MelOn chart releases its rankings of the "Most Searched K-Pop Groups" for January.
Want to know if your favorite idol group made the list? Then keep reading!
MelOn Reveals the Most Searched K-Pop Groups for January
On February 1, MelOn chart reveals the top ten list of the most searched K-pop groups in January. The list is divided into two categories; boy group and girl groups.
MelOn is an online music store and music streaming service in South Korea. It was developed by SK telecom and introduced in November 2004.
In 2009, it was transferred under the management of LOEN Entertainment (later becoming Kakao M then Kakao Entertainment). Then, in 2017, Kakao Entertainment merged MelOn and Kakao Music to have one music streaming service in South Korea.
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MelOn is the largest music subscription site in South Korea. It has more than 28 million annual users. In particular, a survey of smartphone users found that MelOn is the most used application by Koreans.
The users of MelOn can stream and download music videos and also create customized ringtones.
Here are the most searched k-pop girl groups on MelOn in January:
1. aespa (338,970 searches)
2. BLACKPINK (253,749 searches)
3. TWICE (189,713 searches)
4. ITZY (138,889 searches)
5. Red Velvet (128,264 searches)
6. Oh My Girl (123,876 searches)
7. Girls' Generation (122,832 searches)
8. IVE (121,957 searches)
9. 2NE1 (90,287 searches)
10. MAMAMOO (89,037 searches)
Here are the Most searched K-Pop Boy groups on MelOn in January:
1. BTS (461,001 searches)
2. BIG BANG (215,621 searches)
3. SEVENTEEN (162,615 searches)
4. EXO (117,639 searches)
5. 2PM (113,931 searches)
6. MONSTA X (97,746 searches)
7. TXT (83,142 searches)
8. ENHYPEN (79,847 searches)
9. SHINee (70,957 searches)
10. THE BOYZ (67,489 searches)
2021 MelOn Year-End Chart, BTS and Brave Girls get the Highest-Charting Songs
Last January 25, MelOn revealed its year-end charts for 2021. They revealed the songs by boy and girl groups that ranked the highest in the previous year.
Landing on the top spot of MelOn's year-end chart for the highest-charting songs by a boy group in 2021 is the phenomenal superstars BTS with their hit full-English single, "Dynamite."
The worldwide hit "Dynamite" was first released in August 2020, it is the septet's first song recorded in the universal language.
Moreover, this is BTS' second top rank on MelOn's year-end chart since 2020. They are the only boy group to enter the chart for two consecutive years.
On the girl groups' category, Brave Girls' "Rollin" took the top spot as the highest-ranking song by a girl group.
Their song, "Rollin" was released initially in March 2017, it was back when the girl group still had five members. The song received moderate achievements on different music charts. It was produced and written by Chakun, Brave Brothers, and Two Champ.
MelOn always releases daily, weekly, and monthly charts to show the performance of different K-pop artists. In addition, it gets the total number of streams of every songs by the artists, making it possible for them to achieve milestones.
