251218 Billboard ranked “Dirty Work” at #19 in their “The 25 Best K-Pop Songs of 2025: Staff Picks” list

• >aespa is no stranger to the Billboard charts, especially when it comes to album sales. This year alone they became the first K-pop girl group to have six projects reach the Billboard 200 top 50. Their big year only got bigger with a win for Group of the Year at Billboard Women in Music 2025. “Dirty Work” dropped in late June and capitalized on the girl group’s “girl crush” concept. It’s a track unlike anything we’ve heard from aespa before, focused mainly on conversational singing or “speech-singing” rather than utilizing the group’s powerhouse vocals via Winter and Ning Ning. It’s a grungy entry with heavy distorted bass, glitchy synths and an earworm chorus that we can’t stop singing

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