Of the 100 chart songs, 28 ask questions — from 'Who's your bias?' to 'Have I become the adult I dreamed of?'

We read the Bugs lyrics of the 100 songs on the Bugs weekly chart (October 26 to November 1) and counted every line that has a question mark in it. 28 songs ask something, and 110 lines have a question mark. If each repeated chorus line is counted only once, that drops to 59 lines, and the other 72 songs have no question mark at all. The numbers follow the question marks printed in the Bugs lyrics. A question that the lyrics sheet wrote without a question mark could not be counted.

At a glance

Song	Lines with a question mark	Different lines	First question
ILLIT 'It's Me'	24	3	First line
NMIXX 'Heavy Serenade'	12	4	10th line
G-DRAGON 'HOME SWEET HOME'	7	5	15th line
meomuru 'The Adult I Dreamed Of'	6	3	9th line
DAY6 'HAPPY'	5	2	First line

Seven songs have exactly four lines with a question mark. Two songs open with a question on the very first line, ILLIT's 'It's Me' and DAY6's 'HAPPY', and four songs are still asking on the last line: meomuru, HANRORO, KiiiKiii and NMIXX. Lines with 'who' or its Korean word '누구' number 24, and 23 of them come from one ILLIT song.

What the ten songs ask

ILLIT 'It's Me': "Who's your bias?"

It asks from the very first line. 'Who's your bias?' comes up 21 times, 'Who? Who?' twice and 'Why? Why? Why? Why?' once, so 24 lines have a question mark. A bias is a fan's favorite member, so the song keeps asking the listener to name theirs. It came out in April and still sits at No. 23 on the weekly chart. Apple Music

meomuru 'The Adult I Dreamed Of': the questions keep getting smaller

The Korean title, '꿈꾸던 어른이 되었나요?' ("Have I become the adult I dreamed of?"), is already a question, and the song is No. 2 on the weekly chart. Three lines, '꿈꾸던 어른이 되었나요?' ("Have I become the adult I dreamed of?"), '꿈꾸던 어른이 된 걸까요?' ("Did I really become the adult I dreamed of?") and '어른이라 부를 수 있을까요?' ("Can I call myself an adult?"), come twice in the same order. The questions grow more cautious as they go, and the last line of the song is '어른이라 부를 수 있을까요?' ("Can I call myself an adult?") too. The photo at the very top is a frame at 0:41 of this lyric video. The English title on Apple Music is 'The Adult I Dreamed Of'. Apple Music

DAY6 'HAPPY' and 'Congratulations': the questions of 2024 and 2015

'HAPPY' starts on the first line with '그런 날이 있을까요?' ("Is there a day like that?") and asks 'May I be happy?' three times. 'Congratulations', from the 2015 debut record and No. 99 on the same chart, asks a former partner '어때 그 남잔 나보다 더 나?' ("Is that guy better than me?") (Apple Music). For 'HAPPY' we attached the official live clip instead of a music video. Apple Music

Epik High & DAVICHI 'Mise en scène': questions with the answer already settled

'영원한 게 어디 있어?' ("Does anything last forever?") and '영화 같은 이별이 어딨어?' ("Are there breakups like the ones in movies?") aren't questions that want an answer. They say 'there's no such thing' with a question mark. All four different questions, including '왜 해, 하늘에 맹세?' ("Why swear on the heavens?") and '누구겠니?' ("Who could it be?"), appear only once each. Apple Music

HANRORO '0+0': "너도 같은 생각이지?" ("You think the same, right?")

In a short 21-line lyric, '너도 같은 생각이지?' ("You think the same, right?") comes up three times, and the last line is '너도 영영 그럴 거지?' ("You'll stay that way forever too, right?"). The song closes with a question that checks whether the other feels the same, not one that asks about something unknown. HANRORO will hold a solo concert at Inspire Arena in Incheon on January 2 and 3 next year (October 26 news briefing). Apple Music

NMIXX 'Heavy Serenade': 12 lines with a question mark

Korean questions like '서툴러도 뭐 어때?' ("So what if we're clumsy?") and '너는 뭐랄까?' ("How would I describe you?") mix with English ones like 'L O V E, right?' and 'can you hug me?'. There are only four different questions, but with repeats they add up to 12 lines, and even the last line, 'We're blooming, can you hug me?', ends in a question mark. Apple Music

IVE 'Looks Can Kill': even the greeting gets a question mark

The '안녕?' ("Hello?") on line 6 is more of a greeting than a question. The only other question is one line in English, 'How'd she get so lethal?'. Apple Music

RIIZE 'Insomnia': once, near the end

Of its 64 lines, the only one with a question mark is line 45, 'Do you love me or nada?'. About two-thirds of the way through the song, it asks for the first and last time. Apple Music

IU 'Unknown Planet': "기억하나요?" ("Do you remember?")

In a 28-line lyric, it asks just once, on the third line: '기억하나요?' ("Do you remember?"). That one line is the only question. Apple Music

Hearts2Hearts 'RUDE!': asking back right away

Right after 'You know what he said to me?', the next line is 'What?'. 'He was like,' and 'And I was like,' follow, and it runs like a conversation retelling what was said. The lines inside quotation marks, '"Boy, does it look like I could care?' and '"Hate me?"', are written with question marks too. Apple Music