NME: The 25 best K-pop songs of 2025

Nice seeing Jennie, BP and GD!!

Congrats to all!

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1. NMIXX, SPINNIN' ON IT
2. HUNTR/X, Golden
3. ifeye, R U OK?
4. JENNIE, like JENNIE
5. KEY, HUNTER
6. H1-KEY, Summer Was You
7. NMIXX, High Horse
8. ATEEZ, In Your Fantasy
9. LE SSERAFIM, Ash
10. KiiiKiii, DANCING ALONE
11. BLACKPINK, JUMP
12. DAYOUNG, body
13. Kim Lip, Can You Entertain?
14. Hearts2Hearts, STYLE
15. ARTMS, Icarus
16. YVES, White Cat
17. ENHYPEN, Helium
18. ILLIT, Jellyous
19. G-DRAGON, TOO BAD (feat. Anderson Paak)
20. Balming Tiger, Wo Ai Ni (feat. Yaeji)
21. RESCENE, Glow Up
22. BOYNEXTDOOR, IF I SAY, I LOVE YOU
23. izna, Racecar
24. YEJI, Air
25. CORTIS, GO!

source: https://www.nme.com/lists/end-…t-kpop-songs-2025-3916172

Nmixx can't stop winning.

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I agree wholeheartedly with the top 2.

They picked the correct two Nmixx songs as well.

Loona lives

I think Tatiana1820 won't like it a lot though lol

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I think Tatiana1820 won't like it a lot though lol

well many great songs were snubbed?? were is seulgi, where is adp, meovv, jisoo?

but 'go' is there ?

they didn't even chose jennie's best songs ijbool

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adp

nugu1

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jisoo?

nugu2

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That song is very good

Surprised Racecar made the list. Wish they promoted that song

Racecar was a pleasant surprise for me this year. Shout out to bartkun for recommending it.

Happy to see it made the list.

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well many great songs were snubbed?? were is seulgi, where is adp, meovv, jisoo?

but 'go' is there ?

they didn't even chose jennie's best songs ijbool

They remembered lesserafim and Illit though

based for having Racecar, Air, and Dancing Alone. Sadly the entire list is invalidated by not including Drip.

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nugu1

nugu2

cortis and many other songs/artists cited are even more nugu LOL

except mayeb the top 5/10 at best, this list is pretty shallow and uninteresting.

smh many best songs this year waren't even title tracks...

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They remembered lesserafim and Illit though

and cortis

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I swear that song was released in 2024

It was released in Nov 2024 but debuted pretty low on melon iirc, the end of year award show performance gave it a huge boost and it ended up doing pretty well, with most of its numbers being in 2025

What a list!

This is a masterclass in journalistic list writing lol. Magazines have the impossible task of trying to please everyone, but also excite and surprise you at the same time. This managed to pull that off.

It pays “filial duty”, as whyknock would say, to the massive hits of the year, like Golden and Like Jennie, but then throws in a surprise by putting them 2 and 3 and choosing an amazing NMIXX song for the top spot (NMIXX being the kpop connoisseur’s darling right now), as well as a few excellent rookie picks (ifeye at number 3!)

Actually, Spinnin On It number 1, ifeye number 3. If number 2 was Plot Twist I would have said Yama-Chan wrote this list