from 2015 to 2016, luhan appeared on the cover of more than 20 magazines. he became the first chinese celebrity to grace the covers of china elle, gq style, china forbes, harper's bazaar and cosmopolitan. he received the guinness world record for having more than 200,000 people buying a limited edition of 20,000 copies of a magazine cover in a second. luhan won his own wax statue in january 2016, from the madame tussaud's wax museum in beijing. in october 2016, luhan was featured in the "bof 100" ranking of business of fashion, becoming the only chinese celebrity to reach the ranking and received the title of "most anticipated chinese star". he also became the first celebrity born after the 1990s to be named the "artist of the year" by china newsweek in december 2016. in december 2016, it was ranked 69th in the top 100 most handsome faces of 2016 by tc candler.