Ranking KBS Song Festival Fancam Views (or: Yuna's Midriff Really Was the Main Event)

  • The same KBS K-pop YouTube channel also posted the "normal", non-fancam versions of all the performances, and I think the view counts for these videos are worth a look as well. Here are the latest view counts, as of 18:75 UTC on December 26th:


    1. Le SserafimFearless + Antifragile: 1M

    2. NewJeans – Attention + Hype Boy: 1M

    3. Yuna (YuWonMi) – U-Go-Girl: 1M

    4. NCT Dream – Candy: 916K

    5. Leeseo + Sullyoon + Eunchae + Minji + Hyein (Akiz) – Love Like Oxygen: 852K

    6. IVELove Dive + After Like: 646K

    7. Stray Kids – Case 143 + Maniac: 614K

    8. Aespa – Girls: 552K

    9. Le Sserafim – Hope: 528K

    10. Wonyoung (YuWonMi) – Love: 512K

    11. EnhypenBlessed-Cursed + ParadoXXX Invasion: 418K

    12. Nmixx – Dice + O.O: 412K

    13. BoA – Girls on Top (ft. Taeyong + Jeno): 381K

    14. Itzy – Cheshire + Sneakers: 350K

    15. Ryujin + Chaeryeong (JYP Nation) – Caution: 318K

    16. Jiwoo + Kyujin (JYP Nation) – You In My Faded Memories: 293K

    17. Juyeon + Q + Sunwoo (The Boyz) – No Diggity: 268K

    18. Forestella – Bad Romance: 262K

    19. Kep1er – Wa Da Da: 260K

    20. <All Performers> – No.1: 237K

    21. Tomorrow X Together – Opening Sequence + Good Boy Gone Bad: 230K

    22. Hyunjin + Han + Felix (JYP Nation) – As I Told You: 225K

    23. Yuqi + Yoon + Liz (Y2K Girls) – After Breaking Up: 171K

    24. Fromis_9 – Stay This Way: 155K

    25. (G)I-dle – Nxde: 148K

    26. (G)I-dle – Tomboy: 144K

    27. NCT 127 – Faster + 2 Baddies: 142K

    28. Miyeon (YuWonMi) – Festival: 136K

    29. <All Performers> – Genuine: 117K

    30. Seoho + Leedo + Hwanwoong (Oneus) – SexyBack: 104K

    31. NCT Dream – Glitch Mode: 96K

    32. STAYC – Run2U: 96K

    33. Ateez – T.O.P: 85K

    34. Yena – Smiley: 79K

    35. BoA – Forgive Me: 66K

    36. Oneus – Same Scent: 57K

    37. The Boyz – Whisper: 42K

    38. Pentagon – Feelin' Like: 28K

    39. Kim Woo-seok – Switch: 9.8K


    The thing that really stands out to me is how much (G)I-dle under-performed here. I don't expect them to out-view NewJeans, IVE, or viral Yuna, but even Nmixx/Itzy/Kep1er received significantly more views, despite those groups' music being widely criticised this year. Hell, Forestella somehow has more views.


    On the other hand, Le Sserafim actually topped the ranking here, and I think this feat speaks to their growing reputation as the top group of their generation with regard to providing energetic, engaging performances.

    Edited once, last by wsoet ().

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