BTS’ Jimin, ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo, EXO’s Baekhyun top K-pop boy band member rankings

BY Jonathan Hicap
Apr 18, 2021 08:49 AM
(Clockwise from top left) BTS’ Jimin, ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo, EXO’s Baekhyun and BTS’ V and Jin (Big Hit Music, Twitter, SM Entertainment) 

BTS’ Jimin, ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo, EXO’s Baekhyun and BTS’ V and Jin took the first five places in the brand reputation rankings for individual K-pop boy band members in April.

The Korea Corporate Research Institute released the rankings based on consumer participation, media, communication and community indices. It analyzed 124.6 million pieces of big data covering 632 boy band members from March 17 to April 17, an increase by 12.95 percent from 110.32 million in March.

BTS’ Jimin topped the list again for the 28th consecutive month with a score of 5.29 million, a decrease of 18.45 percent compared to his March first-place score of 6.48 million.

ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo maintained his second place finish with a score of 4.82 million, down by 19.33 percent from 5.97 million last month.

EXO’s Baekhyun rose from 17th to third place in April, receiving a score of 4.75 million, rising by 206.78 percent from last month’s 1.54 million.

BTS’ V placed fourth with a score of 4.69 million, an increase of 18.04 percent from last month’s 3.97 million.

BTS’ Jin grabbed fifth place with a brand reputation index of 4.61 million, up by 34.47 percent from 3.43 million in March.

Here are the scores of the top 30 K-pop boy band members for April:

  1. BTS’ Jimin - 5,291,477
  2. ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo - 4,822,998
  3. EXO’s Baekhyun - 4,745,104
  4. BTS’ V - 4,696,396
  5. BTS’ Jin - 4,613,815
  6. BTS’ Jungkook - 4,364,840
  7. BTS’ RM - 3,935,429
  8. BTS’ Suga - 3,343,483
  9. WINNER’s Kang Seung-yoon - 3,048,842
  10. Super Junior’s Heechul - 2,944,711
  11. BTS’ J-Hope - 2,869,594
  12. Big Bang’s G-Dragon - 2,623,921
  13. EXO’s Chanyeol - 1,901,844
  14. SHINee’s Minho - 1,723,791
  15. Super Junior’s Eunhyuk - 1,482,661
  16. NU’EST’s Minhyun - 1,336,961
  17. Shinhwa’s Eric - 1,327,833
  18. NCT’s Jaehyun - 1,283,743
  19. NCT’s Mark - 1,249,966
  20. NCT’s Jungwoo - 1,249,789.
  21. EXO’s Kai - 1,214,846
  22. SHINee’s Taemin - 1,210,962
  23. ASTRO’s Moonbin - 1,194,610
  24. EXO’s Xiumin - 1,141,425
  25. NCT’s Jeno - 1,141,408
  26. EXO’s Sehun - 1,139,857
  27. T1419’s Zero - 1,128,407
  28. Drippin’s Alex - 1,115,386
  29. T1419’s Sian - 1,111,159
  30. Seventeen’s Mingyu - 1,109,230
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