Fandometrics In Depth: K-Pop

The K-pop fandom on Tumblr cannot be messed with. The love for K-pop is so off the charts, it’s the only music genre that exists as its own Fandometrics list. To celebrate the genre and its ultra-passionate community, we analyzed all the tags from January 1st, 2017 through August 16th, 2017 to determine the most talked about groups, idols, and ships. Fighting!

If you’ve been following along since we introduced the K-pop list on May 1st, 2017, you know that BTS has been No. 1 since the very beginning. Furthermore, #BTS was the eighth highest trending tag on all of Tumblr during this six month period. That’s more popular than any TV show, film, or video game. The next highest trending K-pop-related term was #bangtan, at No. 17.

The current state of K-pop

Though our weekly list is made up of both solo artists and groups, we focused solely on the bands for this In Depth (but we see you, G-Dragon 👀).

During this 228 day period, these 30 groups garnered a combined 200 million engagements. We noticed that boy groups are more popular, nabbing 90% of the conversation. K.A.R.D represents the only co-ed group on the list. The full list below:

BTS | 40.10%

EXO | 12.46%

GOT7 | 7.19%

SEVENTEEN | 6.54%

Monsta X | 5.28%

NCT 127 | 2.46%

SHINee | 2.56%

B.A.P | 1.60%

BLACKPINK | 2.35%

Twice | 2.10%

Red Velvet | 2.00%

VIXX | 1.93%

Girls’ Generation | 1.22%

Big Bang | 1.17%

DAY6 | 1.22%

Mamamoo | 1.17%

NCT Dream | 1.13%

iKon | 0.95%

Wanna One | 0.94%

f(x) | 0.66%

K.A.R.D | 0.68%

GFriend | 0.64%

Pristin | 0.54%

Super Junior | 0.45%

Infinite | 0.49%

BtoB | 0.48%

NU’EST | 0.46%

Block B | 0.43%

2NE1 | 0.41%

Cosmic Girls | 0.38%

Top ships

Shipping is most definitely welcome in the K-pop world. There’s no surprise that the top ten K-pop ships are comprised of our top two bands. BTS pairings alone received a whopping 88% of the total ship engagements. That’s a whole damned fleet. Did your OTP make the cut?

Jikook Park Jimin & Jeon Jungkook, BTS

Yoonmin Min Yoongi & Park Jimin, BTS

Taekook Kim Taehyung & Jeon Jungkook, BTS

Yoonseok Min Yoongi & Jung Hoseok, BTS

Vmin Kim Taehyung & Park Jimin, BTS

Namjin Kim Namjoon & Kim Seokjin, BTS

Kaisoo Kim Jongin & Do Kyungsoo, EXO

Chanbaek Park Chanyeol & Byun Baekhyun, EXO

Taegi Kim Taehyung & Min Yoongi, BTS

Yoonkook Min Yoongi & Jeon Jungkook, BTS

Need more K-pop in your life?

If your biases didn’t appear in this post enough for your liking, there’s a whole blue website out there for you to explore. Try these out for all of your reblog and liking needs:

Jungblue (@jungblue) has immersive and beautifully-written BTS fan fiction.

FY! Twice (@fyeah-twice) curates the latest news and photos of JYP’s nine-member girl group.

Hansolmates (@hansolmates) writes fan fiction for every SEVENTEEN scenario you could ever dream up.

BloominFlowers (@bloominflowers) makes majestic digital fan art of boy and girl groups.