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BTS' Jimin, Kang Daniel, ASTRO's Cha Eun-woo top individual K-pop idol rankings in May

Published May 29, 2021 08:32 pm
(Clockwise from top left) BTS’ Jimin, Kang Daniel, ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo, and BTS’ V, Jungkook and Jin (Instagram / Big Hit Music) 

BTS’ Jimin, Kang Daniel, ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo, and BTS’ V and Jungkook topped the individual K-pop idol brand reputation rankings for May.

The Korea Corporate Research Institute extracted 153.83 million pieces of big data covering 1,453 K-pop idols from April 29 to May 29, down by 46.03 percent from 285.03 million in February.

Topping the ranking for May is BTS’ Jimin who got a total score of 7.21 million, a decrease by 34.03 percent from 10.94 million in February.

Kang Daniel placed second, scoring 6.89 million, falling by 35.4 percent compared to 10.69 million in the last ranking.

In third place is ASTRO's Cha Eun-woo who received a score of 6.33 million, down by 36.62 percent from 9.98 million.

Placing fourth is BTS’ V with 5.1 million, a decrease of 31.63 percent from 7.47 million in February while BTS’ Jungkook is in fifth place with 4.58 million, down by 31.51 percent compared to 6.69 million in February.

Here are the top 30 K-pop idols in the individual rankings for May:

  1. BTS' Jimin - 7,217,872
  2. Kang Daniel - 6,899,570
  3. ASTRO's Cha Eun-woo - 6,330,046
  4. BTS' V - 5,107,579
  5. BTS' Jungkook - 4,584,186
  6. BTS' Jin - 3,271,942
  7. Brave Girls' Yujeong - 3,179,527
  8. BTS' Suga - 2,793,291
  9. Brave Girls’ Yuna - 2,723,939
  10. Brave Girls' Eunji - 2,681,253
  11. Big Bang’s G-Dragon - 2,611,306
  12. BTS' J-Hope - 2,489,117
  13. Oh My Girl's Arin - 2,450,135
  14. Brave Girls' Minyoung - 2,378,549
  15. BLACKPNK's Jennie - 2,310,781
  16. Highlight's Yoon Doojoon - 2,157,249
  17. BTS' RM - 2,094,631

18.Oh My Girl's Jiho 1,958,038

19.ITZY's Yuna 1,936,670

  1. aespa's Winter - 1,932,019
  2. aespa's Karina - 1,885,968

22.Girls' Generation's Taeyeon - 1,841,157

  1. ITZY's Yeji - 1,789,378

24.Girls' Generation's Yuri - 1,788,114

  1. NU'EST's JR - 1,749,826
  2. Highlight's Yoseob - 1,680,609
  3. ITZY's Ryujin - 1,677,755
  4. aespa's Giselle - 1,657,846
  5. ITZY's Lia - 1,654,986
  6. Mamamoo’s Hwasa - 1,648,453

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