Hon mentions:
Oh My Girl - Windy Day
Twice - Cheer Up
100% - Better Day
Produce 101 - Don't Matter
Ladies Code - Galaxy
Laysha - Party Tonight
CLC - No Oh Oh
Berry Good - Angel
Yezi & other girls - Sse Sse Sse
Gain - Carnival
GFriend - Navillera
Amber x Ksuke - Breathe Again
Dorothy - Purple Lips
Dal Shabet - Someone Like U
History - Queen
Sistar - I Like That
Hyolyn - Paradise
EXID - Cream
1. Color Me Rad - D.holic
2. GirlsGirls - GirlsGirls
3. Mr Potter - DIA
4. I Just Wanna Dance - Tiffany
5. Mirror - Fiestar
6. Sketch - Hyomin
7. I'm Fine - Grace
8. Luna - Livii
9. Ear Attack 2 - Badkiz
10. ViVid - Heejin / Loona
11. Lip2Lip - 9MusesA
12. 10 Seconds - AOA
13. Icia - Time Bomb
14. Chu - A-Daily
15. Sting - Stellar
16. Doo Doom Chit - Crayon Pop
17. Scary - Nada & Jeon Soyeon
18. Emeralds - Puer Kim
19. Curveball - Sol - T
20. Mystery - Hyoyeon
21. Platonic Love - Snuper
22. Sugar Rush - Gemma
23. Apple Pie - Fiestar
24. Fantasy - Fei
25. One More Day - Sistar
Worst 25 K-Pop Songs + 15 Dishonourable Mentions
Dishon mentions:
Zico - I am you, You are me
Ailee - Home
Anda - Taxi
Park Kyung ft Eunha - Inferiority Complex
kittib - doin good
Twice - TT
Bernard Park & Lim - With You
NCT U - Without You
Produce 101 - In the Same place
BTS - Fire
Luna - Free Somebody
Taeyeon - 11:11
IOI - Whatta Man
Dal Shabet - Fri Sat Sun
Red Velvet - One of These Nights
1 Amber - Borders
2 Eunji - Hopefully Sky
3 JeA - Bad Girl
4 Lee Hi - Breathe
5 f(X) - All Mine
6 VRomance - She
7 Highteen - Boom Boom Clap
8 AKMU - REBYE
9 CLC - High Heels
10 Pledis Girlz - We
11 Sejeong - Flower Way
12 Seventeen - Pretty U
13 Taeyeon ft. Dean - Starlight
14 Bobby - HOLUP!
15 Agirls - Uhoo
16 Jun.K - Think About You
17 Jimin ft. Xiumin - Call You Bae
18 Switch - Fiestaloca
19 IOI - Dream Girls
20 HelloVenus - Paradise
21 Seventeen - Aju Nice
22 Oh My Girl - Liar Liar
23 CocoSori - Dark Circle
24 f(Luna + Amber) - Wave
?? Top Non-Korean Songs
?? Worst Non-Korean Songs lmao
I seem to get that impression from people but most of the major releases/Top 40 stuff didn't impress me and I didn't really go out of my way this year to find all the kewl and indie~ stuff
Windy Day, 100%, and the P101 are pretty cool. I miss Ladies Code's more hype stuff, but I understand they would receive flack if they tried to do more songs like that, though Galaxy and The Rain are kind of awkward compromises between uptempos and ballads.
This kind of fell off because I'm lazy and also I forgot about one song and another grew on my after I'd started my list so I needed to shuffle things around a bit.
BUT ! We will continue and rush through the remainder of the honourable mentions.
To take us to the next page I wanted to talk about two songs that aren't appearing on any list but for one reason or another I wanted to talk about anyway, because this is my countdown and I'll do what I want.
cosmic girls - secret
So this has to be one of, it not THE, music video of the year from any country's music industry.
It's sleek, gorgeous to watch and the faux existence of a storyline is good enough to
support the visuals. In terms of the song itself, it's nice and dreamy, and ultimately I
preferred it to the similar Destiny by Lovelyz, but I feel like nobody would be as
interested in it without the MV.
gfriend - rough
I expect that this has peaked high on everyone else's lists but I spent the
majority of the year a bitter GFriend anti with a hatred for this song that left
it peaking pretty high on my worst of. That was until less than a month
ago when I reluctantly accepted that it's a good song, but not great enough to make my best list.
The intro synth is the best part, and I've always liked that bit; they should incorporate
electronic influences into their music more often.
Both songs are nice. I paid Secret dust until it started appearing in other countdowns and Rough punches a bit but being a HM or whatever is enough for it.