It’s Raining among SHOUTcast’s Top 10 Kpop songs of all time.

Rain’s 2004 hit song, “It’s Raining”, has been given the #2 spot on SHOUTcast.com’s Top 10 Kpop Songs of All Time list. In his 4/3/2010 article, Jeremy Krinsley writes, “Rain has the distinction of being one of the Korean artists credited with building further hip hop and R&B influences into the KPOP universe in the tradition of Seo Taiji, perhaps most notably by inserting his moniker into the title of half his albums. So ‘It’s Raining’ is a shoe-in as Rain’s best KPOP song, and one of the top KPOP songs ever.”

We agree with Krinsley. And amazingly, Rain is STILL doing that very thing today, continuing to build hip hop and R&B influences, as his most recent release proves. Not only is the foundation of his beautiful ballad “Love Song” a distinctive four-beat R&B rhythm, but in parts of the “Love Song” video Rain’s attire screams hip hop (something we haven’t seen since the 2005 RAINY DAY and 2007 RAIN’S COMING world tours, and Pantech’s ANY DREAM and “Shou Ji”) gone glitter/glam. All that, and he managed to throw some rock-and-roll music and clothing into the Back To The Basic pot as well. Talk about creative.

» See SHOUTcast Radio Blog’s Top 10 Kpop songs of all time HERE. It’s quite an interesting group, actually, that includes Big Bang, Jewelry, TVXQ, Wonder Girls, and Seo Taiji, to name a few.

— Stephe ^@@^