by Global top girl group BLACKPINK has recaptured the No. 1 spot on the weekly fandom chart of ‘K-POP RADAR,’ a chart show dedicated to K-pop broadcast across the United States.
K-pop chart program ‘K-pop Radar’ is the first regular American radio program in the history of K-pop and is drawing attention. On the 25th, the K-pop Radar Weekly Fandom Chart was announced.
On this chart, Blackpink’s ‘Shut Down’ retook the top spot. However, it is even more meaningful in that it has maintained the top spot for three consecutive weeks until last month and has recaptured the throne by beating several idols’ new songs.
Blackpink’s “Shut Down” music video recorded 12.14 million views during the 3rd week of November (November 11, 2022 – November 17, 2022) of K-Pop Radar.
Blackpink’s Spotify followers also increased by 207,000 during the week. Considering that the number of Spotify followers of K-pop artists increased by an average of 2,100 during the same period, it is a surprising number.
In addition, during the 3rd week of November of K-Pop Radar, Blackpink’s official Instagram followers increased by 120,000, proving their hot popularity. During the same period, the number of Instagram followers of all K-pop artists increased by an average of 5,500.
Regarding this, K-Pop Radar said, “Even after two months have passed since its release, they still showed popularity and regained the No. 1 spot.”
In the TOP 10 of the Weekly Fandom Chart announced by ‘K-Pop Radar’ this week, group VERIVERY’s ‘Tap Tap’ entered the 6th place at the same time as the comeback, and group VICTON’s new song ‘Virus” climbed to number 7.
‘K-Pop Radar’ is broadcast across the United States for 1 hour every Thursday at 8:00 PM Eastern Time (ET) through North America’s largest satellite radio, SiriusXM channel, with global media company 88 Rising, and the DJ is Jamie.
The K-Pop Radar Weekly Trending Chart announced by ‘K-Pop Radar’ is a chart produced by K-Pop Radar, a fandom data service of music startup Space Oddity.
The K-Pop Radar Weekly Trending Chart is the only K-Pop-only chart created based on data from major global platforms in line with the current situation of K-Pop, where more than 90% of K-Pop is consumed overseas.
It is recognized as a fair and transparent chart by reflecting the number of views and release date of YouTube music videos, as well as the increase and decrease of fandom on major global platforms, such as the increase in Twitter and Instagram followers and the increase in Spotify followers.
The K-Pop Radar Weekly Trending Chart, released on ‘K-Pop Radar,’ can be found on 88 Rising Radio and K-Pop Radar SNS.
On the other hand, K-Pop Radar is a music startup, Space Oddity, that introduced ‘Blip, a schedule reminder for K-Pop fans,’ a fan platform that is getting a hot response from the K-Pop fandom.
It is a service that is provided free of charge. Currently, 743 domestic teams are providing real-time music video views, YouTube subscribers, Twitter and Instagram followers, etc., in the form of a website. In addition, they are making headlines by releasing a ‘K-pop world map’ every year. In 2020, it signed an official partnership agreement with Twitter and announced the 10-year growth graph and current status of K-pop.
In particular, the ‘2022 K-POP RADAR Conference’ held on the 23rd was ‘2022 K-POP GLOBAL MAP: Past the Pandemic, 2022 K-POP World Map’, ‘Girls on Top: 4th Gen Girl groups’, ‘K-POP LOVERS CLUB: Keywords of 2022’, ‘2022 K-POP 10 PICKS: 10 K-POP that shone this year’ A total of 4 sessions were held and gathered topics.
