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[Album Review] ATE (9th Mini Album) – Stray Kids – KPOPREVIEWED
Stray Kids made their comeback in July 2024 with their 9th mini-album ATE. While I have reviewed the tracks that had a music video a while back before I took my break, I have yet to review the full mini-album until today. ATE features the title track Chk Chk Boom and 7 side tracks (including…
[Album Review] ROMANCE: UNTOLD / ROMANCE: UNTOLD -daydream- (2nd Studio Album / Repackaged Studio Album) – ENHYPEN – KPOPREVIEWED
ENHYPEN is nominated for Best Male Group and Best Pop Song for Sweet Venom, among other categories, in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Support ENHYPEN and Sweet Venom by clicking here to vote today. Voting closes later at 11:59 PM AEDT 31 January 2025 (today!!). It is time to review ENHYPEN's 2024 album releases - ROMANCE: UNTOLD and ROMANCE:…
[Album Review] RIDE or DIE (3rd Mini Album) – EVNNE – KPOPREVIEWED
Support your favourite KPOP artists, performances and songs by clicking here to vote today. Voting closes on 31 January 2025 (i.e., tomorrow), so make sure you vote today to make it count! EVNNE's 3rd mini-album, RIDE or DIE, is the next album chosen for review on the blog. In case you missed it, it was released in…
[Album Review] I SWAY (7th Mini Album) – (G)I-DLE – KPOPREVIEWED
(G)I-DLE is nominated for Best Female Group, Best Stage Presence, Best Vocal Performance for FATE and Best Pop Song for Super Lady. Support (G)I-DLE's by clicking here to vote today. Voting closes on 31 January 2025. (G)I-DLE made their comeback back in July 2024 with their 7th mini-album, I SWAY, and the title track KLAXON. This could…
[Album Review] This Man (1st Single Album) – JEONGHAN x WONWOO (SEVENTEEN) – KPOPREVIEWED
JEONGHAN x WONWOO are nominated Best Subunit and their song Last Night is nominated for Best R&B Song in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Support JEONGHAN x WONWOO and Last Night by clicking here to vote today. Voting closes on 31 January 2025. SEVENTEEN launched their second official subunit in 2024, consisting of members JEONGHAN and WONWOO. JEONGHAN…
[Album Review] Cosmic (7th Mini Album) – Red Velvet – KPOPREVIEWED
Red Velvet's Chill Kill is nominated for Best Music Video and their Midsommar concept in Cosmic's music video is nominated for Best Concept in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Support Red Velvet's music videos by clicking here to vote today. Voting closes on 31 January 2025. Red Velvet returned in June 2024 with their 7th mini-album, Cosmic, after…
[Album Review] Summer Beat! (2nd Mini Album) – TWS: – KPOPREVIEWED
TWS is nominated for Best New Male Group, Rising Star and Best Dance Performance - Male Group for plot twist in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Support TWS: by clicking here to vote today. Voting closes on 31 January 2025. TWS:' Summer Beat! is next up for an album review. This is the rookie group's first comeback and…
[Album Review] NA (2nd Mini Album) – NAYEON (TWICE) – KPOPREVIEWED
NAYEON is nominated for Best Female Soloist and Best Dance Performance - Female Solo for ABCD in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Support NAYEON and ABCD by clicking here to vote today. Next up on the album review front of the blog is the review for NAYEON's second mini-album - NA. This was released back in June 2024,…
[Album Review] RIIZING/RIIZING: Epilogue (1st Mini Album/1st Repackaged Mini Album) – RIIZE – KPOPREVIEWED
RIIZE is nominated for Best Male Group, Best Dance Performance - Male Group for Boom Boom Bass, Best Remixed Track for the Darius remix of Impossible and Best Rock or Band Song for Combo. Support RIIZE and their 2024 releases today by clicking here to vote for them today. RIIZE debuted in 2023. But it took them…
[Album Review] ZOMBIE (5th Single Album) – EVERGLOW – KPOPREVIEWED
Support your favourite KPOP artists, songs and performances in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards by clicking here to vote today! Welcome to the new year! Happy 2025 to all! I am still on my break and will be back at the end of the month to post some new reviews. But for the time being, I have pre-written…
[Album Review] Kep1going On (1st Studio Album) – Kep1er – KPOPREVIEWED
Kep1er's Shooting Star is nominated for Best Pop Song in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Support Kep1er and Shooting Star by clicking here to vote for them today. Kep1er's first studio album, Kep1going On, is up for a review today. It is their first Korean studio album release since their debut in 2022. It features the title track…
[Review] IZNA – izna – KPOPREVIEWED
Support your favourite KPOP artists, songs and performances in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards by clicking here to vote today! As we draw to the end to 2024, I do find myself in a reflective mode. An area of the blog I personally felt I did not do a good job delivering on are rookie reviews. So many…
[Album Review] 1 to 3 (3rd Mini Album) – SUHO (EXO) – KPOPREVIEWED
