Dude, I see so many people saying "Bro, don't even start, Imma bring up Twice charting".
Okay, please bring it on. I don't care about being roasted and It is not like it is something new. People have always made Once think Twice is flopping on charts. I remember when DTNA came out and failed to claim #1 over D4 people deemed it a flop. Nowadays when we look back, it is literally one of 5 songs that surpassed 200 million streams on Melon. When Yes or Yes came out, same freaking story. Haha lost a music show, haha not #1. 150+ million Melon streams and 2.5 million downloads and it is actually one of their most recognizable songs in Korea.
Furthermore, there are a lot of morons who think that minor chat comparisons matter for wide public, like position, pak, amount of weeks. It doesn't. There are only few songs that will be remembered as hits. If we take this year, so far only Tomboy, Love Dive and Attention are the true hits from girl groups that people will remember in 5 years with After Like and PV having a shot to make it as well. Red Velvet's Feel My Rhythm, SNSD's Forever or Itzy's Sneakers, bro, these songs won't be remembered any more than TTT or Girls that were labeled as flops. People will forget all of them equally.
Btw, DKDKTV gave a very good explanation how the charting works in Korea:
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For confused people in the comments) Melon is the main Korean chart that represents what Koreans are ‘listening’ to. At the same time, music charts are very easily influenced by organized mass streams by fandoms. Once the songs are up in the charts, the GP and store owners etc. will stream whatever that exists on the Top100 making the songs boosted by fandoms to stay up. Regardless, music charts would be the main indicator on popularity of songs as they serve for the purpose of ranking music releases in the first place.
Noraebang charts in comparison represent what people ‘sing’ the most. These charts cannot be easily altered by fandoms since they dont go to mass ‘sing’ songs. Anyways, singing charts are not much of an importance in the industry as well. However, if you were to spot a KPOP SONG charting high in the noraebang charts, among 99% ballads(r&b, hip-hop), that holds it’s own bit of significance. One could probably deduce that the song’s popularity extends from the listening charts to even the singing population(which is a wide variety of people). Thus the Kpop songs listed on noraebang charts indirectly imply that they are truly popular and enjoyed in Korea.
As this video states in the very beginning, this noraebang chart does not matter much but rather is a ‘FUN’ indicator that can provide EXTRA insight on which songs have been really hot enough to break their Kpop boundaries into other areas. It does not overrule, nor have more importance or credibility than other charts.