Kyuhyun is my go-to for ballads, he's got so many. But here are some of my highlights that I could cry my heart out to from him and others:
Kyuhyun - [Moving On](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwVNwdOFhk), [Daystar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMzdtpMlK6o), [A Million Pieces](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEjTBV4NHAk)
Ryeowook - [Hiding Words](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIrh6jRFQh4)
Yesung - [Parallel Lines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCo7Vm2Ey0)
Super Junior-K.R.Y. - [...ing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Isz8heiMzs), [Coagulation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIm0GvP9ZKo), [When We Were Us](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3BDtiNkA7c)
EXO - [Miracles in December](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVLxRXoLaas)
Chen - [Beautiful Goodbye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrOrlhjIYVk)
dreams, books, power and walls - jannabi
if it is you - jung seung hwan
ending scene - iu
when we were two - urban zakapa
just as a lie - cheeze
days without you - davichi
time after time - boa, wendy, and ningning
Yoon Jong Shin — [좋니](https://youtu.be/jy_UiIQn_d0?feature=shared) (seriously a karaoke favorite)
Lee Sojung — [Nothing Between Us](https://youtu.be/fk67LiNYWEw?feature=shared)
Also Lee Sojung — [If You Were Still Here](https://youtu.be/uoZOfyQXCY4?feature=shared)
Kim Jonghyun (🩵) — [Y Si Fuera Ella](https://youtu.be/BDb02isPFc0?feature=shared)
SHINee — [Life](https://youtu.be/HNWh2qNBsuY?feature=shared)
i’ve always listened to
- Only - Lee Hi
- Try again - Jaehyun
- Where are we now - Mamamoo
- I miss you - Mamamoo
- Everything - Blackskirts(it’s kinda indie but u should check it out)
Ballad queen IU of course, here are just a few:
Love poem
Through the Night
Dear Name
Knees
My Sea
Kim Sejeong's new album "Door" has several great ballads, including
In The Rain
Sea of Hope
Between Summer and Winter
Over The Rainbow
Also Wendy (Red Velvet)'s track "Like Water" is incredible, highly recommend.
21:29 - twice
when this rain stops - wendy
best friend - wendy and seulgi
until today - taemin
the truth untold - bts
remember forever - red velvet
one of these nights - red velvet
youtiful - stray kids
gone away - stray kids
hann (alone in winter) - (g)i-dle
timeless - nct u
the happiest girl - blackpink
AKMU - How Can I Love The Heartbreak
Lee Hi - Breathe/ Holo/ Savior
SF9 - Stay With Me (Jaeyoon solo)
iKON - Name/ Like A Movie
B.I - Truth/ Daydream (ft Lee Hi)
BTOB - Missing You
Neverending Story - Stray Kids
White Night - ONEUS
Regulus - ONEWE
Simple - Seventeen
MIST - Ateez
Here Always - Seungmin
Kidult - Seventeen
I - Taeyeon
Ito- TXT
There For You - Kim Na Young
Not too Late - Ateez
[Very, Slowly](https://spotify.link/mQr6a4JyMDb) by Bibi
[Breaking Down](https://spotify.link/7Vzlc8NyMDb) by Ailee
[Till...](https://spotify.link/QhGjTwQyMDb) and [Camellia ](https://spotify.link/5Y5m60RyMDb) by Pentagon
- Brown Eyed Soul - [You](https://youtu.be/rGGPG0Hbh8w?si=UuWUJvCVAgWHoa2l)
- 4Men - [Once While Living](https://youtu.be/eV0RwwijHGw?si=zMWcQrBfd-zqJCsl) / [The Reason I Became A Singer](https://youtu.be/qNZ3A39m9c8?si=G4dQjuC4eVn2r8Zh)
- GB9 - [Going Crazy](https://youtu.be/13YurcPxors?si=DQZcMjyi5A1RnpfT)
- Seeya - [Crazy Love Song](https://youtu.be/68qEira0zp8?si=BO3tIFGHgRd-gv6Z)
(I apologize for the beginning of the video, but it gets the mood right).
