Who was the most radiant K-Pop artist this year? Gallup Korea had the answer, at least according to their end-of-the-year survey. The survey targeted 4,200 people between the ages of 13 and 59, and took place three times - once in July, September, and November. In order to reflect the age-specific preferences, they asked 1,500 people between the ages of 13 and 29 in the nation separately about idol groups. The 95% confidence level indicates a sampling error of +/- 1.5% for all of them and +/-2.5% for idols. Onto the results!

The results were unveiled on December 17, revealing that none other than Big Bang, which was majorly active this 年 with their 'MADE' series, took the first spot with 15.5% of votes! From 2007 to 2009, the group had placed 秒 in this category for three years in a row, once again getting 秒 place in 2011, but now they have finally ranked first for the first time ever!

Very closely behind them were IU（アイユー） with 15.4% of votes. In third place was Girls' Generation with 11.9%. Fourth was trot singer, Jang Yoon Jung, with 8.9%, followed によって SISTAR with 6.9%. Sixth was Lim Chang Jung, a veteran singer with 6.6% of votes. Both EXO and Lee Sun Hee got 5.7% for the 次 ranking. Gallup explained, "The time period for this year's investigation was up to November, so EXO's 最近 activities have been unable to sufficiently overlap."

Following were AOA with 5%, Lee Seung Chul with 4.9%, and A ピンク with 4.2%.

Gallup Korea Poll: Artist of the Year

Big Bang

IU

Girls' Generation

Jang Yoon Jung

SISTAR

Lim Chang Jung

EXO

Lee Sun Hee

AOA

Lee Seung Chul

A Pink

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