Top 50 K-pops in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest k-pops in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 55 k-pops tracked in Japan, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. BTS, XG and Aespa lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 42,279,627 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 2,046,018, and the largest, BTS, reaches around 25,187,230 people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each k-pop, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	BTS	25,187,230	27.8%	K-pop	Music & Radio
2	XG	8,790,568	85.5%	K-pop	Music & Radio
3	Aespa	8,301,829	52.8%	K-pop	Music & Radio
4	IVE	5,313,828	58.1%	K-pop	Music & Radio
5	seventeen	4,943,876	42.2%	K-pop	Music & Radio
6	LE SSERAFIM	4,815,574	52.7%	K-pop	Music & Radio
7	NewJeans	4,422,328	35.0%	K-pop	Music & Radio
8	TWS	3,692,729	59.5%	K-pop	Music & Radio
9	BLACKPINK	3,522,970	11.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
10	TOMORROW X TOGETHER	3,098,210	85.7%	K-pop	Music & Radio
11	BABYMONSTER	2,986,702	35.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
12	RIIZE	2,420,723	69.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
13	NCT WISH	2,312,618	71.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
14	Ateez	1,858,422	26.3%	K-pop	Music & Radio
15	BOYNEXTDOOR	1,830,431	59.7%	K-pop	Music & Radio
16	BTOB	1,461,238	68.1%	K-pop	Music & Radio
17	Jung Kook	1,442,295	51.9%	K-pop	Music & Radio
18	ZEROBASEONE	1,439,570	56.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
19	KPop Demon Hunters	1,323,900	1.5%	K-pop	Movies & TV
20	NCT DREAM	1,309,845	63.0%	K-pop	Music & Radio
21	NMIXX	1,153,136	46.2%	K-pop	Music & Radio
22	NCT 127	1,147,825	59.0%	K-pop	Music & Radio
23	Kep1er	994,289	69.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
24	i‐dle	937,089	23.1%	K-pop	Music & Radio
25	Monsta X	779,161	36.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
26	JB	755,558	20.5%	K-pop	Music & Radio
27	THE BOYZ	696,522	37.1%	K-pop	Music & Radio
28	B.I	603,301	6.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
29	KISS OF LIFE	589,478	27.6%	K-pop	Music & Radio
30	EVNNE	498,649	69.8%	K-pop	Music & Radio
31	Woods	424,575	5.1%	K-pop	Music & Radio
32	tripleS	357,779	38.2%	K-pop	Music & Radio
33	P1Harmony	316,330	19.1%	K-pop	Music & Radio
34	SF9	307,554	45.2%	K-pop	Music & Radio
35	FTISLAND	262,835	66.3%	K-pop	Music & Radio
36	STAYC	225,366	30.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
37	CRAVITY	224,419	43.0%	K-pop	Music & Radio
38	&TEAM	209,319	45.6%	K-pop	Music & Radio
39	PENTAGON	194,625	3.1%	K-pop	Music & Radio
40	QWER	185,460	10.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
41	EVERGLOW	162,539	22.6%	K-pop	Music & Radio
42	VIVIZ	152,167	35.0%	K-pop	Music & Radio
43	ONEUS	147,908	35.5%	K-pop	Music & Radio
44	KWON EUNBI	141,247	10.4%	K-pop	Music & Radio
45	N.Flying	86,974	37.3%	K-pop	Music & Radio
46	PURPLE KISS	75,393	22.2%	K-pop	Music & Radio
47	SUPER JUNIOR-D&E	67,366	85.5%	K-pop	Music & Radio
48	Xdinary Heroes	52,580	5.0%	K-pop	Music & Radio
49	ARTMS	46,781	15.2%	K-pop	Music & Radio
50	KARD	29,832	6.2%	K-pop	Music & Radio