[Special] 2025 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Nominations + Voting Opens

Welcome to the combined announcement of nominations and voting form post for the 2025 KPOPREVIEWED Awards!

Like previous years, I have put forward the nominees to you, which I will announce today. 2025 was another challenging year to propose 5-6 nominees per category—so many other artists, songs, and performances deserve nominations. It was to the point where I had to expand some categories to 8 nominees! But per usual, there can be only one winner.

Voting has officially begun – Click here to vote!

So, without further ado, I present the nominations for the 2025 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

There are a fair number of categories to cover, so I have split them over three pages under this post. You can find links to the pages at the top or bottom of each page or navigate to them via the numbers at the bottom of the page.

Voting has begun – Cast your vote today!

Page 1 – Artist Categories (this page)
Page 2 – Performance, Stages & Visuals Categories
Page 3 – Song & Album Categories

Artist categories

Best New Artists of 2025

**Best New Male Group of 2025 Nominees**: AHOF, AxMxP, CLOSE YOUR EYES, CORTIS, IDID & KICKFLIP.

**Best New Female Group of 2025 Nominees**: Baby DON’T Cry, HEARTS2HEARTS, ifeye, izna, KiiiKiii & KIIRAS

**Best New Male Soloist of 2025 Nominees**: BEOMGYU, HAECHAN, KANG YUCHAN, MARK, SUNGJIN, XNGHAN

**Best New Female Soloist of 2025**: CHAEYOUNG, DAYOUNG, IRENE, MINNIE, NANA, YEJI.

Best Subunit & Best Non-Korean Artist in KPOP of 2025

**Best Subunit of 2025 Nominees**: BSS, CxM (S.COUPS x MINGYU), HxW (HOSHI x WOOZI), Red Velvet – IRENE & SEULGI, UAU & ZOONIZINI

**Best Non-Korean Group in KPOP of 2025**: &TEAM, KATSEYE, NIZIU, ONE OR EIGHT, WAYV & XG.

Most Underrated Artist & Rising Star of 2025

**Most Underrated Artist of 2025 Nominees:** 8TURN, AMPERS&ONE, CRAVITY, ifeye, RESCENE, XLOV

**Rising Star of 2025 Nominees**: ALLDAY PROJECT, DAYOUNG, EVNNE, izna, NMIXX & WOODZ

Best Delivery (Band, Rap & Vocal Performance) of 2025

**Best Band Performance of 2025 Nominees**: AxMxP for *I Did It*, DAY6 for *Maybe Tomorrow*, LUCY for *Where’s Your Love*, N.FLYING for *Everlasting*, QWER for *Dear* & Xdinary Heroes for *Beautiful Life*.

**Best Rap Performance of 2025 Nominees**: ASA & RUKA (of BABYMONSTER) for *DRIP,* CHANGBIN (Stray Kids) for *BURNIN’ TIRES*, G-DRAGON for *TOO BAD*, JENNIE for *like JENNIE*, MARK (NCT) for *1999* & PARK WOO JIN (AB6IX) for *NAME TAG*.

**Best Vocal Performance of 2025 Nominees**: DOYOUNG for *MEMORY*, ONF for *The Stranger*, ROSÉ for *toxic till the end*, SEO EUNKWANG for *Last Light*, WENDY for *Sunkiss* & WOODZ for *I’ll Never Love Again*.

Best Soloists & Groups of 2025

**Best CO-ED group of 2025 Nominees**: ALLDAY PROJECT, KARD & SIKKOO

**Best Female Soloist of 2025 Nominees**: JENNIE, JISOO, LISA, ROSÉ, TAEYEON & WENDY

**Best Male Soloist of 2025 Nominees**: BAEKHYUN, G-DRAGON, JIN, J-HOPE, KAI & ONEW.

**Best Female Group of 2025 Nominees:** aespa, BABYMONSTER, ILLIT, ITZY, IVE, LE SSERAFIM, NMIXX & TWICE

**Best Male Group of 2025 Nominees**: ATEEZ, BOYNEXTDOOR, ENHYPEN, NCT DREAM, TXT, Stray Kids, TWS & ZEROBASEONE

There are a fair number of categories to cover, so I have split them over three pages under this post. You can find links to the pages at the top or bottom of each page or navigate to them via the numbers at the bottom of the page.

Voting has begun – Cast your vote today!

Page 1 – Artist Categories (this page)
Page 2 – Performance, Visuals & Comeback Categories
Page 3 – Song & Album Categories