YG's anticipated girl group, BabyMonster, has made quite the splash with the release of their pre-debut song and announcement of their official seven-member line-up, seeing a substantial increase in YouTube subscribers.

Tube Guide's analysis of the influencer marketing platform 'Bling's' YouTube channel data for the third week of May revealed that BabyMonster's official YouTube channel (BABYMONSTER) recorded a whopping 450,000 new subscribers from May 11 to 17, securing the top spot.

BabyMonster is YG's multinational girl group, launching approximately seven years after BLACKPINK. YG initially planned BabyMonster to be a five-member girl group. However, considering fans' feedback, the company decided on a seven-member debut without any member eliminations. BabyMonster revealed their pre-debut song, 'Dream,' on their YouTube channel on May 14. The video has currently garnered over 18 million views, attracting significant attention.

The second to tenth positions for the third week of May in terms of weekly subscriber count were claimed by ▲short-form creator Kim Pro (400k↑) ▲short-form creator Yoo Baekhap (280k↑) ▲girl group Triple S official channel (260k↑) ▲sports creator Team Illusion's No Sungyul (230k↑) ▲short-form creator Lee Nonyang (220k↑) ▲short-form creator Crazy Grappa (220k↑) ▲food channel Foodimama (210k↑) ▲animation YouTuber Gyehyangsseu (200k↑) ▲girl group BLACKPINK official channel (200k↑).

The top ten channels in terms of weekly views were ▲Kim Pro (573.19M) ▲Team Illusion's No Sungyul (270.5M) ▲Crazy Grappa (185.54M) ▲BLACKPINK (142.51M) ▲Yoo Baekhap (140.82M) ▲short-form creator Fashion YD (120.73M) ▲Foodimama (119.19M) ▲MBC News (117.58M) ▲short-form creator Chick Unni (117.15M) ▲couple YouTubers Jinwoo and Haeti (111.46M).

Meanwhile, as of yesterday, the channel with the highest number of subscribers in South Korea is BLACKPINK (88.2M). This is followed by BTS's official channel 'BANGTANTV' (74.7M), HYBE's official channel 'HYBE LABELS' (70.6M), dance YouTube channel '1MILLION Dance Studio' (26M), and K-pop channel '1theK' (24.5M), ranking second to fifth, respectively.

For more details on the third week of May's YouTube channel rankings, you can visit the Tube Guide website.

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