Hello everyone! We are excited to do another year-in-retrospect rate, this time doing an 8-year-retrospective with the "2018 in K-Pop" Rate!
Quick Links:
- Ballot submission: Link to Reddit PM to message a ballot // Ballot template (Google Docs ver.) // Ballot template (Pastebin)
- Playlists: Spotify // Apple Music // Youtube MVs // Youtube Audio // Youtube Lyrics
Deadline: Sunday, April 26th, 11:59 PM Pacific (Link to a timezone converter)
How the songs were selected:
We used the r/kpop Top Ten Tuesdays results to grab the most acclaimed songs from 2018, and we also had songlist feedback threads on /r/KpopRates to help decide the songlist!
Now, without further ado, let's introduce the 60 songs (& 7 bonus songs) that were selected for this rate, ordered chronologically by release date:
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January:
February:
March:
April:
GFriend – Time for the Moon Night
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
Seulgi x SinB x Chungha x Soyeon – Wow Thing
October:
Blackpink & Dua Lipa – Kiss & Make Up
November:
Key (ft. Crush) – One of Those Nights
December:
Bonus Rate:
The bonus rate composes of songs that we couldn't include in the main list, but wanted to see rated in some capacity!
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The Bonus Rate is optional and you do not have to submit a score for every song in the bonus list if you do it: you can score none of them, all of them, or any number in between. You cannot give a 0 or 11 to any song in the bonus, as they are not part of the main rate. While it is optional, we hope you consider participating.
Spotify Playlist
Apple Music Playlist
Youtube Playlists – MV ~ Audio ~ Lyrics
Rules:
- You must listen to and assign a score to EVERY song listed. If your ballot is missing any scores it will not be eligible and you'll be sent a message asking you to fill in the missing scores.
- Each song should be assigned a score between 1 to 10. Decimals up to one point are allowed but any further is a no-no – 6.9 is fine, but 6.99 is not.
- You can use ONE 0 and ONE 11 for the entirety of the rate, for your least favorite and most favorite song respectively – they are optional but HIGHLY encouraged if you feel some type of way about any given song! Comments are also encouraged but not required for such scores (except if you give a song a 0).
- Comments are encouraged and much appreciated (but not required, except for if you give a 0) and can be added to any song by simply typing after the numerical score, like so:
NCT U – Baby Don’t Stop: 9.9 a femme twink pop duo. the boy tatu. i’m so shook i can’t process this.
- This is the ONLY correct way to format a comment. Please do not include colons (ex. 9: I stan!), dashes (ex. 3.3 – This song sucks), or any other symbol after your score/before your comment as it breaks the program.
- For this rate and most future rates, we have a ballot average minimum of 4.00. In addition, if your ballot average is between 4.00-5.50, you must leave comments on your lower scores (which we define as any score that's a 3 or lower). {Do not worry about having to calculate your ballot average, once you submit your ballot, we will tell you if you need to make changes to your ballot for it to be accepted.}
SUBMITTING A BALLOT:
Link to Private Message to send in scores
Google Docs ballot template
Pastebin ballot template
- If the private message link is not working (or your private message exceeds the character count), please use the Google Doc template (make a copy of it to your Google Drive) for your ballot and DM it to u/KpopRates. If you message us a link to your Google Doc, PLEASE double check your permissions so that "anyone who has the link can view the document" (since the default is otherwise).
Alternatively, if you have Discord, you can message the link to your ballot to all of the rate hosts, u/aidshha (u/aidshha), u/solsys (u/RBSun), and u/Zypker124 (u/Zypker125) (please message all of the rate hosts, not just one).
There is also a Google Sheets Spreadsheet Template that you can make a copy of to calculate the averages of your scores.
You can also submit the top/bottom 5 prediction form at any time.
DUE DATE:
Sunday, April 26th, 11:59 PM Pacific – This will be the FINAL deadline, no extensions will be given this time! (Here is a link to a time zone converter for the deadline.)
REVEAL DATES (Reveals will take place on r/kpoprates as well as the r/kpoprates Discord: https://discord.gg/4YY2ksBbT6)
Day 1 – May 2nd (Saturday), 8 AM Pacific (Time zone converter here)
Day 2 – May 3rd (Sunday), 8 AM Pacific (Time zone converter here)
by KpopRates