I think dynamite is the first
Yes. But I’m not sure how many PAKs. When I googled, it said 400 PAKs. We used to have a thread for this (the title was cute “Dynamite got a PAK!” or something in that vein, because no one thought Dynamite would do so well in Korea due to its being in English..) maybe MassiveKpopFan knows?
Yes. But I’m not sure how many PAKs. When I googled, it said 400 PAKs. We used to have a thread for this (the title was cute “Dynamite got a PAK!” or something in that vein, because no one thought Dynamite would do so well in Korea due to its being in English..) maybe MassiveKpopFan knows?
Dynamite has 610 PAKs
Wow I can't believe Zico did 330 hours in the old system with Soribada was still a thing?
Is that brought up to the current system or some kind of equivalent calculation? Or did Any Song actually get 330 PAK's while Soribada was still around?
It did with soribada, however it was before soribada went totally bonkers in April/may somewhere when their award show announcement and the zombie streaming shoot up to levels not ever seen before. It was also a dead chart period (covid started). Not to downplay what it did, it did crazy good but had it been a year earlier, or just some months i doubt it would have reached even 100 hours.
Between 2010-2019 there were a total of 3(!) that managed to get over 100 hours of pak:
IU Blueming
In the last year we have had 7 songs go above that,
four over 200 hours, three songs over 300 hours, and one song over 600 hours
PAK hours is useless as a metric, its a fun stat in itself but it can't be used to compare with other songs basically because the rules and how the chart works changed so often, often several times a year.
One pak hour now is not the same as it was in may-june 2020, nor is that comparable to the beginning of 2020, and that period is not comparable to anything 2019 and earlier basically.
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Not to mention, there are several huge hits that never got pak because of different circumstances. SM for example could not get any AK/PAK at all because they had a beef with one of the charts included on instiz, so they were blocked for years because of that.
PAK hours is useless as a metric, its a fun stat in itself but it can't be used to compare with other songs basically because the rules and how the chart works changed so often, often several times a year.
One pak hour now is not the same as it was in may-june 2020, nor is that comparable to the beginning of 2020, and that period is not comparable to anything 2019 and earlier basically.
More people need to realise this. The number of charts included in PAK calculations changes quite often, so the difficulty of achieving a PAK varies depending on the time period at hand.
Just take a look at the image below. Back in 2014, an artist had to score #1 on 20 different charts simultaneously in order to get a PAK. These days you only need to get 8 #1s.
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