Idol groups fan club members, how many? Current leading idols are?

Measuring the numbers of an idol group's fanclub members can be fairly difficult. But there are fan clubs whose member numbers keep increasing even as of now.

BEAST’s official fan club is attracting attention because its members have increased to over 160,000 members, which is an increase of over 20,000 members for the past months. Many are speculating that it’ll surge over 200,000 members during the first half of the year.

Of course, among the idol groups, Super Junior, 2PM and even BIGBANG are at levels that even some well-off groups can’t beat.

The number of official fan cafe member is one of the gauges to measure their popularity. An expert in music industry explained that “Typically 10% members of the fan cafe will buy the album and attend their concerts.”

The netizens have expressed:
"The number of members in an idol group’s fancafe isn’t as important as the uniqueness featured in each group"
"It won’t be easy to follow the number of members in Big Bang’s fan club"
"BEAST’s popularity seems to be amazing"


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+) Semi-current list of fanclub rankings. BIGBANG's latest number (as of Jan 15) is at 347, 883:

Sources: ENS + TVReport + BIGBANG Daum + Rankings via Baidu
Translations by Sarah An@b2strising + dkpopnews
Compiled by Vic@bigbangupdates (omitted some parts not related to BIGBANG)