Best of Kpop 2023
There was a lot of good music this year! I kind of wanna recommend everything, but I've tried to keep it somewhat limited. π
π Best EPs
- 05.16 | Verivery - Liminality - Ep. Dream
- 05.17 | Younite - λΉ : BIT Part.1
- 07.31 | Infinite - 13egin
- 10.11 | Jini - An Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove
- 10.17 | E'Last - iDENTIFICATION
- 11.01 | Weeekly - ColoRise
- 11.21 | VIXX - Continuum
π Best single albums
- 01.30 | BXB - Intro: Flight and a New Beginning
- 02.14 | StayC - Teddy Bear
- 03.10 | TAN - 1st Anniversary Special Album [ESSEGE]
- 03.15 | Drippin - Hello Goodbye
- 05.24 | Secret Number - DOXA
- 06.27 | Yena - Hate XX
- 09.06 | Trendz - Still On My Way
- 10.25 | DV.OL - Journey
- 11.02 | eite - Independent woman
- 11.02 | Golden Child - Feel Me
π More notable songs
Individual songs from releases that didn't make the shortlist, but still deserve a mention.
- 02.13 | Key - Killer
- 02.15 | Purple Kiss - Sweet Juice
- 04.10 | Kep1er - Back to the City
- 04.26 | Epex - Goodbye, My First Love
- 04.26 | Woodz - Busted
- 05.04 | iKON - U
- 06.05 | fromis_9 - Attitude
- 08.16 | StayC - Bubble
- 10.18 | Kingdom - On My Way π
- 10.23 | Seventeen - Back 2 Back
- 11.01 | Catch the Young - Youth!!!
- 11.07 | Omega X - Touch
- 11.10 | aespa - YOLO
- 11.15 | Giuk ft. Moonbyul - Block123
- 11.15 | Ampers&one - On and On
- 11.20 | The Boyz - Watch It
π Non-pop genres
- 01.01 | Nell - The Beauty of Acceptance rock
- 02.28 | msftz - On My Way krnb
- 03.01 | Hvlf - poom ballad
- 07.11 | Mind U - Rain Again ballad
- 10.17 | Minit - Be My Star khh
- 10.25 | Won Taerim - Clover acoustic
- 10.26 | La Poem - A Beautiful Farewell classical crossover
And now I'm just gonna be super biased π 
π Best MV - Verivery - Tap Tap (Japanese Ver.)
π Best Choreo - Verivery - Crazy Like That
π Best Debut - Catch the Young - Youth!!!
π Playlist
Finally, my full 2023 playlist - there are 400+ songs in total, but I organized the first 85 to make a coherent highlights playlist. I spent a lot of time and effort on this, so I'm quite proud of it haha π