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Top 20 countries where K-pop is most talked about on Twitter

With a new record for the hashtag #KpopTwitter, the Korean pop fan community is powerful on the social network

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 10 Aug 2021 11:00AM

Top 20 countries where K-pop is most talked about on Twitter
Indonesia is the country that both counts the most K-pop fans and the most tweets about it. – AFP pic, August 10, 2021

K-POP is a hot topic on Twitter. The social network revealed that 7.5 billion tweets about the topic were posted in one year across its platform. A phenomenon that is getting bigger every year. So what are countries where users talk the most about K-pop on Twitter with the hashtag #KpopTwitter?

With a new record for number of tweets with the hashtag #KpopTwitter, the Korean pop fan community is powerful on the social network. Twitter revealed on its blog the top 20 countries where fans talk about their passion online the most and those with the largest number of fans on Twitter. 

In 2020, Indonesia was already dominating the top 20 countries where people were talking about this kind of music on Twitter. The Philippines gained two places at the expense of Thailand, which dropped to third place, thus making South Korea fall off the podium!

However, little changes in the top 20 in terms of the countries with the largest number of K-pop fans on Twitter. While Indonesia remains the country with the most Korean pop fans, Japan nearly catches up with second place while France gains two places to reach 14th.

Concerning the most mentioned artists, it is no surprise that the legendary group BTS takes first place, which it already held in 2020, followed by NCT and female group Blackpink. – ETX Studio, August 10, 2021

Top 20 countries by volume of tweets with the hashtag #KpopTwitter 2020-2021

  1. Indonesia
  2. Philippines
  3. Thailand
  4. South Korea
  5. United States
  6. Brazil
  7. Malaysia
  8. Mexico
  9. Japan
  10. India
  11. Argentina
  12. Peru
  13. United Kingdom
  14. Vietnam
  15. Turkey
  16. France
  17. Chile
  18. Canada
  19. Saudi Arabia
  20. Singapore

Top 20 countries with the most K-pop fans on Twitter

  1. Indonesia
  2. Japan
  3. Philippines
  4. South Korea
  5. United States
  6. Brazil
  7. Thailand
  8. Mexico
  9. Malaysia
  10. India
  11. Turkey
  12. Argentina
  13. United Kingdom
  14. France
  15. Spain
  16. Saudi Arabia
  17. Canada
  18. Vietnam
  19. Peru
  20. Colombia

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