Korean Music - Statistics

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Whenever Youtube is mentioned, it means Music Videos (or dance versions and so on), not Streams from Audio videos. Watch or Views = Video, Stream = Audio

Most Watched Artists

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(Does not include CF/Promotional videos. Includes only Videos, not Audios )

Most Liked Artists

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(Does not include CF/Promotional videos. Includes only Videos, not Audios )
Artists page

Top Music Video Milestones

Video Artist Views Date
1969-12-31
(Top unique 20 Milestones. Milestones started being recorded on December 2018 )
Milestones page

Most Promoted Videos

Video Artist Non-Organic Views Total Views
(Non-Organic Views monitored since June 2020. Values in this list only confirmed NOV from Youtube Charts )
Non-Organic Videos page

Youtube Views per Style


(Absolute views including non-organic views and not weighted by the number of artists on each segment )

Youtube Views per Month

(Includes all types of Main videos (audio-only not included, covers also not included) with monthly view distribution based on Our monthly formula )
Music Videos page Math behind Graphic

Youtube Views per Year

Youtube Likes per Style


(Includes only Videos, not Audios. Absolute likes not weighted by the number of artists on each segment )

Most Music Show Awards

  Wins   Artist
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(Top 20 are listed, includes The show, Show Champion, M Countdown, Music Bank, Music Core and Inkigayo )

Song with Most Music Show Awards

  Wins   Music
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Style distribution on Music Show Awards


Awards page

Most Streaming Score


Top artists

Style distribution on Streaming


(Streaming data is highly changed due to the vast majority of streams being from Singers and not Idols, specially Ballads )
Streaming page

Most streamed artists

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(Score based on all songs charting on top 100 weekly charts )

Most streamed song

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(Score based on song charting on top 100 weekly charts counting only Korean artists )
CircleChart Streaming page

PAKS - Perfect All Kill

A PAK is achieved if a song hits the first place on all music charts simultaneously, including realtime, daily and weekly charts

Physical Sales per Style


(Data from CircleChart Album sales, which is their original physical sales method (Shipments - returns). Since 2022 they have a Retail Album data which is actual sales from partner stores, which works more like Hanteo. )
CircleChart Sales page

Physical Sales per Year

( Million itens sold )

Physical Sales per Artist

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(Sub-units, collaborations or solo releases are not included in the main group numbers above )

Best Selling Items

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Duration of Disbanded Groups

Table 1: All groups

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Table 2: Groups with at least 1 award

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Years reflect completed years of activity, thus groups that disbanded before even completing 1 year are marked as lasting 0 years

Debuts per Year


Debuts on Youtube per Month

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Debut Tables do not count Collaborations, Sub-unit debut and Member debuts even if the member debuts after the group disbanded. As such, it counts only main groups and soloists not from a group.
Debuts page

Releases on Youtube per Month

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Top 30 Historic lists



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All data, specially sales, are respective to artists on our database, not all Korean Music. Last month's sales might still not be updated until the 10th of that month.
Check our Transparency page for full explanation on how every data is handled and calculated
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