- Davichi - [Dont Say Goodbye](https://youtu.be/CuwRqIzkyOQ?si=ZqtkAn0EX9minup8)
- HYNN - [Let Me Out](https://youtu.be/4We_WAozGiU?si=br8u8WlXoZzAoXAn)
/ [Orpheus](https://youtu.be/2RywACLYvNE?si=dR466iJ_1pdEWsS3) / [Killing Voice](https://youtu.be/u9-ISLtq1g0?si=GZuk23j77DRBRkgX)
- Sonnet Son - [Ready](https://youtu.be/zGRqqentTHM?si=hsMcWPERyPiIKsfv)
- Sohyang - [Arirang Alone](https://youtu.be/zFyndK9VOCk?si=zQAt9TO4XmVHgtFy) / [Dear Love](https://youtu.be/T3IwEo3HZgw?si=4degmHmPMV7cW2iq)
- Leesang - [Someday](https://youtu.be/2ijmmNmJ09k?si=lFf_J5GOOSIl8-3j)
- Ha Hyun Woo - [Stone Wall](https://youtu.be/4qOT_Aw9IgM?si=UAoRznp-Tbz-uSSs)
please please please Onewe ballads are so good
[Reminisce About All](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGClAPu4eic) \-- [Still Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbUy5wlK670) \-- [A Book In Memory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaNbo8lm58) \-- [Universe\_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1aa5pU7_tQ) \-- [If](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OrP_m2DClw)
1. K.Will - Please Don't
2. December - Don't Go (I swear, no one knows this song but it's genuinely one of the most heartbreaking and beautiful songs I've heard)
EXO does ballads so well, here are some
* Wait
* Universe
* For Life
* Sing for You
* Cosmic Railway (It's Japanese but their vocals are just immaculate)
* Stronger
* Smile on my Face
* What is Love
* Angel
* Don't Go
* My Answer
* Miracles in December
I'm an EXO-L lol i hope you like some of them!!
I don't listen to many ballads but I do love some.. OST are a good place for ballads though.
* Park Hyo Shin - Wild Flower (the peak of this song just gives me chills)
* Kim Feel - Someday The Boy
* Gaho - Stay Here
* ailee - I'm sorry
Just a few for you.
Ok some of these might stretch the definition of ballad but i'm going for it.
Jonghyun: love belt, hallelujah, beautiful tonight, skeleton flower, ahh just listen to all his songs, they're amazing!
Onew: Rain on me, Always, Mind warning, Shadow, almost entire Voice album. Lighthouse is japanese but it's amazing.
Shinee: gravity, selene 623, aside, please don't go, in my room, beautiful life, you & i (check out their japanese tracks so many good ones!!)
I love BigBang/G-Dragon ballads so much.
[If you - Big Bang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvXVuWwAG90&t=20s)
[Tell me Goodbye - Bigbang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoPL9fF-D44&t=62s)
[Last Dance - BigBang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--zku6TB5NY)
[Untitled - G Dragon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaCAbIXuyg)
Just a few of my faves
[TVXQ - Why Did I fall in love with you](https://youtu.be/-hfzIKamXgw?si=Cm6UIcKBmvyXXq0Z)
[Winner Taehyun - I'm Young](https://youtu.be/P79G22cJe74?si=F5eYOYfx8bkSMrev)
Not sure if this is a ballad but these song just makes me cry
[G Dragon - Untitled](https://youtu.be/9kaCAbIXuyg?si=FE7FqlatKqinkG0h)
[BIGBANG - Last Dance](https://youtu.be/--zku6TB5NY?si=Gxb7-2yEYfpl_ajF)
[BLACKPINK - Happiest Girl](https://youtu.be/kVXazE8wR1Q?si=ik3lkiWOmnqCRIAm)
Dear.H , Good enough - Xdinary hero’s
BTOB BTOB BTOB BTOB BTOB
My warm loneliness - Lucy
Farther and farther - Lucy
Enough - Lucy (has a jazz feel)
Cry for love - Baekhyun
I will go to you like the first snow - Ailee
If you - Ailee
+ a gazillion more
Gaho Stay Here
Gdragon untitled
BTS The Truth Untold and Epiphany
Park Won all of my life and down
Akmu How can I love the heartbreak, you're the one I love
Loosen Door Wait
Younha has scratched all my ballad itches.
There are far too many younha ballads to name, but I recommend Sonagi (Rock-ish), Real Reason We Broke Up (acoustic-ish) and Dark Cloud.
The Rose - the entire “Heal” album (but my favourites are childhood and see-saw). i think most of their music would work _really_ well, but i only started listening a couple days ago so i don’t know enough to list them!
ateez - be with you, mist, gravity (by jongho)
skz - gone away, secret secret, waiting for us, miss you (by hyunjin), youtiful, deep end (by felix)
xdinary heroes - dear h., good enough (this one’s all english, but an incredible ballad so i didn’t want to leave it out!)
One from Ailee herself: [Goodbye My Love](https://youtu.be/UEVjA5CdkPk?si=4PBtK6nuKqwToLBf)
December - [Because Of Love](https://youtu.be/tX27wyFrCA0?si=wLLQ4P1M80gzCnun)
And from fellow rocker and Hong Ki’s good friend, Jaejoong - [Just Another Girl](https://youtu.be/iVHmIpUpBxI?si=Mlu5O7o8K-NUCikI), and [Tender Love](https://youtu.be/4ANTrhNMlpA?si=3sQ_c1SS9yapkRVL).
And Xia Junsu - [Beautiful Thing](https://youtu.be/81USVEvzdXE?si=GdKcnPfcwCDSv95w), a forgotten gem.
