The Top 10 for KKBOX's "Artist of the Year" 2020 is finally released! Super Junior topped the list, followed by BTS, IU, BLACKPINK, and more!
In the recently released ranking of KKBOX, Super Junior topped the list of Korean singers for "2020 Artist of the Year." In particular, KKBOX is Taiwan's largest online music site, and it previously released the 10 K-pop groups that dominated the music scene last year.
Prominent K-pop groups entered the top 10 including Super Junior, BTS, BLACKPINK, ITZY, and more. Along with the ranking, a list for 2020 "Best K-pop Single" was also announced, compiling the 20 of the top tracks that received positive responses upon its release last year.
KKBOX's Top 10 "Artist of the Year"
In the ranking, Super Junior and its sub-unit SJ-K.R.Y ranked No. 1 and No. 9, respectively, in the "2020 Artist of the Year" rankings, which were selected at the KKBOX website and stream index in the app. The two spots claimed by the iconic K-pop group proved their unrelenting popularity.
Following Super Junior, BTS ranked in No. 2, after they showed one of the greatest performances last year with their magnanimous releases, including the tracks "Dynamite," "ON" and "Life Goes On." In the same year, they reached the peak of Billboard's "Hot 100" Chart multiple times, securing a nomination from the most prestigious award ceremony, "GRAMMY" as well.
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Meanwhile, IU ranked third. The "Nation's Sweetheart" captured the interest of music fans with her incredible release, "Eight" ft. and produced by BTS Suga, which also dominated Billboard Korea's K-pop 100. Zico also ranked in the Top 10 as No. 7, the singer of 2020's one of the most loved songs, "Any Song," which rose as a popular TikTok challenge, too.
As for BLACKPINK and TWICE, the top K-pop female groups also entered the ranking, claiming the spot for No. 4 and 6. MAMAMOO ranked in between, while its member Hwasa completed the ranking at No. 10.
Lastly, ITZY becomes the only rookie group on the list and the only fourth-gen idol group among second and third-gen artists.
The five-member group ranked eight, proving their massive popularity and music influence.
KKBOX's 2020 "Top 20 K-pop Single"
The music site which selected the 20 most popular songs from last year attracted attention as the first top 14th places were all songs from Super Junior's ninth full-length repackage "TIMELESS."
Super Junior, which postponed the album release for completion last year, will also release its 10th full-length album this month. The 10th studio album "The Renaissance" was scheduled to be released in December last year to mark the 15th anniversary of Super Junior's debut in 2005, but postponed the release, considering the surge of coronavirus in Korea. Before the album release, the pre-release track "The Melody" was released in November last year.
On the other hand, Zico's "Any Song" then followed (No. 15), as well as BLACKPINK's "How You Like That" (No. 16), GAHO's "Beginning" (No. 17), IU's "Eight" & "Blueming" (No. 18 and 19), completed by Hwasa's "Maria" (No. 20).
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Written by Eunice Dawson
