In that post, I also announced the Best Overall Song of 2025 (Stray Kids’ CEREMONY) and Best Overall Artist of 2025 (Red Velvet – IRENE & SEULGI). Alongside this announcement, I also promised to post the Top 30 songs and artists of 2025, and this is it!
Remember that the Best Overall Song and Artist of 2025 were decided by 50% your fan votes and 50% of my Weekly KPOP Charts that I post (roughly) each Sunday.
So without further delay, I present to you the Top 30 songs and artists of 2025!
Welcome to the final instalment of the 2025 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – the Announcement of Winners!
Just to recap what has been done so far: the nominees were announced, and voting opened mid-December 2025 for you to pick the winner across multiple categories; the announcement of KPOPREVIEWED’s Choice on 31st December 2025; and the voting closed mid-January 2026.
Since that last event, I have been working behind the scenes to prepare this post, including determining the Best Overall Song and Artist of 2025 (50% based on your fan votes and 50% on my Weekly KPOP Charts). And now, I am ready to present the winners of the 2025 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.
In addition to the images I have prepared for the announcement of winners, I have included the winners and honourable mentions (those who came second in each category) in the captions for each category, in case the images don’t load properly.
Also, in addition to announcing the Best Overall Song and Artist of 2025 today, I will also be posting the Top 30 songs and artists of 2025 on Saturday in a separate post. So keep your eyes out for that! But for now, the winners of 2025!
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 using the numbers at the bottom of the page.
Best New Male Group of 2025 Winner: CORTIS Best New Male Group of 2025 Honourable Mention: AHOFBest New Female Group of 2025 Winner: HEARTS2HEARTS Best New Female Group of 2025 Honourable Mention: KIIRASBest New Male Soloist of 2025 Winner: MARK Best New Male Soloist of 2025 Honourable Mention: BEOMGYUBest New Female Soloist of 2025Winner: YEJI Best New Female Soloist of 2025 Honourable Mention: IRENE
Best Subunit & Best Non-Korean Artist in KPOP of 2025
Best Subunit of 2025 Winner: Red Velvet – IRENE & SEULGI Best Subunit of 2025 Honourable Mention: CxM (S.COUPS & MINGYU)Best Non-Korean Group in KPOP of 2025Winner: KATSEYE Best Non-Korean Group in KPOP of 2025 Honourable Mention: &TEAM
Most Underrated Artist & Rising Star of 2025
Most Underrated Artist of 2025 Winner: XLOV Most Underrated Artist of 2025 Honourable Mention: CRAVITYRising Star of 2025 Winner: NMIXX Rising Star of 2025 Honourable Mention: izna
Best Delivery (Band, Rap & Vocal Performance) of 2025
Best Band Performance of 2025 Winner: Xdinary Heroes for Beautiful Life. Best Band Performance of 2025 Honourable Mention: DAY6 for Maybe TomorrowBest Rap Performance of 2025 Winner: JENNIE for like JENNIE Best Rap Performance of 2025 Honourable Mention: CHANGBIN (Stray Kids) for BURNIN’ TIRESBest Vocal Performance of 2025 Winner: ROSÉ for toxic till the end Best Vocal Performance of 2025 Honourable Mention: WOODZ for I’ll Never Love Again
Best Soloists & Groups of 2025
Best CO-ED group of 2025Winner: KARD Best CO-ED group of 2025 Honourable Mention: ALLDAY PROJECTBest Female Soloist of 2025 Winner: JENNIE Best Female Soloist of 2025 Honourable Mention: TAEYEONBest Male Soloist of 2025 Winner: G-DRAGON Best Male Soloist of 2025 Honourable Mention: J-HOPEBest Female Group of 2025 Winner: TWICE Best Female Group of 2025 Honourable Mention: aespaBest Male Group of 2025 Winner: Stray Kids Best Male Group of 2025 Honourable Mention: ZEROBASEONE
Best Overall Artist
This award is determined by 50% of KPOPREVIEWED’s Weekly KPOP Charts and 50% of your fan votes.
Top 30 Artists of 2025 – coming soon
Best Overall Artist of 2025 Winner: Red Velvet – IRENE & SEULGI
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 using the numbers at the bottom of the page.