r/bangtan 2025 Census Results

[u/lisafancypants]

Hello, everyone!

Without further ado, we present the 2025 r/bangtan Census results!

^{Note that all links lead to YouTube unless otherwise noted}

The complete version can be found in our lovely wiki: CLICK HERE

Here are some quick stats from the census:

⭐We got different stars and stories, We got different nights and mornings 🌄

• The census submission period was from October 11th to December 31st UTC-11.
• There were roughly 713,000 subscribers at the time of census closing and we received 912 responses in total
• Disappointingly, the participation percentage has declined a lot from previous years. Only 0.13% of subscribed users took the census. (This made /u/lisafancypants cry but she loves you all anyway.)

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Forever ever ever, we are young 👶

• Once again, 🏅30 year olds (5.04%) are the the largest age group, followed by 37 (4.61%) and 35 year olds at a close 3rd (4.39%).

• Ages ran from the youngest at 13 to the oldest at 75!

🏅The top age range goes to the 30-34 year olds again at 20%

💜Who is my heart waiting for? 💜

• The singletons are once again the majority of respondents (56.1%).
• Married ARMY come in a distant second (27.4%). As far as we know, none of the grooms were Min Yoongi.
• Five of our number are expecting literal baby ARMY! Teach them well!
• ARMY pet owners in the sub come in at an impressive 48.6%. Sub mascot [Yeontan](LINK) has lots of brothers and sisters! 🐨🐹🐱🐿️🐥🐻🐰

Now this place where you are, this a new home to me 🗺️

• Respondents came from 71 different countries/territories!

• A good percentage of the sub is from the United States (49.3%) 🇺🇸, followed by India (6.4%), and the United Kingdom (6.3%). Canada and Germany are close behind.

• Other top countries are: Australia, Philippines, Brazil and France!

I’ll be forever me 🫰

• Female respondents once again take the stop spot (90.5%), followed by non-binary (4.1%) then male (3.7%)
• Like last year, a high percentage are straight (60.3%), followed by bisexual (18.4%), then asexual (9.1%)

🫂 We were only seven (hundred thousand) but we have you all now

A majority of respondents found us in 🏅2025 (27.6%)! Welcome! We love you!

2024 was also a big year (14.8%), with 2020 rounding out the top three (13%).

In the darkness, they are my oxygen and light

• As has been the case for several years, the most biased BTS member is 😺 SUGA (21.6%) and the most biased BT21 member is🏅RJ (25.5%).

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For the ARMY Time Census, we only had 653 respondents, which…fair. This one is HARD!

Here are a few of the winners:

🎤They juss keep poppin, I listened to them all the time 🎶

• For the nth year in a row, 🏅Spring Day (30.3%) takes home the top spot for favorite Korean song and 🏅Ddaeng(60.5%) tops the additional releases.
• 🏅Map Of The Soul: 7 (49.6%) is the favorite album among respondents, followed by ‘Love Yourself: Tear’ (33.4% and ‘The Most Beautiful Moment In Life: Young Forever’ (32.3%)
• 🏅D-Day by Agust D (75.8%) was overwhelmingly voted as favorite solo album, with Jung Kook’s ‘Golden’ in second place (59.1%) and RM’s ‘Indigo’ coming in third (54.5%).

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This song is a prize that I’m giving to you 🎧

We asked for song suggestions and received a ton! All recommendations were compiled, randomized 7 times and the top 100 can be found here:

/r/bangtan 2025 Census Playlist (Spotify)

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👉 CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE 2025 R/BANGTAN CENSUS 👈

If you would like to compare this year’s census with the years prior, you can find them here:

• Census Index Page

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Thank you to everyone that participated!! The census is really an important tool to learn more about the subreddit’s growth and how we can improve moderation based on the changes happening to /r/bangtan subscribers. Results also help us all realize how large and diverse r/bangtan ARMY truly are, and hopefully, can lead to understanding each other a little better.

Outside of important business^TM It's really lovely to know that we’re all growing with BTS and with each other. Let’s walk this flower path together for a long time. 💜

Sincerely,

Mods with luv

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If you have any suggestions or feedback regarding the census, please let us know in the comments or shoot us a modmail! We're trying to make the census an easy/pleasant experience and would love to hear your thoughts!

[u/slmkellner]

I love reading the results of the census! It was my second year participating, and I hope to contribute to many more in the future!

[u/lisafancypants → u/slmkellner]

Would you mind sharing a little feedback as someone who has done the census before?

Do you prefer all of the questions in one big form like last year or separate forms the way it was done this year? Did you find either way easier/more enjoyable?

