- Lisa and Minnie Released EPs on the Same Day. On Thai Wikipedia, Minnie Out-Read Lisa
Sun Oct 25 — Blackpink's Lisa released Press Play and i-dle's Minnie released her first Thai-language EP on 23 October 2026. Lisa's English Wikipedia page rose 2.4 times to 12,079 reads. Her Thai page did not move: 207 reads, against Minnie's 407.
- LISA's 'PRESS PLAY' Arrives Today. On English Wikipedia, Her Stages Have Always Outdrawn Her Release Days.
Fri Oct 23 — Her EP is out on 23 October. Across 21 months of English Wikipedia reading, her album release day drew under half of an Oscars night three days later. This autumn a single lifted reading to 15,000; the VMAs, to 79,000.
- Lisa Is the First Solo Act to Win an MTV VMA for Best Pop — and Only the Second K-Pop Win Ever
Mon Sep 28 — BLACKPINK's Lisa won Best Pop for "Dream" at the 2026 VMAs on 27 September in Los Angeles. In the award's 17-year history, only one other winner has been an Asian act: BTS, six years earlier, as a group.
- Re:Scene Topped BTS and BLACKPINK in a Reputation Index. English Wikipedia Barely Noticed.
Sat Sep 19 — The Korea Corporate Reputation Institute ranked girl group Re:Scene first among K-pop groups for September 2026, ahead of BTS and BLACKPINK. Their English Wikipedia page averaged 11 views a day over the same 30 days.
- Rosé Released 'New Trick' on 18 September. Her Wikipedia Reading Had Already Risen the Day Before.
Fri Sep 18 — Blackpink's Rosé released 'new trick' on 18 September. The day before release, her English Wikipedia page ran 1.26x her 30-day average — ahead of, not on, the release itself.
- Blackpink's Lisa Reads Higher in English Than Any BTS Member — Our Own Panel Missed Her
Thu Sep 17 — Checking a current list of prominent K-pop acts against our English Wikipedia panel, one name came back blank: Lisa. Pulled by hand, her 30-day total beats every BTS member we track — and every other Blackpink member too.
- A phone and a burger took two K-pop faces this week. Neither is a kind we were measuring
Thu Sep 10 — One morning brought two announcements: a BLACKPINK member fronting an iPhone camera, a BIGBANG member fronting McDonald's. Our brand panel covered luxury, jewellery, fashion and cars — not phones, not burgers. So we added both.
- One K-pop member outdraws her own group — by 0.4%
Thu Sep 10 — Jennie's solo single matched a BTS record, so we counted lookups for three groups and all fifteen members. Only Lisa passed her own group page — by 7,413 out of 1.8 million. Added up, BLACKPINK's four beat its name 3.25 times.
- Jennie and V are top-5 read and outside our Netflix panel
Tue Sep 01 — We rank 300 Korean names by Wikipedia reads. Nine of the top twelve — V, Jennie, Jungkook, Jisoo, ROSÉ — have fewer than two Netflix charting titles, so our own panel cannot see them. That is 38.8% of the reading.
- NCT 127 and BigBang doubled their readers — 3.6x and 2.7x
Mon Aug 31 — Of the sixteen groups with more than 20,000 English Wikipedia opens in our window, exactly two rose by more than a third. NCT 127 multiplied further; BigBang added more readers. We do not know why either happened.
- Psy is in 97 Wikipedias, more than any BTS member
Sat Aug 22 — We counted the language editions holding an article about each of 9,249 Korean entertainers. Psy leads at 97, ROSÉ of BLACKPINK is at 86, IU at 69. The median is 1, and 365 people have no article in any language.