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Honorable Mentions: Best Songs of 2025

Hope from 17 Carat K-Pop
Jan 17, 2026
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Here is the full ranking of the best K-pop/J-pop/C-pop/T-pop songs of 2025!

#150: SKY-HI, “Success is”

#149: PP KRIT, “Oopsy Daisy”

#148: Xdinary Heroes, “LOVE ME 2 DEATH”

#147: SCANDAL, “Doukashiterutte”

#146: TWICE, “Like 1”

#145: Tabber, “Hysteric Glamour”

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

#143: JENNIE, “with the IE (way up)”

#142: Sakurazaka46, “Unhappy birthday Koubun”

#141: Kwon Jin Ah, “Just For Today”

#140: Hinatazaka46, “Onegai bach!”

#139: KEY, “Picture Frame”

#138: BoA, “Crazier”

#137: Lexie Liu, “X”

#136: BILLKIN & PP KRIT, “GFF Ghost Friend Forever”

#135: ONE PACT, “100!”

#134: KiiiKiii, “DANCING ALONE”

#133: KEY, “GLAM”

#132: KiiiKiii, “I DO ME”

#131: ILLIT, “little monster”

#130: SCANDAL, “Soundly”

#129: natori, “DRESSING ROOM”

#128: Bi-ray & YOSHIKI, “Butterfly”

#127: Rainie Yang, “Yes, but?”

#126: DUSTCELL, “BLUE”

#125: Macaroni Empitsu, “Shizukana Umi”

#124: SUPER BEAVER, “Kataomoi”

#123: BamBam & Timethai, “Dancing By Myself”

#122: The Crane, “DISEASE”

#121: Ariel Tsai, “Galaxy of You”

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

#119: Anson Kong, “Panic Animals”

#118: UVERworld, “NO MAP”

#117: BAEKHYUN, “Chocolate”

#116: Timethai, “Why tho?”

#115: Nasi Li & Ben, “So Be It”

#114: DAY6, “Take All My Heart”

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

#112: Penthouse, “Nonsense”

#111: CxM & Lay Bankz, “5, 4, 3 (Pretty woman)”

#110: P1Harmony, “Murmur”

#109: Yerin Baek, “Lovers of Artists”

#108: LE SSERAFIM, “Come Over”

#107: PassCode, “DESTINEX”

#106: TAEMIN, “Veil”

#105: KUN, “What a Day”

#104: JO YURI, “Overkill”

#103: ATEEZ, “In Your Fantasy”

#102: Yves, “White cat”

#101: WeiBird, “Jennifer”

#100: ALALA, “SWEET LIES”

#99: TWICE, “THIS IS FOR”

#98: YUN MIN SOO & Lee Ye Joon, “Walking You Home”

#97: RIIZE, “Fly Up”

#96: BSS, “CBZ (Prime time)”

#95: DAYOUNG, “body”

#94: i-dle, “Girlfriend”

#93: SIX LOUNGE, “Grotesque LOVESONG”

#92: David Tao, “From Dust to Dust”

#91: TRiDENT, “MIRACRAID”

#90: SEVENTEEN, “THUNDER”

#89: YUQI, “M.O.”

#88: IVE, “ATTITUDE”

#87: MINNIE, “Blind Eyes Red”

#86: Fujii Kaze, “Hachikō”

#85: EJAE, “In Another World”

#84: NONT TANONT, “Afterglow”

#83: indigo la End, “Ramune”

#82: CHAEYOUNG & SUMIN & Jibin of Y2K92, “RIBBONS”

#81: PURPLE KISS, “Unhappily Ever After”

#80: gongwon, “escape”

#79: ONEWE, “Alice”

#78: back number, “Blue Amber”

#77: Omoinotake “Hitorigoto”

#76: RIIZE, “Fame”

#75: f5ve, “Television”

#74: BLACKPINK, “JUMP”

#73: TABLO & RM, “Stop The Rain”

#72: JEON SOMI, “CLOSER”

#71: JUNHEE, “Too Bad (15:00)”

#70: Ian Chan, “The Weeping Tree”

#69: Jin, “With the Clouds”

#68: CLOSE YOUR EYES, “All My Poetry”

#67: Jeff Satur, “Tell Me The Name”

#66: TOMONARI SORA, “HOKO”

#65: GOOD BYE APRIL, “SYMPATHY”

#64: YEDD, “do this do that”

#63: DOYOUNG, “Sonnet”

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

#61: MIYEON & Colde, “Reno”

#60: Stray Kids, “CEREMONY”

#59: ID:Earth, “UTOPIA”

#58: WENDY, “Believe”

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

#56: PoLin, “Let Me Move On”

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

#54: CHEN, “Broken Party”

#53: YEONJUN, “Forever”

#52: YUTA, “TO LOVE SOMEONE”

#51: KUN, “Deadman”

#50: BAEKHYUN, “No Problem”

#49: Lexie Liu, “FFFFF”

#48: PURPLE KISS, “DOREMI”

#47: Haezee, “TWO BROKEN SOULS”

#46: Ian Chan, “Pessimism”

#45: RADWIMPS, “Tamamono”

#44: Kimberley, “Toxic Love”

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

#42: GoodBand, “Fake It and Make It”

#41: AHOF, “Rendezvous”

#40: David Tao, “Moonchild”

#39: i-dle, “Good Thing”

#38: Nasi Li, “Burn To Ashes”

#37: CHEEZE, “Mask girl”

#36: cosmosy, “Lucky=One”

#35: JENNIE, “like JENNIE”

#34: JO YURI, “Farewell for now!”

#33: JEONGHAN & Omoinotake, “Better Half”

#32: Marz23, “Łuvsick sïmp”

#31: WOODZ, “I’ll Never Love Again”

#30: BOYNEXTDOOR, “I Feel Good”

#29: BOYNEXTDOOR, “Hollywood Action”

#28: TEMPEST, “In The Dark”

#27: LEE CHANHYUK, “Vivid LaLa Love”

#26: ANGIE, “The way U hate it”

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

#24: HWASA, “Good Goodbye”

#23: Kwon Jin Ah, “How have you been”

#22: GoodBand, “The Very Last Time”

#21: JISOO, “Hugs & Kisses”

#20: TXT, “Beautiful Strangers”

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

#18: Marz23 & Faye, “An Extraordinary Song”

#17: YEONJUN, “Talk to You”

#16: ME:I, “MUSE”

#15: sEODo BAND, “A Sea of Us”

#14: KARDI, “Not But Disco”

#13: Vivian Hsu, “A Voice Within”

#12: Jeff Satur, “Lost and Found”

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

#10: SHINee, “Poet | Artist”

#9: TXT, “Song of the Stars”

#8: HUNTR/X, “Golden”

#7: MARK, “1999”

#6: Ryokuoushoku Shakai, “My Answer”

#5: JUN from SEVENTEEN, “Gemini”

#4: AtHeart, “Plot Twist”

#3: PoLin, “Arrow, After Me”

#2: YUTA, “TWISTED PARADISE”

#1: Xdinary Heroes, “Beautiful Life”

Read all about them here!

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