I'm so in love with WOOYOUNGs voice.

I love Yeosang voice so much ❤..Thank you

Thank you. As someone who doesn't know these things, I very much appreciate this analyzation.

Off topic: look at san at 19:47 doing the choreography 🫠

I swear I’m listening to your points for every song, but then I look at JiU and literally forget everything… This JiU fancam is too dangerous to be put on this type of video… lol. Welcome back!!

I kid you not i will rewind Justice over and over again just to hear that opening "oh my dear God" idk why it just tickles my brain

Hell yeah she's back!

Woosungs EDM heavy "stages of processing a breakup" 4444 album has become one of my personal late favorites of th year...like i'm maybe always here for crying on the dance floor Robyn style music

I'm not a crier, but I almost cry every time I hear the final chorus of Justice...and I heard it live and my life was changed also, I did not get Supernova at first bc I only heard the tiktok audios and then I finally listened and top 3 for sure, ICONS for SURE true about NEMONEMO bc it was stuck in my head at work yesterday haha, Good Morning was so good I love her genre shifts my problem with saying my favs is that I always find new songs that DIDN'T come out that year, but shout out to my weird girl music (bc I've become a gg fan with some bgs on the side) and the earworms that stuck in my head and heart: Strawberry Rush by Chuu, Midas Touch by KIOF, Wife by (G)i-dle, UhUh by Rescene, Supernova and Justice (my loves), and our 2023 honorable mentions: The Letter by Pixy, Blue by Dreamnote, and Iced Coffee by Red Velvet

Omggg yeeeessss another video, I'm sooo excited <3333

I was getting worried you would miss Bittersweet, easily my top 5 song that year <3

Trampoline recognition!!!

As a new kpop stan as soon as I heard sneakers I loved it! I never even knew it was hated

Jiu fan cam and Ryan George reference. 👍

HEAVY on Xdinary Heroes does rock really well. I'm very picky when it comes to how Rock is done since it's one of my favorite music genres, and they do it very well. iNSTEAD! is one of my favorite songs from them. ALSO YESSS JUSTICE WAS SO GOOD DREAMCATCHER WILL ALWAYS RELEASE PEAK SONGS

Xdinary Heroes being the first group on the list is ✨perfection ✨ Edit: watching this just as the new year starts! Happy new year everyone! 🎆 Edit 2: I am so happy Dreamcatcher, Aespa and Le Sserafim are on your obsessions section.

CATCHING TEEZ IVE BEEN WAITING WELCOME BACK!!! 🥰🥰

If you're looking for more Hidden Gems, I highly recommend NOMADS, their album was so Good and Love to see you're back Queen ✨ Happy New Year!

X:IN just released a rock verison of Keeping the fire with the new members and a new single name ACHA. The rock verison was a surprised but it fits (had to listen to it to feel it but its great). ACHA is different from their normal stuff but its great.

huge thanks for letting me know that Gaho started rock-band, i guess my 2025 is saved now 🤍😝

You're back!!!!!! Yaaayyyyyy!!!!!

Well shit. I didn't know we have such a similar taste in music... Aespa, Dreamcatcher, Yena, Billlie, Ive, Madein and more are on my playlist through the year and I'm listening them on repeat all the time. I would add to the list: Itzy - Imaginary friend; for someone who's not Itzy fan that song took me by surprise and now live rent free in my mind, ROSE - number one girl; I was waiting to see what BPs girls will do as soloists and Rose was the one who reached the absolute top for me. What a voice, what a range what a clear vision, and at last but not least TripleS - Girls never die; This song just invaded my brain and occupy parts of it permanently. heavy subject matter done well. Thank you for all the essays and happy new year 🥂

Nayeon doesn't get respect for her vocals because Jihyo gets all the praise, but she is very good.

1:00 Love and Fear!! It's literally my 2024 soty, I love it so much

In LOVE with your picks, and seeing SAAY get a mention, very happy! I would mention on the topic of jazz in K-pop that Dreamcatcher’s re-release (carol version) of Jazz Bar is pretty solid if you haven’t listened yet~ My Xdinary Heroes obsessions of the year have been No Matter and Undefined. Badvillain have also popped up and got me excited for a more rap/hip-hop girl group on the scene. Enjoyed the video as always, Happy New Year! 🎉

CATCHINGTEEZ IS BACK BABY

I just discovered you've been uploading over the past several months and I received none of the notifications _even though I have notifications turned on!_

I just KNEW that Selfish Waltz would be here on this list! I've veeb obsessed with SW and Deep Dive since the album dropped. This year Aespa has been slowly growing on me. Supernova went platinum in my bedroom for sure. Im excited for their next releases. Thanxx for the playlist! I feel that there are some really good gems that I have missed this year just by the previews.

