iKON’s “Goodbye Road” dethroned six-week champion BTS’s “IDOL” in a convincing fashion this week and has become our new No. 1 song! “Goodbye Road” swept all the music shows in the past week and scored well in all chart sources. It also means that iKON’s YG label mate, BIGBANG’s seven-week champion song “Lie,” stands the test of… Continue reading iKON Takes Over With “Goodbye Road”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, October Week 3
Category: Soompi Music Chart
BTS Maintains Top Spot With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, October Week 2
BTS’s “IDOL” has joined in on the history of our chart to spend six weeks as No. 1 song! The only other three songs to achieve this immortal feat are BIGBANG’s “Lie” (which is the only song that spent seven weeks on top), Wonder Girls’ “Tell Me,” CNBLUE’s “Love,” and PSY’s “Gangnam Style.” “IDOL” again is the only… Continue reading BTS Maintains Top Spot With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, October Week 2
BTS Dominates With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, October Week 1
BTS’s “IDOL” is the first song in more than six years to spend five weeks on top of our chart! Taking advantage of a slow charting period with few releases (the current week’s chart reflects the movements on the last week of September, which happened to be the Chuseok holidays in Korea) “IDOL” remains solid on the… Continue reading BTS Dominates With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, October Week 1
BTS Guards Top Spot With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, September Week 5
The top three songs remained the same as last week, with BTS’s “IDOL” barely holding off Sunmi’s “Siren” for the No. 1 spot! “IDOL” is the second song this year to spend four weeks on top of our chart, with TWICE’s “Heart Shaker” being the other song. Congratulations again to BTS! Despite sweeping all the… Continue reading BTS Guards Top Spot With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, September Week 5
BTS Continues Reign With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, September Week 4
BTS’s “IDOL” holds as No. 1 for the third straight week! This song won the same three music shows as last week — “Inkigayo,” “Music Bank,” and “Show Champion” — and was able to hold off two new challengers eyeing the top spot. Congratulations again to BTS! No. 2 and 3 are both new songs. Moving… Continue reading BTS Continues Reign With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, September Week 4
BTS Stays Strong With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, September Week 3
BTS’s “IDOL” repeats as our No. 1 song for the second week in a row! This song won on “Inkigayo,” “Music Bank,” and “Show Champion” last week. Overall, it scored even higher than last week. Congratulations again to BTS! Red Velvet’s “Power Up” also remains at No. 2, but the gap between this song and… Continue reading BTS Stays Strong With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, September Week 3
BTS Rises With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, September Week 2
BTS’s “IDOL” rises up 12 spots to become our new No. 1 song! “IDOL” dominated in its second week on the chart, winning on “Inkigayo” and “Music Bank” and also topping many internet charts. Internationally, their new album “LOVE YOURSELF: Answer” topped the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, their second straight No. 1 album on the… Continue reading BTS Rises With “IDOL”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, September Week 2
Red Velvet Guards Top Spot With “Power Up”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, September Week 1
Red Velvet’s “Power Up” easily repeats as the No. 1 song on our chart this week! This song again swept all the music shows last week, and also topped several internet charts as well. Overall it is still far ahead of the competition. Congratulations again to Red Velvet! MAMAMOO’s “Egotistic” barely held on to the… Continue reading Red Velvet Guards Top Spot With “Power Up”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, September Week 1
Red Velvet Dominates With “Power Up”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, August Week 4
Red Velvet’s “Power Up” dominated our chart this week, moving up from No. 13 to take over as our new No. 1 song! “Power Up” swept all the music shows last week and also topped GAON and all internet charts. It ranked third on our Soompi Airplay, the only thing that prevented a perfect score.… Continue reading Red Velvet Dominates With “Power Up”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, August Week 4
iKON Rises With “Killing Me”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, August Week 3
In another week of wide open competition for the top spot, iKON’s “KILLING ME” moves up 15 spots to take over as our new No. 1 song! This song won on “M!Countdown” last week, and had strong showing on all chart sources. It was enough to beat TWICE’s “Dance The Night Away” for the top… Continue reading iKON Rises With “Killing Me”; Soompi’s K-Pop Music Chart 2018, August Week 3