Best Songs of 2025 So Far: Honorable Mentions
What the list would look like if it went to 250 instead of 150!
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!
