Circle Chart (formerly known as Gaon Chart) has revealed its chart rankings for the week of April 20 to 26!

Album Chart

TWS claimed two of the top three spots on this week’s physical album chart with their new mini album “TRY WITH US.” The regular version of the mini album debuted at No. 1, while the Weverse version charted separately at No. 3.

Meanwhile, EXO’s Kai’s new solo mini album “Wait On Me” entered the chart at No. 2.

The SMC version of NCT WISH’s latest mini album “poppop” stayed strong at No. 4 on this week’s chart, and YOUNITE’s new EP “YOUNI-T” debuted at No. 5.

Overall Digital Chart

BLACKPINK’s Jennie achieved a double crown on this week’s Circle charts with her solo hit “like JENNIE,” which topped both the overall digital chart and streaming chart.

“like JENNIE” rose to No. 1 on this week’s overall digital chart, followed by BIGBANG’s G-Dragon’s “TOO BAD” (featuring Anderson .Paak) at No. 2, WOODZ (Cho Seung Youn)’s “Drowning” at No. 3, ZO ZAZZ’s “Don’t you know” at No. 4, and Lim Young Woong’s “Heavenly Ever After” at No. 5.

Streaming Chart

The same four songs topped this week’s streaming chart and overall digital chart, albeit in a slightly different order: WOODZ’s “Drowning” and G-Dragon’s “TOO BAD” swapped places to take No. 2 and No. 3 respectively.

Finally, aespa’s “Whiplash” rounded out the top five on this week’s streaming chart.

Download Chart

Lim Young Woong’s “Heavenly Ever After” held onto its spot at No. 1 on this week’s digital download chart, while Kai’s new title track “Wait On Me” debuted at No. 2.

G-Dragon’s star-studded collab single “Good Day 2025 (Telepathy + By the Moonlight Window)” from his recent variety show “Good Day” entered the chart at No. 3.

ISEGYE IDOL’s “Misty Rainbow” debuted at No. 4 on the chart, with G-Dragon’s “TOO BAD” rising to No. 5 for the week.

Global K-Pop Chart

The top three songs on this week’s global K-pop chart chart remained exactly the same as last week: BLACKPINK’s Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” continued its reign at No. 1, while Jennie’s “like JENNIE” and aespa’s “Whiplash” held onto their respective spots at No. 2 and No. 3.

Jennie’s “ExtraL” (featuring Doechii) rose to No. 4 on this week’s chart, followed by BTS’s j-hope’s “MONA LISA” at No. 5.

Congratulations to all of the artists!

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The Korean Business Research Institute has published its brand reputation rankings for all stars during the month of April!

The rankings were determined through an analysis of various stars’ media coverage, consumer participation, interaction, and community awareness indexes, using big data collected from March 29 to April 29.

BTS rose to the top of the list this month with a brand reputation index of 8,639,155, marking a 19.99 percent increase in their score since March.

Lim Young Woong took second place with a brand reputation index of 7,846,690, marking a 12.99 percent rise in his score since last month.

Meanwhile, BLACKPINK climbed to third place with a brand reputation index of 6,184,452 for April.

Baseball star Lee Jung Hoo shot to fourth place after seeing a whopping 101.75 percent increase in his brand reputation index, bringing his total score for the month to 6,049,222.

Finally, BIGBANG came in at a close fifth with a brand reputation index of 6,045,322.

Check out the top 30 for this month below!

1. BTS
2. Lim Young Woong
3. BLACKPINK
4. Lee Jung Hoo
5. BIGBANG
6. IVE
7. Son Heung Min
8. Lee Byung Hun
9. Yoo Jae Suk
10. SEVENTEEN
11. Park Hyung Sik
12. Kim Yeon Koung
13. Son Suk Ku
14. Ryu Hyun Jin
15. Kim Jong Min
16. aespa
17. PSY
18. Kim Jong Kook
19. ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo
20. Choo Sung Hoon
21. Kang Daniel
22. SHINee
23. Lee Chan Won
24. (G)I-DLE
25. Kim Do Yeong
26. Lee Jung Jae
27. Byeon Woo Seok
28. OH MY GIRL
29. NCT
30. Go Youn Jung

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