Nikkei Entertainment Releases Its Top 20 Girl Group Ranking for 2015

Every year, Nikkei Entertainment magazine releases its “Talent Power Ranking” lists. There are several lists for things such as actors, musicians, athletes, and so on, as well as an overall Top 100 ranking. These lists are created from surveys that are conducted by an independent marketing research firm earlier in the year. They assign a “talent power score” to each entity. This score is based on 2 things: familiarity (the number of survey respondents able to recognize the entity by name and face) and interest level (the number of survey respondents saying that they’d like to see/hear/know more about the entity).

With that being said, we now have the ranking for the top 20 girl groups. Perfume retains their spot at the top. The top 4 actually is the same as 2014, with Momoiro Clover Z, AKB48, and E-girls trailing Perfume, respectively. This year also sees BABYMETAL debuting on the list, with Team Syachihoko, Dempagumi.inc, and Juice=Juice cracking the top 20.

See the full top 20 list after the jump!

1. Perfume: 27.8 (Last year: #1 with 30.4)

2. Momoiro Clover Z: 21.4 (Last year: #2 with 25.0)

3. AKB48: 20.4 (Last year: #3 with 21.5)

4. E-girls: 18.4 (Last year: #4 with 14.0)

5. Nogizaka46: 11.4 (Last year: #6 with 10.1)

6. NMB48: 10.8 (Last year: #5 with 10.6)

7. HKT48: 10.5 (Last year: #8 with 9.2)

8. SKE48: 8.2 (Last year: #7 with 9.5)

9. Flower: 7.7 (Last year: #10 with 6.5)

10. Morning Musume. ’15: 6.8 (Last year: #8 with 9.2)

11. Fairies: 5.5 (Last year: #12 with 5.6)

12. C-ute: 5.5 (Last year: #17 with 3.7)

13. Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku: 4.5 (Last year: #16 with 3.9)

14. BABYMETAL: 4.1 (debuted on the list this year)

15. SUPER GiRLS: 3.8 (Last year: #15 with 4.5)

16. Team Syachihoko: 3.7 (Last year: #22 with 2.4)

16. Dempagumi.inc: 3.7 (Last year: #21 with 2.4)

18. Idoling!!!: 3.7 (Last year: #18 with 4.8)

19. Juice=Juice: 2.9 (Last year: #23 with 2.3)

20. Babyraids Japan: 2.3 (Last year: #19 with 3.2)

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