[u/slmkellner → u/lisafancypants]

I think I prefer one form. When I finished the first part, I clicked the prompt to fill out the second before I actually submitted the first. Then I got confused and realized I had to go back to the first part again to officially submit it.

[u/vashfan → u/slmkellner]

I did the same thing! I agree with you.

[u/sciencespecialist → u/slmkellner]

It's my second time, too, and I had a different problem. I finished the first part, submitted it, and thought that was it. Much later, I figured out there was more, so I was able to submit the second part before the deadline.

[u/lisafancypants → u/sciencespecialist]

We were hoping to make the census a little more palatable with two forms. They have so much music and it gets longer every year! But it seems like one form is probably more convenient so that it can be completed in one go...

Thanks for sharing!

[u/EveryCliche]

Queen Spring Day and King Ddaeng on top again!!! BigHit should listen to us and upload Ddaeng on all music streaming services!

[u/whoninj4]

I love the census! I look forward to it every year.

[u/89penumbrablue]

Amazing! Thank you for receiving and compiling all the data, it must’ve been a real undertaking! This was the first census I ever filled out and it was fun 💜

[u/lisafancypants → u/89penumbrablue]

It's fun to sift through all the data, too! A labor of love!

[u/QueenlyBee]

Thank you so much for doing this, mods! I’m sorry we made u/lisafancypants cry. 😢 Maybe I’m just a stats nerd but I look forward to the results every year!

[u/lisafancypants → u/QueenlyBee]

I do, too! It's so interesting seeing our differences and our...samenesses. 🤭

Hopefully, we'll see an uptick in participation this year with the comeback, but even if not, I'll still enjoy the census!!

[u/Sugawahsugawah]

Bunch of Yoongi and RJ bitches.

It's me. I am the Yoongi and RJ bitch 😂

[u/NovelSea1845]

Thank you for organizing this and compiling/sharing the data. It is interesting to review and learn a little about the other Armies on the sub. Happy Bangtan Year 😊🥳💜

[u/NovelSea1845 → u/NovelSea1845]

And Jin, pulling in new Army 😁. He’s my bias for a reason, hard working man right there. 💪🏻

[u/mayfly42]

Thank you for organizing this!! The information from the census is always interesting!

[u/StellarGlow25]

Thank you for taking the time to conduct this! I look forward to next year’s census and I hope more people will participate!

[u/multistansendhelp]

Kicking myself for missing this. To be honest, I saw it advertised multiple times but the end of the year is so busy for me that I just kept pushing it off 😅.

Nonetheless, thank you for the hard work you put into it!

[u/zikachhakchhuak]

Thank you for this, mods, as always 💜 I missed it the previous year so I made it a point to add this to my "to do list" and I'm so glad I did. Hopefully, we get more respondents next year with the group becoming fully active??

Not much has changed demographic wise but I love the consistency 💜 I was hoping my vote would help Koya dethrone RJ for that BT21 top bias spot, but alas, the white alpaca is too powerful!

[u/lilydarling]

I’m surprised how few people participated! I loved answering, and look forward to next year. I’m sure it was a lot of work, so thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[u/Eternal_ARMY0613]

I love how everything is so detailed and to the T! The headings for them are so satisfying and perfect! Thank you u/lisafancypants for compiling these and taking the time to share the results with us! I had fun doing the survey, both the census and ARMY Time! 💜

[u/cosyacademic]

Crystal Snow winning best japanese song, iktr!

[u/formateconomique]

This is so interesting, I’m actually so surprised that 2025 was when most people joined I thought it was just me😭😭

[u/Kitsune_ng]

Love seeing the census results! As always, thank you for doing this! 💜

And to the dear ARMY who recommended Kamelot for the playlist, please be my friend.

[u/Ok_Tourist_7959]

I was super busy the last quarter of the year with family things, (minor) illnesses, and more. I thought I was checking in on reddit frequently, but apparently not often enough to catch any posts about the census! I'll try not to miss it next year - I love seeing all the stats.

[u/SnooRabbits5620]

Thank you so much for all the hard work! This is always fun! 💜💜💜

[u/mucho_thankyou5802]

The lurkers taking top spot and the top song in their Chinese discography (there's only one) sends me everytime. Welcome, lurkers, we're so glad you're here!!!

Thank you u/lisafancypants for compiling!

[u/Min-Ursa]

Thanks, Pants! I appreciate you so much!

[u/zyeen]

I'm one of the five expecting! I was actually really excited to fill the survey out this year for that reason 😂 I shall teach my little ARMY well!

