On Thursday, Jan. 28, Idol Chart revealed their Ahcha Rankings for the third week of January. Keep on reading to see who their top artists are for this time period.
From Jan. 18 to Jan. 28, Idol Chart takes a lot into different artists' and groups' music scores, YouTube scores, and social scores. With that, they determine which groups are at the top at the moment. Unsurprisingly, BTS ranked first for the 10th consecutive week with a total of 7,217 points. The boy group scored 1,058 music score points, 3,866 YouTube score points, and 2,394 social score points.
Recently, K-Pop Radar announced that BTS's all-English song "Dynamite" has remained at the top spot even five months after the song's release. The music video for the song recently surpassed 800 million views, making them the fastest K-pop group to surpass this record, doing so in only 155 days. According to K-Pop Radar, BTS garnered 300 million views on YouTube during the fourth week of January, with Japan being the largest audience. After Japan is Indonesia, then India, the Philippines, and the United States.
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It was recently announced that BTS will be releasing a new version of their Nov. 2020 release, "BE," called "BE (Essential Edition)" on Feb. 19, 2021. The first version of the aforementioned album was released on Nov. 20, 2020, with the title track "Life Goes On."
"Life Goes On" is sang mostly in Korean and is the first Korean language song to ever hit number one in the United States.
(G)I-DLE ranked in second place with a total score of 6,583. The girl group has a music score of 433, a YouTube score of 3,907, and a social score of 2,198. Notably, there were also in the second place during the second week of January's Acha Rankings. Due to the success, they are receiving for their most recent comeback, "HWAA," it is no surprise they are ranked so highly.
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(G)-IDLE released their fourth mini-album, "I Burn," with the title track "HWAA," on Jan. 11, 2021. The song talks about the feelings after a break-up and is a continuation of their 2018 song "HANN." "HWAA" debuted at number one on the Melon Chart, making it the first song by a fourth-generation K-pop group to do so. "HWAA" peaked at number four on the Gaon Digital Chart and at the top of the Download Chart. As of press time, they have won seven music show win for "HWAA," with their most recent win being on "M! Countdown."
From 3-20, the ranking goes:
3. BLACKPINK (5,045 points)
4. IZ*ONE (3,757 points)
5. IU (3,056 points)
6. Epik High (3,025 points)
7. TWICE (2,790 points)
8. Im Young Woong (2,288 points)
9. aespa (1,948 points)
10. GFRIEND (1,873 points)
11. Suzy (1,827 points)
12. Oh My Girl (1,728 points)
13. Na Hoon Ah (1,645 points)
14. TVXQ's Yunho (1,567 points)
15. Girls' Generation's Taeyeon (1,565 points)
16. AKMU's Lee Chanhyuk (1,557 points)
17. THE BOYZ (1,519 points)
18. Park Jinyoung (1,500 points)
19. MUSHVENOM (1,408 points)
20. Young Tak (1,401 points)
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Written by Alexa Lewis
