Top 79 K-Pop Songs of 2022

The best K-pop songs of 2022 took us on a journey through girl group supremacy, glitches, hype boys, flashbacks, and visions of the future.

As we wrote .In the pastK-pop is not a monolithic genre – in the same way that American pop music can encompass a wide variety of performers and voices, so too is K-pop. Slow and quiet, intergalactic and frantic, five songs crammed into one or a ballad so moving and sad it will make you cry.

In the third year of this Best K-Pop list, 79 journalists and critics picked songs that spoke to them and the world around them. Some have identified the most unique and explosive aspect of what the K-pop music genre can look like. Others celebrated the year’s upswing for the fourth generation of starters girl groups which has dominant graphs and playlists this year. Still others highlight the indie innovators and dual sides that have added depth and dynamite to K-pop in a way that will last for years to come. What is the right time to be alive.

Below, discover the best K-pop songs of 2022 in no particular order, root for your favorites, and maybe pick out a new song or two to add to your rotation.

NewJeans, “Hype Boy”

Surprise drops are a rarity in K-Pop, what’s more is the group’s surprising debut. NewJeans, the first girl group under HYBE sub ADOR, has brought it out with a sound as cool as their mid-2000s style, sounding like new Stuck in the suburbs— a light mirage in a year when new girl groups were really taking over. As July fades into August, we’re introduced to NewJeans through seven music videos in one week—four of which tell the story of “Hype Boy” through short, rotating narratives, with the members playing characters who each suffer first heartbreaks and romantic dalliances. It was a nice trick, and NewJeans’ dynamic nature was enhanced by the song itself – lively and fun, nostalgic yet fresh, with sick little beats and production sounds. There’s a reason everyone can’t stop listening to it, and coverthe track: “You’re the Chemical Noise Boy” turned something on in our collective brain. By Claire DodsonAnd the Senior Entertainment Editor in Teen Vogue

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Psy and Suga, “That’s That”

Come here… It’s The King’s Return. Psy, aka Park Jaesang, aka the artist responsible for K-pop’s first major US breakthrough in 2012, returned with a dopamine hit earlier this year. Psy hunters through the salon doors with “That’s That,” a cheery, geek-influenced and post-lockdown celebration produced and featuring BTS’s Suga. The accompanying music video is one of the most memorable of 2022, featuring a cradle-era “Gangnam Style”-era PSY, stuntman Suga jumping into a rap battle with an eagle’s cry, and some truly relentless choreography. Psy never lost it, but “That’s That” proves why he remains an icon in the industry. Katie Gohcultural journalist

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