Gaon Year End Top 100 Digital long runners-BTS breaks tie with IU & Paul Kim

So, If only the senior singer, kpop biggest threat, hadnt released so many songs last year TTN would still be in top 100.

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5 Years:

BTS - Spring day (Since 2017)

4 Years:

IU - Through the night (Since 2017, but #102 in 2021, else IU would have made it to 5 years as well)

Paul Kim - Meet You (Since 2018, so BTS wins by the year leading)

Paul Kim -Every day, Every Moment (Since 2018, so BTS wins by the year leading)

3 years:

BTS - Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey)

AKMU How can I love the parting, I love you

IU- Blueming

IU - love poem

Busker Busker - Cherry Blossom Ending

Jang Beom-jun I could feel the scent of your shampoo in the swaying flowers

Anne-Marie - 2002

Maktub - To you who shines today too (To You My Light) (Feat.

glow - Late at night in the alley in front of your house

Lauv - Paris In The Rain

2 Years:

BGs - BTS, BTOB, Winner. BTS has the most - 4 songs

GGs - Blackpink, Gfriend, Apink, Red Velvet, EXID, AOA, Twice, Mamamoo, OMG. BP & Twice have the most- 5 songs,

IU has 8 songs which have charted for 2 years. Most interesting is "Hold my hand", which tanked at #49 in 2011, came back to #12 in 2021, after a gap of 10 years

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Longevity apart,

IU has appeared 55 times in the top 100 of Gaon Year End Digital charts - features included.

BTS comes next with 31, so have a lot to catch up.

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I have all this data, but it's in a larger spreadsheet.

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Yes, I got all of YEC as well. But as Kreatin points out. YEC isn't the best chart, since it doesn't compensate for when in the year the song was released.

how does that tie in to performance? a song released in january can still have terrible longevity

Yes, BTS and IU are amazing

Interesting to note that other kpop groups only appear in 2 years or below category

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Why is WhyKnock using your account?

Ves! XD

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Spring day has never left the Weekly top 100 since its release, it has charted all of the 254 weeks.

So even if TTN had made it into YEC 100 this year, Spring Day still takes the honours, because TTN has slipped few times on the Weekly, it is at 168 weeks out of 249 Weeks since release.

It's actually 257 weeks.

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Is spring day still there? I saw it dropped to melon 80s/90s this year

It's still there.

For me the most impressive thing about Spring day is how it survived into the top 100 even during BTS' hiatus.

I was quite sceptical regarding Spring day's charting for a while, because it was always affected by BTS' comebacks. If I'm not wrong right before DNA was released it was charting in the 60s or 70s, and since then every time BTS had a comeback it rose again to the 30s and then started falling from there until their next comeback. To me, it was always a reflection of BTS' status in Korea, more than the success of the song itself (even though that BTS status was indeed reflected in Spring day because back then it was their biggest song in Korea).

However now that even during BTS hiatus it has stayed in the top 100 I think it's pretty much undeniable it's one of the biggest songs of the century in Korea. In my books, regarding BTS' songs ,I think Dynamite is bigger even though it's never going to catch up Spring day in terms of longevity numbers, but I guess it might be an unpopular opinion.