The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2025 in music in South Korea.
Award shows and festivals Award ceremonies + 2025 music award ceremonies in South Korea Date Event Host January 4 and 5 39th Golden Disc Awards Ilgan Sports and JTBC Plus February 15 and 16 32nd Hanteo Music Awards Hanteo Global February 22 1st D Awards Sports Donga February 27 22nd Korean Music Awards Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism June 21 34th Seoul Music Awards Y Global Music and Sports Seoul November 14 and 15 2025 Korea Grand Music Awards Ilgan Sports November 28 and 29 2025 MAMA Awards CJ E&M December 6 10th Asia Artist Awards Star News and Star Continent December 20 17th Melon Music Awards Kakao Entertainment
Festivals + 2025 televised music festivals in South Korea Date Event Host July 26 and 27 SBS Gayo Daejeon: Summer Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) December 19 KBS Song Festival Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) December 25 SBS Gayo Daejeon: Winter Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS)
Debuting and disbanding in 2025 Debuting groups Male groups
&Team 1Verse 3way AHOF Am8ic AxMxP Be Boys Close Your Eyes Cortis Idid Idntt In A Minute KickFlip Kik Newbeat Nouera Re:wind Skinz Sweet:ch
Sub-units
Hoshi X Woozi S.Coups X Mingyu ZooniZini
Female groups
Ablume AtHeart Baby Dont Cry Hearts2Hearts Hitgs Ifeye Ixia KiiiKiii Kiiras Smorz UDTT Uspeer VVS
Sub-units
Moon Sua X Siyoon UAU
Co-ed and unclassified groups
AllDay Project Xlov
Solo debuts
Bae Jin-young Beomgyu Chaeyoung Chuei Liyu Haechan Yim Si-wan Lim Se-jun Mark Minnie Seunghan Yeji
Disbandments
As One ATBO Mytro Luminous Superkind Purple Kiss
Reunions and re-establishments
Deux GFriend Momoland Nine Muses
Releases in 2025
First quarter January
Date Album Artist(s) 4 Somewhere Out There M.O.N.T 6 Connection Onew 7 Hakunamatata Crezl I'mma Be Xlov 8 K-Flip Sik-K, Lil Moshpit Teleparty BSS 9 Glorious Youth 10 4444: Reborn Woosung 13 Ocean Park Ji-hyeon Season of Memories GFriend 14 Dear Life Dear.M Oneus Playground Kandis 15 Love 2 BB Girls The Feelings WEi Unspoken Goodbye Hynn 16 Why Are You Always Like This? Giriboy 17 I Did: Bloom (Deluxe) Yves 20 Flip It, Kick It! KickFlip Winter Heptagon Got7 21 Her Minnie Sincerely Yours (10th Anniversary Edition) Paul Kim 23 Clover #2 Boramiyu Thunder Fever CIX 27 Explorer Eunhyuk
February
Date Album Artist(s) 2 4study4work4inst Vol.2 TripleS 3 Caligo Pt.1 Plave Ive Empathy Ive 4 Smoke Point All(H)Ours 5 Glow Up Rescene 10 Hot Mess Evnne 11 Gain;Moon Song Ga-in 12 Alivio Chung Ha Untold Story Lue Young-hoon 13 Meanwhile Olivia Marsh 14 2025 SM Town: The Culture, the Future SM Town Amortage Jisoo Madein Forever Madein Pink Crush One Pact Under My I:Mond 15 2.5 Vibes Meenoi 18 Glowy Day Xodiac Nu Kidz: Out the Box ARrC ONF: My Identity ONF 19 Butterfly Lun8 22 Liminal Summer Cake 24 Blue Paradise Zerobaseone Hello from the Other Side Kenta Sanggyun The Chase Hearts2Hearts 25 Übermensch G-Dragon 26 Chapter: New Is Now Nouera Flowering Gyubin Odyssey YB On My Way 27 All of Me Hwang Chi-yeul Highway 3way The Lovers Note Hong Isaac 28 Ma Lil Planet NIve
March