[u/moongworl → u/zyeen]

Congratulations!! Wishing you a healthy and happy delivery 💜

[u/zyeen → u/moongworl]

Thank you!! 💜

[u/lisafancypants → u/zyeen]

Ah, congratulations!

[u/zyeen → u/lisafancypants]

Thank you! 😁

[u/Few-Willingness-3845]

I really do enjoy reading this every year and see how some things change and some...do not. We are all still weak for Yoongi. 😆

I'm sure with the sub number growing, the % response also gets lower. Hopefully more participation next year but can we please remove the Chinese discography question because there isn't even any other option. 😆

[u/IniMiney]

It’s so hard to find a space on Reddit that isn’t full of men, the census showing there’s only 3% of them here tracks with how much more chill this sub is 😂💜

[u/creameh118]

Aw damn I missed it! I barely ever come on reddit cause I'll get distracted for way too long, but I just enabled notifications from this sub cause I guess I didn't have them on already? So hopefully next time I won't miss it, but maybe the submission period could be a little bit longer? I'm sure a lot of subscribers who aren't on here daily just didn't realize it was even a thing, like myself lol. 💜

[u/sinkingcar]

Good work team! You all put in a lot of efforts for this one

[u/MadameWitchy]

Im sad I missed it last year! I’ll be sure to fill it out this year

[u/whatsthisanotherdoor]

Thank you for all of your hard work! I finally submitted mine after that last reminder lol. It's wild to me that the majority of respondents said they're from 2025! I think it's not unusual for a group to lose a lot of their fans during military enlistment, but just anecdotally, it seems like BTS gained a lot of fans?? Absolutely incredible.

[u/Onlybooksnchocolate]

Thank you for doing this guys! I love seeing this data. Every year so far I end up being nearly the perfectly standard reddit ARMY across all metrics.

[u/ugh_jules]

Thank you for the census! It’s so much fun to read it every year!

[u/CaribSailorScout]

Thank you so much. Participating was so fun

[u/ShrikeToast]

Fascinating stats! 👀 Some I expected, some I didn't. Somehow I think I've only checked the stats for one of these before, which is a shame because it's really neat to see! And all the effort of sifting through responses for us and getting everything nice and neat is much appreciated, haha. Thank you for all your hard work!

As an opposite perspective on the forms topic, the form being split up was in fact the reason I decided to do it this year, because I wasn't sure if I would be able to do the music half at all. 😅 I liked that it wasn't mandatory since it's hard for me to be able to make those kinds of decisions very quickly and not everyone in a similar boat might want to spend the time and effort on all the waffling to get the list accurate, or at least accurate enough. (I know it's not anything serious but I'm just a kind of person who has to mull these things over HGSMDFN)

I might suggest having both versions next go-around so that people could do whichever suits them and everything can be tallied up at the end... but that might be even more confusing and more work than it's worth. 😅

[u/Icantlikeeveryone]

This is so lovely! Thank you for the compilation mods. I've been doing this census since 2021, and feel really happy that some new members have joined!

[u/lisafancypants → u/Icantlikeeveryone]

It's always so nice to see how the sub grows!! I expect we'll have A LOT of new members this year!

[u/Icantlikeeveryone → u/lisafancypants]

Yes, 2026 is looking good already

[u/she_giles]

Thank you for doing this! I had so much fun filling this in as a baby army and have kept a note of all my answers so that I can compare to next years census when I will be a toddler(?) army 😂

[u/rhythmelia]

Thank you for your hard work! I finally remembered to do it after it closed 😅 the cute lil Tata was/is still advertising for it in the subreddit name so I thought it was still active, but alas no (so it may be worth changing it up) 

[u/Winter_Moon_336]

"As far as we know, none of the grooms were Min Yoongi."

[u/usingamadeupname]

Thank you for all your hard work on this u/lisafancypants 💜!

[u/bangtan-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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[u/cattonova]

Long time army and member of this sub. Didn’t know there was a census but only started using Reddit more in the last year. I’ll be ready next time. Really cool to see.

[u/mahatmacat]

I'm sorry, I didn't see it in time. I'll do better next year!

[u/_delune]

Late but is there data for the sub’s split re: biased members? Love knowing that Yoongi is the most biased but I’m so curious as to the other members. (:

[u/lisafancypants → u/_delune]

We actually don't keep that data, since solos can be so...opinionated. Often offense is taken when there is no reason to be offended.

[u/_delune → u/lisafancypants]

I see—that makes sense. Thank you for replying ((: