Red Velvet released several songs in 2019 but their latest track "Psycho" from their eighth extended play "The ReVe Festival: Finale" just hits different, leading it to soar high on charts including MelOn.
MelOn is South Korea's biggest music platform with more than 28 million users, as well as among the most famous online music stores. It tallies actual or unique listeners instead of streams. Hence, for a song to be able to enter this music streaming service, especially on the year-end charts, the work must be listened to and loved not only by the fans but the general public.
MelOn Releases 2020 Yearly Chart Including the Top 10 Songs with Highest Unique Listeners
On Feb. 9, MelOn has released its annual year-end chart for 2020 and it includes the top 10 idol group songs with the most listeners. And based on the chart, Red Velvet is the highest-charting girl group with their latest hit song "Psycho." In particular, the track is in second place among the 10 K-pop group singles.
What makes this achievement more worth noting is that Red Velvet's "Psycho" was launched in December 2019, so even if a year already passed by, "Psycho" remained the most-loved and most-listened-to song among the female Korean acts.
Chart Performances of Red Velvet's "Psycho" in 2019-2020
As of May last year, the single came in at No. 3 on MelOn's Top 50 Songs with the highest cumulative listeners. Red Velvet's "Psycho" had the third-highest unique listeners, having a total of 37,811,277 users supporting the track. It has also become the only Korean song to top Christmas MelOn's daily chart since 2017.
On top of that, even after its release, it is already doing well on charts. On Dec. 24, 2019, one day after the song came out, it grabbed the No. 1 spot on all five major real-time charts such as MelOn, Bugs, Genie, Soribada, and FLO.
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The single also took over iTunes charts all over the world, ranking No. 1 in 42 countries including the United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Costa Rice, El Salvador, Brazil, and Sweden. The album "The ReVe Festival: Finale" also charted first on the iTunes Top Albums chart in the US, making Red Velvet the first K-pop girl group in the chart's history to hit No. 1 with three albums in a year, with the other two being "The ReVe Festival: Day 1" and "The ReVe Festival: Day 2."
Moreover, the quintet's latest comeback title track attained a certified all-kill on Dec. 25. It means that the song scored No. 1 on both the daily and real-time charts of MelOn, Genie, Naver, Bugs, Mnet, and Soribada; and the real-time charts of FLO and iChart.
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Furthermore, Red Velvet's "Psycho" became the first K-pop girl group song to reach more than 150,000,000 aggregate points on the January Gaon Monthly Digital Chart in 2020. It has also surpassed BTS's "Boy with Luv" with most hours in the Top 5 of Genie.
Below are the top 10 most-listened-to K-pop group songs on MelOn in 2020:
- BTS - "Boy With Luv"
- Red Velvet - "Psycho"
- BTS - "Dynamite"
- BLACKPINK - "How You Like That"
- Oh My Girl - "Nonstop"
- BTS - "ON"
- Oh My Girl - "Dolphin"
- MAMAMOO - "HIP"
- BTS - "Spring Day"
- BTS - "Black Swan"
Congratulations to Red Velvet and other K-pop acts!
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Written by Mhaliya Scott
