On October 8, the Korean Business Research Institute released their findings regarding the brand reputation rankings for girl groups for the month of October.

Their research is based on 36,117,320 pieces of data gather from September 6 to October 7. The date measures various indexes including participation, media, communication, and community to determine their brand reputation.

Below are the rankings:

1. Red Velvet

2. BLACKPINK

3. TWICE

4. Apink

5. Crayon Pop

6. I.O.I

7. GFRIEND

8. Cosmic Girls

9. DIA

10. T-ara

11. Girls’ Generation

12. MAMAMOO

13. Lovelyz

14. LABOUM

15. Girl’s Day

16. AOA

17. EXID

18. Oh My Girl

19. gugudan

20. Wonder Girls

This month welcomes DIA and Cosmic Girls as new girl groups joining the top 20.

A source from the Korean Business Research Institute stated, “Red Velvet received 1st place according to October brand reputation findings. Red Velvet was in 13th place in August and 5th place in September and have steadily risen to 1st place in October.”

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