Research: How do we recognise idol singers these days?

How do we recognise the idols of this time?

Mnet music research centre did an investigation on 1000 male and female adults for the whole month of June. The investigation looked into the 57 singers/teams who are the most active currently in the Korean music scene in terms of vocal capabilities, appearances, amiability, talent, performance and variety.

And through the survey, it was known that other than vocal capabilities, the idols are ranked very high in all the categories. In terms of their live performances, 16 ranks out of the top 20 ranks belongs to idol singers. And in terms of appearances, the girlgroups have dominated the rankings. Of the top 10 rankings we see the names of popular girlgroups like So Nyeo Shi Dae, KARA, f(x), After School, 2NE1, T-ara, 4Minute etc.


In terms of amiability, girlgroups like So Nyeo Shi Dae, Brown Eyed Girls, KARA etc also dominated the charts. And for variety shows, we see that the male idol groups like 2AM, Super Junior and 2PM are dominating the top 10 rankings.

What is eye catching is that group So Nyeo Shi Dae is #1 for all categories except for vocal capabilities and amiability. We can see the ‘So Nyeo Shi Dae power’ following their ‘Gee’ syndrome last year.

But for vocal capabilities category, we don’t see idols up on the top 10 rankings. Instead names like Big Mama, Gummy, Lee SeungChul, Shin SeungHoon are voted up high on rankings.

It seems that there has always been doubts regarding the musicality of idol groups these days.

The results for the categories:

Talent:

So Nyeo Shi Dae
f(x)
2NE1
KARA
4Minute
Lee Hyori
BEG
After School
2AM
T-ara

Performance:

So Nyeo Shi Dae
Lee Hyori
2NE1
Rain
2PM
BEG
Big Bang
Dong Bang Shin Ki
Super Junior
KARA

Variety skills:

So Nyeo Shi Dae
Lee Hyori
MC Mong
Lee SeungGi
2AM
Super Junior
KARA
Brown Eyed Girls
2PM
Kim TaeWoo

Amiability:

Lee SeungGi
Lee Hyori
So Nyeo Shi Dae
MC Mong
2AM
KARA
Brown Eyed Girls
Super Junior
Kim TaeWoo
DJ DOC

Appearances:

So Nyeo Shi Dae
KARA
Lee Hyori
f(x)
After School
Lee SeungGi
2NE1
T-ara
4Minute
Davichi

Vocal capabilities:

Big Mama
Gummy
Lee SeungChul
Kim TaeWoo
Park HyoShin
Yoon MiRae
SG Wannabe
KWill
Kim BumSoo
Shin SeungHoon

S:JoongAng Daily