[So I fucked around…] and made A List of Every Idol Group Song’s Melon ULs (All-Time Top 1000)

  • Next to each song is its ranking in Melon’s all-time top 100 list of songs with the most unique listeners. 2.8M is the cutoff.


    Songs are sectioned off by ULs, and rankings within the same sections are determined by streams.


    2.8M

    • Mamamoo – I Miss You (1000)
    • MOMOLAND – BAAM (993)
    • EXIDHot Pink (985)
    • iKon – Rhythm Ta (983)
    • WINNER – Sentimental (981)
    • GFriend - Love Whisper (980)
    • ITZY – WANNABE (978)
    • WINNER – Love Me Love Me (973)
    • IZ*ONE – Fiesta (971)
    • BTS – Life Goes On (970)
    • EXO – Lotto (969)
    • EXO – Power (968)

    2.9M

    • god – Lies (965)
    • Brown Eyed Girls – Love (961)
    • SNSD – Into the New World (958)
    • Brown Eyed Girls – 어쩌다 (954)
    • SSAK3 – Play that Summer (948)
    • Wonder Girls – I Feel You (939)
    • SNSD – Mr. Mr. (937)
    • SISTAR – LONELY (934)
    • 2NE1 – Gotta Be You (929)
    • 2NE1 – I Love You (921)
    • Troublemaker – Trouble Maker (913)
    • TWICE – MORE & MORE (907)
    • (G)I-dle – Hann (906)
    • TWICE – Feel Special (905)
    • WINNER – Ah Yeah (905)
    • IZ*ONE – La Vie en Rose (902)
    • BTS – Make It Right (901)
    • Wanna One – Light (900)


    3M

    • SNSD – Genie (898)
    • SSAK3 – In the Summer (889)
    • SNSD – Oh! (885)
    • BIGBANG – Zutter (867)
    • Girl’s Day – Ring My Bell (865)
    • LABOUM – Fresh Adventure (864)
    • Block B – Jackpot (863)
    • Wonder Girls – Be My Baby (860)
    • ITZY – ICY (843)
    • GFriend – Glass Bead (842)
    • Apink – Dumhdurum (837)
    • iKon – Goodbye Road (836)
    • BTS – Euphoria (835)
    • BTS – Mic Drop (834)
    • BTS – Anpanman (833)
    • BTS – Black Swan (832)
    • Wanna One – I.P.U (831)

    3.1M

    • god – Road (829)
    • 2NE1 – Fire (826)
    • god – One Candle (820)
    • Wonder Girls – Nobody (819)
    • f(x) – Rum Pum Pum Pum (811)
    • SNSD-TTS – Twinkle (810)
    • BIGBANG – Monster (801)
    • EXO – Dancing King (794)
    • B2ST – Fiction (792)
    • Crayon Pop – Bar Bar Bar (787)
    • Apink – Five (782)
    • Sistar19 – Gone Not Around Any Longer (780)
    • Girl’s Day – 기대해 (777)
    • BTOB – Movie (774)

    (continued)

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  • 3.2M

    • 2NE1, BIBGANG – Lollipop (770)
    • Sechskies – Couple (768)
    • WINNER – Don’t Flirt (732)
    • BTS – Savage Love Remix (717)
    • BTS – I’m Fine (716)
    • BTS – Go Go (715)
    • Wonder Girls – Tell Me (714)

    3.3M

    • 2NE1 – Ugly (706)
    • EXO – Miracles in December (703)
    • SNSD – I Got a Boy (702)
    • Sistar – I Like That (686)
    • Refund Expedition – Don’t Touch Me (685)
    • BIGBANG – We Like 2 Party (682)
    • BIGBANG – SOBER (676)
    • AOA – Short Hair (675)
    • EXID – Ah Yeah (669)
    • Block B – Toy (665)
    • EXO – Overdose (663)
    • B2ST – 12:30 (660)
    • SHINee – View (659)
    • NU’EST – Hello (658)

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  • 3.4M

    • Brown Eyed Girls – Abracadabra (652)
    • FTISLAND – 사랑앓이 (651)
    • F(x) – Hot Summer (649)
    • 2NE1 – I am the Best (648)
    • Sistar – I Swear (639)
    • 2NE1 – 그리워해요 (638)
    • AOA – Bingle Bangle (634)
    • BIGBANG – Blue (626)
    • 4Minute – What’s Your Name? (622)
    • Mamamoo – gogobebe (616)
    • AOA – Like a Cat (604)
    • (G)I-dle – LATATA (603)
    • Wanna One – Boomerage (595)
    • EXO – Monster (594)

    3.5M

    • Wonder Girls – So Hot (592)
    • miss A – Bad Girl, good Girl (587)
    • 2NE1 – Go Away (586)
    • T-ara – Roly-Poly (579)
    • Orange Caramel – Catallena (576)
    • Apink – Remember (568)
    • Sistar – Alone (561)
    • SNSD – Lion Heart (559)
    • AOA – Miniskirt (554)
    • BTS – I NEED U (547)
    • BTOB – Beautiful Pain (545)
    • WINNER – EVERDAY (544)
    • BTS – Mikrokosmos (543)
    • EXO – Universe (542)

    Is he.....you know?