Date Album Artist(s) 2 Cold Young Posse 3 Thrilled 4 Leggo 8Turn 5 BToday BtoB We: Dream Chaser Onewe 6 Act Like That Genblue Like Infinite Infinite 7 Pleasure Treasure Ruby Jennie Seize the Day W24 10 Accidentally on Purpose Seulgi Air Yeji Beam Hoshi X Woozi Interview X Xiumin Over Track NTX 11 I Am Shin Soo-hyun Love Race SF9 13 My Name Is... Say My Name The Gift of Daddy-Long-Legs Jeong Dong-won 14 Hot Le Sserafim 15 Unboxing: What You Wanted In A Minute 17 Fe3O4: Forward Nmixx Unexpected The Boyz Only One Story The Wind 18 S STAYC 19 Not Out Dragon Pony 20 (Me)moir Ailee Undeniable Fantasy Boys 21 Mixtape: Dominate Stray Kids 24 Beautiful Mind Xdinary Heroes Raw and Rad Newbeat Stunner Ten Uncut Gem KiiiKiii 26 For Real? TNX 27 Luminous Eastshine28EEffie 31 Love Line NiziU Re: Full of Youth Tempest
Second quarter April
Date Album Artist(s) 2 Eternalt Close Your Eyes 4 House of Tricky: Spur Xikers 5 One 7 The Firstfruit Mark 8 D's Wave Daesung Erlu Blue Ifeye Wild & Free Ampers&One 9 Bang Out 10 I Tend to Get Tongue-tied Giriboy 14 Poppop NCT Wish Silence Syndrome 82Major 15 I Like You Odd Youth Swicy Unis 17 Flex Line TIOT 20 Underwater Big Ocean 21 Only Cry in the Rain Chuu Try with Us TWS Wait on Me Kai 22 She Niel 23 Wajangchang Lucy Youni-T Younite 24 It Just Happened Cheeze 25 The Dreamest Kwon Jin-ah 28 From Real to Surreal Highlight O-RLY? Nexz Sound of Music Pt. 1 Jannabi 29 Day & Night Fifty Fifty Romance Express MeloMance School Rush UDTT
May
Date Album Artist(s) 1 Chameleon Trendz 2 We Are I-dle I-dle 7 Versus E'Last 8 Duh! P1Harmony 9 Echo Ablume 12 Assemble25 TripleS My Eyes Open VVide Meovv 13 No Genre BoyNextDoor 15 Brut Jeong Se-woon Panic Beomgyu 16 Echo Jin JCFactory Vol.2 Jaechan 17 Defend Myself X:IN 19 Always Some More Smorz Beautiful in Chaos Kim Jae-joong D.I.M.M. VVS Essence of Reverie Baekhyun Odyssey Riize We Are I-dle 25 Poet Artist SHINee 26 Happy Burstday Seventeen Kick Out, Flip Now! KickFlip Tilt Red Velvet – Irene & Seulgi 27 A Flower Bookmark 3 IU 28 Everlasting N.Flying Playlist #You Are You UAU 30 Wished XD Wrld The Rose
June
Date Album Artist(s) 1 Wonderland B.I 4 Speed Zone Uspeer 5 Desire: Unleash Enhypen 9 224 Kiss of Life Beep Izna Girls Will Be Girls Itzy In a Million Noises, I'll Be Your Harmony QWER Soar Doyoung 13 Club Icarus Artms Golden Hour: Part.3 Ateez I One Xlov Itty Bitty N.SSign 16 Bomb Illit Glow to Haze Kang Daniel 18 Be:1 Be Boys 19 All About Blue Yook Sung-jae 23 Dare to Crave Cravity Famous AllDay Project 25 From Our 20's Fromis 9 26 Lovestruck H1-Key 27 Being Tender Pow Dirty Work Aespa 30 5x Oneus Kik Kik N: Number of Cases Nouera Top Note Han Seung-woo
Third quarter July
Date Album Artist(s) 1 Who We Are AHOF 2 Dearest Rescene Drift Kard 3 One Last Day Jung Yong-hwa 7 Bliss Doh Kyung-soo 8 A Montage of ( ) Viviz Super Junior25 Super Junior 9 Ignition Nowz Snowy Summer Close Your Eyes 11 This Is For Twice 14 Episode 25 Jo Yuri Eros Lee Chan-hyuk Go Back to the Future NCT Dream 15 Chameleon Yoon San-ha Percent Onew Rainbow Light Lim Seul-ong 16 Hope ARrC Sweet Tang Ifeye 18 Big Bands WayV The 1st Verse 1Verse 21 Hook Huta The Star Chapter: Together Tomorrow X Together 22 One Fact One Pact 28 A;Effect The Boyz Youth Chapter 3: Romantic Youth Epex 25 New Car Ryu Su-jeong 29 Blooming Wings Choi Ye-na 30 5.0 10cm Tree Ring Nam Woo-hyun 31 Waste No Time XngHan Wild Cherry Ichillin'
August
