same thing at the same moment, which is why we picked it. From 1:18.6, for 6.6 seconds, the voice and the bass drop out and only the keyboard and synths remain. October 27 pick · Apple Music

You can follow the other twenty songs in all NONOL Picks.