The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for individual idols!

The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, interaction, and community awareness indexes of 1,730 idols, using big data collected from March 23 to April 23.

BIGBANG’s G-Dragon topped this month’s list with a brand reputation index of 6,688,388 for April. High-ranking phrases in his keyword analysis included “Iris,” “HOME SWEET HOME,” and “KAIST professor,” while his highest-ranking related terms included “curate,” “collaborate,” and “transmit.” G-Dragon’s positivity-negativity analysis also revealed a score of 90.53 percent positive reactions.

Meanwhile, IVE’s Jang Won Young took second place for the month with a brand reputation index of 5,800,150.

BTS’s Jin ranked third with a brand reputation index of 4,925,947, marking a 33.53 percent rise in his score since last month.

BLACKPINK’s Jennie came in at a close fourth with a brand reputation index of 4,794,202, while her bandmate Rosé rounded out the top five with a score of 4,524,182 for April.

Check out the top 30 for this month below!

1. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon
2. IVE’s Jang Won Young
3. BTS’s Jin
4. BLACKPINK’s Jennie
5. BLACKPINK’s Rosé
6. ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo
7. aespa’s Karina
8. BTS’s Jimin
9. BTS’s Jungkook
10. BTS’s V
11. BTS’s j-hope
12. IVE’s An Yu Jin
13. BTS’s RM
14. BLACKPINK’s Jisoo
15. IVE’s Rei
16. aespa’s Winter
17. SHINee’s Key
18. Red Velvet’s Irene
19. BTS’ Suga
20. IVE’s Gaeul
21. THE BOYZ’s Hyunjae
22. SEVENTEEN’s Hoshi
23. MONSTA X’s Minhyuk
24. EXO’s Baekhyun
25. Wanna One’s Kang Daniel
26. Super Junior’s Kim Heechul
27. OH MY GIRL’s Mimi
28. Red Velvet’s Joy
29. SEVENTEEN’s Wonwoo
30. Red Velvet’s Seulgi

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Circle Chart (formerly known as Gaon Chart) has revealed its chart rankings for the week of April 6 to 12!

Album Chart

NCT’s Mark achieved a double crown on this week’s charts with his first solo album “The Firstfruit” and its title track “1999,” which topped the physical album chart and the digital download chart respectively.

Mark claimed two of the top four spots on this week’s album chart with “The Firstfruit”: the regular version of the album debuted at No. 1, while the Nemo version charted separately at No. 4.

THE BOYZ’s “Unexpected” stayed strong at No. 2 on this week’s chart, while AMPERS&ONE’s “WILD&FREE” and FANTASY BOYS’ “UNDENIABLE” debuted at No. 3 and No. 5 respectively.

Overall Digital Chart

BIGBANG’s G-Dragon once again maintained his double crown on the Circle charts with his hit song “TOO BAD” (featuring Anderson .Paak), which remained No. 1 on both the overall digital chart and streaming chart this week.

ZO ZAZZ’s “Don’t you know” held onto its spot at No. 2, while WOODZ (Cho Seung Youn)’s “Drowning” climbed back up to No. 3.

BLACKPINK’s Jennie’s “like JENNIE” stayed strong at No. 4, with Hwang Karam’s “I’m Firefly” rounding out the top five for the week.

Streaming Chart

The top four songs on this week’s streaming chart were the same as the overall digital chart, except WOODZ’s “Drowning” and ZO ZAZZ’s “Don’t you know” swapped places to take No. 3 and No. 4 respectively.

Finally, aespa’s “Whiplash” climbed back up to No. 5 for the week.

Download Chart

Mark topped this week’s digital download chart with his new solo title track “1999,” while Kang Daniel’s “Mess” entered the chart at No. 2.

BIGBANG’s Daesung’s “Universe” debuted at No. 3, followed by Hwang Karam’s “I’m Firefly” at No. 4 and Lim Young Woong’s “Our Blues” at No. 5.

Global K-Pop Chart

The top five songs on this week’s streaming chart remained exactly the same as last week: BLACKPINK’s Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” continued its reign at No. 1, followed by Jennie’s “like JENNIE” at No. 2, BTS’s j-hope’s “MONA LISA” at No. 3, aespa’s “Whiplash” at No. 4, and Jennie’s “ExtraL” featuring Doechii at No. 5.

Congratulations to all of the artists!

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The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for all idol groups!

The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, interaction, and community awareness indexes of various idol groups, using big data collected from March 17 to April 17.

BTS topped this month’s list with a brand reputation index of 6,873,091, marking a 6.58 percent rise in their score since March. High-ranking phrases in the group’s keyword analysis included “ARMY,” “Billboard,” and “military hiatus,” while their highest-ranking related terms included “donate,” “perform,” and “release.” BTS’s positivity-negativity analysis also revealed a score of 90.54 percent positive reactions.

SEVENTEEN jumped to second place with a brand reputation index of 5,276,745, marking a 19.31 percent increase in their score since last month.

Meanwhile, IVE took third place for April with a brand reputation index of 3,937,842.

SHINee rose to fourth place with a brand reputation index of 3,489,514, marking a 50.71 percent increase in their score since March.

Finally, aespa rounded out the top five with a brand reputation index of 3,281,550.

Check out the top 30 for this month below!

1. BTS
2. SEVENTEEN
3. IVE
4. SHINee
5. aespa
6. BIGBANG
7. BLACKPINK
8. KiiiKiii
9. LE SSERAFIM
10. OH MY GIRL
11. Hearts2Hearts
12. Stray Kids
13. THE BOYZ
14. TWICE
15. EXO
16. Red Velvet
17. (G)I-DLE
18. ATEEZ
19. NCT
20. H1-KEY
21. MONSTA X
22. FIFTY FIFTY
23. BOYNEXTDOOR
24. ENHYPEN
25. fromis_9
26. NMIXX
27. izna
28. BABYMONSTER
29. RIIZE
30. INFINITE

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