Kpopular's Top 40 K-pop Songs of 2016 (Part 1: Best Singles)

Happy New Year everyone! 2016 is over, and that means it's time for me to do what every other K-pop blogger and their mum (well, okay, not their mum—she probably hates K-pop and wishes her child would just accept that they will never marry that "Jikook" guy) did three weeks ago: list their favourite songs of the year in numerical order, because K-pop fans love ranking things just for the sake of it. This was a pretty awful year for K-pop, with many groups disbanding and others simply absent from the promotional circuit, but there was still a small number of great songs which were a cut above the rest. Note that this post only lists favourite singles; a similar post for album tracks will come soon. (Also this is a fairly long listicle with many embedded videos and as such it may be slow to load for some readers)

Kpopular's Top 20 K-pop Songs Of 2015

And so, as 2015 comes to a close, I decide to get up off my arse and write a bloody article for a change. As it's the new year, why not just copy everyone else and chuck out a list of my favourite K-pop songs from 2015? A smashing idea.

Notes:
- This list only counts K-pop singles, as whilst I hate using a "one song per group" rule 70% of positions would otherwise be taken up by f(x) and Wonder Girls.
- Japanese and English songs are not present though that's more because nothing particularly notable was released in those two languages.

With that here they are, prepare to fume when you see none of your faves are here (spoilers: if they're from YG they most certainly won't be) and a song you can't fucking bear is standing tall and proud in the top 10: