BTS Tops December Boy Group Brand Reputation Rankings — See Who Else Made the List

On Saturday, Dec. 12, the Korean Brand Research Institute dropped their brand reputation rankings for boy groups in December. See who rose above the ranks and is considered one of South Korea's top boy groups here.

The Korean Brand Research Institute measured over 60,938 pieces of data concerning 158 boy groups from Nov. 12 to Dec. 12 to analyze consumer behavior. The data measures the community participation index, media index, communication index, and community reception index concerning numerous boy groups. All of these are consolidated together to create an overall brand reputation index.

The brand reputation rankings help determine consumers' online habits and what impacts brand consumption. Analyzing the brand reputation can help figure out the positive and negative influences of boy group to the public, the media's interest in them, and a consumers' interest and communication volume. The brand reputation rankings also check to see if a group associated with a brand helps boost sales among consumers.

Sitting in the first place is BTS (RM, Suga, Jin, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook) with a brand reputation index of 23,659,001. The group has a participation index of 5,463,864, a media index of 5,827,470, a communication index of 5,983,919, and a community index of 6,383,748. Compared with their brand reputation index of 8,585,929 in November, their index rose by 175.3%.

Second place is NCT (Taeil, Johnny, Taeyong, Yuta, Doyoung, Ten, Jaehyun, Winwin, Mark, Renjun, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin, Chenle, Jisung, Lucas, Jungwoo, Kun, Xiaojun, Hendery, Yangyang, Shotaro, and Sungchan) with a brand reputation index of 5,341,172. The group has a participation index of 505,295, a media index of 1,576,013, a communication index of 1,442,472, and a community index of 1,576,387. Compared with their brand reputation index of 5,846,061 in November, their index fell by 8.64%.

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The PLEDIS Entertainment boy group SEVENTEEN (S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, DK, Mingyu, The8, Seungkwan, Vernon, and Dino) sits at third place with a brand reputation index of 3,602,368. The group has a participation index of 486,112, a media index of 634,314, a communication index of 1,196,261, and a community index of 1,282,682. Compared with their brand reputation index of 1,894,891 in November, their index rose by 68.97%.

SEVENTEEN
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Fifth place goes to BTOB (Eunkwang, Minhyuk, Changseob, Hyungsik, Peniel, Ilhoon, and Sungjae) with a brand reputation index of 2,640,910. The group has a participation index of 576,400, a media index of 578,070, a communication index of 978,117, and a community index of 508,325. Compared with their brand reputation index of 1,145,522 in November, their index rose by 130.54%.

BTOB
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Congratulations to the top five groups!

From 6-50, the ranking goes:

6. SHINee

7. MONSTA X

8. THE BOYZ

9. ASTRO

10. TXT

11. GOT7

12. Super Junior

13. Stray Kids

14. NU'EST

15. ATEEZ

16. PENTAGON

17. CRAVITY

18. BIGBANG

19. B1A4

20. AB6IX

21. ONF

22. VICTON

21. SF9

24. Teen Top

25. HIGHLIGHT

26. Shinhwa

27. VIXX

28. WINNER

29. 2PM

30. ONEUS

31. TVXQ!

32. INFINITE

33. Golden Child

34. CIX

35. Block B

36. TOO

37. Dongkiz

38. 2AM

39. Sechs Kies

40. JBJ96

41. JYJ

42. VERIVERY

43. FT Island

44. Boyfriend

45. BNF

46. MCND

47. HotShot

48. B.A.P.

49. LIMITLESS

50. Hot Blood Youth

Did your favorite K-pop artist make the list? Tell us in the comment section down below!

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Written by Alexa L.

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