WHAT IS HANTEO AND CIRCLE?
So, you know those charts they talk about in the K-pop world? There’s the Circle Chart (Gaon Circle Chart) and the Hanteo Chart. They’re like the scoreboards of the South Korean music scene. The Circle Chart keeps tabs on everything: physical album sales, digital downloads, and streaming numbers. It’s the go-to for pros to gauge how well a song is doing and even for big awards like the Golden Disc Award or Seoul Music Award. It’s like the holy grail for digital data.
Now, the Hanteo Chart? It’s all about physical album sales. It’s not as fancy as the Circle Chart, but it’s super important for K-pop fandoms and artists. Think of it as a measure of how strong a fandom is, like a badge of honor. And yeah, it’s also used for Year End Awards, but it’s got that extra street cred with the fans.
Why is the number of albums sold on Circle different from the Hanteo Chart?
Circle Chart can show a larger number of albums because it involves data from various platforms, official distribution reporting, and the provision of physical album count data from album producers/music labels. While the Hanteo Chart focuses more on physical sales from shops that are Hanteo certified, not all shops have Hanteo certification due to constraints on the requirements/criteria that shops must have to be Hanteo certified, constraints on costs for small shops to obtain Hanteo certification, and constraints on the implementation of the Hanteo sales monitoring system is too complex for a small shop to carry out.
CIRCLE CHART
Circle Chart has several different Charts, some are used for Music Shows Criteria and some used for End of Year Awards Nominations. The publiccan not see ALL of the data on these charts depending on the chart wecan only see the TOP 50,100 or 200 and the correlating data based on ONLY the TOP Artists, Songs, or Albums on that chart.
- GLOBAL K-POP CHART – Worldwide K-pop streaming usage – Shows the TOP 200
- DIGITAL CHART – Sum of streaming, download, BGM, V Coloring sales (weighted). – Shows TOP 200
- STREAMING CHART – Streaming usage volume in Korea. – Shows TOP 200
- DOWNLOAD CHART – Download sales volume – Shows TOP 200
- BGM CHART – BGM sales volume – Shows TOP 200
- V COLORING CHART – V Coloring usage volume in Korea. – Shows TOP 100
- ALBUM CHART – Album distribution volume (Shipments – Returns). (TAPE, LP, CD, USB, KiT, Platform Album, etc.) – Shows TOP 100
- RETAIL ALBUM CHART – Total sales of offline albums at retail stores. (TAPE, LP, CD, USB, KiT, Platform Album, etc.) – Shows TOP 50
- SINGING ROOM CHART – Number of times played in Singing Room – Shows TOP 200
- BELL CHART – Ranking of ringtones of Korea mobile carriers – Shows TOP 100
- RING CHART – Ranking of ringtones of Korea mobile carriers – Shows TOP 100
- SOCIAL CHART 2.0 – Popularity of each social media. – Shows TOP 50 – Social Index of YouTube, TikTok, Mubeat, Mycelebs
Korea Music Content Association (KMCA) Certifications
In April 2018, Circle Chart introduced music recording certifications for albums, downloads and streamings. Album certifications are awarded based on shipment figures provided by record labels and distributors. Download and streaming certifications are awarded to songs based on online data provided by web-based music providers. Albums and songs released on or after January 1, 2018 are eligible for certification.
CERTIFICATION CRITERIA
Subject of Certification – Albums
- Domestic and foreign albums released in Korea (domestic licensed albums)
- Based on the sales volume of a single album in the same media with the same tracklist
- Albums released after January 1st 2018 & 6 weeks after it’s releases
Subject of Certification – Songs
- Online on-demand streaming and download music
- Songs released after January 1st, 2018
- Songs certified from the release date
Subject excluded from certification
- Overseas licensed albums.
- Not-for-sale albums.
- Free promotion music.
HANTEO
Hanteo is Korea’s first music chart and leading music chart that is the world’s one-and-only chart based on real-time sales amount. Hanteo is directly synced with over 1500 record stores worldwide.
- The World Chart and Individual Country’s Chart (US, Japan, China) are charts announced by collecting and analyzing K-pop data from all over the world in real time, based on the big data collection technology of the Hanteo Chart.
- Physical Album Chart is the world’s one and only real time music chart. The album sales from1100 stores worldwide are added and automatically created into the chart.
- Authentication Chart is a new-concept music chart that the global fans build by directly authenticating genuine albums.
- Music Chart is a chart that is automatically created based on Physical Record Chart and Digital Chart. It consists of 70% physical and 30% digital.
- Digital Chart analyzes the digital music data of main digital music streaming service in Korea and overseas in the real-time and automatically creates the chart.
- Social Chart is real-data chart that collects big data from social media worldwide in realtime, comprehensively analyzes the artist’s fandom size and influence, and reflect the core global indicators. It intuitively show the artists’ social trend.
- Star Chart is a chart directly created by the fans. Regardless of the promotion period of the artists, all the fan activities on the ‘Whosfan’ mobile app are scored and reflected on the Star Chart
- Genre Chart is physical record chart that’s categorized by genre. It show the ranking by genre for K-pop, Trot, OST, and Pop.
INITIAL CHODONG RECORD
Chodong record means The number of albums sold in the initial week that the album was released. The reason that K-POP fans use Chodong is that Chodong shows how popular the idol is and how powerful the fandom is. Check the total sales of an album, it takes time, but for Chodong record, we need only one week.
[QNA]
The reason why the data on the circle chart is decreasing?
Answer: The circle chart is known to have fluctuating data. If an album that has been distributed is not sold in stores, the album can be returned to the distributor. This causes sales to increase or decrease.
Why didn’t I receive the Hanteo Card on the album, even though I bought it at a big store like KTOWN4U?
Answer: In the case of purchases from major shops such as KTOWN4U, it is likely that the Hanteo Card on the album has been authenticated by the place selling it. So the purchase automatically counts!
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