Melon has published its full list of the top 100 K-pop songs of all time!

In order to sum up the past three decades of K-pop, Melon—Korea’s largest music streaming service—enlisted the help of 35 music critics and industry experts. Each of the 35 judges was first asked to compile their own individual list of what they considered the 100 best K-pop songs of all time, and those 35 lists were used to create Melon’s final list of the top 100 K-pop songs.

The 35 judges were asked to choose their lists of 100 songs based on the following four criteria: significance (a song’s influence both within Korea and abroad, its mark on the growth of K-pop, and its musical singularity and creative daring), success (a song’s mainstream appeal, its popularity both within Korea and abroad, and its fandom), artistic quality (a song’s artistic creativity and the quality level of the music), and performance (a song’s choreography, music video, and stage performances).

Melon’s full list of its top 100 K-pop songs is as follows:

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”
51. Chungha’s “Gotta Go”
52. Oh My Girl’s “Secret Garden”
53. SHINee’s “View”
54. DEUX’s “In Summer”
55. f(x)’s “Rum Pum Pum Pum”
56. TWICE’s “TT”
57. Fin.K.L’s “Eternal Love”
58. H.O.T.’s “Warrior’s Descendant”
59. DEUX’s “Turn Around and Look at Me”
60. ITZY’s “DALLA DALLA”
61. Park Ji Yoon’s “Coming-of-Age Ceremony”
62. Rain’s “How to Avoid the Sun”
63. Orange Caramel’s “Catallena”
64. T-ara’s “Roly Poly”
65. Wanna One’s “Energetic”
66. GFRIEND’s “Rough”
67. Uhm Jung Hwa’s “Invitation”
68. Shinhwa’s “Brand New”
69. LOONA’s “Butterfly”
70. BTS’s “DNA”
71. SISTAR’s “Alone”
72. Rain’s “It’s Raining”
73. Block B’s Zico’s “Any Song”
74. BTS’s “Boy With Luv” (featuring Halsey)
75. g.o.d’s “Road”
76. After School’s “Bang!”
77. iKON’s “Love Scenario”
78. WINNER’s “Really Really”
79. Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon’s “I” (featuring Verbal Jint)
80. SEVENTEEN’s “Very Nice”
81. Shinhwa’s “T.O.P. (Twinkling of Paradise)”
82. IU’s “Through the Night”
83. MAMAMOO’s “Um Oh Ah Yeh”
84. Lovelyz’s “Ah-Choo”
85. Red Velvet’s “Psycho”
86. S.E.S.’s “Dreams Come True”
87. SHINee’s “Ring Ding Dong”
88. Fin.K.L’s “To My Boyfriend”
89. NCT 127’s “Cherry Bomb”
90. Busker Busker’s “Cherry Blossom Ending”
91. Seo Taiji and Boys’ “Come Back Home”
92. PENTAGON’s “Shine”
93. BoA’s “Atlantis Princess”
94. NRG’s “I Can Do It”
95. Epik High’s “Fly” (featuring Amin. J)
96. Jinusean’s “Tell Me”
97. SHINee’s “Replay”
98. TVXQ’s “Hug”
99. Seo Taiji and Boys’ “Classroom Idea”
100. Trouble Maker’s “Trouble Maker”

What are your all-time favorite K-pop songs? Let us know in the comments below!

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Both the defendant and the prosecution have filed appeals on Seungri’s sentence.

On August 12, the military court sentenced Seungri to three years in prison, along with a fine of 1,156,900,000 won (about $994,544) and his personal information being registered in the national registry for the violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes.

The court declared him guilty of all nine charges that he was indicted with: violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Economic Crimes, violation of the Food Sanitation Act, embezzlement, violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes, habitual gambling, violation of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, prostitution mediation, purchase of prostitution services, and special violence instigation.

On August 27, the general military court confirmed that Seungri had filed an appeal on his sentence on August 19, and that the military prosecution had also filed an appeal on the sentence on August 25. The military prosecution had initially requested a five-year prison sentence ahead of the sentencing trial.

According to the Military Court Act, a sentence of a fine or imprisonment must receive confirmation from the relevant authorities. A source from the military court stated, “If a confirmation letter from the relevant authorities is submitted to the court within 10 days of the sentencing trial, then the defendant will be served the judgment.”

Seungri’s lawyer had already declared his intent to appeal on August 12, so a second trial had already been expected. As Seungri submitted his appeal to the military court before his discharge from the military, the appeal trial will be held at the High Military Court in Yongsan, Seoul.

Seungri is scheduled to be discharged from mandatory military service on September 16. As he has appealed his sentence, as long as he continues to fulfill his duties until the second trial is complete, he will be discharged as usual. If he had not appealed his sentence, he would have been transferred into the wartime labor division as he received a prison sentence and a fine, according to Article 137 of the Military Service Act.

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The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for individual boy group members!

The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, communication, and community awareness indexes of 632 boy group members, using big data collected from July 21 to August 21.

BTS’s Jimin topped the list for the 32nd consecutive month with a brand reputation index of 6,055,559. High-ranking phrases in his keyword analysis included “fandom,” “ARMY,” and “song,” while his highest-ranking related terms included “mysterious,” “surpass,” and “donate.” Jimin’s positivity-negativity analysis also revealed a score of 83.71 percent.

Meanwhile, ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo took second place in this month’s rankings with a brand reputation index of 4,403,703, marking a modest 1.12 percent increase in his score since July.

Finally, BTS swept the next five spots on the list, with Jin rising to third place with a brand reputation index of 4,273,770. His bandmates V, Jungkook, Suga, and RM came in at fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh places respectively for August.

Check out the top 30 for this month below!

1. BTS’s Jimin
2. ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo
3. BTS’s Jin
4. BTS’s V
5. BTS’s Jungkook
6. BTS’ Suga
7. BTS’s RM
8. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon
9. Super Junior’s Kim Heechul
10. 2PM’s Junho
11. BTS’s J-Hope
12. SHINee’s Key
13. WINNER’s Kang Seung Yoon
14. SHINee’s Jonghyun
15. WINNER’s Song Mino
16. NCT’s Jungwoo
17. EXO’s D.O.
18. NCT’s Jaehyun
19. THE BOYZ’s Hyunjae
20. GOT7’s Jinyoung
21. THE BOYZ’s Juyeon
22. SHINee’s Onew
23. Highlight’s Yoon Doojoon
24. NCT’s Mark
25. NCT’s Doyoung
26. TVXQ’s Changmin
27. NCT’s Taeyong
28. Highlight’s Yang Yoseob
29. EXO’s Kai
30. MONSTA X’s Minhyuk

Watch ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo in “True Beauty” with subtitles below!

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