Girls’ Generation ranked number 44 for the week of August 1st, 2015, on Billboard’s “Social 50“, a chart that ranks “the most popular artists online across all major music sites.” The chart judges artists’ digital popularity by measuring internet traffic, follower additions, and weekly airplay.

Girls’ Generation’s accomplishment places them among the few South Korean artists to have cracked the “Social 50”, including PSY, BIGBANG, and Wonder Girls — the first of whom remains the only South Korean artist to have topped the chart. At number 44, Girls’ Generation ranks above several noted household names in the United States, including Justin Timberlake and Calvin Harris.

Sources: Billboard, Next Big Sound
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Edited by: moonrise31@soshified

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