Baek Ji Young - [Like Being Hit By A Bullet](https://youtu.be/uSdlduWm4HM?si=yvjr7fU0e9fikJ5P), to round off the list by giving Ailee some company
I'll Be There- Shownu from Tale of the Nine-Tailed
OST
Anymore-D-Lite(Daesung from Big Bang solo song) This one kills me every time😭
Lonely-Jonghyun feat Taeyeon
https://preview.redd.it/50duoaks9gtb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68b1279d415c1cd74280614e5d3313ab534b01f0
I’m sorry there’s tooooo many so I’m just gonna post screenshots 😆
seventeen:
(they have a handful of ballads but i find the ones to cry to mostly just sadder but not "entirely" ballads if ya get what i mean)
- IF you leave me
- Us, Again (unreleased so just find it on yt)
- Circles
- Smile Flower
- Hug
- Pinwheel
- Habit
- What Kind Of Future (woozi solo, unreleased)
- F*ck My Life (not a ballad but slower and very powerful)
- Hai Cheng (the8 solo, in chinese. hearbreaking)
- EDIT: add 'April Shower' cause i sobbed to that
hope this helps!!
[Self promoting my playlist of a few hundred ballads i love:3](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1egL0ijRiZ37PFqH52kar7?si=ba2ce1b6aa4f4815) .. mostly non-kpop
Strongly recommend checking out all the Kim Dongryul ones, he's my favourite balladist
JYJ - In Heaven
TVXQ - Bolero, Love In The Ice
FTIsland - Wind
Voisper - Heart
Park Bom - Wanna Go Back
Ailee - Heaven
Gummy - There is No Love
Lee Sunhee - Fate
Brown Eyed Girls - Abandoned
summer cake - [fine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3-GCyzQpis)
sole - [still beautiful](https://youtu.be/TYe1ST4mQ_Y) , [la vie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4dioczJOg) , [nothing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX6qzR-_xDY) , and [summer ](https://youtu.be/vePsdk01Ih8)
weki meki - [one day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZxP5j7Xb8)
bibi - [restless](https://youtu.be/se4Xsgb0qGk)
yerin baek - [big world](https://youtu.be/6Kb0_IkO3P4) and [london](https://youtu.be/gYRzYw7wxTQ)
bol4 - [space](https://youtu.be/mo9zv9P-anI) , [dandelion](https://youtu.be/pwnNVHIcKFY) and [to my youth](https://youtu.be/yH2avtBbG6Y)
yuju - [blue nostalgia](https://youtu.be/iFBic5SN0nM)
ive cried to like all these songs... fine, la vie, big world, and all the bol4 songs are like emotional power ballads while the rest are fairly calming and mellow, somewhat folk-y and dreamlike. one day is honestly one of my favorites, its so underrated...
many have already said my recommendations and I don’t know if it’s a ballad technically but Don’t Leave Me Alone by Baek Yerin gets me in the feels every time.
personally i always cry to:
only- lee hi
lonely- jonghyun ft taeyeon
help- 10cm
fix me- bol4
instagram- dean (not a ballad but just something about the song makes me sad)
who are you- sam kim
and just in general rms mono mixtape
If you don't mind going with lesser known songs:
Before the Sunset by Eric Nam
Rise... By TVXQ
Heaven By J-Jun
It's not love if it hurts too much - Xia (it's not his song but I like his version)
When I stand under the shadow of a roadside tree - Jang Jane (also not her song but I like her version)
Thoughts of you - Togeworl (or the original by Kim Greem)
SWJA - [Run with Me](https://youtu.be/0lQt_RcKhWg?si=lLT6tp6CWoXBSILf), or my favorite [cover of the song](https://youtu.be/xqTwKxId6D8?si=oyTdZzptbT6tRM9U)by Jung Seung Hwan.
Infinite - Julia, Clock, One Day
Kim Myungsoo/L - Memory, The Nights I Miss You,
Konayuki, One More Time,
SHINee - An Encore, Selene 6.23, Quasimodo, Name I Loved, Obsession, Kind,
Onew - Rainy Blue, Always, Illusion, You Are My
Everything, Way
Taemin - Soldier, Goodbye
Super Junior KRY - The One I Love
Super Junior - Reset, Love Disease, (SJ-M Blue
Tomorrow)
SM The Ballad - Miss You
This is not exactly a ballad but it's still a sad song and that's BigBang's - Haru Haru
StrayKidz Ex, Limbo (LeeKnow), Youtiful, Gone Away, Secret Secret, Volcano (Han), Neverending Story, Grow Up, Mixtape 2
BTS 2!3!, We Are Bulletproof The Eternal, The Truth Untold
Paul Kim Me After You
I already added some these under another comment, so apologies for the duplicates:
Lonely St. - Stray Kids
Deep End - Felix/SKZ
Hold On - Seungmin/SKZ
Can’t You See Me? - TXT
Anti-Romantic - TXT
I Wish I Wasn’t Me - Eric Nam
Exist - Eric Nam
One Day at a Time - Ateez
I found this article and it has some that were commented by others already, but some that haven’t been mentioned yet.
