There are a number of acts who have debuted in the past few decades and have dozens of song ratings on this blog. I thought it would be fun to lay these ratings out in chronological order, line-graph style, and take a macro view of their careers so far. Then, similar to my “Underrated K-pop” features, I can average their ratings into one mega-score and place them in a pantheon alongside other acts.
As always, this feature has some rules of its own. I’m including any “Song Review” ratings as part of this graph, including Japanese releases and collaborations with one other artist. I’m not including Buried Treasures or solo/sub-unit releases. For the ratings themselves, I’m using the most current number on this blog, so if a song was part of a “Risers and Fallers” or “Legendary Songs Inauguration” post, that’s the rating you’ll see displayed here. That means there will still be a few ratings here and there I find slightly inaccurate, but it’ll mostly reflect my up-to-date feelings.
Finally, these scores are completely subjective. Feel free to agree, disagree and argue (that’s part of the fun!), but know that this chart reflects the opinion of only one person (me).
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AESPA: A Career In Song Ratings
The Breakdown
Highest Rated Songs
Lowest Rated Songs
Imperial Phases
None
Slump Phases
Dirty Work -> Rich Man (2025)
Rating Average: 7.83
Overall Trendline:
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A 9 for Next Level! I remember hating it cause it sounded so monotonous to me + the switch up lowkey grinded my gears, but it managed to be a huge riser for me. Somewhere in mid-8s for me, I personally prefer like 5-6 of their other singles over it.
With that being said, Welcome to MY World is a 10 for me, no midtempo has compelled me as much as it did and it hurts to see the lack of recognition it got. Supernova is a 9.5 for me. I’m just too lazy to rate all their tts and do an average lmao
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Nevermind, did an average and for me, they’re an 8.21
Highest rated: Welcome to MY World (10) and lowest: Beautiful Christmas, Forever and Hot Mess (7)
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There catalogues has many songs that I absolutely despised at first but later grew to like, Next Level and Armageddon are two among them.
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Oh yeah, Nick, you also mentioned that Savage grew on you over time, so I wonder how’d you rate it now? Unless it rose and then fell back to a 7.5 lol
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Glad to see the pinks beat out their closest imitators, even if it is only by a measly 0.05. To give aespa their due, Supernova and Whiplash are both really good, I’d probably switch the ratings on Next Level and Whiplash here.
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Weirdly enough I think Savage is my favorite aespa song now which I did not realize until now. huh
9’s – Next Level, Welcome To My World, Savage, Supernova, Dirty Work
8’s – Black Mamba, Girls, Spicy, Better Things (I like this song a lot more than I expected), Drama, Armageddon, Whiplash, Rich Man (just barely)
I’m gonna randomly guess the average that it might come out to……….8.3. Pretty good I feel. I awlays look forward to their comebacks even though I dont always enjoy them.
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