by BTS V ranked first in Japan’s popularity ranking, voting for 18 weeks in a row.
V took first place with 18,761 votes in the ‘KPOP Male Idol Ranking’ vote of the popular Japanese ranking site ‘Nehan,’ held from July 26 to August 1. As a result, V has maintained the No. 1 position for 18 consecutive weeks.
In Japan, where the 4th Hallyu craze is active as a K-drama, interest in Korean actors is also high. V recorded 14,634 votes in the ‘Korean actors in their 20s’ category conducted by the popular ranking site for Korean actors, ‘B-Han,’ ranking first for 13 weeks in a row.
In Japan, V is gaining popularity not only as a K-pop artist but also as an actor. Despite appearing in only one drama, V establishes himself as an all-around entertainer such as a singer and an actor.
In the daily, weekly, and monthly polls of K-Pop Juice, which conducts K-pop idol audition information and popularity polls in various fields, V also ranked first in the voting for Korean artists in Japan—maintaining the first place.
In the Triple ‘Celebrity Ranking’, which analyzes the trend of Japanese Twitter and reflects the ranking according to the number of real-time mentions of the hottest person, it records the highest ranking among all individual artists regardless of nationality.
In 2020, he ranked 5th in the ‘Celebrity Ranking’ closing rankings and was the only foreign artist in the top 10. By July 2021, the total settlement ranking is 3rd, the highest ranking as an individual artist. From January to July this year, V never missed the highest rating as an individual for 19 months.
V also took the unrivaled individual first place in the Triple ‘Celebrity Ranking’. The topic of V occupies the main news of Yahoo Japan and is also listed in real-time search terms, and marketing using V’s brand name is also actively continuing.