Date Album Artist(s) 1 ILY Say My Name Pullup to Busan 4 More Hyper Summer It’s Gonna Be a Fuckin Movie Effie 4 Crazier BoA Love Anecdote(s) Evnne 7 Prism Ep.01 Queenz Eye Soft Error Yves 11 Chaotic & Confused Jeon Somi Hunter Key Unevermet Unevermet 12 In Bloom Yuju Loud & Proud Ampers&One 13 Dice ZooniZini Plot Twist AtHeart 14 Growing Pain Pt.1: Free Young Posse 18 From Joy, with Love Joy 19 Bubble Gum Kep1er 20 Laundri Moonbyul 21 Just 15, Just Teen Top Teen Top 22 Karma Stray Kids 25 Ive Secret Ive Upside Down AB6IX Upside Down Chanyeol 26 Renewed Purpose Lee Seok-hoon 27 Baditude Soojin Hide & Find Ixia 29 Im Hero 2 Lim Young-woong
September
Date Album Artist(s) 1 Color NCT Wish Dear My Muse Jun. K Love Pulse Treasure Never Say Never Zerobaseone The X Monsta X 2 Haengno Jung Dae-hyun 5 Rich Man Aespa The Decade Day6 8 Color Outside the Lines Cortis Go Chapter 1: Go Together CIX Taste Haechan 9 VCF All(H)Ours 10 AxMxP AxMxP Cerulean Verge Wendy 12 Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung 14 Seventh Heaven 16 Nana 15 I Did It Idid I'm Into Jang Wooyoung Thriller Badvillain 16 Motivation Yuqi 17 Lost Lun8 18 Heestory 22 Last Dance Lee Jun-young My First Flip KickFlip Who Are You Suho 23 The KingDom: The Flower of the Moon The KingDom 29 Arcadia Chen Hype Vibes S.Coups X Mingyu Wall Flower Pow 30 Not Just Pretty Izna
Fourth quarter October
Date Album Artist(s) 6 Things We Love: I Hitgs 7 Maze: Ad Astra Onewe 10 Ten: The Story Goes On Twice We Go Up Babymonster 13 Blue Valentine Nmixx Everybody's Guilty, but No One's to Blame Kino Play Hard TWS 14 Analog Vol.1 Jang Minho Still Young Bae Jin-young 20 Brilliant Lee Chan-won Focus Hearts2Hearts Po:int BM The Action BoyNextDoor 21 Sound of Music Pt. 2: Life Jannabi 22 Endand Lee Chang-sub 23 Emotion DKB New Chapter: Desear BAE173 24 Lxve to Death Xdinary Heroes Spaghetti Le Sserafim 27 As I Am Tempest Beat-Boxer Nexz 28 Back to Life &Team 29 Wonderland WEi 30 Called Love Jung Seung-hwan Sunflower Lucy Trophy 82Major 31 House of Tricky: Wrecking the House Xikers Syndrome Wonho Tasty DKZ
November
Date Album Artist(s) 3 Page 2 Kang Seung-yoon Stay Urban Zakapa My, Lover Miyeon 4 Too Much Part 1 Fifty Fifty The Passage AHOF 5 I-Know U-Know Yunho Heart Maid Sunmi 6 Louder Than Ever Newbeat Proto Type NTX 7 No Labels: Part 01 Yeonjun 10 Lukoie Am8ic Tunnel Vision Itzy Unbroken ONF Dare to Crave: Epilogue Cravity 11 Blackout Close Your Eyes 12 P.M.S (Pretty Mood Swings) Jessi 17 Beat It Up NCT Dream 18 Awake Jang Dong-woo 20 The Classic Kyuhyun VVON VVUP 21 Do It Stray Kids Else Cha Eun-woo 22 Room Jeong Ye-in 24 Beyond Beauty TripleS Fame Riize Not Cute Anymore Illit 25 Lip Bomb Rescene 27 Love Virus Pt.1 Heize
December Date Album Artist(s) 1 Lost and Found Verivery Panorama: The Best of Taeyeon Taeyeon 3 Sweet Dream Chuei Liyu 4 Unfold Seo Eun-kwang 5 The Reason Yim Si-wan 8 AllDay Project AllDay Project Eternal White WayV 15 Tempo Minho 29 &Our Vibe Say My Name
Top songs on record
Circle Digital Chart No. 1 Songs "Apt." – Rosé and Bruno Mars "Blue Valentine" – Nmixx "Drowning" – Woodz "Famous" – AllDay Project "Golden" – Huntrix "Good Goodbye" – Hwasa "Heavenly Ever After" – Lim Young-woong "Home Sweet Home" – G-Dragon featuring Taeyang and Daesung "Like Jennie" – Jennie "Rebel Heart" – Ive "Thunder" – Seventeen "To Reach You" – 10cm "Too Bad" – G-Dragon featuring Anderson .Paak
Deaths Song Dae-kwan, trot singer Wheesung, R&B singer, record producer and musical theatre actor Lee Min, singer and member of R&B band As One
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