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Time to find out our winner! The top 13 for this year’s Pop Excellence K-pop singles list is out now, featuring many excellent blurbs from our writers. popexcellence.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/our…

I wrote about Basic by Brown Eyed Girls—a great album by one of the most underappreciated K-pop groups of all time—for Ryo's newsletter!

@sneeek Don’t give me ideas lmao

@KaylaBeardslee the closest we’ll get to a pop excellence best of decade list

me: I’m not going to spend that much time on the stats post for the K-pop list this year also me: popexcellence.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/our…

Also happy one-year Taemin concert anniversary to me :)

Okay, now respectfully it is time for me to be done with this for another year lmao, I need my free time back. Hopefully see you all back again for the FIFTH edition in 2026!

Our voters’ individual ballots for the Pop Excellence K-pop list are posted now, if you’d like to see what each of us voted for! Plus answers to some bonus questions and stats about each contributor’s ballot. popexcellence.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/our…

Ballots from @juanagiaimo @michaelhongo @nanagazer @sneeek @mellowyel, Tamar, Mo, and Rachel.

Time to find out our winner! The top 13 for this year’s Pop Excellence K-pop singles list is out now, featuring many excellent blurbs from our writers. popexcellence.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/our…

@michaelhongo next year I'm gonna have you write about only angry large pop songs. only evil triples allowed

wrote about some cute little pop songs

@nanagazer this has the vibe of a comment I would leave while editing blurbs sorry fgdhsjka

@nanagazer "Career-High Horse"?

I wrote about Jellyous, Gnarly and NMIXX's career height High Horse for Pop excellence!!

Contributions from @juanagiaimo @michaelhongo @nanagazer @sneeek @mellowyel, Tamar, Mo, and Rachel.

Part two of the Pop Excellence K-pop list is out now, with our writers' individual picks! This year, I had each of us choose a song from our ballots to add to the list, so that we could highlight some personal favorites that didn't receive any other votes. popexcellence.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/our…

Contributions this year from @juanagiaimo @michaelhongo @nanagazer @sneeek @mellowyel, Tamar, Mo, and Rachel.