Tue Sep 15 — A report says V's Champion deal hit a record $6.3M 'media impact value' in 48 hours. The one number we can check ourselves — his English Wikipedia lookups — stayed inside its usual daily range.
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.
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.
Tue Sep 01 — Seven BTS members, four Southeast Asian Wikipedias, twenty-eight checks. The group page wins every one. Six other acts lose to their own members in every country we could measure — and Mark Lee does both at once.
Mon Aug 31 — We built a K-pop readership panel from Wikidata: 2,372 Korean acts with a music occupation. The single most-read person on it is an actor. 232 names — 9.8% — also act, and they take 29.3% of every read.
We hold 319 tags in all. 180 of them are on a single piece, and we do not publish a page for those — the tag still shows on the article, it just does not become an address of its own.