I just checked out the playlist, and I love you so much, you included my favourite songs of all my favourite nugu groups, and I will get so many new songs out of this

The fact that I only have like five songs on your Spotify playlist as liked songs makes me so excited to listen to it. I’ve been in a kpop rut lately and decided that in 2025 I would broaden my listening. This playlist is a great start. Thanks for sharing!!!

Ack, TELL me about the sparkly space girl music this year! Shooting Star was only the beginning, right next to Virtual Angel, and then followed up with Starry Night…I also tend to lump Girls Never Die and Imaginary Friend in there, just with how they feel sonically, (and Le Sserafim's Crazier, just due to the filters on that production) but it was suuuuch a good year for (as I called them, soft celestial gg songs)! They're exactly what I've been missing in this rise of much harder beats…Each of them manages to destroy me in their own way and they're all so beautiful. Funnily enough, I wasn't the highest on either Good Morning or Nemo Nemo (although I can absolutely see the potential in both, and her stage presence makes up for it, especially with that BBTrippin choreo)…But Damn U and The Ugly Duckling are constant repeats for me. I'm really happy with the way her sound is branching out in general-even if not all the songs are quite for me, it's a super fun direction to go in! I feel you on Madein-I was completely obsessed with the first two Limelight releases, and hopeful that with the new members they'd be able to have a bigger draw and a bigger budget-was still unhappy with the name change, because Limelight is so much more fun, but that just seems like hardly anything to complain about now. First the obvious lack of budget with the MV being so much lazier than anything for Limelight, and then all the awful news coming to light…I really hope they can find a new space for themselves. They deserve so much better, and the sound they built for both Limelight and Madein is so promising. That being said, have to disagree with you just a bit on DADARIDA, although it's mostly personal preference, haha. The intro throws me off every time no matter how much I listen to it, and although the production is fascinating, the song I feel like has the most potential is absolutely DOPAMINE. It's just so soft and floaty and just perfectly captures that feeling of being high on your emotions themselves, of letting yourself go in the wake of a new, exciting love. It should have been longer, but even short as it is, it's been on repeat for me since release (of course, not on streaming sites) Huge +1 to the KAVE shoutout! So many of their songs (but especially Stone, You, and Legend) have been filling the void in my soul of hard-hitting Ateez that's been empty since Not Okay…don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of all the GH2 b-sides, but I need another all-encompassing, anthemic (Korean) title that you can just get lost in-we (arguably) haven't had one for now over TWO YEARS…how you could drop the best song ever and just walk away is beyond me, even though I am glad they're trying new things out! Come back to me soon though :') And here I thought I was advanced in the nugu department! The Domino mention is absolutely deserved, and now I'm just wishing I'd heard it earlier…really fun list as a whole! I think the only spots where I disagree are just where I really couldn't vibe with the production…looking at you Accendio…I can understand it but that doesn't mean I can listen to it even though the post-chorus gets stuck in my head no matter what-my ears unfortunately just can't take that brash of a sound A few songs I feel like I have to shout out, because they all got stuck in my head this year one way or another: Sanha's Bleeding, MIRAE's Running Up (so sad that they're gone), LUN8's Pastel, ONEWE's Off Road (I love XH, but this had to be my favorite K-rock song from 2024), DXMON's Spark, and June Green's Thread-speaking of long K-pop songs! It's almost 5 minutes and ethereal and absolutely gorgeous. They deserve all the love. I'm glad you took your time in coming back! Hope you're settling in well~ It was such a joy to see you in my notifications once again <3 P.S. Congrats on seeing your two ults this year! I was lucky enough to see both tours as well and they were just as great as I expected :)

Thank you for making this! I'm so glad I found you!🥰. And I'm sure it will change my life,😅🥰. I love your list and am going to spend 2025 doing a deep dive. Thanks for posting it on Spotify!❤🙏. You found some of my hidden gems, so I'm going to recommend One Pact! They are for fully my favorites since their debut!

Our queen is back!!!

I remember where I was, what I was feeling when Shooting Star came out. I told myself that disbandment or no, I wouldn’t cry. The pure silence hits and Xiaoting is just priming me with glittery vocals and a camera shutter before getting slammed into a chorus. Welling up at this point, but I’m not crying though! Rap line eats, Youngeun does a similar job as Xiaoting, second chorus hits and I’m just enjoying the vibes. Oh lord that bridge, I was welling up even harder as the final prechorus goes, holding back so many tears. And then Kim Chaehyun decides to rip my heart out of my chest with that high note into the final chorus. No song this year made me BAWL like Shooting Star did.

