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The High Three Okay-Pop Songs of March 2025

indie1000.com April 1, 2025

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

March 2025 Total Ideas

Whereas this yr in Okay-pop has not wowed me but (not even shut), I really feel like every month is getting progressively stronger. I can get behind that sample, and with lots of my favourite acts on the slate for the following few months I hope it continues.

The identical tendencies that marked January and February continued by March. I proceed to seek out Okay-pop’s boy group materials a lot stronger and extra various than the woman teams for the time being, although I need to say that STAYC’s Bebe has grown on me immensely and is my darkish horse quantity 4 choose this month. Their songs all the time develop on me and I actually need the bombastic sound of Bebe‘s dance instrumental to be emulated on stronger songs later this yr.

My high three songs are a little bit of a seize bag. Two of the artists have appeared a number of instances in my high threes earlier than whereas one other has by no means come shut. All three songs are fairly completely different, but every references sounds that I might contemplate strengths of Okay-pop typically. I really love my primary choose and wish it to grow to be a template for extra work going ahead.

On a extra miserable notice, this month marks the second time in a row the place my final group Infinite needed to accept an honorable point out. Actually, I barely listened to their album after its preliminary launch. I’ve sort of made my peace that they’re unlikely to succeed in the musical heights of their previous work once more. I’ll be fortunately shocked in the event that they ever do, however I’m definitely not going to count on it.

For the primary time ever, I’m not going to hassle with a “high three J-pop” of this month. Nothing stood out to me in any respect. There have been some songs I preferred, however nothing that warranted greater than a pair performs right here and there. It appears foolish to decide on any of those as a “high three” after I barely even listened to them. Of all of the music markets I actively comply with, J-pop feels essentially the most boring for the time being. It’s humorous as a result of simply two years in the past I used to be thrilled with Japan’s output. I suppose all the pieces’s cyclical and there’s nonetheless time for 2025 to make up for misplaced time. However, my all-time favourite J-pop group Kis-My-Ft2 lastly launched all their music (300+ songs!) onto streaming. I did an in depth overview of their catalog right here and right here, so test it out should you’re within the temper for some bombastic, anthemic dance and rock music. They’ve my highest advice.

With the onset of April, we’re getting into my favourite time for brand spanking new music. April by August tends to be fairly fruitful and I actually hope 2025 delivers. I’m very a lot wanting ahead to TWS’s comeback later this month, and on the Japanese aspect I can’t wait to see what &TEAM comes up with. With that stated, I’m positive there will even be highlights that come from surprising locations.

Month Cumulative Ranking: 7.6

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