[Special] 2025 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – KPOPREVIEWED’s Choice

Welcome to KPOPREVIEWED’s Choice post for the 2025 KPOPREVIEWED Awards!

First and foremost, I hope everyone has a nice break (if you are celebrating the festive season). And if you are not, then you have had a lovely couple of days. I also want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. May 2026 be an excellent year for all!

Essentially, I announce who I think should be the winners from the nominations I announced two weeks ago. I also have italicised and underlined my choices in the captions for each category, in case the images don’t load properly.

This post is NOT the announcement of winners. This is just purely who I think should be the winners. The winners will be announced in mid-February 2026, only after the voting period, where YOU get to decide the winners of each category below! You also get to have your say in the Best Artist and Song of 2025 categories, which are determined by both you and me.

If you have yet to vote in the 2025 KPOPREVIEWED Awards, make sure to cast your vote by clicking here to vote today!

So, without further ado, I present my choice of the winners 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

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