2021 is considered a prosperous time for K-pop groups when a series of songs and albums reached high rankings on Billboard. Some prominent names can be mentioned, such as BTS, Lisa (Blackpink), NCT, TWICE, TXT…
At the end of 2021, Billboard “closed” the 25 best Kpop songs of the year as voted by experts, including:
– “0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You)”
– TXT
– “Next Level” – aespa
– “Lilac” – IU
– “LUNA” – ONEUS
– “Happen” – Heize
– “Butter” – BTS
– “Hot Sauce” – NCT Dream
– “Midnight” – Chancellor feat. Gaeko
– “Thunderous” – Stray Kids
– “Cinema” – CIX
– “Nakka” – AKMU & IU
– “We Go” – fromis_9
– “Stardust” – Younha
– “Waiting” – WOODZ
– “Ready to Love” – ​​SEVENTEEN
– “Weekend” – Taeyeon
– “Deja Vu” – ATEEZ
– “Dumb Dumb” – Jeon Somi
– “Scientist” – TWICE
– “Money” – LISA (BLACKPINK)
– “Lock Down” – EPEX
– “ASAP” – STAYC
– “Like Water” – Wendy (Red Velvet)
– “HWAA” – (G)I-DLE
– “On the Ground” – Rosé (BLACKPINK)
BTS’s Butter has the highest achievement of the year when continuously reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. However, Butter is sadly behind the junior’s song in the best song vote—same house – TXT.
Notable in the ranking is aespa’s Next Level. Despite being a remake song, with attractive new colors, Next Level dominated many digital music sites and became viral in Korea.
Top 25 best Kpop songs in 2021: BTS, Blackpink are surpassed by juniors.
