The Korea Institute of Corporate Reputation has released brand value rankings of girl groups for December!

According to the Korea Institute of Corporate Reputation’s big data analysis for December, BLACKPINK made their return to #1 for group brand value, followed by NewJeans, then IVE in third.

Coming off the news of their contract renewal, BLACKPINK returned to the top of the chart with a brand value index of 6,148,842, more than doubling last month’s numbers.

Charting in second is NewJeans with an index of 4,730,218, dropping from #1 despite only experiencing a 0.02% decrease from last month.

In third place is IVE with 4,547,363, dropping one position with a 1.82% decrease when compared to last month’s reputation data.

The big data analysis showed terms that were most commonly linked with BLACKPINK this month were “renew contract,” “skyrocket,” and “conclude contract.” On the other hand, the keyword analysis of the group sees “all members,” “Yang Hyun Suk,” and “YG Entertainment,” as the most commonly searched terms.The top 30 are ranked as follows:

1. BLACKPINK

2. NewJeans

3. IVE

4. BABYMONSTER

5. aespa

6. LE SSERAFIM

7. (G)I-DLE

8. TWICE

9. Red Velvet

10. Oh My Girl

11. Girls’ Generation

12. cignature

13. Girl’s Day

14. fromis_9

15. MAMAMOO

16. NMIXX

17. H1-KEY

18. STAYC

19. Dreamcatcher

20. EXID

21. WJSN (Cosmic Girls)

22. LABOUM

23. Apink

24. April

25. Kep1er

26. LOONA

27. Ladies’ Code

28. ALICE (ELRIS)

29. DIA

30. ITZY