NME's staff pick the 25 (5) best K-Pop songs of 2023

[mayjailer]

Comments

[sandstorm]

hell yeah @ Aespa and Drama.

[vaeltaa]

the b-sides on outlaw were all so much better than bouncy from ateez. django and dune were the k-pop songs of the year for me.

[almostlawyer]

Dune is so good, we need more evil sounding music

[neoreulwonhae]

Wake Up, This World, and Outlaw also slap. So basically...the whole album. As for Fin: Will, there are a few b-sides I like more than Crazy Form as well.

[shittysoup]

[baekpedaling]

Justice for Cream Soda!

[shittysoup]

[itsme_eloise]

effortless is SO good. i love the korean version.

[babygivenchy]

Newjeans ETA the ultimate for me
Red velvet underwater
Nct (?) The BAT
Nct subunit perfume
Kai slidin
Aespa spicy
Le sserafim eve, bluebeard etc.
Forgot exo private party was this year lmfao

[bakemonos]

TASTE

[vanilla_09]

TASTE 2X

[sweetestbliss1]

I am highly biased but in my attempt at being as objective as I can, Perfume is one of SM's best releases this year. It's a damn travesty that DJJ won't be performing at any of the year-end music shows. I don't know what SM is thinking not letting them perform and instead is promoting Baggy Jeans?....I mean, I get it, but I also don't.

[maclou]

Its so hard to believe all the fifty fifty stuff just happened this year! Whenever i see something about them i get sad because im not even in to kpop but i got interested in them before Cupid cos one of the singers had a really nice voice that seemed unique to me and now she might never be able to work again :-/

ANYWAY Super Shy is a great choice for #1. My favorites this year were Lovelee by akmu and eve, psyche and the bluebeard's wife.