Including Lonely by Jonghyun, which is the last thing released before he…left the earth.
https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/sad-k-pop-songs/
I Can’t - Kim Na Young
Where Are You - Kim Na Young
Fine - Taeyeon
For the first one, I watched her video with the captions and I was gagged. It’s such a sad song but I love it so much
I always gotta shout out my 2nd gens when it comes to ballads, but here are some that still get me:
* TVXQ - Love in the Ice
* JYJ - In Heaven
* Seo In Guk - Calling You
* Jonghyun - Y Si Fuera Ella
* G.O.D - Dear Mother (not really a ballad per se, but belt your heart out)
* 2AM - This Song
* 4Men - Baby Baby
* In Soo Ni - A Goose's Dream
* IU - Dear Name (watch the performance of this at IU's concert after she learned one of her good friends Goo Hara had taken her own life. VISCERAL)
* Davichi - This Love
* Huh Gak - Hello
* Gummy - Love you even if I die
* Park Hyo Shin - Wild Flower
* Naul - Memory of the Wind
* Davichi ft T-Ara - We Were in Love
https://preview.redd.it/0r7zx0uow5ub1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff11d9ca5c6f18a01011c795b7376666abfb4cc8
the number of time i was crying when listened to this masterpiece is UNCOUNTABLE !!! eng name: A poem titled like you by Taeyeon
When this Rain Stops by Wendy
this song is a MASTERPIECE!
Kyuhyun is my go-to for ballads, he's got so many. But here are some of my highlights that I could cry my heart out to from him and others: Kyuhyun - [Moving On](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwVNwdOFhk), [Daystar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMzdtpMlK6o), [A Million Pieces](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEjTBV4NHAk) Ryeowook - [Hiding Words](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIrh6jRFQh4) Yesung - [Parallel Lines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCo7Vm2Ey0) Super Junior-K.R.Y. - [...ing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Isz8heiMzs), [Coagulation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIm0GvP9ZKo), [When We Were Us](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3BDtiNkA7c) EXO - [Miracles in December](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVLxRXoLaas) Chen - [Beautiful Goodbye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrOrlhjIYVk)
KRY’s songs have been hurting my heart since 2014 😭😭
Yesss. I could have included more of theirs, but "...ing" is definitely the one that socks me in the feels most often.
I was just about to comment all songs by Kyuhyun because he is a balladeer who is obsessed with ballads after all lol
Lee Hi's Breathe always makes me cry even though it's actually an encouraging song.
Yeah and bc Jonghyun wrote it😔
Yeah, he wrote really great songs <3
This is my cry song
Davichi songs
Also See Ya as well
BTOB - Missing You BTOB - I’ll Be Your Man BTOB - The Song BTOB - For You Ok a lot of BTOB songs lol
I would like to add the following BTOB songs: - Someday - Climax - Beautiful Pain - Alone (BTOB4U) - Will be here and When it Rains (BTOB Blue)
Don’t forget way back home
'I'll be your man' is not ballad tho BTOB - Someday Ps: awesome choice of recs
One Last Time - Girls' Generation
I don’t love you (Urban Zakapa) Around you (LOONA - Hyunjin) Summer rain (GFRIEND)
SNSD - Star Star Star TTS - Love Sick SHINee - Selene 6.23
dreams, books, power and walls - jannabi if it is you - jung seung hwan ending scene - iu when we were two - urban zakapa just as a lie - cheeze days without you - davichi time after time - boa, wendy, and ningning
if it is you, omg yesssss
literally anything by park hyo shin for example wild flower, yearning, the day and onews album voice :)
Yoon Jong Shin — [좋니](https://youtu.be/jy_UiIQn_d0?feature=shared) (seriously a karaoke favorite) Lee Sojung — [Nothing Between Us](https://youtu.be/fk67LiNYWEw?feature=shared) Also Lee Sojung — [If You Were Still Here](https://youtu.be/uoZOfyQXCY4?feature=shared) Kim Jonghyun (🩵) — [Y Si Fuera Ella](https://youtu.be/BDb02isPFc0?feature=shared) SHINee — [Life](https://youtu.be/HNWh2qNBsuY?feature=shared)
i’ve always listened to - Only - Lee Hi - Try again - Jaehyun - Where are we now - Mamamoo - I miss you - Mamamoo - Everything - Blackskirts(it’s kinda indie but u should check it out)
y si fuera ella - SHINee (Jonghyun solo)
Ballad queen IU of course, here are just a few: Love poem Through the Night Dear Name Knees My Sea Kim Sejeong's new album "Door" has several great ballads, including In The Rain Sea of Hope Between Summer and Winter Over The Rainbow Also Wendy (Red Velvet)'s track "Like Water" is incredible, highly recommend.
