{"id":308788,"date":"2025-12-10T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308788\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:53:13","slug":"the-25-best-k-pop-songs-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308788\/","title":{"rendered":"THE 25 BEST K-POP SONGS OF 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/bts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BTS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/blackpink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BLACKPINK<\/a> took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/k-pop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K-pop<\/a> to new heights in the 2020s when they broke through to the mainstream and went global with their pandemic-era-defining hits. This year, an unlikely new force expanded the scene\u2019s cultural footprint further, with Netflix sensation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/films\/kpop-demon-hunters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KPop Demon Hunters<\/a> taking over our screens \u2013 and hits from its soundtrack, like \u2018Golden\u2019 and \u2018Soda Pop\u2019, dominating streaming and music charts.<\/p>\n<p>But as inescapable as KPop Demon Hunters was, the last 12 months also saw lots more from the world of K-pop. There were the stunning debuts of exciting new groups such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/cortis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CORTIS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/hearts2hearts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hearts2Hearts<\/a>, fresh solo music by beloved veteran idols (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/shinee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SHINee<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/key\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Key<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/artms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ARTMS<\/a>\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/kim-lip\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Lip<\/a>, and more), as well as a well-deserved comeback story by a once-divisive girl group. Here are the songs that made 2025 a blast for K-pop.<\/p>\n<p>Ziwei Puah, Associate Commissioning Editor (Music)<\/p>\n<p>Words by: Carmen Chin, Daniel Anderson, George Yang, Ivana E. Morales, Mika Chen, Rhian Daly, Sara Delgado, Tamar Herman, T\u00e1ssia Assis and Ziwei Puah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS and BLACKPINK took K-pop to new heights in the 2020s when they broke through to the mainstream&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-308788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}