BLACKPINK’s Jennie, Jisoo, Red Velvet’s Joy lead girl group member rankings


(Clockwise from top left) BLACKPINK’s Jennie and Jisoo, Red Velvet’s Joy, aespa's Karina Red Velvet's Irene and aespa’s Winter (Instagram) 

BLACKPINK’s Jennie and Jisoo, Red Velvet’s Joy, aespa's Karina and Red Velvet's Irene grabbed the first five places in the brand reputation index for individual K-pop girl group members in August.

According to the Korea Corporate Research Institute, 86.31 million pieces of big data from 540 members of K-pop girl groups from July 22 to Aug. 22 were analyzed, down by 25.42 percent from 115.73 million in July .

Their brand reputation index was based on consumer participation, media exposure, communication and community indices.

BLACKPINK’s Jennie rose to first from second place, getting a brand reputation score of 3.74 million, up by 3.68 percent from 3.61 million in July.

BLACKPINK’s Jisoo climbed to second place from 13th last month with a score of 2.77 million, an increase of 31.92 percent from 2.1 million.

Red Velvet’s Joy rose to third from fourth place, garnering 2.57 million in August, down by 21.56 percent from 3.27 last month.

Aespa’s Karina fell to fourth from first place last month with a score of 2.34 million, a decrease of 35.85 percent from 3.64 million in July.

Red Velvet’s Irene is in fifth place with a score of 2.05 million, rising by 124.88 percent from 915,209 last month.

Here are the top 30 K-pop girl group members based on the individual brand reputation rankings in August 2021:

  1. BLACKPINK's Jennie - 3,746,842
  2. BLACKPINK's Jisoo - 2,775,397
  3. Red Velvet's Joy - 2,572,534
  4. aespa's Karina - 2,340,167
  5. Red Velvet's Irene - 2,058,099
  6. aespa's Winter - 2,009,500
  7. Red Velvet's Wendy - 1,923,069
  8. Girls' Generation's - Taeyeon 1,857,220
  9. Girls' Generation's Yoona - 1,633,551
  10. Mamamoo's Solar - 1,592,855
  11. aespa's Giselle - 1,562,592
  12. BLACKPINK's Rose - 1,510,253
  13. Red Velvet's Yeri - 1,500,865
  14. Oh My Girl's Arin - 1,490,346
  15. Brave Girls' Yujeong - 1,453,913
  16. TWICE's Nayeon - 1,374,029
  17. Red Velvet's Seulgi - 1,368,131
  18. TWICE's Jeongyeon - 1,358,050
  19. Girls' Generation's Sooyoung - 1,347,054
  20. Apink's Naeun - 1,292,300
  21. TWICE's Mina - 1,268,117
  22. Girls' Generation's Hyoyeon - 1,218,598
  23. Girls' Generation's Yuri - 1,207,893
  24. Loona's Chuu - 1,153,217
  25. aespa's Ningning - 1,141,690
  26. Brave Girls' Yuna - 1,104,758
  27. Girl's Day's Hyeri - 1,095,894
  28. Girls' Generation's Seohyun - 1,091,884
  29. Oh My Girl's YooA - 1,086,828
  30. Mamamoo's Hwasa - 1,074,348