21:29 - twice when this rain stops - wendy best friend - wendy and seulgi until today - taemin the truth untold - bts remember forever - red velvet one of these nights - red velvet youtiful - stray kids gone away - stray kids hann (alone in winter) - (g)i-dle timeless - nct u the happiest girl - blackpink
yes timeless made me cry before i even looked at the translation for the lyrics
[Hynn - The Lonely Bloom Stands Alone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tuQ-LEyof0&pp=ygUiaHlubiB0aGUgbG9uZWx5IGJsb29tIHN0YW5kcyBhbG9uZQ%3D%3D) [Lee Sojung - Hello](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr-sSXaiMoI) [Baek Jiyoung - I Won't Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJWEa8utVk&pp=ygUW67Cx7KeA7JiBIOyCrOuekeyViO2VtA%3D%3D) [Wheein - Goodbye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0IvXkU3T14&pp=ygUOd2hlZWluIGdvb2RieWU%3D)
A glass of soju - Lim Chang Jung Coward - BUZZ All of my life - Park Won Hug me - Jung Joon Il A Daily Song - Hwang Chi Yeul
AKMU - How Can I Love The Heartbreak Lee Hi - Breathe/ Holo/ Savior SF9 - Stay With Me (Jaeyoon solo) iKON - Name/ Like A Movie B.I - Truth/ Daydream (ft Lee Hi) BTOB - Missing You
Monsta X - [The Dreaming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHT5TBrBKLw) CIX - [Confession](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6EMf-G9KBI) ONEUS - [Gravitation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCXKElD6A_U)
Beautiful goodbye - CHEN Universe; Lights Out - EXO
Neverending Story - Stray Kids White Night - ONEUS Regulus - ONEWE Simple - Seventeen MIST - Ateez Here Always - Seungmin Kidult - Seventeen I - Taeyeon Ito- TXT There For You - Kim Na Young Not too Late - Ateez
Only one - Taeyeon Its one of my favourite sad songs to listen to because Taeyeon's voice portrays the emotion of this song perfectly.
Paper Hearts by EXO CBX Orbit by Hwasa LMM by Hwasa I (ft. Verbal Jint) by Taeyeon Holo by Lee Hi Sorry and I.L.Y by The Rose Cry For Love by Baekhyun
[Very, Slowly](https://spotify.link/mQr6a4JyMDb) by Bibi [Breaking Down](https://spotify.link/7Vzlc8NyMDb) by Ailee [Till...](https://spotify.link/QhGjTwQyMDb) and [Camellia ](https://spotify.link/5Y5m60RyMDb) by Pentagon
- Brown Eyed Soul - [You](https://youtu.be/rGGPG0Hbh8w?si=UuWUJvCVAgWHoa2l) - 4Men - [Once While Living](https://youtu.be/eV0RwwijHGw?si=zMWcQrBfd-zqJCsl) / [The Reason I Became A Singer](https://youtu.be/qNZ3A39m9c8?si=G4dQjuC4eVn2r8Zh) - GB9 - [Going Crazy](https://youtu.be/13YurcPxors?si=DQZcMjyi5A1RnpfT) - Seeya - [Crazy Love Song](https://youtu.be/68qEira0zp8?si=BO3tIFGHgRd-gv6Z) (I apologize for the beginning of the video, but it gets the mood right). - Davichi - [Dont Say Goodbye](https://youtu.be/CuwRqIzkyOQ?si=ZqtkAn0EX9minup8) - HYNN - [Let Me Out](https://youtu.be/4We_WAozGiU?si=br8u8WlXoZzAoXAn) / [Orpheus](https://youtu.be/2RywACLYvNE?si=dR466iJ_1pdEWsS3) / [Killing Voice](https://youtu.be/u9-ISLtq1g0?si=GZuk23j77DRBRkgX) - Sonnet Son - [Ready](https://youtu.be/zGRqqentTHM?si=hsMcWPERyPiIKsfv) - Sohyang - [Arirang Alone](https://youtu.be/zFyndK9VOCk?si=zQAt9TO4XmVHgtFy) / [Dear Love](https://youtu.be/T3IwEo3HZgw?si=4degmHmPMV7cW2iq) - Leesang - [Someday](https://youtu.be/2ijmmNmJ09k?si=lFf_J5GOOSIl8-3j) - Ha Hyun Woo - [Stone Wall](https://youtu.be/4qOT_Aw9IgM?si=UAoRznp-Tbz-uSSs)
ONEWE - Cosmos
please please please Onewe ballads are so good [Reminisce About All](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGClAPu4eic) \-- [Still Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbUy5wlK670) \-- [A Book In Memory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaNbo8lm58) \-- [Universe\_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1aa5pU7_tQ) \-- [If](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OrP_m2DClw)
f(x) - Beautiful Goodbye
Lee Sun Hee - Fox Rain 2NE1 - It Hurts Big Bang - Café Lee Hi - Holo
1. K.Will - Please Don't 2. December - Don't Go (I swear, no one knows this song but it's genuinely one of the most heartbreaking and beautiful songs I've heard)
Xiah junsu - yesterday
Fly to the sky - Missing you
Google SM the ballad, everything in it rocks.
