K-pop girl group 2NE1’s leader CL is leading the 2015 TIME 100 Reader’s Poll, an online poll that asks readers to choose who they think “have changed the world this past year, for better or worse.”
“While TIME’s editors will choose the TIME 100 — our annual list of the most influential people in the world — we want readers to have a say too,” TIME wrote about the list.
TIME has unveiled the 158 nominees for the readers’ poll which include world leaders, entertainers and sports icons.
2NE1’s CL in Manila in May last year (Photo by Jonathan Hicap)
At presstime, CL is leading the poll with 11.5 percent followed by Lady Gaga, 4.3 percent; Beyonce, 2.7 percent; Emma Watson, 2.4 percent; Malala Yousafzai, 1.7 percent; Rihanna, 1.7 percent; Taylor Swift, 1.7 percent; and Pope Francis, 1.6 percent.
“One fourth of the wildly popular South Korean girl group 2NE1, Lee Chaeilin (a.k.a. CL) is teaming up with manager Scooter Braun (the mastermind behind Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen) for her upcoming American debut,” TIME said of CL.
TIME said voting will close on April 10 and the winner of the poll will be announced on April 13 while the official TIME 100 list will be unveiled on April 16.
Last year, Indian politician Arvind Kejriwal won the Reader’s Poll.
Other personalities in the 2015 TIME 100 Reader’s Poll are:
Sam Smith
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Lupita Nyong’o
Jimmy Fallon
Oprah Winfrey
Nicki Minaj
Benedict Cumberbatch
Dalai Lama
Laverne Cox
Katy Perry
Mark Zuckerberg
Harper Lee
Madonna
Anna Kendrick
Julianne Moore
Alexander Wang
Chris Pratt
Joshua Wong
Ariana Grande
Amal Clooney
John Green
Viola Davis
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Angela Merkel
Tim Cook
Dr. Joanne Liu
Jon Stewart
PewDiePie
Cristiano Ronaldo
Jessica Alba
Kevin Hart
Bradley Cooper
Reese Witherspoon
Drake
Kanye West
Bill Clinton
Reed Hastings
Haruki Murakami
Shonda Rhimes
Aziz Ansari
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Hank Green
Susan Wojcicki
Vladimir Putin
Christopher Nolan
John Oliver
Scott Kelly
Dr. Margaret Chan
Gina Rodriguez
Janet Mock
Yao Chen
Bob Iger
Misty Copeland
Dilma Rousseff
LeBron James
J.J. Abrams
Brandon Stanton
Marissa Mayer
Taraji P. Henson
Elizabeth Warren
Marie Kondo
Howard Schultz
Sheryl Sandberg
Vivek Murphy
Jack Ma
Elon Musk
Narendra Modi
Samantha Power
Jeff Bezos
Kim Jong-un
Kendall Jenner
Xi Jinping
Satya Nadella
Sarah Koenig
Anthony Fauci
Shinzo Abe
Eddie Huang
Diane von Furstenberg
Ava DuVernay
Folorunsho Alakija
Kim Kardashian
Dr. Tom Frieden
Tom Brady
Anita Sarkeesian
Miranda Lambert
Raul Castro
Ronda Rousey
John Kerry
Janet Yellen
Lei Jun
Bethany Mota
Lorne Michaels
Lee Daniels
Bill de Blasio
Vani Hari
Riccardo Tisci
Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
E L James
Abby Wambach
Joko Widodo
Audra McDonald
Bruce Jenner
Chrissy Teigen
Benjamin Netanyahu
Richard Linklater
Stephen Curry
Tom Steyer
Ashraf Ghani
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Jimmy Lai
Petro Poroshenko
Meg Whitman
Tim McGraw
Julianna Margulies
Reid Hoffman
Mary Barra
Brian Chesky
Amy Schumer
Haider al-Abadi
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Megyn Kelly
John Roberts
Thomas Piketty
Alexis Tsipras
Adam Silver
Travis Kalanick
Larry Wilmore
Jorge Ramos
Goodluck Jonathan
Arvind Kejriwal
Bashar Assad
Rory McIlroy
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Enrique Peña Nieto
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi
Charles and David Koch
Abubakar Shekau
Rand Paul
Jeb Bush
Danny Meyer
Marco Rubio
Amit Shah
Ted Cruz
Roger Goodell
Jamie Dimon
Mitch McConnell
Carly Fiorina
Scott Walker
Sheldon Adelson
