Filipinos’ love for music especially for Original Pilipino Music or OPM and its artists is reflected in Blueprint.PH’s Facebook data scan* in June 2021 with a total engagement score of 2,713, 415.
The top 10 OPM artists’ rankings are based on the engagement scores, a formula that captured reactions, comments, and shares of netizens to certain hot posts in June. New and young artists from different musical genres of rock, pop, hiphop, RnB, and ballad got their shares on our Top 10 for this month. Collaborations between and among other musicians and social media influencers have shown impressive engagements among Facebook users. Top engaging posts are also found in local community blogs or pages, which help our OPM artists be known more among Facebook users.
Check your favorite OPM artists here!
Ben&Ben, the most talked-about OPM band, bagged the top spot in Facebook with an engagement score of 935,925.40 from 2883 posts. The top engaging post for Ben&Ben is the collaboration of their song Pagtingin and Upuan with Filipino vlogger Mimiyuuuh. This post has a total of 3,684,429 reactions including likes, love, and wow reactions from their Facebook followers and avid fans. The said post from Ben&Ben’s Facebook page has an engagement score of 68,589.80. The same video is on Youtube, “Mimiyuuuh and Ben&Ben Band Nag-Jamming!” has more than 2.7 million views.
Second on the list is the all-time top trending contender and phenomenal P-pop group SB19 with an engagement score of 814,214.80 from 1378 posts. SB19’s collaboration with Ben&Ben for a full-band version of their emotional single “Mapa” got 3,588,710 reactions such as likes, love, wow, and sad from their Pinoy fans who got sentimental with the new collaboration. The said collaboration post from a Facebook page, Lyrics Art, got an engagement score of 63,907.80. On Youtube, SB19 and Ben&Ben – MAPA (Band Version) Official Video has views close to 9 million in a period of one month, and is currently on #9 Trending on Music.
The next artist on the third spot is Moira Dela Torre who always leaves her listeners with hugot feels from her trademark performances. Moira has an engagement score of 225,229.20 from 281 posts.
The top engaging post for Moira is a Facebook meme post from Kapamilya Online World. Dela Torre’s ‘Paubaya’ song lyric “Ba’t ‘di ko naisip na merong hanggan, Ako yung nauna, pero siya ang wakas” was related to the trending issue of PBA Ginebra Scottie Thompson and his marriage to Jinky Serrano, after proposing to his former long-time girlfriend Pau Fajardo. The trending post got 1,210,579 combined reaction points of likes, love, sad, wow, and haha post from the netizens and got an engagement score of 43,917.00.
The fourth spot goes to Filipino rapper Skusta Clee with an engagement score of 190,719.50. A Facebook post from f c k m o o d with a song ‘Ikaw Lamang’ featuring Bullet D, O.C Dwags, and Skusta Clee garnered 651,240 reactions including likes, love, and wow emojis and an engagement score of 79,972.70. Skusta Clee’s new single, Lagi was released in June 20, now has more than 43 million views in YouTube.
On the 5th spot is the Popstar Royalty Sarah Geronimo with an engagement score of 170,805.00. A trending Facebook post from CinemaBravo page with Sarah Geronimo’s new sports short hair during a Lander’s event shocked the Facebook netizens with 1,137,842 combined reactions of love, wow, like emojis and an engagement score of 16,883.60.
Short hair, don’t care!
On the 6th spot is Darren Espanto with an engagement score of 93,205.80. Lyrics Art Facebook page showing Espanto’s live collaboration with Zack Tabudlo’s ‘Binibini’ got 386,723 likes, love, sad, wow combined reactions and an engagement score of 41,612.00. In Youtube, this collaboration, Zack Tabudlo x Darren Espanto – Binibini (Live Performance), released on June 6 has more than 4.3 million views as of July 31, 2021.
Next to Espanto is 8 Ballin’ with an engagement score of 84,674.20. 8 Ballin’s ‘Know me’ caught the attention of netizens which were even viral in Facebook and TikTok as parodies and memes.
A Facebook page from Christian Antolin about Marga’s type of guy “GUSTO KO YUNG MAGALING KUMANTA, YUNG MABILISH, YUNG PASH PASH, PERO MAIINTINDIHAN PA RIN.” with 8 Ballin’ Know Me music got 424,644 combined reactions of haha, like, love, and sad emoticons from the netizens and an engagement score of 25,739.40.
In Youtube, 8 Ballin’ premiered its song Know Me on June 8 and now has 12.3 million views.
8th spot on the list is Zack Tabudlo with an engagement score of 79,792.00. Lyrics Art Facebook page showing live collaboration of Zack Tabudlo and Darren Espanto on its song ‘Binibini’ got 201,500 likes, love, sad, wow combined reactions and an engagement score of 41,612.00.
Next to Tabudlo is another OPM singer Michael Pangilinan with an engagement score of 66,533.70. His official Facebook page about his outdoor “mountain selfie” got the combined reactions of 336,048 from netizens and an engagement score of 15,422.80.
Last but not least on the list is Matthaios which garnered an engagement score of 52,315.20. A Facebook post from Made by Josh’s page about Gusto Kita Makita by Matthaios with a lyric music vibe got 186,612 combined reactions from the netizens and an engagement score of 17,664.50.
Who wouldn’t love OPM artists and their songs? ☺
*Methodology:
Blueprint.PH listed the top trending keywords and from other social media sources.
The list was scanned using a proprietary and specialized NLP (natural language processing) SEARCH engine. For each keyword or phrase we search, on the average, we scan about 2 petabytes of data equivalent to 2 million gigabytes of data over Facebook that mentions the keyword.
The main source of data are publicly available Facebook data from the Philippines. Trends, commentaries, charts, tables and other data presented are from Facebook platform.
There are no personal nor demographic data, and data was acquired through observation and not solicitation.
The data was organized chronologically by engagement score. Engagement score is computed as: (Comments X 0.1)+(reactions x 0.1) + shares.