Ep. 242: What's The Deal With Song Charts?

It's a back to basics episode as we try to figure out how and why Korean song and album charts work the way they do. There's even vocabulary words!! Shannon walks us through the history of song charts, which ones exist, where the data comes from and how they maybe only mean whatever you want them to mean. Ending with a super special surprise guest star popping up in our random game video!
Check out our new merch store at askmeaboutkpop.comThe two hundred forty-second episode of Ask Me About Kpop aired on February 22, 2023.
== Links ==
=== VOCAB ===
* Perfect All Kill (PAK): a song charts at #1 on daily, weekly, and real-time charts for every major music streaming platform
** First ever PAK was IU's "Nagging" feat. Seulong from 2AM
** IU has the most (21 PAKs total), followed by Big Bang (6 PAKs total)
* Sajaegi (사재기): Korean for "stockpiling, hoarding"; unethically/illegally boosting a song's position on the charts using bots, bulk album buying, etc. to falsify streams
*Sumseuming (숨스밍): Korean slang meaning "streaming as if you were breathing"
=== CHARTS ===
* Hanteo (Used to calculate wins on The Show and Show Champion)
* Recording Industry Association of Korea Album Charts 
* Circle Chart (formerly known as Gaon)
* Billboard Korea
* Melon
*instiz iChart
*Billboard World Chart (Billboard K-Pop News Page)
=== STREAMING PLATFORMS ===
* Bugs!
* Naver VIBE
* Melon Music
* Genie Music
* FLO
* YouTube Music
* LINE MUSIC
=== Random Game ===
GROUP: D-UNIT
SONG: "Talk to my face"
== Recommendations ==
KEY "Killer" MV
KEY "Easy" Special Video
KEY "Killer" Dance Practice
KEY on Bomi's (Apink) YouTube Channel
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