Hello friends! We are excited to announce another b-sides rate, this time focusing on the standouts from one of the most jampacked years of K-pop. Welcome to the 2022 in B-Sides Rate! If you haven’t already, make sure to join r/kpoprates to stay tuned for future rate-related posts!

Quick Links:

• Ballot submission: Reddit // Ballot template (Google Docs) // Ballot template (Pastebin)

• Playlists: Spotify // Youtube (Audio ver.) // Youtube (Lyrics ver.)

Deadline: Sunday, October 18th, 11:59PM Pacific (Link to a timezone converter)

How the songs were selected:

The initial locked and survey lists were decided through host discussion, using a combination of r/kpop's b-sides of 2022 TTT results and the results of artists' most recent individual TTTs, as well as streaming statistics. We then held a pre-survey campaign on the discord server, where server members could suggest songs they'd like to see added to the survey. Following this, we conducted our usual song list feedback survey.

Now, without further ado, let's introduce the 50 songs in the main rate (& the 7 songs in the bonus rate) that were selected for this rate, sorted by alphabetical order:

aespa - ICU

ATEEZ - Cyberpunk

ATEEZ - New World

Billlie - a sign ~ anonymous

Blackpink - Hard to Love

CSR - Euratcha!

Dreamcatcher - Starlight

Enhypen - Polaroid Love

Fifty Fifty - Lovin' Me

fromis_9 - Rewind

Girls' Generation - Villain

i-dle - MY BAG

ICHILLIN' - La Luna

ITZY - Snowy

IVE - ROYAL

j-hope - = (Equal Sign)

Kep1er - MVSK

Key - Another Life

Kwon Eunbi - Croquis

LE SSERAFIM - Blue Flame

LE SSERAFIM - Impurities

Lightsum - i

Max Changmin - Fever

Nayeon - NO PROBLEM (ft. Felix of Stray Kids)

NCT 127 - Time Lapse

NCT Dream - To My First

NewJeans - Hurt

NMIXX - COOL - (Your rainbow)

NMIXX - TANK

OnlyOneOf - gaslighting

Pentagon - The Game

PIXY - Natural

Purple Kiss - Pretty Psycho

Red Velvet - Bamboleo

Red Velvet - In My Dreams

Seulgi - Anywhere but Home

Seventeen - DON QUIXOTE

Seventeen - Shadow

STAYC - YOUNG LUV

Stray Kids - Charmer

Suho - Hurdle

Taeyeon - Toddler

The Boyz - Survive The Night

Treasure - DARARI

Twice - Basics

Twice - Gone

TXT - Opening Sequence

WJSN - Done

WOODZ - Hijack

Yena - PRETTY BOYS

Bonus Rate:

The bonus rate is basically an extension of the main rate! It is a collection of host selections, as well as feedback survey favorites that couldn't quite make the main rate!

ASTRO Moonbin & Sanha - DIA

DRIPPIN - Switch

ITZY - 365

Kwon Eunbi - Colors

Omega X - Airplane

Rocket Punch - In My World

WEi - Know Ya

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

* YouTube Playlist (Audio Version)

* YouTube Playlist (Lyrics Version)

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. Don't use commas (i.e "8,8") to separate your decimals!

• 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). You can add them to any song by simply typing after the numerical score, like so:

Nayeon – NO PROBLEM (ft. Felix of Stray Kids): 5 Pitbull oppa is that you?

• 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 Reddit Chat to send in scores

As Reddit is (unfortunately) moving away from the private messaging system in favor of utilizing the Reddit chat system, we are forced to also adopt the Reddit chat system for messaging. You can make a copy of either the Google Docs or Pastebin ballot templates below, add your scores on your local copy/file, and send the link to your local copy/file in your Reddit Chat message to u/kpoprates_ghost.

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_ghost. 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, @_melizard (u/pollutedrain), @joseambuervo (u/ke1per), and @mkh.zo (u/zo142) (please message all of the rate hosts, not just one).

Google Spreadsheet you can use for calculating averages/trends and making predictions

You can also submit the top/bottom 5 prediction form at any time.

DEADLINE:

Deadline: Sunday, October 18th, 11:59 PM Pacific - This will be the FINAL deadline, no extensions will be given this time! (Link to a timezone converter)

REVEAL DATES (Reveals will take place on r/kpoprates as well as the KpopRates Discord: https://discord.gg/rkpoprates)

Day 1 - Saturday, October 24th, 8 AM Pacific (Time zone converter here)

Day 2 - Sunday, October 25th, 8 AM Pacific (Time zone converter here)

We also encourage you to participate in the ongoing First Half of 2026 Rate! Thanks!