When considering the best girl groups of the current generation, you'd be hard pressed to find a list without IVE. The girls have been on fire since their 2021 debut, cementing themselves as purveyors of dynamic pop music that dares to do without sacrificing melody. An approach that's already delivered a few legendary classics. And … Continue reading Song Review: IVE – Rebel Heart
If you want to check out my rankings for other years: Top 100 K-pop songs of 2020 Top 100 K-pop songs of 2021 Top 50 K-pop songs of 2022 2024 List 50-41 + Honourable Mentions // 40-31 // 30-21 // 20-11 10. TWS - Last Festival A buoyant celebration to cap off one of the most triumphant debut years … Continue reading The Top 50 Best K-Pop Songs of 2024 (10-1)
Whilst unproductively and erratic posting schedules have become quite the hallmark of this blog over the past few years, 2024 dare I say reached levels of barren that even I wouldn't have imagined. With only two or three posts over the course of the past twelve months, KBopped in many ways could have been considered … Continue reading The Top 50 Best K-Pop Songs of 2024 (50-41) + honourable mentions
Whether it be a result of my own tastes changing or a general disconnect with the direction that the industry as a whole is heading, I've recently come to terms with the fact that I've fallen out of love with K-pop. A sentiment that is pretty noticeable when looking at the current state of the … Continue reading Song Review: RIIZE – Impossible
While K-pop dominated most of my artistic consumption for the past few years, this years overall lack of real standouts has really led me to expand my horizons. And while this is primarily a K-pop focused blog (as the name suggests), sometimes I just love to talk about things that interest me. So, I thought … Continue reading Arpydarpy’s 2022 favourites (Mid-Year)
As someone who loves K-pop and has literally spent the last 2 years writing about it, I've been quite bored with the current slate of releases that 2022 has given us. Sure there have been some highlights and the average quality of tracks hasn't been the worse, an entire sense of mundanity has fallen over … Continue reading Arpydarpy’s 2022 Pop Highlights (Q1)
As someone who loves to keep records, I thought it would be fun to have a running tally of my most listened to artists and songs on a week by week basis. Each of these posts will likely go up every Sunday or Monday depending on when I get the time and yes, i will … Continue reading Kbopped’s Weekly Stats (vol. 3)
As someone who loves to keep records, I thought it would be fun to have a running tally of my most listened to artists and songs on a week by week basis. Each of these posts will likely go up every Sunday or Monday depending on when I get the time and yes, i will … Continue reading Kbopped’s Weekly Stats (vol. 2)
As someone who loves to keep records, I thought it would be fun to have a running tally of my most listened to artists and songs on a week by week basis. Each of these posts will likely go up every Sunday or Monday depending on when I get the time and yes, i will … Continue reading Kbopped’s Weekly Stats (vol. 1)
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