what is your favorite release of 2025 so far?

This

or this

solo:

Jennie - Zen / Damn Right / Seoul City

>>

Jisoo - Your Love

Lisa - Chill / Elastigirl

Gdragon - Take me

Seulgi - Baby, not baby

Olivia Marsh - Strategy

Kai - Wait On Me

group:

(fully released)

Pit Stop (njz) 😁

Dirty Work (aespa)

Echo (ablume)

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What's your problem? / TILT (I&S)

Know about me / Papillon (nmixx)

Butterflies (h2h)

Hands up (Meovv)

Good thing (idle)

... more to come?

Irene and Seulgi ep was actually good. The chorus of tilt was a bit dissapointing but otherwise it's a nice ep. Maybe the best released group ep this year alongside nmixx.

Also, eventhough i did enjoy these songs, except Ruby, i haven't been exited about kpop this year. And it’s a very pop album in itself .

I mean the hype in kpop is pretty low for me if not dead.

Dirty work is probably gonna be the first song that will revive this hype to some extent. But it's just not enough.

Without njz i'm just very depressed when i think about kpop .

As I said before, 2025 is one of THE most BORING year of Kpop so far!

10 albums and 15 songs, is not a lot!

These people saved it for me: Only albums, NOT IN ORDER!!!

These are my absolute faves: ONLY SONGS and NOT IN ORDER except the first 3!

And this one is the only song I didn't like at first, but now it's grown on me!

"Le Serrafim - Hot" and since today "QWER - In a Million Noises, I'll be your Harmony"

Nmixx ofc. And Seulgi.

solo

group

But ARTMS is coming to end everyone

From the whole first half of 2025:

Nmixx's Know About Me and the whole EP - my first time truly listening to them and I'm absolutely obsessed with this album and their sound, and will 100% check out their future comebacks!

IVE's Empathy album with my fav songs being TKO, Attitude and Rebel Heart. But I really like their whole mini.

Irene & Seulgi's TILT and the whole EP.

ifeye's debut with Nerdy and the Erlu Blue EP.

And not fully kpop but I will also include Takedown by Twice from the Kpop Demon Hunter's OST, because I've been replaying it a lot.

Yeji's Air because her music was unexpected.