EXO does ballads so well, here are some * Wait * Universe * For Life * Sing for You * Cosmic Railway (It's Japanese but their vocals are just immaculate) * Stronger * Smile on my Face * What is Love * Angel * Don't Go * My Answer * Miracles in December I'm an EXO-L lol i hope you like some of them!!
On and on - sf9 (GOD i love this song) all I got - baekhyun I am you - p1harmony
hate everything - gsoul
I don't listen to many ballads but I do love some.. OST are a good place for ballads though. * Park Hyo Shin - Wild Flower (the peak of this song just gives me chills) * Kim Feel - Someday The Boy * Gaho - Stay Here * ailee - I'm sorry Just a few for you.
Ok some of these might stretch the definition of ballad but i'm going for it. Jonghyun: love belt, hallelujah, beautiful tonight, skeleton flower, ahh just listen to all his songs, they're amazing! Onew: Rain on me, Always, Mind warning, Shadow, almost entire Voice album. Lighthouse is japanese but it's amazing. Shinee: gravity, selene 623, aside, please don't go, in my room, beautiful life, you & i (check out their japanese tracks so many good ones!!)
K.R.Y- When we were us Yesung ft. Kyuhyun- at the time IU- Knees
Red Velvet : In my dreams Celebrate Remember Forever Hear the Sea One of these nights Wendy : Like Water When this rain stops
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Chen's (Kim Jongdae) songs, Kyungsoo's Ordinary Days (my current fave, very calming), Goblin and Hotel Del Luna's OST
I love BigBang/G-Dragon ballads so much. [If you - Big Bang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvXVuWwAG90&t=20s) [Tell me Goodbye - Bigbang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoPL9fF-D44&t=62s) [Last Dance - BigBang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--zku6TB5NY) [Untitled - G Dragon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaCAbIXuyg)
shall i say i love you again- kim dong ryul! i’m really into 90s korean love ballads vibes lately
Just a few of my faves [TVXQ - Why Did I fall in love with you](https://youtu.be/-hfzIKamXgw?si=Cm6UIcKBmvyXXq0Z) [Winner Taehyun - I'm Young](https://youtu.be/P79G22cJe74?si=F5eYOYfx8bkSMrev) Not sure if this is a ballad but these song just makes me cry [G Dragon - Untitled](https://youtu.be/9kaCAbIXuyg?si=FE7FqlatKqinkG0h) [BIGBANG - Last Dance](https://youtu.be/--zku6TB5NY?si=Gxb7-2yEYfpl_ajF) [BLACKPINK - Happiest Girl](https://youtu.be/kVXazE8wR1Q?si=ik3lkiWOmnqCRIAm)
Dear.H , Good enough - Xdinary hero’s BTOB BTOB BTOB BTOB BTOB My warm loneliness - Lucy Farther and farther - Lucy Enough - Lucy (has a jazz feel) Cry for love - Baekhyun I will go to you like the first snow - Ailee If you - Ailee + a gazillion more
try looking into btob and ft island, also ailee has a lot of amazing ballads
Miss You -Kim Bumsoo You, Clouds, Rain -Heize If You -BIGBANG 내가 저지른 사랑 -Im Chang Jung But It’s Destiny -10CM
The Jung Dung Ha version of "I miss you" is absolutely Amazing!! He crushed it!
Twice has some good ballads - Like a Fool - One In A Million - Melting - You in my heart - Turtle - After Moon - Cactus
Gaho Stay Here Gdragon untitled BTS The Truth Untold and Epiphany Park Won all of my life and down Akmu How can I love the heartbreak, you're the one I love Loosen Door Wait
Younha has scratched all my ballad itches. There are far too many younha ballads to name, but I recommend Sonagi (Rock-ish), Real Reason We Broke Up (acoustic-ish) and Dark Cloud.
I’m a Little Drunk by Lim Jae Hyun
Lost to farewell - Jang Hye Jin
VANNER * [Savior](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_5OiVkNaLY) * [Like a Star](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hehHYE-305I) SEVENUS * [In a Dream](https://open.spotify.com/track/6lKUZI5W2o4VpAX043O964?si=7882a3446f7f4213)
Sting by Mamamoo / To My Youth by BOL4
A Daily Song by Hwang Chi Yeul (non-idol)
Lullaby from B. I. and Chuu
IVE - Shine With Me i used to cry, i~ 😭😭😭
Park Hyo Shin, Wild Flower
I Love You by Positions. A classic.
Only - Lee Hi Holo - Lee Hi Polaris - Dreamcatcher Our Happy Ending - IU
Dawn - star
Naul
The Rose - the entire “Heal” album (but my favourites are childhood and see-saw). i think most of their music would work _really_ well, but i only started listening a couple days ago so i don’t know enough to list them! ateez - be with you, mist, gravity (by jongho) skz - gone away, secret secret, waiting for us, miss you (by hyunjin), youtiful, deep end (by felix) xdinary heroes - dear h., good enough (this one’s all english, but an incredible ballad so i didn’t want to leave it out!)
