BTS V. BTS Japan NAEHAN ranked 1st for 28 consecutive weeks.The 4th Hallyu craze.
BTS V has long topped Japan's major popularity vote, showing off his No. 1 popularity.
In a vote on the K-POP Male Idol Ranking on the popular Japanese idol ranking site "Nehan" from October 4 to October 10, V won 2,173 votes and topped the list for 28 consecutive weeks.
In the same week, he also topped the list for the 22nd consecutive week with 16,668 votes in the rankings of Korean actors in their 20s on Japan's popular Korean actor ranking site "Bihan." In addition, it ranked first in daily, weekly, monthly, and all periods of "KPOP JUICE," which deals with popular K-pop idol rankings and audition information in Japan.
In addition, V topped Japan's most popular Korean male idol, "Most Handsome Korean Idol," "Favorite BTS Member," and "Most Handsome BTS Member" on Japan's popular voting site "Ranking," reflecting real-time trends.
In Japan, where the fourth Korean Wave is hot, V is in the spotlight as an actor as well as a singer. However, he is recognized as the most beloved actor in his 20s despite his appearance in a drama, and is waiting for V to stand as an actor.
Japanese media also analyzed the factors of the fourth Korean Wave craze reignited with K-drama, evaluated V's influence, and selected him as one of the leading players in the new Korean Wave. Japanese women's fashion magazine "25ans" selected V as one of the four major kings of the Korean Wave, while "JJ" pointed V out side by side with the K-drama leaders in the Korean drama "Top 3 handsome actors."
V's self-composed song "Sweet Night," which was released last year as the OST of "Itaewon Class," was the first Korean release to rank first on iTunes in Japan.
In a related development, Toyo Keizai, a Japanese business magazine, analyzed that V is influencing Japan's Korean Wave craze in all directions, highlighting that "V's participation in the OST attracted K-pop fans around the world."
