on october 10, 2013, the survey on the "top 10 of asia's most beautiful men" organized by youth entertainment's website reported that lay ranked at #6 position with more than 27 million votes. in april 2014, lay was ranked #10 in the annual survey of "the most beautiful man of asia". in march 2017, the top star news did a study to see which hallyu stars were most popular in china between january and february 2017, referring to weibo hashtags, showing lay at the top with ten billion views and queries.