BIGBANG Dominate YouTube With 5 Of The Top 10 Most Viewed K-Pop Music Videos In 2015

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K-pop fans from around the globe have shown a lot of love fro BIGBANG in 2015.

The YG Entertainment K-pop idol group came out on top of this year's rankings of the most watched videos on YouTube. BIGBANG's music videos for "Bang Bang Bang" and "Loser" took the top two spots on YouTube's official 2015 K-pop rankings, followed closely by EXO's "Call Me Baby" in third place.

With over 85 million views, BIGBANG's was the clear winner of the year.

Three other BIGBANG songs appeared in the top 10, giving BIGBANG half of the 10 top spots.

The music videos for "Bae Bae," "Let's Not Fall In Love," and "Sober" appeared in the fourth, sixth, and ninth spots on the list, respectively.

Other than BIGBANG and EXO, K-pop girl groups took over the chart.

Fifth place went to Girls' Generation's "Party," the seventh spot went to 4Minute's "Crazy," and miss A's "Only You" came in eighth place.

The list was rounded out by EXO's "Love Me Right" in the final spot, which had been seen over 35 million times. Psy's "Daddy," featuring 2NE1's CL, followed closely behind as of Dec. 7.

BIGBANG made a comeback after three years with the "MADE" project album. The quintet released eight singles in 2015, and won countless awards throughout the year.

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Tamar Herman is a multi-media journalist and the co-founder of KultScene. She is a freelance writer and copy editor, and has written for MTV Iggy, Noisey, and Paste Magazine. 

Source: KPOPStarz

Twitter Releases Top Keywords and Accounts for 2015; BIGBANG, Super Junior, GOT7, and BTS Among the Top

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Twitter Releases Top Keywords and Accounts for 2015; BIGBANG, Super Junior, GOT7, and BTS Among the Top

Twitter Korea has released its end-of-the year roundup (start date January 1, 2015), listing the Korean accounts with the most followers, top keywords for Korea, top keywords globally, and the Korean accounts with the fastest growth in followers. BIGBANG members and Super Junior members had some of the largest accounts, and GOT7 and BTS proved themselves to be one of the hottest groups this year, showing up in top keywords in Korea and globally. Female celebs also topped the lists, with BoA, miss A‘s Suzy, and 2NE1‘s Minzy showing some of the fastest follower growth this year.

Fast Follower Growth

Music

1. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon

2. BTS

3. BIGBANG’s Taeyang

4. Super Junior’s Choi Siwon

5. Super Junior’s Donghae

6. BoA

7. miss A’s Suzy

8. Super Junior’s Leeteuk

9. Super Junior’s Yesung

10. 2NE1's Minzy

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2015 Twitter Global Top Keywords

Globally, #GOT7 ranked at number 2, #EXO at number 4, (BTS) at number 6, #BIGBANG at number 10. “The Show,” SBS MTV’s weekly music ranking show, was number 4 for the TV category. The show airs live in China at the same time it airs in Korea.

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2015 Twitter Top Keywords for Korea 

Music

1. GOT7

2. BTS

3. EXO

4. BIGBANG

5. VIXX

6. Red Velvet

7. Super Junior

8. Infinite

9. Girls’ Generation

10. GFRIEND

TV

1. “Infinite Challenge”

2. “The Girl Who Sees Smells”

3. “King of Mask Singer”

4. “Running Man”

5. “Real Men”

6. “She Was Pretty”

7. ‘Three Meals a Day”

8. “We Want to Know”

9. “My Little Television”

10. “Please Take Care of My Refrigerator”

Movie

1. “Assassination”

2. “Ode to My Father”

3. “Veteran”

4. “Kingsman”

5. “First Battle of Yeonpyeong”

6. “A Hard Day”

7. “Twenty”

8. “The Priests”

9. “Sado”

10. “Salut d’Amour”

For the social category, MERS was number 1, and Sewol ferry was at number 3.

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Most Followed Accounts (as of December 7, 2015)

1. Super Junior’s Choi Siwon – 5.08M

2. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon – 5.06M

3. Super Junior’s Donghae – 4.86M

4. PSY – 4.1M

5. Super Junior’s Yesung – 3.43M

6. 2PM‘s Nichkhun – 3.38M

7. miss A’s Suzy – 3.34M

8. Super Junior’s Leeteuk – 3.28M

9. BoA – 3.16M

10. Super Junior’s Ryeowook  – 3.08M

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