Voting to determine the main character of TENASIA ARTIST TOP TEN July begins.
From the 17th to the 31st, through the Ten Asia voting service, July artist top ten K-POP BOY BRAND, K-POP GIRL BRAND, and HOT GENRE BRAND ) and voting is conducted.
The nominees for the K-pop Boy Brand category are: Seventeen, Stray Kids, FT Island, Kang Daniel, BTS, ATEEZ, NCT Dream, Zero Base One, BTOB, 2AM, Big Bang, EXO, T.A.N, Park Jihoon, god, DKZ, ENHYPEN, Moon Jongup, Treasure, God Se7en, Ha Sung-woon, TXT, Pentagon, SHINee, Super Junior, Astro, Tempest, 2PM, NCT, Kim Jae-hwan.
The nominees for the K-pop girl brand category are: (G)I-DLE, IU, Ive, Secret Number, Espa, Kim Sejeong, Le Seraphim, Blackpink, New Jeans, Twice, Fifty Fifty, Mamamoo, StayC, Fromis Nine, Lee Chaeyeon, SES, High Key, Oh My Girl, Enmix, ITZY, Dreamcatcher, Red Velvet, 3YE, Girls' Generation, Kepler, EXID, Loona, B.G., Momoland, BoA.
The nominees for the Hot Genre Brand category are: Park Jae-jung, Younha, Huh Gak, Jia, December, Lee Moo-jin, Lim Young-woong, Melomance, Lim Jae-hyun, 10CM, Dawn, Seong Si-kyung, Lim Han-byeol, Casey, Paul Kim, VOS, Jiol Park, Kyungseo, Bolbbalgan4, #Hello, Tei, Bignut, Zuho, Woody, Zico, J-cera, Tophyeon, Jannabi, George, and Jay Park.
The Artist Top Ten ranking is based on 30% of the media index using the online music site Melon index, 10% of the Google trend index, and 60% of the global popularity vote, which was voted by fans through the Ten Asia voting service.
Candidate criteria are K-pop boy brands and K-pop girl brands that are in the top 30 of male and female idol groups and solos on the current month’s Melon chart, and hot genre brands are domestic groups with a history of entering the current month’s Melon chart and Idol Champ monthly chart and the top 30 of the month among solo artists.
The benefits given to the main character of Ten Asia Artist Top Ten every month include a special artist-exclusive article and promotion of Artist Top Ten in Ten Asia's main page every month.
Artist Top 10 June's No. 1 was Ha Sung-woon in the K-pop boy brand category, Secret Number in the K-pop girl brand category, and Lee Moo-jin in the hot genre brand category.
Reporter Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia bella@tenasia.co.kr