It turns out that the least popular member of the K-pop band BTS is none other than J-Hope — and unfortunately for the South Korean native, there's data to back up that claim. As The Blast noted in its own breakdown of the rapper and songwriter's purported popularity level among fans, a poll conducted by Tumblr in 2019 (via Koreaboo) found that J-Hope ranked seventh among its list of top 100 K-Pop stars — with J-Hope's fellow bandmembers Jin, RM, Suga, V, Jimin, and Jungkook leading with slots from sixth to first. Another survey, this time a 2019 Gallup poll (via AllKPop), found that participants in between the ages of 13 and 29 listed J-Hope as the least popular member of BTS out of an extensive list of Preferred Korean Idols, with Jimin topping out at number one for both the 2019 and 2018 lists, respectively.
While Jimin, followed by Jungkook, V, Suga, RM, and Jin all placed within the top 20 bracket of Preferred Korean Idols, J-Hope was far from the least popular out of all idols ranked. But the fact that J-Hope consistently ranked lower than his six BTS co-members on two separate 2019 polls — one of which is most notably used as a metric and analytical tool in U.S. presidential elections — has left some members of BTS Army crying foul.
