Circle Chart (formerly known as Gaon Chart) has published its midyear charts for the first half of 2025!

As the midyear chart results are based on accumulated weekly data since the beginning of January 2025, albums and songs released earlier in the year have more weekly points included in their scores.

Album Chart

SEVENTEEN topped the midyear physical album chart with their latest album “HAPPY BURSTDAY,” followed by ENHYPEN’s new mini album “DESIRE : UNLEASH” at No. 2.

IVE’s “IVE EMPATHY” came in at No. 3, RIIZE’s “ODYSSEY” at No. 4, ZEROBASEONE’s “BLUE PARADISE” at No. 5, BOYNEXTDOOR’s “No Genre” at No. 6, NCT WISH’s “poppop” at No. 7, i-dle’s “We are” at No. 8, aespa’s “Dirty Work” at No. 9, and PLAVE’s “Caligo Pt.1” at No. 10.

The top 50 albums on the midyear chart (listed with the number of copies recorded) are as follows:

1. SEVENTEEN – “HAPPY BURSTDAY” [2,535,883]
2. ENHYPEN – “DESIRE : UNLEASH” [2,099,514]
3. IVE – “IVE EMPATHY” [1,425,992]
4. RIIZE – “ODYSSEY” [1,413,171]
5. ZEROBASEONE – “BLUE PARADISE” [1,285,414]
6. BOYNEXTDOOR – “No Genre” [1,140,162]
7. NCT WISH – “poppop” [1,134,872]
8. i-dle – “We are” [976,620]
9. aespa – “Dirty Work” [889,776]
10. PLAVE – “Caligo Pt.1” [824,696]
11. TREASURE – “PLEASURE” [802,419]
12. THE BOYZ – “Unexpected” [749,891]
13. BTS’s Jin – “Echo” [744,942]
14. BLACKPINK’s Jennie – “Ruby” [726,353]
15. LE SSERAFIM – “HOT” [668,339]
16. NMIXX – “Fe304: FORWARD” [650,198]
17. EXO’s Baekhyun – “Essence of Reverie” [647,948]
18. ATEEZ – “GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3” (POCA version) [591,436]
19. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon – “Übermensch” [588,674]
20. TWS – “TRY WITH US” [566,505]
21. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon – “Übermensch” (Nemo version) [505,504]
22. SEVENTEEN’s BSS – “TELEPARTY” [485,118]
23. NCT’s Mark – “The Firstfruit” [454,798]
24. BLACKPINK’s Jisoo – “AMORTAGE” [443,442]
25. ITZY – “Girls Will Be Girls” [411,237]
26. ILLIT – “bomb” [390,872]
27. PLAVE – “Caligo Pt.1” (POCA version) [369,076]
28. Hearts2Hearts – “The Chase” [359,491]
29. tripleS – “ASSEMBLE25” (Cosmo) [353,225]
30. KickFlip – “Kick Out, Flip Now!” [351,774]
31. SEVENTEEN’s HxW – “BEAM” [350,375]
32. P1Harmony – “DUH!” [343,195]
33. NCT’s Doyoung – “Soar” [319,218]
34. KickFlip – “Flip it, Kick it!” [302,005]
35. ITZY’s Yeji – “AIR” [278,196]
36. CRAVITY – “Dare to Crave” [267,236]
37. RIIZE – “ODYSSEY” (SMC version) [260,133]
38. ENHYPEN – “DESIRE : UNLEASH” (Weverse version) [259,307]
39. Park Ji Hyeon – “OCEAN” [250,796]
40. BTS – “2025 BTS FESTA : CAPSULE ALBUM Vol.1” (SMC version) [242,047]
41. MEOVV – “MY EYES OPEN VVIDE” [240,173]
42. EXO’s Kai – “Wait On Me” [235,515]
43. i-dle’s Minnie – “HER” [233,592]
44. BOYNEXTDOOR – “No Genre” (Weverse version) [228,420]
45. EXO’s Baekhyun – “Essence of Reverie” (kiwee album version) [224,901]
46. KiiiKiii – “UNCUT GEM” [213,536]
47. SEVENTEEN – “HAPPY BURSTDAY” (KiT version) [204,843]
48. NEXZ – “O-RLY?” [204,485]
49. SHINee – “Poet | Artist” (SMC version) [202,735]
50. NCT WISH – “poppop” (SMC version) [199,907]

Digital Chart

Two years after its release, WOODZ (Cho Seung Youn) topped the midyear digital chart with his belatedly viral 2023 B-side “Drowning.”

aespa’s “Whiplash” took No. 2 for the first half of 2025, followed by Hwang Karam’s “I’m Firefly” at No. 3, BIGBANG’s G-Dragon’s “HOME SWEET HOME” featuring Taeyang and Daesung at No. 4, BLACKPINK’s Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” at No. 5, IVE’s “REBEL HEART” at No. 6, ZO ZAZZ’s “Don’t you know” at No. 7, BOYNEXTDOOR’s “IF I SAY, I LOVE YOU” at No. 8, G-Dragon’s “TOO BAD” featuring Anderson .Paak at No. 9, and Rosé’s “toxic till the end” at No. 10.

