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BLACKPINK Stays As Top Girl Group In July Brand Rankings
BLACKPINK continues to top the brand rankings for K-pop girl groups this July!
With the announcement of their highly-awaited comeback and concert tour as a full group, BLACKPINK shows their steady momentum as they were recognized by the Korean Business Research Institute as the No.1 girl group in the brand reputation rankings for July.
The rankings are based on various factors including consumer participation, media, communication, and community indices analyzed by the organization. Particularly, it extracted 45,599,648 data among numerous girl groups from June 10 to July 10.
#1 BLACKPINK
BLACKPINK was able to hold on the top rank for the second month in a row now with a brand reputation index of 3,133,666 for July. Some of the high-ranking phrases in the quartet’s keyword analysis include their member “Lisa” “Instagram,” and “fashion show.” In addition, words such as “make a comeback,” “model,” and “surpass” are present as their high-ranking related terms.
Other leading girl groups
Coming in at second place is Starship Entertainment’s rookie girl group IVE. The rising act was able to obtain a high rank with a brand reputation index of 3,120,003.
After earning an impressive 180.45 percent increase in their score since last month, HYBE Labels’ charming girl group fromis_9 climbed to take the third spot this July. They achieved a brand reputation index of 2,882,432 for the month.
(G)I-DLE and TWICE ranked fourth and fifth in the rankings. Meanwhile, Girls’ Generation, WJSN, aespa, Oh My Girl, and Red Velvet placed sixth to tenth spots, respectively.
Check out the other girl groups who entered this month’s Top 30:
#11 Apink
#12 LE SSERAFIM
#13 LOONA
#14 MAMAMOO
#15 Brave Girls
#16 MOMOLAND
#17 Kep1er
#18 Girl’s Day
#19 woo!ah!
#20 LABOUM
#21 Dreamcatcher
#22 STAYC
#23 ITZY
#24 APRIL
#25 Weeekly
#26 EXID
#27 NMIXX
#28 Weki Meki
#29 Ladies’ Code
#30 DIA
Source: Star Daily News
Photo Credits: YG Entertainment
