Twice's Mina tops Favorite's weekly chart as bandmate Jihyo nabs third place

K-pop

Published: 23 Feb. 2024, 11:21

Twice's Mina tops Favorite's weekly chart as bandmate Jihyo nabs third place

Twice’s Mina and Jihyo were voted No. 1 and No. 3 on Favorite’s third weekly chart of February. [NHN BUGS]

Twice’s Mina and Jihyo were voted No. 1 and No. 3 on Favorite’s third weekly chart of February.

Favorite is a K-pop fan voting service codeveloped by Bugs and the JoongAng Ilbo, an affiliate of the Korea JoongAng Daily.

Weekly Chart rankings are calculated by a combination of fan votes and an artist’s number of streams on Bugs.

Twice’s Mina received a score of 50 percent, accounting for a total of 82,620 votes and 0 percent of Bugs streaming data, landing in first place. Fellow member Jihyo came third with 8.5 percent and 13,844 votes.

Blackpink’s Lisa came second, receiving a score of 18.1 percent, accounting for 29,714 votes and 0.1 percent streaming.

Trot singer Lim Young-woong’s “Our Blues, Our Life” (2022) was voted the top B-side track in Favorite’s Best B-side poll. [NHN BUGS]

Trot singer Lim Young-woong’s “Our Blues, Our Life” (2022) was voted the top B-side track in Favorite’s Best B-side poll.

The song was first released as a soundtrack for tvN’s 2022 hit drama “Our Blues” and was included as a B-side track on Lim’s first full-length album “IM HERO” the same year.

The song received a score of 57.6 percent, accounting for a total of 14,421 votes and 2.6 percent of Bugs streaming data.

Boy band Riize’s “Memories” (2023) came second with 12.5 percent, accounting for 2,330 votes and 3.6 percent of streaming, followed by EXO’s “The First Snow” (2013) in third.

“The First Snow,” a B-side track in EXO’s winter special album “Miracle in December,” has been a popular Christmas song for many. The song saw a score of 10 percent, accounting for a total of 327 votes and 8.7 percent of streaming points.

Celebratory videos of Mina and Lisa will play at the Parnas Media Tower from Saturday to Feb. 29. The Parnas Media Tower is located near COEX Mall in Gangnam District, southern Seoul, while the celebratory videos of Lim and Riize will play from March 9 to March 29.

BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]