Hello everyone! It’s that time once again to have the battle of the titans by pitting the most acclaimed songs of the past few rates against in each other in our 2nd All-Stars Rate!
If you haven’t already, make sure to join r/kpoprates to stay tuned for future rate-related posts!
Quick Links:
Ballot submission: Reddit // Ballot template: Google Docs // Ballot template (Pastebin)
Playlists: Spotify // Apple Music // Youtube (MV ver.) // Youtube (Audio ver.) // Youtube (Lyrics ver.)
Deadline: August 2nd, Sunday, 11:59 PM Pacific (Link to a timezone converter)
How the songs were selected:
Only top-ranking songs from each rate from “Japanese Songs Rate –> 2025 in B-sides” were considered for the rate, by nature of the theme. Summer Rate entries will be eligible for next All-Stars rate.
New to AS2 is the addition of Wildcards! These are top-ranking songs from rates from the AS1 phase that couldn’t make AS1, so we gave them a chance to be in AS2.
Songs were helped decided by the songlist feedback survey we had on /r/KpopRates.
Now, without further ado, let’s introduce the 70 songs that were selected for this rate, ordered chronologically by rate date and their placement on said rate:
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Rate: Japanese Songs:
Yuta – Prisoner (#1)
Chen – Free World (#1.5)
Girls’ Generation – Paparazzi (#2)
LOONA – Hula Hoop (#4)
Rate: Second Half of 2024:
aespa – Whiplash (#1)
KAVE – Stone (#5.5)
Rate: NCT:
NCT 127 – Superhuman (#1)
NCT 127 – Walk (#2)
WayV – Moonwalk (#3)
Rate: 2024 in B-sides:
aespa – Spark (Winter Solo) (#1)
Chungha – I’m Ready (#1)
ONEWE – Shoot It Out (#2)
Rate: Early Gen 3 Girl Groups:
GFriend – Rough (#1)
AOA – Miniskirt (#3)
EXID – Up & Down (#5)
Rate: Grab Bag 2:
WOODZ – Busted (#1)
BoA – L.O.V.E (#2)
TAN – Heartbeat (#5)
Rate: Early Gen 3 Boy Groups:
VIXX – Error (#1)
GOT7 – If You Do (#2)
VIXX – On and On (#3)
MONSTA X – Beautiful Liar (#4)
Rate: First Half of 2025:
CIX – Thunder (#1)
NMIXX – High Horse (#2)
Yeji – Air (#4)
Rate: Dreamcatcher:
Rate: 2022 in K-Pop:
IVE – Love Dive (#1)
Taeyeon – INVU (#2)
ATEEZ – Halazia (#3)
NewJeans – Ditto (#4)
Rate: Late Gen 3 Girl Groups:
Oh My Girl – Closer (#4)
WJSN – As You Wish (#8)
Rate: Soloists 2:
Ailee – U & I (#2)
IU – Twenty-three (#3)
Gain – Paradise Lost (#6)
Rate: 2023 in B-sides:
fromis_9 – Attitude (#1)
WOODZ – Drowning (#3)
VIVIZ – Untie (#7)
Rate: Late Gen 3 Boy Groups:
KNK – Sunset (#2)
SF9 – Now or Never (#3)
A.C.E – Goblin (Favorite Boys) (#4)
Rate: Female Soloists Albums:
Taeyeon – Spark (#1)
LeeHi (ft. Yoonmirae) – Red Lipstick (#2)
Heize – Happen (#3)
Rate: Second Half of 2025:
Close Your Eyes – X (#4)
XG – Gala (#5)
Rate: 2018 in K-Pop:
fromis_9 – Love Bomb (#1)
Red Velvet – Bad Boy (#2)
K/DA – Pop/Stars (#4)
Rate: 2025 in B-sides:
LE SSERAFIM – Ash (#2)
Rate: Wildcards:
Girls’ Generation – Into the New World
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* Spotify playlist
* Apple Music playlist
* Youtube MV Ver.
* Youtube Audio Ver.
* Youtube Lyrics Ver.
Rules:
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You must listen to and assign a score to EVERY song listed. If your ballot is missing any scores it will not be eligible and you’ll be sent a message asking you to fill in the missing scores.
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Each song should be assigned a score between 1 to 10. Decimals up to one point are allowed but any further is a no-no – 6.9 is fine, but 6.99 is not. Don’t use commas (i.e “8,8”) to separate your decimals!
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You can use ONE 0 and ONE 11 for the entirety of the rate, for your least favorite and most favorite song respectively – they are optional but HIGHLY encouraged if you feel some type of way about any given song! Comments are also encouraged but not required for such scores (except if you give a song a 0). You can add them to any song by simply typing after the numerical score, like so:
Saja Boys – Your Idol: 8.3 My favorite K-Pop group, hypnotize me all day long daddies
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This is the ONLY correct way to format a comment. Please do not include colons (ex. 9: I stan!), dashes (ex. 3.3 – This song sucks), or any other symbol after your score/before your comment as it breaks the program.
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You can also give a comment for each rate, like so:
Rate: NCT: Open your eyes NC deez nuts
- For this rate and most future rates, we have a ballot average minimum of 4.00. In addition, if your ballot average is between 4.00-5.50, you must leave comments on your lower scores (which we define as any score that’s a 3 or lower). {Do not worry about having to calculate your ballot average, once you submit your ballot, we will tell you if you need to make changes to your ballot for it to be accepted.}
SUBMITTING A BALLOT:
Ballot submission: Reddit // Ballot template: Google Docs // Ballot template (Pastebin)
If this does not work, or your ballot exceeds the character limit, you can make a copy of either the Google Docs or Pastebin ballot templates above, add your scores on your local copy/file, and send the link to your local copy/file in your Reddit Chat message to u/KpopRates. Make sure, if doing this, that your document has sharing permissions enabled. You may also DM the ballot to u/Zypker125 (@Zypker124), u/ke1per (@joseambuervo), and u/CheesesPriced (@sudointalexual) on Discord! Please message all three hosts, not just one. You can amend your ballot at any time in the lead up to the rate deadline, just let the hosts know and they’ll update it in the file.
Google Spreadsheet you can use for calculating averages/trends and making predictions
You can also submit the Top/Bottom 5 predictions form at any time!
DUE DATE:
Sunday, August 2nd, by 11:59 PM Pacific – This will be the FINAL deadline, no extensions will be given this time! (Here is a link to a time zone converter for the deadline.)
REVEAL DATES (Reveals will take place on /r/kpoprates as well as the r/kpoprates Discord: https://discord.gg/rkpoprates)
Day 1 – August 8th (Saturday), 8 AM Pacific (Time zone converter here)
Day 2 – August 9th (Sunday), 8 AM Pacific (Time zone converter here)
We also encourage you to participate in the ongoing 3rd Grab Bag Rate! Thanks!
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