K-POP Cover Dance Festival 2017 wraps up with over 600,000 video views on Twitter & Periscope.
Twitter is the best place for K-Pop fans to see what’s happening and what the world is talking about. The K-Pop Cover Dance Festival 2017 (@KPOPCoverDance) that concluded over the weekend generated more than 600,000 video views on Twitter and Periscope. The week-long competition garnered over 122,486 interactions on Twitter between May 26 to June 3 across the 10 finalist teams from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico, Russia, Japan, United States, Vietnam, and of course, South Korea.
[LIVE] Final of the K-pop Cover Dance Festival #KCDF2017 GO! KR???????? PH???????? RU???????? US???????? https://t.co/kTKXWmfNK5
— K-POP Cover Dance (@KPOPCoverDance) June 3, 2017
Russian cover dance group X.EAST (@xeast_dance) was crowned winner of the coveted Twitter Popular Choice Award at the K-Pop Cover Dance Festival 2017 (@KPOPCoverDance). The cover dance group successfully rallied fans to garner over 42,000 interactions on Twitter which included Retweets, Replies, Likes, Mentions and video views to emerge as the winning team. Mr. Chang-Seob Shin, Country Head of Twitter Korea, presented the Twitter Popular Choice Award to @xeast_dance.
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As part of the K-Pop Cover Dance Festival experience, over 250,900 fans worldwide caught the competition’s semi-finals live on Twitter and Periscope. The semi-final live broadcast received more than 257,000 Hearts and also saw K-Pop band K.A.R.D. (@K.A.R.D.) as judges for the competition who delivered a special performance.
The top four teams from Philippines, Russia, US, and South Korea went on to the competition’s finals on June 3 – which gathered 261,000 views and more than 327,000 Hearts on Periscope and Twitter – appearing as the opening act for Dream Concert 2017.
Here are some highlights from the KPOP Cover Dance Festival finalist teams and their fans on Twitter:
Russia: X.east
We’re the finalists of k-pop cover dance festival 2017 in Korea! Please support us and vote #KCDFRussia #KCDFRU pic.twitter.com/k7iY8bTqvl
— x.east dance crew (@xeast_dance) May 25, 2017
Philippines: Y.O.U
@geloubaby @KPOPCoverDance #KCDFPHILIPPINES #KCDF2017 #ISEOULU #SEOUL pic.twitter.com/rASrnDRSKo
— Gelouu???? (@geloubaby) May 28, 2017
Mexico: CLUE
CLUE in Pyeongchan! #KCDFMexico #KCDFMX pic.twitter.com/4N9nqTl3dI
— CLUE (@clueoficial) June 1, 2017
Japan: Navi
We’re the finalist of KCDF2017 in Japan✨????????
Please support us, Navi and vote #KCDFJapan #KCDFJPNaviはKCDF2017のファイナリストに選ばれました！応援よろしくお願いします✨ pic.twitter.com/hyyKCZcwIE
— KPOPCoverDance????Navi (@keio_kpopnavi) May 25, 2017
Vietnam: Super Nova
We covered Not today of BTS.#KCDFVietnam #KCDFVN
Please support js pic.twitter.com/5ZFWJ4kt5B— supernova (@supernova_viet) May 25, 2017
USA: The First Bite
#KCDFUS #KCDFUSA The First Bite is coming to Korea????Please show us some love!!! pic.twitter.com/ld201oizBt
— Eddie (@FB_Eddie) May 25, 2017
Hong Kong: Friends Junction Boys
FJ Boys Team performance at KCDF 2017 HK final (part 1)#KCDFHongKong #fjdc #fjboys pic.twitter.com/I6jIh2Zf7A
— Leon Leung (@leonleung0714) May 25, 2017
Korea (Host Country): OVERFATE
#KCDFKoreaM #KCDFKRM 한국본선우승 pic.twitter.com/sFMib7snfz
— 김우근 (@Ugeun2) May 25, 2017
Indonesia: A.C.E.S
WISH US LUCK! #ACESSWAGDAB #KCDFID #KCDFIndonesia pic.twitter.com/NomsxSDSkW
— Arya Pratama (@aerof777) June 2, 2017
Korea (Host Country): Vely
K-POP cover 댄스팀 vely(블리) 입니다! #KCDFKoreaW #KCDFKRW #KCDF2017 #VELY #블리 pic.twitter.com/hooHlx9cdN
— Vely (블리) (@vely_kpop) May 25, 2017
Did you watch the performances, too? Which one is your favorite? Tell us in the comments!