SUHO's 1 to 3 is nominated for Best Music Video in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Support SUHO's 1 to 3 music video in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards by clicking here to vote today! SUHO's 1 to 3 is the next album on the reviewing block. He returned with the mini-album in May this year with the title…
[Review] hey! hey! – TWS – KPOPREVIEWED
TWS is nominated for multiple awards in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. These include Best New Male Artist, Rising Star, and Best Dance Performance - Male Group (for plot twist). Support TWS by clicking here to vote for TWS today. TWS made their first comeback with their second mini-album, SUMMER BEAT! back in June. I reviewed…
[Review] TASTE – YOUNITE – KPOPREVIEWED
Support your favourite KPOP artists, songs and performances in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards by clicking here to vote today! YOUNITE is a KPOP male group that you don't see much on my blog. But they debuted in 2022 with 1 of 9. Since then, I have completely dropped the ball when it comes to YOUNITE. I have…
[Review] Rupert’s Drop – ONEUS – KPOPREVIEWED
ONEUS is back? I missed the news of their return with the digital single, Rupert's Drop, which dropped last Monday. It's not surprising though, since the official announcement of the release didn't happen until mid-way last week. Still, keep your eyes out for the special album release dropping early next year. We last saw ONEUS…
[Review] Love In My Heart – BABYMONSTER – KPOPREVIEWED
BABYMONSTER continues their promotions for their first studio album, DRIP, with the music video release for Love In My Heart on Monday. This release follows the pre-release of FOREVER midyear and the release of the entire album and title tracks CLIK CLAK and DRIP in November. Love In My Heart is a relatively mellow and…
[Weekly KPOP Chart] 2nd Week of December 2024 – KPOPREVIEWED
Welcome back to another Weekly KPOP Chart post! You may have noticed that I am posting this a day later than usual. It has been a busy weekend as I have been preparing to get the voting lines up and running for the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. I have also been drafting and scheduling some posts…
[Album Review] Armageddon (1st Studio Album) – aespa – KPOPREVIEWED
aespa is nominated for several categories in the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. This includes Best Female Group, Best Dance Performance (Female Group), Best Music Video (for Whiplash) and Best Electronic Song (for Supernova) and more. Support aespa by clicking here to vote today! After successfully debuting in 2021 and having many hits, aespa released their first…
[Special] 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Voting Now Open – KPOPREVIEWED
Welcome back to the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. On 10 December 2024, I announced the nominees for the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. If you have not yet checked out the nominees, you can do so here. From today to 11:59 PM AEDT 31 January 2025, you will be able to vote for your favourite KPOP artist, song…
[Review] Walkin On Water – Stray Kids – KPOPREVIEWED
Yesterday, Stray Kids made their return to the Korean music scene with the single Walkin on Water and their mixtape album Hop. It is their first Korean release since ATE (led by the single Chk Chk Boom) and their Japanese release GIANT last month. Unsuprisingly, the track Walkin On Water is a hip-hop centric number.…
[Review] Now or Never – CRAVITY – KPOPREVIEWED
CRAVITY returned just over a week ago with their new single, Now or Never, their first single since their EVERSHINE comeback (led by the single Love or Die) and their win on Road To Kingdom: Ace of Ace. Listening to Now or Never over the last week, I consistently thought that the song could have…
[Review] JJAM – Stray Kids – KPOPREVIEWED
As part of their ATE album (led by the title track Chk Chk Boom) released earlier this year, Stray Kids released some videos to accompany some of the side tracks on the mini-album (making them eligible for a separate review). Thus far, I have reviewed the side tracks MOUNTAINS and Stray Kids. Today, I am…
[Special] 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Nominations – KPOPREVIEWED
Welcome to the nominations for the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards! Like previous years, I have put forward the nominees to you, which I will announce today. 2024 was another challenging year to propose 5-6 nominees per category—so many other artists, songs, and performances deserve to be nominated. But only one can be the winner. A reminder…
[Review] toxic til the end – ROSÉ (BLACKPINK) – KPOPREVIEWED
ROSÉ officially released her solo album, Rosie, alongside the single toxic till the end last week. It follows the very successful APT. collaboration with Bruno Mars and the single number one girl last month, both featured on the new album. It is also ROSÉ's first album release since her solo debut with R (led by the…
[Weekly KPOP Chart] 1st Week of December 2024 – KPOPREVIEWED
Welcome back to another Weekly KPOP Chart post! Another Sunday, so it is chore day. But I am also finalising the nominations for the 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards tonight - just got a few more categories to go. Plus, still trying to draft and schedule reviews for while I am away. So let's get right to…
