Now that I’ve finished all my K-pop related countdowns of the year (yay!), I liked to take a macro view and determine which specific comeback or debut was my overall strongest of the year. There are always some personal surprises here, but the numbers don’t lie.
As before, I took five categories and gave them a weighted rank. First place gets ten points, second place gets nine, tenth place gets one and anything below that counts as one point each. Once all these numbers are added up, I’m able to rank my top picks on a points-based system. Think of this as the grand prize, given out by The Bias List each year.
Here are the countdowns I included as part of this aggregate:
Top 50 Songs
Top 10 Albums
Top 10 Music Videos
Top 10 Choreography
Top 40 B-Sides
Honorable Mentions
8 Points: ENHYPEN – Orange Blood, Golden Child – Feel Me, J.Y. Park – Changed Man, Treasure – Reboot, U-Know – Reality Show
7 Points: Just B – ÷ (Nanugi), LE SSERAFIM – Unforgiven
8 (tie). ZEROBASEONE – Youth In The Shade
Title track(s): 1 point
Album: 1 point
Music Video: 0 points
Choreography: 0 points
B-Sides: 8 points
TOTAL: 10
8 (tie). TXT – The Name Chapter: Freefall
Title track(s): 2 points
Album: 0 points
Music Video: 0 points
Choreography: 7 points
B-Sides: 1 point
TOTAL: 10
7 (tie). The Wind – Beginning: The Wind Page
Title track(s): 1 point
Album: 8 points
Music Video: 0 points
Choreography: 0 points
B-Sides: 2 points
TOTAL: 11
7 (tie). SHINee – Hard
Title track(s): 6 points
Album: 0 points
Music Video: 0 points
Choreography: 0 points
B-Sides: 5 points
TOTAL: 11
6 (tie). Jungkook – Golden
Title track(s): 3 points
Album: 0 points
Music Video: 6 points
Choreography: 4 points
B-Sides: 0 points
TOTAL: 13
6 (tie). B.I – To Die For
Title track(s): 0 points
Album: 4 points
Music Video: 0 points
Choreography: 0 points
B-Sides: 9 points
TOTAL: 13
5. TAN – TAN Made
Title track(s): 1 point
Album: 7 points
Music Video: 0 points
Choreography: 0 points
B-Sides: 10 points
TOTAL: 18
4. RIIZE – Get A Guitar
Title track(s): 9 points
Album: 0 points
Music Video: 0 points
Choreography: 10 points
B-Sides: 0 point
TOTAL: 19
3. The Boyz – Phantasy Pt.1 Christmas In August
Title track(s): 3 points
Album: 9 points
Music Video: 9 points
Choreography: 0 points
B-Sides: 3 points
TOTAL: 24
2. IVE – I’ve IVE
Title track(s): 9 points
Album: 0 points
Music Video: 10 points
Choreography: 9 points
B-Sides: 1 point
TOTAL: 29
1. NINE.i – New Mind
Title track(s): 10 points
Album: 10 points
Music Video: 0 points
Choreography: 0 points
B-Sides: 17 points
TOTAL: 37