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Best Music Asian Dramas

There are 8 music titles in the DramaSeek catalogue, ranging from genre-defining classics to the latest streaming releases. Below are all of them, ranked by audience rating, with where-to-watch information for every title.

The music genre has a different texture in Asian television than it does in Western productions. Korean studios in particular have refined a long-form approach to music storytelling that lets character relationships develop over twelve to twenty hours of screen time. Chinese, Japanese, and Thai variations on the genre each carry their own distinctive signatures — DramaSeek's curated list below pulls the strongest examples from all of them.

For an extended essay on the evolution of the music drama in Asia, see this in-depth analysis.

Top Music Picks

2 Quartet poster ★ 8.8
Japan · 2017
Quartet
4 You're Beautiful poster ★ 8.4
South Korea · 2009
You're Beautiful
5 Castaway Diva poster ★ 8.4
South Korea · 2023
Castaway Diva
6 Soundtrack #1 poster ★ 8.0
South Korea · 2022
Soundtrack #1
7 Departures poster ★ 8.0
Japan · 2008
Departures
8 Doona! poster ★ 7.3
South Korea · 2023
Doona!