your top 3 vocalists for each generation

Jul 20, 2026

not necessarily the ones who would be objectively the best, but the ones who are your personal favourite, the ones of which you’d attend a 2h+ solo concert

MINE :

1st gen

– BOA

– don’t know anyone else, but I really love her voice

2nd gen

– Taemin – SHINee

– Jaejoong – TVXQ

– Xia Junsu – TVXQ

H.M.

– Jonghyun and Key of SHINee (love their voices and discographies, but I have a soft spot for Taemin; I love Onew’s and Minho’s voices very much as well, but I’m not a huge fan of their solo works so to limit my honourable mentions at 2, I chose JongKey)

– Taeyeon of SNSD

3rd gen

– Yuta – NCT (I ult his solo discography)

– Siyeon – Dreamcatcher (mother)

– Moon Byul – Mamamoo (deep voice queen)

H.M. Xiaojun of WayV

4th gen

– Yuqi – I-DLE (deep voice queen)

– Seonghwa – ATEEZ (love his voice so much!!)

– Keeho of P1Harmony (gimme 2h of Disney covers by him please, he’s insanely good and insanely underrated)

H.M. Taehyun of TXT (yearning king)

5th gen

– Taehwan of Keyvitup (yearning voice!!!)

– Maki of &Team (he’s insane)

lemme think of a 3rd

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