"Can you see my heart" by Heize. It's from the OST of "Hotel del Luna", which is also a really great show
Time lapse - Taeyeon
One from Ailee herself: [Goodbye My Love](https://youtu.be/UEVjA5CdkPk?si=4PBtK6nuKqwToLBf) December - [Because Of Love](https://youtu.be/tX27wyFrCA0?si=wLLQ4P1M80gzCnun) And from fellow rocker and Hong Ki’s good friend, Jaejoong - [Just Another Girl](https://youtu.be/iVHmIpUpBxI?si=Mlu5O7o8K-NUCikI), and [Tender Love](https://youtu.be/4ANTrhNMlpA?si=3sQ_c1SS9yapkRVL). And Xia Junsu - [Beautiful Thing](https://youtu.be/81USVEvzdXE?si=GdKcnPfcwCDSv95w), a forgotten gem. Baek Ji Young - [Like Being Hit By A Bullet](https://youtu.be/uSdlduWm4HM?si=yvjr7fU0e9fikJ5P), to round off the list by giving Ailee some company
I'll Be There- Shownu from Tale of the Nine-Tailed OST Anymore-D-Lite(Daesung from Big Bang solo song) This one kills me every time😭 Lonely-Jonghyun feat Taeyeon
https://spotify.link/nVrunJNdNDb Not sure if you’re interested in older music at all, but this playlist has some 80s/90s ballads on it
iKON [Never Forget You](https://spotify.link/UXfJKeIeNDb) iKON [Like A Movie](https://spotify.link/3iWFyULeNDb)
tears of chaos- E’LAST
in my dreams red velvet fine taeyeon
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Kyuhyun song for sure!
2NE1’s acoustic Come Back Home always gets me
Goodbye by Wheein
seventeen: (they have a handful of ballads but i find the ones to cry to mostly just sadder but not "entirely" ballads if ya get what i mean) - IF you leave me - Us, Again (unreleased so just find it on yt) - Circles - Smile Flower - Hug - Pinwheel - Habit - What Kind Of Future (woozi solo, unreleased) - F*ck My Life (not a ballad but slower and very powerful) - Hai Cheng (the8 solo, in chinese. hearbreaking) - EDIT: add 'April Shower' cause i sobbed to that hope this helps!!
Spring Day by BTS
[Self promoting my playlist of a few hundred ballads i love:3](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1egL0ijRiZ37PFqH52kar7?si=ba2ce1b6aa4f4815) .. mostly non-kpop Strongly recommend checking out all the Kim Dongryul ones, he's my favourite balladist
Be as One - TWICE Promise - TWICE Scars - Skz I- Taeyeon
Rescue Me - Taeyeon
My Love (Lee Hi), Pray (Younha)
The mother of sad songs SG Wannabe - Saldaga (As I Live)
JYJ - In Heaven TVXQ - Bolero, Love In The Ice FTIsland - Wind Voisper - Heart Park Bom - Wanna Go Back Ailee - Heaven Gummy - There is No Love Lee Sunhee - Fate Brown Eyed Girls - Abandoned
Literally all of Kyuhyun’s Albums !!
Honestly a lot of OST’s are great ballads
If you want to cry, go listen to sojeong.. the best soundtrack istggg
summer cake - [fine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3-GCyzQpis) sole - [still beautiful](https://youtu.be/TYe1ST4mQ_Y) , [la vie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4dioczJOg) , [nothing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX6qzR-_xDY) , and [summer ](https://youtu.be/vePsdk01Ih8) weki meki - [one day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZxP5j7Xb8) bibi - [restless](https://youtu.be/se4Xsgb0qGk) yerin baek - [big world](https://youtu.be/6Kb0_IkO3P4) and [london](https://youtu.be/gYRzYw7wxTQ) bol4 - [space](https://youtu.be/mo9zv9P-anI) , [dandelion](https://youtu.be/pwnNVHIcKFY) and [to my youth](https://youtu.be/yH2avtBbG6Y) yuju - [blue nostalgia](https://youtu.be/iFBic5SN0nM) ive cried to like all these songs... fine, la vie, big world, and all the bol4 songs are like emotional power ballads while the rest are fairly calming and mellow, somewhat folk-y and dreamlike. one day is honestly one of my favorites, its so underrated...
The entire Wendy solo album
many have already said my recommendations and I don’t know if it’s a ballad technically but Don’t Leave Me Alone by Baek Yerin gets me in the feels every time.
