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Cortis's Keonho Overtook Bandmate Sunghyun in a Fan Vote in One Day. English Wikipedia Reads of Cortis Are Down 40%
Sunghyun led STARPOLL's male idol vote in every snapshot since 16 September. On 24 October Keonho, up 24,516 votes in a day to Sunghyun's 10,069, took first. English Wikipedia reads of Cortis fell from 2,328 a day in August to 1,394.
Star News publishes the running results of its STARPOLL fan vote. In the male idol category, the same name led every time we looked from mid-September: Sunghyun of Cortis. On 24 October that changed. His bandmate Keonho is now first.
One day, two members
| 23 October | 24 October | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keonho (Cortis) | 9,859 | 34,375 | +24,516 |
| Sunghyun (Cortis) | 15,418 | 25,487 | +10,069 |
| Jin (BTS) | 2,520 | 6,166 | +3,646 |
In a single day Keonho’s fans added more than twice as many votes as Sunghyun’s and moved him from second to first. It is the only change of leader in any STARPOLL category across the six snapshots we have taken since 16 September.
Everyone else stayed put
| Category | Leader in all six snapshots |
|---|---|
| King of Kings | Lim Young-woong |
| Male trot | Park Seo-jin |
| Female trot | Song Ga-in |
| Male actor | Kim Soo-hyun |
| Female actor | Kim Hye-yoon |
| Female idol | Minji (NewJeans) |
| Male sports | Lee Kang-in |
| Female sports | Park Jeong-a |
Outside the vote, interest in Cortis is falling
In the fan vote, Cortis members hold the top two male idol places. On English Wikipedia, where readers outside Korea look up a name, reading of the Cortis article has fallen month by month:
| Month | Cortis article, median daily reads |
|---|---|
| August | 2,328 |
| September | 1,724 |
| October (to the 22nd) | 1,394 |
That is a fall of about 40% since August. Neither Keonho nor Sunghyun has an English Wikipedia article of his own under that name, so the group page is the only English entry for either.
What this does and does not say
A fan vote and a reading count measure different things. We found the same split for trot singers: the names Korea’s fans vote for hardest are often the ones least looked up in English. STARPOLL votes show how hard a fandom is pushing this week, not how many people follow an artist.
STARPOLL Star Ranking results published by Star News, top five per category, collected 16 September–24 October 2026. English Wikipedia pageviews, user traffic, daily; medians.
Where these numbers come from
Sources
- Star News (STARPOLL Star Ranking) — Star Ranking page, fan-vote results by category, top five per category as published, collected on 16 and 24 September, 3, 12, 23 and 24 October 2026. · https://www.starnewskorea.com/star-ranking
- Wikimedia — Pageviews per-article, en.wikipedia, all-access, user traffic only (bots excluded), daily, 1 August–22 October 2026, article 'Cortis'. Title lookup, 24 October 2026: no English article for Keonho or Sunghyun under those names. · https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/
What we checked
- Male idol category, first place by snapshot: 16 Sep Sunghyun 282,130; 24 Sep Sunghyun 356,277; 3 Oct Sunghyun 90,402; 12 Oct Sunghyun 152,428; 23 Oct Sunghyun 15,418 (Keonho 9,859); 24 Oct Keonho 34,375 (Sunghyun 25,487).
- 23→24 Oct change: Keonho +24,516; Sunghyun +10,069; BTS's Jin (third both days) 2,520→6,166.
- Every other category had the same leader in all six snapshots: Kim Soo-hyun (male actor), Kim Hye-yoon (female actor), Minji (female idol), Park Seo-jin (male trot), Song Ga-in (female trot), Lee Kang-in (male sports), Park Jeong-a (female sports), Lim Young-woong (King of Kings).
- Cortis English Wikipedia article, median daily reads: August 2,328; September 1,724; 1–22 October 1,394.
What we left out, and why
- STARPOLL votes are a fan campaign: app users vote repeatedly, often in organised drives. They measure how hard fans push, not how many people follow an artist.
- Vote totals fall between some snapshots, which suggests voting rounds restart; STARPOLL does not publish round dates, so we compare only within the same round (23 and 24 October).
- Places below fifth, which the page does not publish without a login.
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