[Review] Strategy – TWICE ft. Megan Thee Stallion – KPOPREVIEWED
Over the last two years, we have only observed TWICE making a Korean comeback once a year. So when the group released their With YOU-th mini-album (led by the single ONE SPARK) in February this year, I thought that was it for the group for 2024. However, the group surprised me with an accouncement of…
[Review] LAST NIGHT – TREASURE – KPOPREVIEWED
YG Entertainment promised when TREASURE returned earlier this year, KING KONG (the comeback at the time) would not be their only release this year. And as promised, the group returned with their new single LAST NIGHT yesterday. LAST NIGHT leans into dance territory, swapping out their usual hip-hop influences for pop melodies. The track is bright,…
[Review] CALL BACK – MINHO (SHINee) – KPOPREVIEWED
A month has zipped by since MINHO made his solo comeback with the studio album CALL BACK and the title track of the same name. Today, I will finally get to reviewing the title track. This is MINHO's first solo comeback since his formal solo debut with Chase in 2022. Chase received a lukewarm review…
[Review] PINATA – A.C.E – KPOPREVIEWED
It has been a while since I last reviewed a song from A.C.E. The last review was for Changer back in 2021. Since then, the group has enlisted in the military and made a comeback earlier this year with My Girl (which I have yet to review), albeit without Kang Yuchan, who was still enlisted while the group was…
[Coming Soon] 2024 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – KPOPREVIEWED
Welcome to December, the final month of the year. In addition to being a stark reminder of how fast another year has flown by, around this time each year, I am officially announcing the reutrn of the KPOPREVIEWED Awards to celebrate the KPOP debuts, comebacks, performances, and artists that have graced our minds this year.…
[Weekly KPOP Chart] 4th Week of November 2024 – KPOPREVIEWED
Welcome back to another Weekly KPOP Chart post! It is going to be another quick one, as there is a special post coming later today which I would like to finish off and post, so stayed tuned for that later today. But I gotta run some errands beforehand (per my normal Sunday schedule). So let's…
[Review] Shhh! – VIVIZ – KPOPREVIEWED
It has been over a year since VIVIZ made their comeback with MANIAC. Since then, the trio embarked on and completed their first world tour V.hind: Love and Tears. At the start of the month, they returned with the single Shhh! and their 3rd mini-album VOYAGE. Shhh! sees VIVIZ return with a more mature and…
[Review] LAST PARADE – BAMBAM (GOT7) – KPOPREVIEWED
It has been months since BAMBAM made his solo comeback with the single LAST PARADE and mini-album BAMESIS. I am finally reviewing the title track today, ahead of a future album review post focusing on the mini-album. It is the first solo Korean release of BAMBAM's since early 2023's Sour & Sweet comeback. LAST PARADE…
[Review] Like A Flower – IRENE (Red Velvet) – KPOPREVIEWED
Tuesday saw IRENE from Red Velvet make her solo debut with the mini-album and lead single of the same name, Like A Flower. This is her first release since Red Velvet's Cosmic and Sweet Dreams, which were released earlier in the year. Fellow member WENDY also made her solo comeback earlier this year. Like A…
[Review] Last Festival – TWS: – KPOPREVIEWED
After snagging the 'Best New Male Group' and 'Best Dance Performance - Male Group' awards at MAMA this year, TWS is back with a brand new single, Last Festival (or 마지막 축제). This new song is featured on the group's first single album, titled Last Bell. It also follows their debut with Sparkling Blue (the mini-album)…
[Album Review] GOLDEN HOUR Pt. 1 (10th Mini Album) – ATEEZ – KPOPREVIEWED
I kick off the new week with another album review—this time for ATEEZ's GOLDEN HOUR Pt. 1 mini-album. This is their 10th Korean mini-album since their debut, and it features the title track WORK (alongside 5 other songs). GOLDEN HOUR Pt. 1 is a consistent mini-album, ranking in the very good territory (if I had to name…
[Weekly KPOP Chart] 3rd Week of November 2024 – KPOPREVIEWED
Welcome back to another Weekly KPOP Chart post! I am posting this at the end of Sunday (literally, the next thing on my to-do list is to get ready for tomorrow and head to bed), so I will get right to it! Non-Korean Song of the Week As this blog focuses primarily on KPOP songs,…
[Review] Get Loud – KISS OF LIFE – KPOPREVIEWED
KISS OF LIFE returned to the stage a month ago before embarking on their first world tour! The comeback features the group's third mini-album, Lose Yourself, which features the title track Get Loud (the focus of this post), the pre-release single R.E.M (which I have not reviewed yet) and the follow-up single IGLOO. This comeback…
[Album Review] Troubleshooting (1st Studio Album) – Xdinary Heroes – KPOPREVIEWED
The next album up for a review on the blog is Xdinary Heroes' 1st studio-length album, Troubleshooting. This album was released at the end of April and features 10 songs, including the title track Little Things. Xdinary Heroes impressed me with this album, which contains no songs worth skipping. Four songs got a 10/10 rating…