Wanna One, BTS and Big Bang grabbed the first three places in the April brand reputation index for K-pop boybands.
According to the Korea Corporate Research Institute, 81.43 million pieces of big data were analysed from 6 March to 7 April based on media coverage, communication, participation and community indices were measured.
For the second straight month, rookie boyband Wanna One grabbed first place with a total score of 11.14m, although it was down by 4.28% compared to their March total of 11.64m.
BTS maintained their second place rank with a score of 9.8m from 10.99m last month.
Big Bang bagged third place with a score of 4.97m, rising from sixth place while EXO ranked fourth with 4.96m and iKON grabbed fifth place with 3.96m.
Red Velvet earlier topped the rankings for girl groups.
Boy bands in the sixth to 20th places are:
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6. TVXQ – 3.78 million
7. WINNER – 3.63 million
8. Seventeen – 2.32 million
9. BTOB – 2.13 million
10. NCT – 2.08 million
11. SHINee – 2.02 million
12. GOT7 – 1.95 million
13. Infinite – 1.89 million
14. JBJ – 1.75 million
15. Stray Kids – 1.38 million
16. Monsta X – 1.37 million
17. Super Junior – 1.37 million
18. SF9 – 1.35 million
19. IZ – 1.32 million
20. VIXX – 1.19 million
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