Best 100 K-Pop Songs Chosen By Music Critics & Industry Experts Revealed By Melon

A full list of best 100 K-pop songs by Melon

K pop has certainly came in limelight after some of the very superhit songs by various bands. Moreover, many singles form Korea has emerged to be one of the hit songs of the year. But Melon has sum up some of the best songs of K-Pop not from the past 2 or 3 years but from complete three decades.

For those who don’t know who are Melon, well they are an online music service provider of South Korea. The company came into the existence in 2004 and later on big names like Kakao Music was merged into Melon. Therefore, now you know well that the list provided by Melon is well analyzed. The list obviously includes K-Pop songs from past three decades that were suggested by music experts and critics of South Korea.

멜론과 서울신문이 공동 기획한 'K-POP 명곡 100'이 오늘부터 5일에 걸쳐 공개됩니다. 저를 포함한 20인의 음악평론가와 14인의 음악 관계자가 선정에 참여했고, 저는 그중 4곡의 해설을 맡았습니다. 이 리스트가 케이팝을 돌아볼 수 있는 좋은 참고 자료가 되길 바랍니다.

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Following is the list of K-Pop songs made by Melon

First 50 songs are as follows:

1. 1. BoA’s “No. 1”
   2. EXO’s “Growl”
   3. PSY’s “Gangnam Style”
   4. BTS’s “Dynamite”
   5. Girls’ Generation’s “Gee”
   6. Girls’ Generation’s “Into the New World”
   7. 2NE1’s “I Am the Best”
   8. Brown Eyed Girls’ “Abracadabra”
   9. Wonder Girls’ “Tell Me”
   10. TVXQ’s “Mirotic”
   11. SHINee’s “Sherlock”
   12. Super Junior’s “Sorry, Sorry”
   13. BLACKPINK’s “DDU-DU DDU-DU”
   14. S.E.S.’s “I’m Your Girl”
   15. IU’s “Good Day”
   16. Lee Hyori’s “10 Minutes”
   17. H.O.T.’s “Candy”
   18. KARA’s “Mister”
   19. BIGBANG’s “Lies”
   20. Red Velvet’s “Red Flavor”
   21. Seo Taiji and Boys’ “I Know”
   22. Lee Jung Hyun’s “Come (Wa)”
   23. INFINITE’s “Be Mine”
   24. BIGBANG’s “Fantastic Baby”
   25. BTS’s “Blood Sweat & Tears”
   26. miss A’s “Bad Girl Good Girl”
   27. Wonder Girls’ “Nobody”
   28. Sunmi’s “Gashina”
   29. SECHSKIES’s “Couple”
   30. g.o.d’s “Lies”
   31. TWICE’s “Cheer Up”
   32. BTS’s “Spring Day”
   33. Girls’ Generation’s “I Got a Boy”
   34. IU’s “Twenty-Three”
   35. 2PM’s “Heartbeat”
   36. SHINee’s Taemin’s “Move”
   37. 2NE1’s “Fire”
   38. Baby V.O.X’s “Get Up”
   39. Brown Eyed Girls’ Ga In’s “Bloom”
   40. f(x)’s “4 Walls”
   41. Lee Hyori’s “U-Go-Girl”
   42. EXID’s “Up and Down”
   43. HyunA’s “Bubble Pop”
   44. Clon’s “Kung Ddari Sha Bah Rah”
   45. f(x)’s “NU ABO”
   46. BIGBANG’s Taeyang’s “Eyes, Nose, Lips”
   47. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon’s “Crooked”
   48. IZ*ONE’s “Fiesta”
   49. (G)I-DLE’s “Lion”
   50. NCT U’s “The 7th Sense”

Last 50 songs are as follows:

1. Chungha’s “Gotta Go”
2. Oh My Girl’s “Secret Garden”
3. SHINee’s “View”
4. DEUX’s “In Summer”
5. f(x)’s “Rum Pum Pum Pum”
6. TWICE’s “TT”
7. Fin.K.L’s “Eternal Love”
8. H.O.T.’s “Warrior’s Descendant”
9. DEUX’s “Turn Around and Look at Me”
10. ITZY’s “DALLA DALLA”
11. Park Ji Yoon’s “Coming-of-Age Ceremony”
12. Rain’s “How to Avoid the Sun”
13. Orange Caramel’s “Catallena”
14. T-ara’s “Roly Poly”
15. Wanna One’s “Energetic”
16. GFRIEND’s “Rough”
17. Uhm Jung Hwa’s “Invitation”
18. Shinhwa’s “Brand New”
19. LOONA’s “Butterfly”
20. BTS’s “DNA”
21. SISTAR’s “Alone”
22. Rain’s “It’s Raining”
23. Block B’s Zico’s “Any Song”
24. BTS’s “Boy With Luv” (featuring Halsey)
25. g.o.d’s “Road”
26. After School’s “Bang!”
27. iKON’s “Love Scenario”
28. WINNER’s “Really Really”
29. Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon’s “I” (featuring Verbal Jint)
30. SEVENTEEN’s “Very Nice”
31. Shinhwa’s “T.O.P. (Twinkling of Paradise)”
32. IU’s “Through the Night”
33. MAMAMOO’s “Um Oh Ah Yeh”
34. Lovelyz’s “Ah-Choo”
35. Red Velvet’s “Psycho”
36. S.E.S.’s “Dreams Come True”
37. SHINee’s “Ring Ding Dong”
38. Fin.K.L’s “To My Boyfriend”
39. NCT 127’s “Cherry Bomb”
40. Busker Busker’s “Cherry Blossom Ending”
41. Seo Taiji and Boys’ “Come Back Home”
42. PENTAGON’s “Shine”
43. BoA’s “Atlantis Princess”
44. NRG’s “I Can Do It”
45. Epik High’s “Fly” (featuring Amin. J)
46. Jinusean’s “Tell Me”
47. SHINee’s “Replay”
48. TVXQ’s “Hug”
49. Seo Taiji and Boys’ “Classroom Idea”
50. Trouble Maker’s “Trouble Maker

What was the criteria on which the songs are selected?

Apparently, there were 35 judges (music critics and experts) who gave there views and choices over K-Pop songs. Additionally, each of the judge was asked to make their of best songs from three decades. Therefore, those 35 lists was used to construct one united list that included best 100 K-Pop songs.

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