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Best Songs of 2025 So Far: Honorable Mentions

What the list would look like if it went to 250 instead of 150!

Hope from 17 Carat K-Pop
Oct 04, 2025
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After assessing THOUSANDS of K-pop, J-pop, C-pop, and T-pop songs, I FINALLY narrowed it down to a top 150 and ranked them! Read all about them here, and see the full list below!

#150: The Crane, “take it or leave it”

#149: Ahn Sung Hoon, “The road is different”

#148: Aimer, “SCOPE”

#147: ONEUS, “DEVILISH LOVE”

#146: PassCode, “A certain Motor-Heart is not working right!”

#145: natori, “DRESSING ROOM”

#144: ALI & eill, “LOVE IS KILLING ME”

#143: PP Krit, “Oopsy Daisy”

#142: LiSA, “Shine in the Cruel Night”

#141: Kim Hye Rim, “F5”

#140: SCANDAL, “Doukashiterutte”

#139: ONEWE, “Indelible”

#138: Emotional Oranges & JAEHYUN, “Call It Off”

#137: Yoga Lin, “When Demons Dwell in You”

#136: Pagaehun, “Hi+Fiv3”

#135: COOING, “PSYCHO”

#134: B.I & Heize, “Ferris wheel”

#133: Penthouse, “Nonsense”

#132: King Gnu, “TWILIGHT!!!”

#131: CHUNG HA & SUNMI, “Salty”

#130: f5ve, “Television”

#129: indigo la End, “Ramune”

#128: AleXa, “Arrogant”

#127: i-dle, “Girlfriend”

#126: back number, “Sincerely, from a Future”

#125: Billkin & PP Krit, “GFF Ghost Friend Forever”

#124: BSS, “CBZ (Prime time)”

#123: X-UNIT, “Because I am Stupid”

#122: O3ohn & Car, the garden & youra, “BIG BIRD”

#121: SKY-HI, “At The Last”

#120: TWICE, “THIS IS FOR”

#119: Sakurazaka46, “UDAGAWA GENERATION”

#118: ONEUS, “IKUK”

#117: Timethai, “Why tho?”

#116: UVERworld, “NO MAP”

#115: BAEKHYUN, “Chocolate”

#114: ILLIT, “Billyeoon Goyangi (Do the Dance)”

#113: SEULGI, “Praying”

#112: Bi-ray & YOSHIKI, “Butterfly”

#111: SUPER BEAVER, “Kataomoi”

#110: SEVENTEEN, “THUNDER”

#109: LE SSERAFIM, “Come Over”

#108: siso, “Seashell”

#107: May J., “Yurari”

#106: KiiiKiii, “I DO ME”

#105: ATEEZ, “In Your Fantasy”

#104: gongwon, “escape”

#103: SUPER★DRAGON, “Dark Heroes”

#102: noa, “Snipe the Heart”

#101: ONE PACT, “100!”

#100: BLACKPINK, “JUMP”

#99: MINNIE, “Blind Eyes Red”

#98: Stray Kids (HAN & Felix), “Truman”

#97: SIX LOUNGE, “Grotesque LOVESONG”

#96: ONE OK ROCK, “The Pilot </3”

#95: N.Flying, “Born To Be”

#94: ONEW, “ANIMALS”

#93: HxW, “96ers”

#92: MINNIE & YUQI, “Drive U Crazy”

#91: 4s4ki, “Performer”

#90: CLOSE YOUR EYES, “All My Poetry”

#89: Ado, “Elf”

#88: JUSTB, “Han Geol Eum Man”

#87: P1Harmony, “Murmur”

#86: JENNIE, “like JENNIE”

#85: BOWKYLION & NONT TANONT, “Sometimes”

#84: JO YURI, “Overkill”

#83: Macaroni Empitsu, “Shizukana Umi”

#82: 20th Century Boy’z, “MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS”

#81: Stray Kids, “Parade”

#80: Aimer, “yasashii butoukai”

