From the Nikkei Entertainment October issue interview with the Music officials in Japan.
(A total of 300 women interested in Kpop were questioned, age group ranging from girls in their 10's to women in their 50's, 60 people from each age group)
Period of Inquiry: 2011 July 23-25th
The orange represents the respondents who know everything about the groups and their songs, the pink represents the respondents who know of the group/members but do not know their songs. The percentages for each were added up to give the final percentage.
Male Idols:
1. TVXQ (100%)
2. Supernova (98%)
3. Big Bang (88%)
4. 2PM (63%)
5. Beast (60%)
6. Super Junior (40%)
7. SHINee (39%)
8. F.T. Island (36%)
9. DGNA/The Boss (36%)
10. 2AM (32%)
11. SS501
12. Infinite
13. CN Blue
14. MBLAQ
15. ZE:A
16. U-Kiss
17. SHU-I
18. SM☆SH
19. Apeace
20. Boyfriend
21. Teen Top
22. X-5
23. F-CUZ
Female Idols:
1. SNSD (99%)
2. KARA (98%)
3. 4Minute (40%)
4. After School (38%)
5. T-ARA (37%)
6. 2NE1 (24%)
7. SISTAR (22%)
8. Secret (18%)
9. Wonder Girls(17%)
10. Brown Eyed Girls (16%)
11. f(x)
12. Rainbow
13. Miss A
14. Jewelry
15. 5-Dolls
16. Girl's Day
17. Nine Muses
18. A-Pink
19. Dal ☆ Shabet
Kor-Eng: Egle @2pmalways
Source: 2PM Always, JP News, Telzone

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Date: 2011-10-02 02:00 pm (UTC)(and fuckaz listed ;~~~~~~~~~~~~;)
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Date: 2011-10-02 02:03 pm (UTC)ToHoShinKi! PREACH!! :D
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Date: 2011-10-02 02:07 pm (UTC)my inner cassie is pleasedno subject
Date: 2011-10-02 02:08 pm (UTC)also proud of chosinsung & bigbang :""") my bbs.
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Date: 2011-10-02 02:10 pm (UTC)they both deserve to take over japan.
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Date: 2011-10-03 03:28 am (UTC)100%
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Date: 2011-10-02 02:15 pm (UTC)2. KARA (98%)
3. 4Minute (40%)
That is a skydive grade drop.
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Date: 2011-10-02 02:19 pm (UTC)*extremely proud cassie right now*
Kind of surprised that FT Island and CN Blue are so low however, because in the last list like this, they were pretty high up o______O and I thought 4Minute weren't doing so well in Japan...Also, I'm pretty sure that TVXQ are already recognized as Jpop artistes, so do they actually count even if they are originally Kpop idols?no subject
Date: 2011-10-02 02:25 pm (UTC)oh
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Date: 2011-10-02 02:30 pm (UTC)Anybody surprised? Flawless group deserves first place! ^____^
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Date: 2011-10-02 02:34 pm (UTC)and The Boss need more love, seriously. ;__;
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Date: 2011-10-02 02:35 pm (UTC)For one they limited themeselves to just one demographics group who's actually interested in KPOP instead of the general population. And why survey only women and only 60 from each of the age group?. These percentage are pretty damn shotty.
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Date: 2011-10-02 02:45 pm (UTC)If they surveyed average of 1000 and make it the general population including both men and women then we'd have a more accurate indicator of how well they are doing.
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