The top 50 songs on the overall digital chart (listed with their total scores) are as follows:

1. WOODZ – “Drowning” [355,390,663]
2. aespa – “Whiplash” [330,941,312]
3. Hwang Karam – “I’m Firefly” [326,414,907]
4. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon – “HOME SWEET HOME” (featuring Taeyang and Daesung) [326,072,528]
5. BLACKPINK’s Rosé and Bruno Mars – “APT.” [301,361,882]
6. IVE – “REBEL HEART” [285,900,669]
7. ZO ZAZZ – “Don’t you know” [266,333,202]
8. BOYNEXTDOOR – “IF I SAY, I LOVE YOU” [262,637,794]
9. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon – “TOO BAD” (featuring Anderson .Paak) [261,557,359]
10. BLACKPINK’s Rosé – “toxic till the end” [243,026,340]
11. DAY6 – “HAPPY” [238,185,681]
12. BLACKPINK’s Jennie – “like JENNIE” [227,587,056]
13. DAY6 – “Time of Our Life” [205,802,973]
14. aespa – “Supernova” [196,186,082]
15. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon – “POWER [192,297,538]
16. 10CM – “To Reach You” [189,403,751]
17. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – “Die With A Smile” [187,888,792]
18. Roy Kim – “If You Ask Me What Love Is” [187,864,238]
19. BABYMONSTER – “DRIP” [186,962,394]
20. DAY6 – “Welcome to the Show” [185,795,005]
21. IVE – “ATTITUDE” [185,765,701]
22. Eclipse (from “Lovely Runner”) – “Sudden Shower” [181,652,675]
23. BTOB’s Changsub – “Heavenly Fate” [176,961,818]
24. aespa’s Karina – “UP” [174,861,462]
25. DAY6 – “You Were Beautiful” [168,243,477]
26. AKMU – “How can I love the heartbreak, it’s you I love” [165,089,599]
27. Lee Mujin – “Coming Of Age Story” [162,136,550]
28. QWER – “My Name is Malguem” [159,340,267]
29. SoonSoonHee (Jihwan) – “Sad Invitation” [156,345,723]
30. NewJeans – “How Sweet” [154,963,482]
31. JAESSBEE – “Every Moment With You” [153,116,880]
32. ILLIT – “Magnetic” [150,085,333]
33. QWER – “T.B.H” [144,867,245]
34. Nerd Connection – “If I have you only” [144,468,516]
35. IU – “Love wins all” [143,171,410]
36. TWS – “plot twist” [137,977,038]
37. LE SSERAFIM – “HOT” [137,920,827]
38. Lee Mujin – “Episode” [136,971,721]
39. fromis_9 – “Supersonic” [136,778,472]
40. Lim Jae Hyun – “Rhapsody of Sadness” [134,229,998]
41. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon – “Untitled, 2014” [133,657,243]
42. Hwang Karam – “I Miss You So Much” [133,650,296]
43. KiiiKiii – “I DO ME” [133,376,426]
44. Sung Si Kyung – “Every Moment of You” [130,849,869]
45. NewJeans – “Hype Boy” [127,688,880]
46. OVAN – “Flower” [127,474,008]
47. i-dle – “Fate” [126,648,301]
48. aespa – “Armageddon” [124,180,694]
49. BUMJIN – “A Letter” [123,892,625]
50. BLACKPINK’s Jennie – “Mantra” [122,654,748]

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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 June 23 to July 23.

BTS’s Jimin continued his reign at the top of the list this month with a brand reputation index of 8,183,409, marking a 17.16 percent increase in his score since June. High-ranking phrases in Jimin’s keyword analysis included “Who,” “cake fairy,” and “ARMY,” while his highest-ranking related terms included “unparalleled,” “unrivaled,” and “unchanging.” Jimin’s positivity-negativity analysis also revealed a score of 94.05 percent positive reactions.

BIGBANG’s G-Dragon rose to second place for July with a brand reputation index of 6,056,259, marking an 8.39 percent increase in his score since last month.

BLACKPINK’s Rosé climbed to third place with a brand reputation index of 5,780,067, marking a 10.98 percent rise in her score since June.

BTS’s Jungkook held onto his spot at fourth place with a brand reputation index of 5,131,314 for July, while BLACKPINK’s Jennie came in at a close fifth with a score of 5,080,586.

Check out the top 30 for this month below!

1. BTS’s Jimin
2. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon
3. BLACKPINK’s Rosé
4. BTS’s Jungkook
5. BLACKPINK’s Jennie
6. IVE’s Jang Won Young
7. BTS’ Suga
8. BTS’s Jin
9. BLACKPINK’s Lisa
10. BLACKPINK’s Jisoo
11. ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo
12. BTS’s j-hope
13. BTS’s RM
14. IVE’s An Yu Jin
15. BTS’s V
16. aespa’s Winter
17. IVE’s Rei
18. Red Velvet’s Joy
19. Red Velvet’s Wendy
20. THE BOYZ’s Juyeon
21. SHINee’s Key
22. TWICE’s Momo
23. SEVENTEEN’s Hoshi
24. THE BOYZ’s Sunwoo
25. Red Velvet’s Yeri
26. Red Velvet’s Irene
27. TWICE’s Sana
28. EXO’s Baekhyun
29. SEVENTEEN’s Wonwoo
30. SEVENTEEN’s Mingyu

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BIGBANG’s G-Dragon has been named a promotional ambassador for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit!

On July 23, South Korea’s Prime Minister Kim Min Seok announced the appointment by tagging G-Dragon’s account and writing on Instagram, “Introducing the promotional ambassador for the APEC summit.”

Prime Minister Kim Min Seok said, “I’m pleased to share good news with the people,” adding, “We are appointing G-Dragon, one of South Korea’s leading artists who has consistently shown creativity and innovation, including transmitting music into space, as the promotional ambassador for the APEC South Korea 2025 in Gyeongju.”

He continued, “With 100 days left until the summit, I hope you will follow the synergy between G-Dragon and the APEC summit starting today.”

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G-Dragon recently released his first solo album in seven years, “Übermensch.” The album features hits such as “POWER,” “Home Sweet Home,” “Too Bad,” and “Drama,” underscoring his enduring influence as a K-pop icon. G-Dragon is also currently partaking in PHASE 2 and 3 of his 2025 world tour “Übermensch.”

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