Honorable Mentions: Best Songs of 2025
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”
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