2024 해외 한류 실태 조사 | K-POP TIMES
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BTS, Blackpink, Jungkook (BTS) Favorite singers ranked 1st, 2nd, and 4th Despite gaps in enlistment and contract renewal issues, BTS (29.1%) and Blackpink (13.1%) are most liked (Choisunho means 'most liked' in Korean) for 6 and 5 consecutive years, respectively Ranked 1st and 2nd in the Korean Wave Singer/Group category. BTS Jungkook, who debuted as a solo artist, ranked 1st on the 'Billboard Hot 100' and 10th on the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) '2023 Annual Global Singles Chart'*, ranking 4th overall in response rate (2.7%), ranking BTS individually. It proved the member’s influence. While BTS showed even preference in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East, Blackpink had a high preference rate in Asia and the Pacific.
10 Stray Kids
9. GDragon
8. EXO
6. Twice
4. Jungkook
2. BlackPink
1. BTS.
GDragon and Psy are has beens, but they still reside in this ranking, since the newer acts have not really made a strong impressoin over foreign fans.
Today is the anniversary of the battle of waterloo, which is not complete with Abba's song of the same name.
The iron determination of Great Britain to defeat the French Revolution lasted for 26 years.
I , once again, deliberately omitted #5 in the above ranking, since #5 does not belong to KPop and should not have been thrown out by the surveyors to begin with.
The iron determination of #5 to defeat KPop, destroy its global influence and make it go back to the dark ages of 1990s has not diminished a single bit as seen in her recent behavior.
She released a clio on the day Seokjin was going to be discharged. She did meet Seokjin in the wedding of T-Ara's Jiyeon, although it is not known whether they talked.
Like Cho Yongpil shooting Psy from the back in 2013, #5 released this video, to diffuse some of the brouhaha from Seokjin's release.
Then, on the day of the Weverse concert, she appeared at the concert of Akmu.
This weverse concert, on the wake of the MHJ mess, was an attempt by Hybe to raise its stature, and it invited JYP to give legitimacy over its cause.
And Akmu chose to have a concert on the same day as an act of defiance.
And IU condoned Akmu's defiance by bothering to show up there, when she is going to England to fight Taylor Swift on Friday, supporting Akmu's cause and showing the desire to destroy Kpop once again, something she has tried for the last 14 years and a goal she has never given up.
It is unfortunate that the 4th Generation of KPop, except Stray Kids, has not made enough mark to the foreign fans, because their policy of saving cost have put them stuck in Korea except in rare cases.
It is amazing that KPop grew so big with its mortal enemy being around for so long , who has never really relinquished their desire to ruin KPop and have shown actions to defy KPop's revival and laugh it off.
When BTS goes away , KPop's enemies will once again have their chance. It is somewhat fortuitous that there seems to be no successors to the current major enemies pf KPop, thanks to younger soloist talents flowing into trot, but given #5 has fought KPop single handed for all these years and even having important successes, and still lingering in this list over other major acts of the newer generation,
the long term prognosis on KPop seems to be poor.
