{"id":306010,"date":"2026-02-19T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306010\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:25:07","slug":"not-jungkook-or-jin-this-bts-member-topped-south-koreas-brand-reputation-rankings-for-boy-group-members-in-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306010\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Jungkook or Jin, this BTS member topped South Korea’s Brand Reputation Rankings for Boy Group Members in February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, BTS \u2014 cover stars of GQ India’s February-March 2026 issue<\/a> \u2014 make their hotly anticipated music comeback (as a group) after completing their military service. With their album ARIRANG slated to drop in March, the Bangtan Boys are already trending across the globe. All seven members \u2014 RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook \u2014 even feature in South Korea’s Brand Reputation Rankings for Boy Group Members in February 2026, but who clinched the top spot? Hint: It’s not Jungkook or Jin…<\/p>\n

Not Jungkook or Jin, this BTS member topped South Korea’s Brand Reputation Rankings for Boy Group Members in February 2026<\/p>\n

BTS member Jimin<\/a> topped the Brand Reputation Rankings for Boy Group Members in February 2026. According to the Korean Business Research Institute and Soompi, the K-pop idol dominated the list, retaining his No. 1 rank streak from last month, with a brand reputation index of 5,369,144. The high-ranking phrases in Park Jimin’s keyword analysis included \u2018ARMY\u2019, \u2018Who\u2019 and \u2018ARIRANG\u2019, while his highest-ranking related terms included \u2018charming\u2019, \u2018surpass\u2019 and \u2018record\u2019. Jimin’s positivity-negativity analysis was an impressive score of 92.94 per cent positive reactions.<\/p>\n

Following Jimin is his Are You Sure?! co-star Jungkook, who took the second spot this month with a brand reputation index of 4,811,777. Jin<\/a>, BTS’s eldest member, ranked third with a brand reputation index of 3,855,903. The Top 5 also includes BIGBANG’s G-Dragon (3,264,742) and BTS member V (3,257,826). As for the rap line, J-Hope, RM and Suga ranked No. 12, 13 and 14, respectively.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in BTS’s GQ cover story, Coldplay<\/a> frontman Chris Martin was all praises for the K-pop group: \u201cWhat I feel about the seven BTS guys is that they have been\u2014it seems, from knowing them a bit\u2014made closer by that very intense process [of becoming stars]. I was really happy that it seemed like they had each other\u2019s backs. They\u2019re very tight, personally, and they intertwine well. They don\u2019t tread on each other\u2019s toes too much. There\u2019s distinct roles\u2026. The love between them is real. That was the most striking thing\u2014love in a very intense situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are the Top 30 Brand Reputation Rankings for Boy Group Members in February 2026:BTS\u2019s JiminBTS\u2019s Jungkook<\/a>BTS\u2019s JinBIGBANG\u2019s G-DragonBTS\u2019s VWanna One\u2019s Ong Seong WuEXO<\/a>\u2019s BaekhyunTWS\u2019s JihoonWanna One\u2019s Lai KuanlinONEUS\u2019s RavnSHINee\u2019s KeyBTS\u2019s J-HopeBTS\u2019s RMBTS\u2019 SugaTVXQ\u2019s YunhoSuper Junior\u2019s KyuhyunWanna One\u2019s Park Woo JinSuper Junior\u2019s Kim Heechulwithus\u2019s RakEXO\u2019s KaiSHINe<\/a>e\u2019s MinhoRIIZE\u2019s WonbinTWS\u2019s DohoonWINNER\u2019s Song MinoWanna One\u2019s Lee Dae HwiENHYPEN\u2019s SunghoonSEVENTEEN<\/a>\u2019s MingyuHIGHLIGHT\u2019s Yoon DoojoonTHE BOYZ\u2019s JuyeonEXO\u2019s Sehun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year, BTS \u2014 cover stars of GQ India’s February-March 2026 issue \u2014 make their hotly anticipated music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6432,93,61,60,6521,278],"class_list":["post-306010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-k-pop","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}