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Minnie's First Thai EP Lifted Thai Wikipedia Reads Nearly Sevenfold. Chinese Wikipedia Still Read Her More
i-dle's Minnie released her first Thai-language EP, i love you to the moon and back, on 23 October, her birthday. Thai Wikipedia reads of her went from a median 60 a day to 407. Chinese (648) and English (943) stayed bigger.
Minnie of i-dle released i love you to the moon and back on 23 October 2026, her birthday. It is her first record in Thai, her first language, and her first solo release in a year and nine months. A pop-up in Bangkok ran alongside it, and a fan live is set there for 25 October.
So did Thai readers come looking? They did. But they were not the biggest audience.
Release day across eight Wikipedias
| Wikipedia | Usual day (median, 1–18 Oct) | 23 Oct | Rise |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 252 | 943 | ×3.7 |
| Chinese | 162 | 648 | ×4.0 |
| Thai | 60 | 407 | ×6.8 |
| Japanese | 60 | 100 | ×1.7 |
| Korean | 18 | 78 | ×4.5 |
| Spanish | 17 | 45 | ×2.7 |
| Indonesian | 5 | 29 | ×6.4 |
| Vietnamese | 12 | 5 | — |
Thai Wikipedia had the steepest rise: almost seven times its usual day. In plain reads, though, it came third. Chinese Wikipedia drew 648 and English 943.
Why the Chinese page is so big
Minnie’s Chinese-language page draws more than her Thai one on an ordinary day too, about 160 reads against 60. i-dle has long had one of K-pop’s largest Chinese-speaking audiences, since the group was formed with Chinese and Taiwanese members, and Chinese Wikipedia serves readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore as well as the mainland. A Thai-language EP did not change that order. It only narrowed the gap.
The birthday problem
23 October is both the release day and Minnie’s birthday, so these numbers cannot say how many readers came for the record and how many came for the date. One clue: on 19 October, four days early, English Wikipedia had already risen from about 250 to 396 reads and stayed near 400 until release day. We did not check what lifted it.
What this does and does not say
Wikipedia reads count how many people looked her up, in which language. They do not measure streams or sales. What they show is that a record made for Thai listeners got its biggest proportional lift in Thai, and its biggest audience in English and Chinese.
Wikipedia pageviews (Wikimedia REST API), user traffic, daily. Release details from Dong-A Ilbo, Naewna and PPTV reports.
Related: Lisa released Press Play the same day. On Thai Wikipedia, Minnie out-read her.
Where these numbers come from
Sources
- Wikimedia — Pageviews per-article, user traffic only (bots excluded), daily, 1–23 October 2026, for Minnie's article in eight Wikipedia languages: English 'Minnie (singer)', Chinese 'Minnie (歌手)', Thai 'มินนี่ (นักร้อง)', Japanese 'ミンニ', Korean '민니 (가수)', Spanish 'Minnie (cantante)', Indonesian 'Minnie (penyanyi)', Vietnamese 'Minnie (ca sĩ)'. · https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/
- Press reports (Dong-A Ilbo, Naewna, PPTV) — Release: digital EP 'i love you to the moon and back', 23 October 2026, 12:00 KST, her first Thai-language release and first solo release in one year and nine months; a Bangkok pop-up at EMSphere on 23–25 October and a special live in Bangkok on 25 October. · https://www.naewna.com/n/?p=123266
What we checked
- Baseline is the median of 1–18 October 2026; the release-day figure is 23 October (UTC day).
- English 252 → 943 (×3.7); Chinese 161.5 → 648 (×4.0); Thai 59.5 → 407 (×6.8); Korean 17.5 → 78 (×4.5); Japanese 60 → 100 (×1.7); Spanish 16.5 → 45 (×2.7); Indonesian 4.5 → 29 (×6.4); Vietnamese 12 → 5.
- English Wikipedia had already risen to 396 on 19 October, four days before release.
What we left out, and why
- Streaming and chart figures for the EP, which we did not measure.
- How much of the rise is the birthday rather than the release: both fell on 23 October.
- 24 October onward, not yet published by Wikimedia when we wrote.
Written from the same data
Birth charts — Minnie
Four Pillars (BaZi) and the Western chart, computed from published birth dates. The charts are data, not a verdict on anyone.
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