October Rookie Idol Group Brand Reputation Rankings Announced
10/4/2025, 1:12:05 AM

The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for rookie idol groups!
The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, interaction, and community awareness indexes of various rookie idol groups, using big data collected from September 1 to October 1.
BIGHIT MUSIC’s new boy group CORTIS topped this month’s list with a brand reputation index of 2,189,178. High-ranking phrases in the group’s keyword analysis included “FaSHioN,” “hip hop,” and “performance,” while their highest-ranking related terms included “powerful,” “passionate,” and “to color.” CORTIS’s positivity-negativity analysis also revealed a score of 85.62 percent positive reactions.
“BOYS II PLANET” group ALPHA DRIVE ONE took second place on the list with a brand reputation index of 1,014,319 for October.
KiiiKiii ranked third for the month with a brand reputation index of 754,976, while Hearts2Hearts came in fourth place with a score of 628,714.
Finally, “Universe League” group AHOF rounded out the top five with a brand reputation index of 628,039, marking a 50.52 percent increase in their score since September.
Check out the top 30 for this month below!
CORTIS
ALPHA DRIVE ONE
KiiiKiii
Hearts2Hearts
AHOF
RESCENE
izna
ILLIT
TWS
BABYMONSTER
KATSEYE
XLOV
Geenius
MEOVV
UNIS
eite
IDID
KickFlip
HORI7ON
SAY MY NAME
A1
ARTMS
NOWZ (formerly NOWADAYS)
ifeye
Big Ocean
NEWBEAT
SPIA
BADVILLAIN
USPEER
LUN8
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