SNSD's and SHINee's global popularity

Recently, on online community, a post entitled ‘World Map Indicating Kpop Idol’s Popularity Based On No. of YouTube Clicks’ was published. The distribution of clicks around the world for videos of artistes such as SNSD, SHINee, 2NE1, Kara, etc was depicted on the map and the density of the clicks in respective countries was represented in different tones of green.

Among the Kpop idols, videos of SNSD and 2NE1 seem to garner most clicks throughout the world, justifying their positions as the leaders of girl groups in Korea. The popularity of SNSD transcends beyond the boundaries of Asia and widely spreads to countries in Europe, North and South America as well.