Thu Sep 17 — Agency BELIFT LAB confirmed on 16 September that ILLIT's 'It's Me' had passed 100 million streams in Japan — the group's third song to do so. English Wikipedia reading of ILLIT that day sat at 0.93x its 30-day average.
Thu Sep 17 — LE SSERAFIM closed BlizzCon 2026 in Anaheim on 13 September. Their English Wikipedia reading rose to 2.89x baseline the next day. Three other widely-reported K-pop stories this week produced no measurable reading change at all.
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.
We hold 330 tags in all. 186 of them are on a single piece, and we do not publish a page for those — the tag still shows on the article, it just does not become an address of its own.