OMG SHES BACK THE QUEEN IS BACK.

LOVE AND FEAR!!!! i was not expecting xdinary heroes to be on this list but i’m so glad they’re getting the recognition they deserve!! i’ve become completely obsessed with them recently, love and fear is also my favorite song of theirs. dreamcatcher <3 <3 <3. justice consistently gives me chills when i listen to it, they’re amazing. SuA the all rounder to defeat all other all-rounders lol we seem to have very similar music tastes i can’t wait to check out the songs i haven’t listened to yet NOVA! CANR STOP HYPER STELLAR sad song! recently fell in love with this one, keeho’s voice… selfish waltz is the best song on that album fr!! jaehyun really popped off with his solo CANT HELP MYSELF !!!! 127 you’ve done it again, i need to cradle this song lovingly in my arms. the post chorus is what got me too lol a friend was just showing me dpr ian today, and now with this video.. i think this is a sign i need to listen to more xikers!! another recent obsession of mine. bittersweet is so good, especially the outro augh. i feel the need to say!! if you havent, you should definitely check out Yuta’s solo album, Depth. has much rock vibes i believe you may enjoy. other than that, being the nctzen i am, i must recommend Best of Me from nct dream’s latest album for those space music vibes. also from that album Heavenly can sit with selfish waltz for the synthpop vibes, or maybe it’s more like old japanese city pop? idk but that song makes me feel things so it deserves the shout out lol. anyway i’m gonna go listen to all the songs in this video, very excited, have a great day!

Definitely agree with your points on Xikers. And as someone who finally got into K-Pop because of Dreamcatcher (I flirted with it before but never committed) and because ATEEZ is group that made boy groups click seeing Xikers journey so far has been cool to see. And yes the point on the use of ATEEZ made me laugh but I do agree.

I'm absolutely floored. Gaho has always been one of my favorite singers.... I didn't know he was in a band either... I won't be able to listen to anything else for the forseeable future... Thank you! ❤

Love this list but want to thank you so much for including Domino by Saay because that song was way to amazing for it to be so obscure! Just beautiful. ^_^

I'm a cashier at Walmart and I just saw someone fall to their knees

MY GLOB I'VE MISSED U! I hope everything is alright & I wish you a happy New Year🎉

the queen is back!

Welcome back! Glad to see you still try to find time to make videos :)

First pick being XH, including Bittersweet and Kave, and introducing me to Lee Seungyoon, makes this automatically the GOAT of year-end lists. Period. Even tho they're pretty successful by kband standards, XH are still criminally underrated imo and often stuck in this grey zone where kpop fans ignore them bc they don't dance but non-kpop fans don't take them seriously bc they're on a kpop label and often styled\promoted like a kpop group. Love & Fear was an instant like for me too. Tho, as a longtime metalhead who spent their teen years in the 2000s and played the Underworld and Queen Of The Damned soundtracks on repeat, iNstead absolutely floored me. But I understand it's an acquired taste for most. I just happened to have acquired it 20 years ago in a hot topic lol. I found Kave before I'd even heard of Gaho, so guess I went about that backwards lol. But i've had them on repeat for weeks now and finding Kave sent me down a yt rabbit hole that resulted in me adding like 20 songs to my krock playlist. Kardi, Dragon Pony, The Fix, Synsnake, and Lucy have been my absolute fav music discoveries this year.

The taste, immaculate.

Just fell to my knees in walmart, omg mothers back😭😭

I SWIPED AND THEN CHASED THE NOTIF AS SOON AS I REALIZED IT WAS YOU OMG

hello, professional classical vocalist/opera major here! i appreciate a lot of what you said but and i realize this was uploaded 8 months ago but i personally think that you are really downplaying his live-singing and pitch accuracy in your analysis. not sure whether this is because you haven't watched a ton of fan-recorded cams from tour performances or non-music show performances, but his consistency is up there among the members. i understand that you are right about the dvds and certain shows editing vocals to showcase only the best, but there are hundreds of videos of his raw vocals before backtrack is upped in post where he is not only singing with full support but also very in tune! i hope in the future his abilities as a main dancer as well as vocalist (while dancing) can be better showcased in analysis videos like this. on another note, you're allowed to do whatever you want with your channel of course, but i suggest that if you aren't a professional then you shouldn't say that you are able to "speak on" vocals as if they are facts. overall though, a lot of what you pointed out is pretty accurate apart from terminology!!

I am really happy that kq make feel that ateez is ateez and xikers is xikers. This makes space for something new but the same time for that what they good and safe at.

5:51 another fun detail to mention: their commitment to the horror concept also extends to their debut date, Friday the 13th January, 2017👻