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Moon Jong-up, Ha Sung-woon, and Seventeen honored with 'Artist Top Ten K-Pop Boy Brand' in July
Last July, through the Ten Asia voting service, global voting was divided into Artist Top Ten K-POP BOY BRAND, K-POP GIRL BRAND, and HOT GENRE BRAND categories. has been carried out
As a result of the voting, Moon Jong-up from the group BAP took first place in the K-pop boy brand. Moon Jong-up performed at the '2023 K-Fun Day' held at SKYVIEW, New York, USA on the 9th. Moon Jong-up attended the K-pop event and showed off a powerful performance and excellent live stage, raising the heat of the scene. In particular, overseas fans from Canada, Taiwan, Chicago, and California visited the venue to see Moon Jong-up's performance, and a large number of people gathered at the same time, confirming K-pop's high popularity once again.
In addition, Moon Jong-up was invited to a live interview with PIX11 News, a large news channel based in New York and New Jersey, thanks to the hot interest of '2023 K-Fun Day', adding meaning. Moon Jong-up said, “I am very happy to meet so many fans in New York after a long time. It was a very fresh and special experience to meet the fans up close. I heard that Queens, New York is a place with a very diverse Asian culture, and it is an honor to be able to represent Asian culture through this performance.”
Second place went to Ha Sung-woon. Ha Sung-woon enlisted as an active duty soldier in September last year and is currently serving. In February of this year, he released a new digital single 'Snowy Stars' to commemorate the birthday of the fandom Haneul. For ‘Snowy Stars’, Ha Sung-woon directly participated in writing the lyrics, expressing his desire to be with each other in every moment of waiting.
Seventeen (S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, The8, Mingyu, DK, Seungkwan, Vernon, Dino) ranked in 3rd place. Seventeen will hold the 'SEVENTEEN TOUR 'FOLLOW' TO SEOUL' at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 21st and 22nd. Seventeen's performance in Seoul is about 13 months since their third world tour in June last year. The 'Seventeen Tour 'Follow' to Seoul' will be held both online and offline.
It was followed by Stray Kids, BTS, FT Island, Zero Base One, Kang Daniel, ATEEZ, and NCT Dream.
Moon Jong-up, Ha Sung-woon, Seventeen, Stray Kids, BTS, FT Island, Zero Base One, Kang Daniel, ATEEZ, and NCT Dream rank 30% in the media index using the online music site Melon Index and 10% in the Google Trend Index. And 60% of the global popularity vote, which was made by fans through the Ten Asia voting service, was applied.
Candidate criteria are K-pop boy brands, K-pop girl brands are top 30 male and female idol groups and solos on the current month’s Melon chart, 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 monthly TENASIA ARTIST TOP TEN are promoted as a special artist exclusive article and monthly Artist Top Ten in the main TENASIA.
Reporter Yoon Jun-ho, Ten Asia delo410@tenasia.co.kr
