The Prime Three Okay-Pop Songs of April 2025

April 30, 2025

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On the finish of every month, I look again at my three favourite title tracks by Okay-pop artists. I take my very own scores under consideration, however there’s a little bit of wiggle room as sure songs are inclined to develop or fade.

April 2025 Total Ideas

Oof. What a month. Okay-pop in 2025 hasn’t been overwhelmingly superior to this point, however we have been on an upward trajectory via March. Usually, April ushers within the business’s spring season and we begin getting comebacks positioned for summer time ubiquity. As an alternative, this April was effectively beneath common, delivering one clunker after one other.

We reverted again to among the business’s worst developments: drained-of-its-color “beigepop” for the ladies, shout-chant posturing for the boys. An enormous swath of April’s releases might comfortably slot into these two sonic archetypes, and as somebody who listens to each new launch intimately it’s each exhausting and uninspiring to listen to slight variations of the identical template again and again. I do know the Okay-pop business loves following (and following… and following…) developments, however I swear it was extra musically adventurous than this.

Due to this sense of sameness, songs that stood out or delivered a punchier vitality immediately discovered a spot on my playlist. I do know the feedback have been blended on this weblog, however I completely adore TWS’s most up-to-date tackle their signature melodies with Countdown. It’s simply my most performed track of the month and supplied the form of bombastic, singalong hooks I are inclined to covet. I additionally need to highlight the newly-debuted Shut Your Eyes, who took a equally melodic strategy however in a very totally different manner. By drawing upon a mid-to-late-2000’s r&b sound, they immediately set themselves aside from the group. I’d like to see extra of this from Okay-pop. The style itself doesn’t even matter so long as the songwriting is robust and the sound isn’t only a regurgitation of what each different Okay-pop act is peddling.

For the primary time this 12 months, there have been really extra J-pop highlights than Okay-pop. Whereas I couldn’t even cobble collectively a high three for J-pop in March, I had greater than sufficient decisions this month. It’s been a sluggish begin for J-pop in 2025, so I’m hoping this represents the start of a wanted shift.

Looing ahead to Could, I’m hopeful that Okay-pop’s prospects may also strengthen. We’ve received large comebacks on the way in which from RIIZE, BOYNEXTDOOR, Seventeen, Jin and plenty of others. At the very least a few of these are certain to hit, proper? Proper?!?

Month Cumulative Score: 7.5

(compiled by averaging the scores of each Okay-pop overview from this month)