Melon and China's Tencent Music Entertainment (hereinafter Tencent Music) and Japan's LINE MUSIC revealed the 'Global-K Chart' jointly launching in June.
According to the aggregation criteria of the 'Global-K Chart' released on the 28th, it sums not only music streaming but also fandom activity indicators. It becomes the world's only K-pop chart that includes fandom activity indices.
'Global-K Chart' is an artist chart that shows at a glance the global influence of K-pop artists based on usage from major music partners in Korea, China and Japan: Melon (Korea), Tencent Music (China) and LINE MUSIC (Japan).
It consists of a global chart and platform-specific charts and will be updated simultaneously on the Melon, Tencent Music and LINE MUSIC platforms. Based on the previous day's 24-hour usage, the streaming usage on each platform and various fan activity indicators within the platform are summed to calculate scores.
In Melon's case, music usage such as streaming and download user counts and fan activity indicators such as following and likes will be summed and reflected. Some detailed items may differ depending on each country's service environment and platform characteristics, they said.
A Melon official said, "Global-K Chart goes beyond simply counting artists who listened to a lot of music and captures the various traces of fans reacting to and actually acting on artists' activities," and added, "As the real fandoms of Korea, China and Japan are directly reflected in the chart, we hope it will be a meaningful stepping stone for K-pop artists to communicate more deeply and expand more broadly with global fandoms."
Meanwhile, under the slogan 'The Global K-POP Standard,' the 'Global-K Chart' will reflect the fandoms of Korea, China and Japan—home to 1.6 billion people, accounting for 20% of the world's population—and the core hubs of K-pop in the chart.
Because Korea, China and Japan have powerful influence on global K-pop trends, the active participation of local fans in each country will be directly reflected in the chart, making it a more vivid indicator of K-pop trends.
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