Hello everyone! We are excited to rate some of the biggest songs of the year so far with the “First Half of 2025” Rate! (If you haven’t already, make sure to join r/kpoprates to ensure that you stay updated on future rate-related posts!)
Deadline for this rate is Monday, September 15th, by 11:59 PM Pacific (Here is a link to a time zone converter for the deadline.)
How the songs were selected:
We used the /r/kpop Upcoming Monthly Releases to comb through all K-Pop releases from the second half of the year. From there, we examined multiple factors: how many upvotes the MV received on r/kpop, how many Spotify streams a song has, how popular the artist is overall and on Reddit, overall balance, and several other factors.
Once a tentative songlist was decided, we have asked for feedback on our Discord server and have later hosted a songlist feedback thread on /r/kpoprates. The feedback from this survey was weighed alongside the aforementioned statistics to determine the final songlist!
Now, without further ado, let’s introduce the 60 songs (and 7 bonus songs) that were selected for this rate, ordered chronologically by release date:
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January:
BOYNEXTDOOR – If I Say, I Love You
February:
Lisa (ft. Doja Cat and RAYE) – Born Again
G-Dragon (ft. Anderson .Paak) – Too Bad
March:
April:
Close Your Eyes – All My Poetry
May:
Tablo (ft. RM) – Stop the Rain
Red Velvet Irene & Seulgi – Tilt
June:
Enhypen – Bad Desire (With or Without You)
j-hope (ft. GloRilla) – Killin’ It Girl
ILLIT – Billyeoon Goyangi (Do the Dance)
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Bonus Rate:
The bonus rate is a selection of host picks! We wanted to represent some of the lesser-popular gems from 2024 so far, and we hope that it will be a fun dive!
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Xdinary Heroes – Beautiful Life
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The Bonus Rate is optional and you do not have to submit a score for every song in the bonus list if you do it: you can score none of them, all of them, or any number in between. You cannot give a 0 or 11 to any song in the bonus, as they are not part of the main rate. While it is optional, we hope you consider participating.
Spotify playlist
YouTube playlist (MV version)
YouTube playlist (Audio version)
YouTube playlist (Lyrics version)
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.
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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).
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Comments are encouraged and much appreciated (but not required, except for if you give a 0) and can be added to any song by simply typing after the numerical score, like so:
Saja Boys – Soda Pop: 9.5 Wait, guys, isn’t Feel the Pop a 2024A song?
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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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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:
Link to Reddit Chat to send in scores
As Reddit is (unfortunately) moving away from the private messaging system in favor of utilizing the Reddit chat system, we are forced to also adopt the Reddit chat system for messaging. You can make a copy of either the Google Docs or Pastebin ballot templates below, 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_ghost.
Google Docs ballot template
Pastebin ballot template
- If the private message link is not working (or your private message exceeds the character count), please use the Google Doc template (make a copy of it to your Google Drive) for your ballot and DM it to u/kpoprates_ghost. If you message us a link to your Google Doc, PLEASE double check your permissions so that “anyone who has the link can view the document” (since the default is otherwise).
Alternatively, if you have Discord, you can message the link to your ballot to both the rate hosts, @kawaii_mokona and @kirakiranatsu.
There is also a Google Sheets Spreadsheet Template that you can make a copy of to calculate the averages of your scores.
You can also submit the top/bottom 5 prediction form at any time.
DUE DATE:
Monday, September 15th, 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/j3wCF43x)
Day 1 – September 20th (Saturday), 8 AM Pacific (Time zone converter here)
Day 2 – September 21st (Sunday), 8 AM Pacific (Time zone converter here)
We also encourage you to participate in the ongoing Early Gen 3 Boy Groups Rate! Thanks!
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