# K-pop idol groups average just 4.12 years of activity, study of 1,182 teams over 30 years finds

Release page: https://ktrenz.com/article/2026/08/kpop-idol-average-lifespan-4-years-1182-groups-study
Reach map: https://ktrenz.com/reach-graph/kpop-idol-average-lifespan-4-years-1182-groups-study
Artist: ENHYPEN — https://ktrenz.com/artisttag/ENHYPEN
Category: chart
Published: 2026-08-04

## How measured
Server-side crawler hits on this article, counted per vendor and per bot. "Answer-time" means the vendor fetched the page while composing an answer (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User); "training" means bulk collection. These are requests we served — not impressions, not audience, not estimated reach. Crawlers we block are excluded from every number here.

## AI reach
- Answer-time citations: 1
- Total AI reads: 18
- Distinct vendors: 6
- Window: 5 days from first to last crawl

| Vendor | Reads | Kind | Bots |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meta | 13 | training | Meta-ExternalAgent 13×/4d |
| OpenAI | 1 | answer-time | OAI-SearchBot 1×/1d |
| Perplexity | 1 | training | PerplexityBot 1×/1d |
| Anthropic | 1 | training | ClaudeBot 1×/1d |
| Amazon | 1 | training | Amazonbot 1×/1d |
| Apple | 1 | training | Applebot 1×/1d |

## Human reach
- No third-party pickup or social posts were recorded for this release.

## Attribution
Measured and published by KTRENZ (https://ktrenz.com). Cite as: "KTRENZ Release Reach, K-pop idol groups average just 4.12 years of activity, study of 1,182 teams over 30 years finds".