Sun Oct 25 — In Star News's STARPOLL male idol vote, Keonho passed Sunghyun on 24 October. By 25 October Sunghyun was first again with 64,617 votes to Keonho's 49,264. He gained 39,130 votes in a day; Keonho gained 14,889.
Sat Oct 24 — 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.
Sun Oct 04 — Five Korean groups debuted in 2025 under BigHit, SM, JYP, Starship and F&F. Ranked by English Wikipedia reads in their first 90 days, Cortis was fourth. Ranked by the last 30 days, it is first — and nothing about the opening predicted it.
Fri Sep 25 — STARPOLL's Male Idol leaderboard put Jin fifth on 16 September with 4,574 votes. Eight days later he had 19,663 — a 4.3x rise — and had moved past 2PM's Junho into third place. Junho's own count rose too; Jin's just rose faster.
Wed Sep 16 — STARPOLL's 16 September vote put NewJeans' Minji first among female idols, Irene third. Irene's English Wikipedia reading ran 1.14x Minji's over the 30 days ending the day before the vote.
Sat Sep 05 — Of the five K-pop groups that debuted in 2025, Cortis is the only one read more in English now than in its first months — 2,196 readers a day against 231. Three of the other four are read less than they were at debut.
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