What is considered good charting?

Quote from ISaidISaid

Hmmm I think at least 500mil over all digital index a year to be considered “decent” in charting I,e with multiple releases. If you only have one release then at least 200mil digital for that. These are not huge hits but the minimum you should be able to get to even be considered in conversations about charting.

If you can’t manage that you’re not relevant digitally in Korea.

I base mine on what EXO have achieved. EXO surpassed 1 billion digital index overall multiple years and a song of theirs usually is able to get 500mil digital index.

A “certified” hit can get 700mil-1 billion digital index or more with a single song. Apart from certification for downloads, streams etc.

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thanks for answering the question in detail! I’ve been trying to find some answers here to enhance my understanding so this is very helpful.

Quote from BlackpinkHouse

I can give you some standards for "good" charting:

Peak in the top 20 of Melon Weekly Chart.

Stay in the top 20 for at least 8 weeks.

Gaon is untrustworthy at this point, too easy for fandom manipulations, i think Melon Weekly is the toughest and yet most accurate chart out there.

Now if you wanna move up from good to great charting, you can tighten up them standards even more, make it top 10 on Melon Weekly Chart with at least 10 weeks in the top 10.

Then you can go for broke and get to "national hit or SOTY contender" charting, which means peaking at #1 on Melon Weekly Chart and staying in top 10 for at least 15 weeks.

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thanks! This is interesting - top 20 makes this a very narrow pool of contenders - I would have thought that for “great” or a “hit” vs good..

Quote from Ves

The "standard" depends on who you ask and who their faves are. I'm being totally serious now.

Yeah, I’ve seen that. That’s why I wanted to have the conversation, partly to understand and also to see how “success” can vary so much depending on who you’re talking to.