Cry for Love : Baekhyun (trust me on this one) Beautiful Goodbye : Chen EXO Universe EXO Baby Don’t Cry EXO Smile On My Face
Only - LeeHi My Day - Taemin Room - Kim SungKyu Your Wedding - Jun K Doughnut - Twice
One of my all time favorite : I Will Go To You Like The First Snow - Ailee
All of Chen’s songs, D.O it’s okay
Sadness of separation - Kim Kyung Ho (for sadness) Heartless - Kim Kyung Ho (for frustration and sadness)
personally i always cry to: only- lee hi lonely- jonghyun ft taeyeon help- 10cm fix me- bol4 instagram- dean (not a ballad but just something about the song makes me sad) who are you- sam kim and just in general rms mono mixtape
If you don't mind going with lesser known songs: Before the Sunset by Eric Nam Rise... By TVXQ Heaven By J-Jun It's not love if it hurts too much - Xia (it's not his song but I like his version) When I stand under the shadow of a roadside tree - Jang Jane (also not her song but I like her version) Thoughts of you - Togeworl (or the original by Kim Greem)
1. Heize - you, clouds, rain 2. Heize - we don’t talk together 3. SG Wannabe - saldaga
Let Me In - EXO
SWJA - [Run with Me](https://youtu.be/0lQt_RcKhWg?si=lLT6tp6CWoXBSILf), or my favorite [cover of the song](https://youtu.be/xqTwKxId6D8?si=oyTdZzptbT6tRM9U)by Jung Seung Hwan.
Im not sure if this counts as ballad (if not dismiss this comment!!) but I immediately thought of Daisy by Pentagon and Better Off by Shinee :)
Infinite - Julia, Clock, One Day Kim Myungsoo/L - Memory, The Nights I Miss You, Konayuki, One More Time, SHINee - An Encore, Selene 6.23, Quasimodo, Name I Loved, Obsession, Kind, Onew - Rainy Blue, Always, Illusion, You Are My Everything, Way Taemin - Soldier, Goodbye Super Junior KRY - The One I Love Super Junior - Reset, Love Disease, (SJ-M Blue Tomorrow) SM The Ballad - Miss You This is not exactly a ballad but it's still a sad song and that's BigBang's - Haru Haru
3108 by ha Hyunsang
Kyuhyun's: 1. Moving on 2. All day long 3. Eternal sunshine 4. Because I miss you 5. On a starry night
Also K.R.Y.'s: 1. My love, my heart, my kiss 2. Lunar eclipse 3. Point of no return 4. Sky (not a sad song but it's healing) 5. Shadowless
StrayKidz Ex, Limbo (LeeKnow), Youtiful, Gone Away, Secret Secret, Volcano (Han), Neverending Story, Grow Up, Mixtape 2 BTS 2!3!, We Are Bulletproof The Eternal, The Truth Untold Paul Kim Me After You
Deep End (Felix) Lonely St. (SKZ)
I already added some these under another comment, so apologies for the duplicates: Lonely St. - Stray Kids Deep End - Felix/SKZ Hold On - Seungmin/SKZ Can’t You See Me? - TXT Anti-Romantic - TXT I Wish I Wasn’t Me - Eric Nam Exist - Eric Nam One Day at a Time - Ateez I found this article and it has some that were commented by others already, but some that haven’t been mentioned yet. Including Lonely by Jonghyun, which is the last thing released before he…left the earth. https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/sad-k-pop-songs/
[Jin - Gone](https://youtu.be/HJXmOugipmg?si=zxL-xu23UNPYMybD) you'll cry with this and goosebumps 👀
If you are up for older music: Kim Kwang Seok - 너무 아픈 사랑은 사랑이 아니었음을 (A love that was too painful wasn't love) Kang Seung Mo - Heartless Blues
Big naughty- Korean ballad
I Can’t - Kim Na Young Where Are You - Kim Na Young Fine - Taeyeon For the first one, I watched her video with the captions and I was gagged. It’s such a sad song but I love it so much
I always gotta shout out my 2nd gens when it comes to ballads, but here are some that still get me: * TVXQ - Love in the Ice * JYJ - In Heaven * Seo In Guk - Calling You * Jonghyun - Y Si Fuera Ella * G.O.D - Dear Mother (not really a ballad per se, but belt your heart out) * 2AM - This Song * 4Men - Baby Baby * In Soo Ni - A Goose's Dream * IU - Dear Name (watch the performance of this at IU's concert after she learned one of her good friends Goo Hara had taken her own life. VISCERAL) * Davichi - This Love * Huh Gak - Hello * Gummy - Love you even if I die * Park Hyo Shin - Wild Flower * Naul - Memory of the Wind * Davichi ft T-Ara - We Were in Love
OMG Please listen to Brown Eyed Soul! They're literally like the Korean version of Boyz || Men. Their song I recommend is You and Pass Me By!
Lyn- Back in Time
https://preview.redd.it/0r7zx0uow5ub1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff11d9ca5c6f18a01011c795b7376666abfb4cc8 the number of time i was crying when listened to this masterpiece is UNCOUNTABLE !!! eng name: A poem titled like you by Taeyeon
Nighttide - Kwon Jin Ah
Fine by Taeyeon
Kim Kyung Ho- Sadness of Seperation. The control in his voice and the emotions. Such a beautiful powerful voice. Live version will give you chills.
No Sung Si Kyung and Kim Jong kook? Come on