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  • 3.6M

    3.7M

    3.8M

    • SG Wannabe – Crime and Punishment (453)
    • SNSD – Gee (451)
    • SNSD – PARTY (435)
    • I.O.I소나기 (427)
    • BLACKPINK – Lovesick Girls (417)
    • BTS – The Truth Untold (414)
    • EXO – Love Me Right (413)

    Is he.....you know?

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  • 3.9M

    • SG Wannabe – Partner for Life (412)
    • Girl’s Day – Darling (405)
    • Red VelvetDumb Dumb (401)
    • Apink – Luv (386)
    • Mamamoo – Egotistic (384)
    • Apink – I’m so sick (383)
    • EXO – Ko Ko Bop (379)

    4M

    • BIGBANG – IF YOU (343)
    • BLACKPINK – Kill This Love (342)
    • Red Velvet – Peek-a-Boo (338)
    • BIGBANG – LOSER (335)
    • GFriend – Time for the Moon Night (334)
    • TWICE – FANCY (332)
    • Mamamoo – HIP (330)
    • Brave Girls – Rollin’ (328)

    4.1M

    • Big Mama체념 (324)
    • BIGBANG – Last Farewell (323)
    • Apink – NoNoNo (311)
    • Wonder Girls – So Lonely (299)
    • I.O.I – Very Very Very (297)
    • Red Velvet – Rookie (296)
    • BIGBANG – BAE BAE (295)
    • GFriend – Navillera (294)
    • TWICE - SIGNAL (292)
    • OH MY GIRL - Dolphin (291)
    • Red Velvet - Bad Boy (290)
    • iKon - My Type (288)
    • Red Velvet - Psycho (287)
    • BTOB - Only One for Me (285)

    Is he.....you know?

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  • 4.2M

    4.3M

    4.4M

    • 2NE1 – I Don’t Care (223)
    • AOA – Heart Attack (209)
    • TWICE – What is Love? (204)
    • TWICE – Heart Shaker (202)
    • BTS – FIRE (200)

    4.5M

    • SG Wannabe – As We Live (199)
    • SG Wannabe - Timeless (197)
    • SG Wannabe - LaLaLa (196)
    • Sistar - Touch My Body (194)
    • Sistar - Loving U (193)
    • Mamamoo - You’re the Best (190)
    • EXO - Growl (189)
    • BLACKPINK - Whistle (187)
    • BLACKPINK - Forever Young (186)
    • BIGBANG - Flower Road (185)
    • N.Flying – Rooftop (180)
    • TWICE – LIKEY (176)

    Is he.....you know?

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  • 4.6M

    4.7M

    • Sistar – Shake It (151)
    • TWICE - Like OOH-AHH (140)
    • Mamamoo - Decalcomanie (139)

    4.8M

    • BIGBANG - Lies (138)
    • B2ST – On Rainy Days (136)
    • BTS – Blood Sweat & Tears (116)

    4.9M

    • GFriend – Me Gustas Tu (106)
    • Gfriend – Rough (104)
    • BTS – FAKE LOVE (100)

    5M

    • MOMOLAND - Bboom Bboom (85)
    • Mamamoo - Starry Night (84)
    • BIGBANG - BANG BANG BANG (83)

    Is he.....you know?

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  • 5.1M

    • TWICE – Dance the Night Away (71)
    • BTS - IDOL (70)
    • Wanna One - Energetic (69)

    5.2M

    5.4M

    • BLACKPINK – As If It’s Your Last (45)

    5.5M

    • BLACKPINK – DDU-DU DDU-DU (36)
    • BTS – DNA (35)

    5.6M

    5.7M

    • TWICE – CHEER UP (24)

    5.8M

    • BTS – Boy with Luv (21)

    7.2M

    • BTS – Spring Day (2)

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  • ULs still confuse me.


    What is actually being measured here, the peak number of unique listeners (ULs) per day for a song on Melon?


    Seeing how some songs have 5M ULs, does that mean that the peak of ULs was 5-10 times bigger for former songs than for songs this year, where I only see 500-800k as daily ULs for the top songs?


    It can't be the accumulated ULs, because if I read this tweet correctly, accumulated ULs are more in the tens of millions:

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  • I want Spring Day to have 8 Million Unique Listeners. As the queen Spring Day is, she deserves more than 8 millions ULs.


    Toddlers of South Korea, make Melon accounts to listen to Queen Spring Day.


    And Once again, great Job.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • Unique Listeners is the number of unique users of the platform who have listened to the song.

    This "cumulative unique listener" stat is fan made. This shouldn't exist imo because unique listeners cannot be cumulative. They are unique for a reason. But since it does so it should exist under different name like 'streams that are counted towards GAON' or something else that it represents rather than "cumulative unique listeners" which can never be a thing.

  • Unique Listeners is the number of unique users of the platform who have listened to the song.

