Favorite K-pop Singles, 2020

50 favorites from K-pop with some sort of video

K-pop music is getting harder and harder to rank for me as the years go by. I just hoard so much music so there’s a lot to revisit come time for list season, but there’s also so much variety that it feels pointless holding up a R&B soloist against an idol group, a rapper, and whatever Crystal Tea is. So, yes, some choices here, I don’t even know if I can call it K-pop without stretching the definition, but that’s why the scene keeps being so exciting to me: there’s still so much to explore and discover.

Here are 50 songs I liked from the K-pop scene. Here is a Spotify playlist of all the songs.

1. Everglow: “La Di Da”
2. SF9: “Good Guy”
3. Weki Meki: “Cool”
4. UNVS (ft. room102): “Solar Eclipse”
5. Crush (ft. Joy): “Mayday”
6. Crystal Tea: “There There”
7. Weeekly: “Tag Me (@ Me)”
8. GXXD (ft. MOON & Blase): “Choom Sa Wee”
9. XUM: “Ddalala”
10. ENOi: “W.A.Y. (Where Are You)”
11. BoA: “Better”
12. Itzy: “Wannabe”
13. Swervy (ft. Paloalto): “Why”
14. GFriend: “Mago”
15. Sumin (ft. Dbo): “Sayx3”
16. LUCY: “Jogging”
17. Twice: “I Can’t Stop Me”
18. Treasure: “Boy”
19. IZ*ONE: “Panorama”
20. Se So Neon: “Nan Chun”
21. CSVC: “No Mercy”
22. MRSHLL (ft. Queen Wa$abii): “Do U”
23. Uneducated Kid, Northfacegawd, Flavordash, Futuristic Swaver: “Don’t Care”
24. April: “Lalalilala”
25. Oceanfromtheblue (ft. BLOO): “Girl”
26. Xydo (ft. pH-1): “Betting”
27. Apink: “Dumhdurum”
28. Jenyer (ft. Kimmuseum): “Bad”
29. Chai (ft. SAAY): “Gimme That”
30. Soovi (ft. pH-1): “Make the Move”
31. Yuzion: “I’m Never Going Back”
32. Punchnello (ft. Meenoi): “Us”
33. Red Velvet Irene & Seulgi: “Naughty”
34. Wonho: “Open Mind”
35. BIBI: “I’m Good at Goodbyes”
36. DONGKIZ I:KAN: “Y.O.U.”
37. Minseo: “No Good Girl”
38. Bobae: “P.U.N.K.S.”
39. Moonbin & Sanha: “Bad Idea”
40. DreamNote: “Wish”
41. Woo: “Used To”
42. Universe Mongae: “Shower”
43. HYO (ft. Soyeon & Loopy): “Dessert”
44. Chung Ha: “Everybody Has”
45. VAV: “Made for Two”
46. Silica Gel: “Kyo181”
47. Poetic Narrator: “We Need to Be Careful to Love”
48. Avokid: “Timid”
49. Ha Sung Woon: “Forbidden Island”
50. Yukika: “Soul Lady”