[#1] DBSK/HoMin - "Back To Tomorrow" — by Unknown on Saturday, December 31, 2011

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From: "TONE" (Album) Released: September 2011, Japan Rating: 5.00 Surprised? Nah, you know me well enough already. I tried...

[#2] Lee Haeri - "Can You Hear Me?" — by Unknown on Friday, December 30, 2011

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From: "Tears of Heaven Soundtrack" (OST) Released: March 2011, South Korea Rating: 4.95 In this world, there are emotionless...

[#3] DBSK/HoMin - "Before U Go" — by Unknown on Thursday, December 29, 2011

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From: "Keep Your Head Down Repackaged" (Album) Released: March 2011, South Korea Rating: 4.75 It was a fierce battle between...

11 Albums You HAD to Hear in 2011 — by Unknown on

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I thought of mixing things up a bit this year, so instead of just laying down the best albums that came out in the past twelve months, I...

[#4] Infinite - "Nothing's Over" — by Unknown on Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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From: "INSPIRIT" (Single) Released: March 2011, South Korea Rating: 4.60 I must keep surprising you guys. Don't think th...

[#5] Seungri - "What Can I Do" — by Unknown on Tuesday, December 27, 2011

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From: "VVIP" (Mini-Album) Released: January 2011, South Korea Rating: 4.50 Surprised? You shouldn't be, because I believ...

[#6] Wonder Girls - "Me, In" — by Unknown on Monday, December 26, 2011

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From: "Wonder World" (Album) Released: November 2011, South Korea Rating: 4.40 I've made it no secret that I think "W...

[#7] SNSD/Girls' Generation - "Let It Rain" — by Unknown on Sunday, December 25, 2011

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Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a great day spent with your loved ones, and that you got lots of presents and ate a truckload o...

[#8] DGNA/The Boss - "Lady" — by Unknown on Saturday, December 24, 2011

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From: "Lady" (Single) Released: October 2011, South Korea Rating: 4.20 Laugh at me all you want, but I actually liked "...

[#9] BEAST - "불러보지만 (Though I Call)" — by Unknown on Friday, December 23, 2011

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From: "Fiction and Fact" (Album) Released: May 2011, South Korea Rating: 4.10 I swear, I keep changing the songs at the las...

[#10] Kim Junsu - "You Are So Beautiful" — by Unknown on Thursday, December 22, 2011

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From: "Scent of a Woman Soundtrack" (OST) Released: September 2011, South Korea Rating: 4.00 Screw all the other drama theme...

[#11] Brown Eyed Girls - "Sixth Sense" — by Unknown on Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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We're finally at song #11, which means that starting tomorrow, up until new year's eve, I will be revealing my top ten songs of the ...

[#12] Kim Jaejoong - "I'll Protect You" — by Unknown on

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From: "Protect The Boss Soundtrack" (OST), South Korea Released: August 2011 Rating: 3.95 I like ballads. I like sweeping melo...

[#13] Brave Girls - "Do You Know" — by Unknown on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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From: "The Difference" (Mini-Album), South Korea Released: April 2011 Rating: 3.89 The Brave Girls are the highest-placing r...

[#14] IU - "Someday" — by Unknown on

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From: "Dream High Soundtrack" (OST), South Korea Released: January 2011 Rating: 3.85 "Someday" was actually the ve...

[#15] Big Bang - "SOMEBODY TO LOVE" — by Unknown on

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From: "BEAUTIFUL HANGOVER" (Single), Japan and "BIG BANG 4TH MINI-ALBUM" (Mini-Album), South Korea Released: August 2...

[#16] 2NE1 - "Ugly" — by Unknown on Monday, December 19, 2011

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I apologize in advance, but I'm having a hoard of friends over for lunch and a sleepover today, so my mind is in a different place right...

[#17] After School - "Bang!" — by Unknown on Sunday, December 18, 2011

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From: "Bang!" (Single) Released: August 2011, Japan Rating: 3.70 Even if "Because of You" will forever be immortal...

[#18] MBLAQ - "Mona Lisa" — by Unknown on

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If this, or any of my recent reviews, sounds a bit off, you'll have to forgive me. We're right on schedule, yes, but it's a pret...

[#19] T-Ara - "Cry Cry" — by Unknown on

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From: "Black Eyes" (Mini-Album) Released: November 2011, South Korea Rating: 3.60 So many acts proved me wrong in 2011, incl...

It's the last stretch of 2011... — by Unknown on Saturday, December 17, 2011

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We're already in the second half of December (!!!!), and so before everything gets chaotic, both on Pop Reviews Now and in real life, I ...

[#20] JYJ - "소년의 편지 (The Boy's Letter)" — by Unknown on

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From: "IN HEAVEN" (Album) Released: September 2011, South Korea Rating: 3.58 So. Here we are. It's time for me to talk a...

[#21] Miss A - "Goodbye Baby" — by Unknown on

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From: "A Class" (Album) Released: July 2011, South Korea Rating: 3.53 2011 was very good to Miss A in terms of success, and ...

[#22] Secret - "Neverland" — by Unknown on

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Just a quick reminder of what this list actually is -- it's a list of my favorite songs this year. So whether that is "credible...

The 2011 Pop Reviews Now Holiday Special Part 1: "2011 SMTOWN Winter: The Warmest Gift" — by Unknown on Friday, December 16, 2011

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Just a quick explanation of how I'm doing this year's Christmas posts. So, obviously this SM TOWN Christmas album is part 1, and for...

