Gallup Poll Reveals the Most Popular K-pop Stars in 2012

[cagallisakura.livejournal.com]

Korea Gallup ran their annual opinion polls for 2012. A few of the categories for their survey included topics on K-pop and which stars were the biggest and brightest this year. They polled 4,157 people in the age range from 13 to 59 and each person was asked to choose up to 3 artists in each category.

Check out the results below.

The Brightest Singing Stars of 2012

1. Psy – 24.4%
2. Girls’ Generation – 19.8%
3. Big Bang – 9.5%
4. IU – 6.9%
5. Jang Yoon Jung – 6.6%
6. SISTAR – 6.4%
7. T-ara – 5.5%
8. B2ST – 5.3%
9. Tae Jin Ah – 5.2%
10. Busker Busker – 4.1%

Best 5 Singers for Teenage Demographic

1. Big Bang – 20.7%
2. Girls’ Generation – 19.0%
3. Psy – 16.3%
4. B2ST – 16.1%
5. IU – 10.7

Best 5 Singers for People in their 20′s

1. Girls’ Generation – 26.6%
2. Psy – 23.9%
3. IU – 12.9%
4. SISTAR – 12.7%
5. Big Bang – 12.3%

Best 5 Singers for People in their 30′s

1. Psy – 28.9%
2. Girls’ Generation – 22.1%
3. Big Bang – 9.6%
4. SISTAR – 8.1%
5. T-ara 7.7%

Best 5 Singers for People in their 40′s

1. Psy – 30.7%
2. Girls’ Generation – 20.3%
3. Jang Yoon Jung – 10.0%
4. Tae Jin Ah – 6.6%
5. Big Bang – 5.1%

Best 5 Singers for People in their 50′s

1. Psy – 20.2%
2. Tae Jin Ah – 15.3%
3. Jang Yoon Jung – 14.4
4. Girls’ Generation – 12.3%
5. Song Dae Gwan – 12.3%

Best 5 Songs of 2012

1. Psy “Gangnam Style” – 30.7%
2. SISTAR “Alone” – 3.2%
3. Busker Busker “Cherry Blossom Ending” – 2.8%
4. TaeTiSeo “Twinkle” – 1.9%
5. B2ST “Beautiful Night” – 1.5%

Best Female and Male Rookies of 2012

Male: Busker Busker – 17.0%
Female: Ailee – 4.6%

Source: Gallup Korea, akp

 nothing surprising or unexpected

Comments

[bestsama.livejournal.com]

and they didn't even do anything

[eishastan.livejournal.com]

HBIC

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Best 5 Singers for Teenage Demographic

1. Big Bang – 20.7%

Kinda impressive for a six-years-old group.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Beautiful Night was legit terribad. Atleast vote for Midnight Korea.

[eishastan.livejournal.com]

My queens are everywhere on this lists, good to see them being loved by basically every demographic.

[dorkiilove.livejournal.com]

snsd slaying ur favs even though they haven't done shit this year


and before someone goes: ITS A NUGUASS POLL!!111INACCURATE!!!1 you need to EDUCATE urself on who gallup poll is

[cagallisakura.livejournal.com]

lol ikr. so tempted to add it "gallup is about as legit as a poll can get."

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

Hooray for SISTAR and that's all I'm here for

[hellodee16.livejournal.com]

sistar rly blew up. good for them!

[akillarian.livejournal.com]

Happy to see them there too.

[kiminikaeru.livejournal.com]

mte

[rooftop-sunset.livejournal.com]

kweens <3

[trancexperiment.livejournal.com]

I know Omona has a hate boner for Beast but I cannot deny Beautiful Night is so fucking catchy. No shame.

[swhyeon1991.livejournal.com]

Mte tbh.

[song-jihyuk.livejournal.com]

seems like this year is a good year for sistar

[lynethia.livejournal.com]

Liking all the Sistar mentions.

[soramai.livejournal.com]

Yes for Big Bang, not even surprised. Psy of course beats everyone.
yes for sistar! They did well. Busker Busker too.
But no Kara, no WG.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Here for Oppa PSY!

[mo-chan-tf.livejournal.com]

and SME still thought it was necessary to make SNSD look and sound like teenagers for the comeback, jfc

[naturalhonee.livejournal.com]

yes because snsd have been sitting in a dungeon this whole year... lol snsd fans.
they will still appear on the list even if they don't release any new songs for the next 3 years tbh the public isn't into them for their music.