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2024 kpop ao3 ship stats! inspired by the 2024 ship stats by centreoftheselights on ao3! Check out their list if you haven’t yet, they really helped me to do the research on this list
here's the link to their list

i've compiled these stats to break down the most written kpop ships on AO3.

there are 3 lists, each in their own chapter. the first list is most ships written 2024, the second list is most written ships of all time as of 12/31/2024, and the third list is most written girl group ships as of 12/31/2024

**note: i did not include poly/platonic ships, multifandom ship (ships that have never been in the same group) or self-insert/OCs in these stats. if there is an interest in those stats, i may compile in the future!

disclaimer: all stats were taken from AO3 and is not meant to be representative of the popularity of a ship as a whole

i am also researching the disparity between boy group and girl group fic. if anyone would like to help out, i've created a form with some questions to better understand the kpop fanfic space as a whole. I plan to write an essay that will be accessible as a googledoc/pdf and I might post it on twt bsky tmblr and maybe ao3.
link to form

for reasons explained better here there might be some ships missing. I tried really hard to check literally everything and I went over every ficdom and every ship multiple times so everything should be fine. The problem is mostly nct, it being a really large group and not knowing the fandom well, it is very possible I missed ships. But if you’re interested in making an NCT ao3 ship rank spreadsheet I’d be happy to help!

If you find a ship with more than 282 fics posted in 2024 or a ship with more than 1,415 fics all time as of 12/31/2024 or a girl group ship with more than 93 fics all time as of 12/31/2024 that are not on these lists please let me know!