#79: RIIZE, “Fly Up”

#78: YEDD, “do this do that”

#77: Omoinotake “Hitorigoto”

#76: Fujii Kaze, “Hachikō”

#75: CHUU, “Only cry in the rain”

#74: David Tao, “Moonchild”

#73: Nasi Li & Ben, “So Be It”

#72: ONEWE, “Alice”

#71: back number, “Blue Amber”

#70: TABLO & RM, “Stop The Rain”

#69: ATEEZ, “Now this house ain’t a home”

#68: ONE OK ROCK, “NASTY”

#67: Little Glee Monster, “Yumejanainara Nannanosa”

#66: PassCode, “DESTINEX”

#65: DOYOUNG, “Sonnet”

#64: Forestella, “Everything”

#63: Pets Tseng, “The Subtext”

#62: JENNIE, “with the IE (way up)”

#61: Marz23, “Łuvsick sïmp”

#60: Catch The Young, “The Young Wave”

#59: ENHYPEN, “Bad Desire (With or Without You)”

#58: BOYNEXTDOOR, “I Feel Good”

#57: P1Harmony, “DUH!”

#56: cosmosy, “Lucky=One”

#55: The Volunteers, “Rules”

#54: STU48, “Chiheisen wo Miteiruka?”

#53: Xdinary Heroes, “FiRE (My Sweet Misery)”

#52: CHEN, “Broken Party”

#51: Kwon Jin Ah, “Just For Today”

#50: LEE CHANHYUK, “Vivid LaLa Love”

#49: JISOO, “Hugs & Kisses”

#48: Ian Chan, “The Weeping Tree”

#47: RADWIMPS, “Tamamono”

#46: Jin, “With the Clouds”

#45: The Crane, “DISEASE”

#44: Lexie Liu, “FFFFF”

#43: BEOMGYU, “Panic”

#42: PoLin, “Let Me Move On”

#41: Mrs. GREEN APPLE, “KUSUSHIKI”

#40: Tabber, “Hysteric Glamour”

#39: ILLIT, “little monster”

#38: IVE, “ATTITUDE”

#37: BAEKHYUN, “No Problem”

#36: KUN, “Deadman”

#35: WOOKI, “Reborn”

#34: PURPLE KISS, “DOREMI”

#33: Kwon Jin Ah, “How have you been”

#32: Kimberley, “Toxic Love”

#31: Jung Dakyung, “I’m coming to meet my love”

#30: i-dle, “Good Thing”

#29: TXT, “Beautiful Strangers”

#28: IVE, “TKO”

#27: SCANDAL, “Soundly”

#26: JO YURI, “Farewell for now!”

#25: Jeff Satur, “Tell Me The Name”

#24: DOYOUNG, “Luminous”

#23: ONEW, “Winner”

#22: David Tao, “From Dust to Dust”

#21: ME:I, “MUSE”

#20: Sakurako Ohara, “Sakura”

#19: Ian Chan, “Pessimism”

#18: AHOF, “Rendezvous”

#17: CHEEZE, “Mask girl”

#16: HUNTR/X, “Golden”

#15: Jeff Satur, “Lost and Found”

#14: JEONGHAN & Omoinotake, “Better Half”

#13: LISA & Doja Cat & RAYE, “Born Again”

#12: indigo la End & nishina, “Night Calm”

#11: SHINee, “Poet | Artist”

#10: sEODo BAND, “A Sea of Us”

#9: JOLIN, aka Jolin Tsai, “Good Girl”

#8: TXT, “Song of the Stars”

#7: KARDI, “Not But Disco”

#6: MARK, “1999”

#5: Vivian Hsu, “A Voice Within”

#4: JUN from SEVENTEEN, “Gemini”

#3: PoLin, “Arrow, After Me”

#2: YUTA, “TWISTED PARADISE”

#1: Xdinary Heroes, “Beautiful Life”

Here’s what else made it to the semifinals!

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