[#23] Kim Bum Soo and Lena Park - "사람, 사랑 (Person, Love)" — by Unknown on

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From: "Hwang Project Vol.2 - 사람, 사랑" (Digital Single) Released: August 2011, South Korea Rating: 3.45 The only non-idol entr...

[#24] CSJH (DANA&SUNDAY) - "나 좀 봐줘 (One More Chance)" — by Unknown on

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From: "나 좀 봐줘 (One More Chance)" (Digital Single) Released: July 2011, South Korea Rating: 3.42 The SM sound this year was h...

[#25] Davichi - "Love, My Love" — by Unknown on Thursday, December 15, 2011

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We finally reach the halfway mark, conveniently, halfway through December! And despite all the set-backs, we're right on schedule! F...

[#26] 2PM - "모르니(Don't You Know)" — by Unknown on

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From: "Hands Up" (Album) Released: June 2011, South Korea Rating: 3.37 Surprise, surprise. After a rather dismal year in ter...

[#27] Supernova - "クリウンナレ" — by Unknown on

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From: "4U" (Album) Released: June 2011 (Single) and November 2011 (Album), Japan Rating: 3.35 I will seriously find every po...

[#28] U-Kiss - "Baby Don't Cry" — by Unknown on Tuesday, December 13, 2011

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From: "NEVERLAND" (Album) Released: September 2011, South Korea Rating: 3.30 Up to just before I started writing this very r...

[#29] After School Red - "In The Night Sky" — by Unknown on

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From: "The 4th Single Album - RED" (Single) Released: July 2011, South Korea Rating: 3.20 Yes, I know the loop they used was...

[#30] Rainbow - "Sweet Dream" — by Unknown on Monday, December 12, 2011

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From: "Sweet Dream (SO女 Repackage)" (Mini-Album) Released: April 2011, South Korea Rating: 3.15 Yes, I know, I was one of th...

[#31] Super Junior M - "Destiny" — by Unknown on

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From: "Perfection" (Mini-Album) Released: March 2011, China Rating: 3.05 I will neither confirm nor deny the presence of any...

[#32] f(x) - "Hot Summer" — by Unknown on

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From: "Hot Summer (Pinocchio Repackaged)" (Album) Released: June 2011, South Korea Rating: 3.00 Despite being a cover of Mon...

[#33] KARA - "Jet Coaster Love" — by Unknown on Sunday, December 11, 2011

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From: "Super Girl" (Album) Released: April (Single)/November (Album) 2011, Japan Rating: 2.95 I have both fond and not-so-fo...

[#34] Gahee - "Come Back You Bad Person" — by Unknown on

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From: "Come Back You Bad Person" (Mini Album) Released: February 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.90 Well, well, well, Gahee mana...

[#35] KARA - "STEP" — by Unknown on Saturday, December 10, 2011

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From: "STEP" (Album) Released: September 2011, South Korea and November 2011 (As part of "Super Girl"), Japan Rating...

[#36] SNSD/Girls' Generation - "Sunflower" — by Unknown on

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From: "The Boys" (Album) Released: October 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.78 Yes, yes, I know. As an album, "The Boys...

[#37] After School - "Play Ur Love" — by Unknown on Friday, December 9, 2011

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From: "Virgin" (Album) Released: April 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.75 And here come the slightly bigger-named artists, after...

[#38] G.NA - "Banana (featuring SWINGS, JC JiEun)" — by Unknown on

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From: "Top Girl" (Mini Album) Released: August 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.70 I know I hated the album, and I know I said th...

[#39] Park Jung Min - "Not Alone" — by Unknown on

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From: "Not Alone" (Single) Released: January 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.65 And the third (and from what I remember, the las...

[#40] Rania - "Goodbye" — by Unknown on Wednesday, December 7, 2011

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From: "Time to rock da show" (Digital Single) Released: November 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.60 Rania are the unfortunate pr...

[#41] HITT - "한참 (feat. 이루마)" — by Unknown on

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From: "Here Is The Top" (Mini Album) Released: July 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.56 And we continue with the simple, but stun...

[#42] Kim Hyung Joon - "Heaven" — by Unknown on

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From: "My Girl" (Mini Album) Released: March 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.55 If you asked me last year if I thought Kim Hyung...

[#43] C-Real - "내 남자친구에겐" — by Unknown on Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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From: "Round 1" (Mini Album) Released: October 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.46 I know, I know, I was one of those who laughed...

[#44] A Pink - "MY MY" — by Unknown on

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From: "Snow Pink" (Album) Released: November 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.45 If you're interested, I also wrote a much mo...

[#45] The Boss - "Love Power" — by Unknown on

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From: "Love Power" (Single) Released: April 2011, Japan Rating: 2.41 Last year, The Boss was the rookie group I placed my bets...

[#46] SISTAR - "New World" — by Unknown on Sunday, December 4, 2011

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From: "SO COOL" (Album) Released: August 2011, South Korea Rating: 2.35 This is the one good (new) song SISTAR put out this ...

[#47] Kim Hyun Joong - "Smile" — by Unknown on

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Enough emoting about my Philippine Blog Award, and back to our regular programming this December. ^_^ From: "Lucky" (Mini Albu...