    This "cumulative unique listener" stat is fan made. This shouldn't exist imo because unique listeners cannot be cumulative. They are unique for a reason. But since it does so it should exist under different name like 'streams that are counted towards GAON' or something else that it represents rather than "cumulative unique listeners" which can never be a thing.

    I see, that makes sense.


    So these accumulated ULs lists that rank in the tens of millions are probably compiled by totaling the daily ULs for each song since release, while the ULs of this thread are the actual unique listeners from the start of a song release, as in people that have listened to a song at least once since its release, while the Melon ULs that are posted and updated hourly on its site are all the people that listened to a song at least once in the last 24 hours.

    'No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk.'


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  • Correct me if I’m wrong but the one you posted seems to be ULs of songs that are being added everyday, like eg. if song#1 has 500k ULs on day 1 and another 500k on day 2, then they have 1M added ULs. Accumulated seems to be a wrong choice of word here because the ULs on the first day doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a different set of ULs on the 2nd day. OP, on the other hand, is the accumulated ULs of a song since its release. For eg. a song has 500k ULs on its 1st day, then another 500k ULs the 2nd day, but among this 500k ULs, only 40k of that are new ULs. Therefore giving the song 540k accumulated ULs. I hope that makes sense.

  • I see, that makes sense.


    So these accumulated ULs lists that rank in the tens of millions are probably compiled by totaling the daily ULs for each song since release, while the ULs of this thread are the actual unique listeners from the start of a song release, as in people that have listened to a song at least once since its release, while the Melon ULs that are posted and updated hourly on its site are all the people that listened to a song at least once in the last 24 hours.

    Yep you got almost everything right here.

    This cumulative unique listener chart can also be useful since it can give us an idea when the song can recieve it's GAON Streaming certificate since GAON only counts one stream per user per platform per day for its streaming certifications.

    Melon only gives us Melon daily chart where it shows us ULs of the last 24 hrs. It doesn't give us hourly UL updates. Kpop fans found a way to get updates of top 3 of Melon realtime chart using older version of Melon app.

  • Correct me if I’m wrong but the one you posted seems to be ULs of songs that are being added everyday, like eg. if song#1 has 500k ULs on day 1 and another 500k on day 2, then they have 1M added ULs. Accumulated seems to be a wrong choice of word here because the ULs on the first day doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a different set of ULs on the 2nd day. OP, on the other hand, is the accumulated ULs of a song since its release. For eg. a song has 500k ULs on its 1st day, then another 500k ULs the 2nd day, but among this 500k ULs, only 40k of that are new ULs. Therefore giving the song 540k accumulated ULs. I hope that makes sense.

    Yep you got almost everything right here.

    This cumulative unique listener chart can also be useful since it can give us an idea when the song can recieve it's GAON Streaming certificate since GAON only counts one stream per user per platform per day for its streaming certifications.

    Melon only gives us Melon daily chart where it shows us ULs of the last 24 hrs. It doesn't give us hourly UL updates. Kpop fans found a way to get updates of top 3 of Melon realtime chart using older version of Melon app.

    Yep, I think I got the gist now about the differences, thanks both for your explanation, it clarifies the things that puzzled me.


    I'm still wondering how totaling the daily Melon ULs can be used to get a proper indication of GAON's streaming certificates - since GAON looks at all the digital platforms while Melon measures only, well, Melon ULs.


    But the rest is clear now.

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  • Quote

    2.9M

    • god – Lies (965) [released 2000]

    3.1M

    • god – Road (829) [released 2001]
    • god – One Candle (820) [released 2000]

    3.2M

    • Sechskies – Couple (768) [released 1999, rearranged and re-released 2016]


    Just wanted to highlight the oldest songs on this list. 20 years and counting. Some songs and some groups are evergreen classics. The lasting legacy of the first Nation's Group g.o.d (and JYP as their songwriter/producer).


    Also, shout-out to SG Wannabe for doing so well! And Big Mama as well. R&B songs have some insane longevity...

  • I see, that makes sense.


    So these accumulated ULs lists that rank in the tens of millions are probably compiled by totaling the daily ULs for each song since release, while the ULs of this thread are the actual unique listeners from the start of a song release, as in people that have listened to a song at least once since its release, while the Melon ULs that are posted and updated hourly on its site are all the people that listened to a song at least once in the last 24 hours.

    Correct.

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  • Just wanted to highlight the oldest songs on this list. 20 years and counting. Some songs and some groups are evergreen classics. The lasting legacy of the first Nation's Group g.o.d (and JYP as their songwriter/producer).


    Also, shout-out to SG Wannabe for doing so well! And Big Mama as well. R&B songs have some insane longevity...

    Thanks for the informative comment.

    Is he.....you know?

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  • I'm just here to say that every single Sistar song from So Cool onwards got to No.1 on Gaon and is also listed in this thread my digital queens


    I also realised (unless I'm wrong) that the top 3 2nd Gen GG songs are Sistar, Shake It/Loving U/Touch My Body


    :lover3::lover3::lover3:

    Underrated by I-fans

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