The Results are In!
Here’s how you voted in 17 Carat K-Pop’s “Best of 2022” survey!
I share my personal picks and more information about these results in the episode of the podcast linked to below!
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Best Webtoon
38.50% of you voted for ENHYPEN’s DARK MOON: THE BLOOD ALTAR
38.50% of you voted for BTS’s 7Fates: CHAKHO
23.00% of you voted for TXT’s The Star Seekers
Best Docuseries or Documentary Movie
42.90% of you voted for LE SSERAFIM’s The World is My Oyster
21.40% of you voted for ENHYPEN and TXT’s BACKSTAGE: TXT x EN
21.40% of you voted for SEVENTEEN’s POWER OF LOVE : THE MOVIE
14.30% of you chose “Other”
Favorite Festival Performance
38.50% of you voted for j-hope at Lollapalooza
23.10% of you voted for CL at the Summer Sonic Festival
23.10% of you voted for ONE OK ROCK at the Summer Sonic Festival
7.70% of you voted for BAND-MAID at the Aftershock Festival
7.60% of you chose one of the many other options
Best Reunion
71.40% of you voted for Girls’ Generation!
21.40% of you voted for Wanna One
7.10% of you voted for EXID
0.05% of you voted for DIA
0.05% of you voted for WINNER
Best Unofficial Release (YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.)
26.70% of you voted for LE SSERAFIM’s HUH YUNJIN for “Raise y_our glass”
20.00% of you voted for Jungkook’s “My You”
20.00% of you voted for Stray Kids’ Hyunjin for “Ice Cream” (good news: after this survey was released, that track became an official release, as part of SKZ-REPLAY!)
13.30% of you voted for NCT’s TAEYONG for “Ghost”
13.30% of you voted for Ciipher’s WON & DOHWAN for “You Are Me, I Am You”
6.70% of you voted for OMEGA X’s Jaehan for “Right for Me”
Best Sub-Unit or Project Group Debut
26.70% of you voted for WJSN Chocome
26.60% of you voted for Apink CHOBOM
20.00% of you voted for GOT the beat
20.00% of you voted for MAMAMOO+
6.70% of you voted for MAMADOL
Best Group Debut
You were allowed to pick up to three groups, and here is who appeared in your “Top Three” lists the most often!
40.00% of you picked LE SSERAFIM
33.00% of you picked NewJeans
20.00% of you picked NMIXX
13.30% of you picked TEMPEST
13.30% of you picked ATBO
Best Solo Debut
You were allowed to pick up to three artists, and here is who appeared in your “Top Three” lists the most often!
38.50% of you picked NAYEON
30.80% of you picked SEULGI
Out of MANY options, here are the artists who got the most votes for Best Tour:
SEVENTEEN and TXT (a tie)
Dreamcatcher
NCT 127
ENHYPEN and MONSTA X (a tie)
LOONA, KARD, and ATEEZ (a 3-way tie!)
Out of MANY options, here are the artists who got the most votes for Saddest Disbandment:
CLC
NU’EST
BVNDIT
TRCNG
LUNARSOLAR
Who was nominated the most by YOU in the open-ended section of the survey!
Best Choreography of 2022
Stray Kids
SEVENTEEN
NCT
SEULGI
OnlyOneOf
Best Collaboration of 2022: BY FAR, the most-nominated collaboration was Jungkook and Charlie Puth’s “Left and Right”!
Best Music Video Wardrobe of 2022
Stray Kids
IVE
Dreamcatcher
Apink / Apink CHOBOM
TO1
Best Girl Group of 2022
IVE
Apink
Billlie
BLACKPINK
Dreamcatcher
IRRIS
NMIXX
TWICE
VIVIZ
NewJeans
Best Boy Group of 2022
Stray Kids
BTS
ENHYPEN
OnlyOneOf
NCT DREAM
SEVENTEEN
NCT 127
ATEEZ
TXT
P1Harmony
Best Solo Artist of 2022
j-hope
TAEYEON
NAYEON
SUNMI
YENA
Best Music Video(s) of 2022
IVE
Stray Kids
BTS
Dreamcatcher
TWICE
Apink / Apink CHOBOM
OnlyOneOf
BLACKPINK
LE SSERAFIM
Yerin
Best Song Cover of 2022
I.N from Stray Kids, “Consolation” by Kwon Jin Ah
Dreamcatcher, “Monster” by IRENE&SEULGI
CHENLE and JISUNG from NCT, “YOUTH” by Troye Sivan
Heeseung from ENHYPEN, “Off My Face” by Justin Bieber
JAEHYUN from NCT, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” by Frankie Valli
Best OST of 2022
MONSTA X’s Kihyun, “Fire”
Stray Kids’ SEUNGMIN, “Close to You”
NCT’s HAECHAN, “Good Person (2022)”
Dreamcatcher’s Sua, “Still With You”
TXT’s “Free Falling”
Best K-Drama of 2022
Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Twenty-Five Twenty-One
Little Women
I asked if there was a comeback track that took some time to grow on you before you found it catchy, and here were the most common responses!
NCT 127, “2 Baddies”
NMIXX, “DICE”
NMIXX, “O.O”
Dreamcatcher, “VISION”
ATEEZ, “Guerrilla”
I asked what the coolest K-pop merch you bought in 2022 was, and the most common artists that merch was for were…
Stray Kids
Dreamcatcher
NCT
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