BTS, Wanna One most popular Korean singers

Boy band BTS dislodged Wanna One from the top to conquer the first position of the most talked about Korean singer in October.

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Boy band BTS dislodged Wanna One from the top to conquer the first position of the most talked about Korean singer in October.

The Korea Institute for Corporate Reputation released the brand reputation rankings for 50 singers based on an analysis of 120.97 million pieces of big data from September 6 to October 7, an increase of 4.09 percent from 116.22 million in August.

It ranked the singers based on media, participation, interaction and community values.

BTS got a total score of 12.42 million, rising by 79.7 percent compared to their second-place score of 6.91 million in August.

The boy band has generated a lot of buzz since releasing the album "Love Yourself: Her" on September 18. The album and its lead single "DNA" have broken all Korean music records on Billboard, iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.

Rookie boy band Wanna One placed second with 12.22 million, a decrease by 30 percent when compared to their first-place score of 17.65 million in August.

Female solo artist IU grabbed the third place with 7.35 million, rising from fifth place in August and increasing her score from 5.77 million.

G-Friend is listed twice in the rankings. It came in fourth with 6.77 million and 12th place with 2.83 million. EXO placed fifth with 6.74 million, one rank down from August.

Singers who have been placed between six to 50 are:

6. TWICE - 5.03 million

7. Black Pink - 4.79 million

8. Girls' Generation's Taeyeon - 4.51 million

9. Red Velvet - 4.27 million

10. Sunmi - 4.19 million

11. Hyuna - 3.01 million

12. GFriend - 2.83 million

13. Bolbbalgan4 - 2.78 million

14. APink - 2.65 million

15. Psy - 2.35 million

16. Big Bang - 2.3 million

17. Seventeen - 2.16 million

18. BTOB - 2.1 million

19. VIXX - 2.1 million

20. Lovelyz - 2.01 million

21. WINNER - 2 million

22. Mamamoo - 1.94 million

23. Infinite - 1.53 million

24. Woo Won Jae - 1.49 million

25. 10cm - 1.46 million

26. Haengju - 1.4 million

27. Yoon Jong Shin - 1.34 million

28. Hwang Chi Yeul - 1.3 million

29. Chung-ha -1.22 million

30. Block B's Zico - 1.21 million

31. Park Hyo Shin - 1.2 million

32. NU'EST W - 1.05 million

33. AOA - 942,364

34. Kassy - 915,236

35. Heize - 892,599

36. Davichi - 853,643

37. Jay Park - 729,988

38. Ailee - 705,525

39. GOT7 - 695,931

40. Dean - 676,732

41. BewhY - 656,865

42. Han Dong-geun - 582,087

43. Suran - 535,754

44. Highlight - 509,338

45. Block B - 486,301

46. Im Chang Jung - 469,628

47. Akdong Musician - 428,542

48. Lena Park - 394,829

49. Park Won - 309,929

50. Jung Seung Hwan - 295,288

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