Malaysia is placed 9th as country with the most K-pop fans on Twitter

Concerning the most mentioned artistes, it is no surprise that the legendary group BTS takes first place. Photo: Handout

K-pop is a hot topic on Twitter. The social network revealed that 7.5 billion tweets about the topic were posted in one year across its platform. A phenomenon that is getting bigger every year.

So what are countries where users talk the most about K-pop on Twitter with the hashtag #KpopTwitter?

With a new record for number of tweets with the hashtag #KpopTwitter, the Korean pop fan community is powerful on the social network. Twitter revealed on its blog the top 20 countries where fans talk about their passion online the most and those with the largest number of fans on Twitter.

In 2020, Indonesia was already dominating the top 20 countries where people were talking about this kind of music on Twitter. The Philippines gained two places at the expense of Thailand, which dropped to third place, thus making South Korea fall off the podium!