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.
Sun Sep 13 — Korean outlets named Jin sales king for a sold-out plush toy. On the one number about his group we can check ourselves — a year of English Wikipedia lookups — he ranks 5th of 7 BTS members, 4th of 7 in the most recent month.
Thu Sep 10 — Jin has topped a Korean idol poll for 68 straight weeks. On English Wikipedia lookups he is fifth of seven BTS members. But ranks three to six sit inside 7% of each other, so the ranking barely means anything in the middle.
Wed Sep 09 — Chinese Wikipedia is the most-read edition for 306 of 478 Korean stars. For BTS it leads for none. Spanish tops six of the seven members; Japanese tops Jimin by 4,669 reads over three months.
Sun Sep 06 — Korean pages carried four Jin stories in one day, one calling him the most-searched person in the world for Gucci. We cannot count Google searches, so we counted English Wikipedia reads against his own bandmates.
We hold 319 tags in all. 180 of them are on a single piece, and we do not publish a page for those — the tag still shows on the article, it just does not become an address of its own.