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[koganbot]

Today's Billboard Korea K-pop Hot 100 chart:

1
Bar Bar Bar
Crayon Pop
1 2 6

First heard the song thanks to David Frazer posting it here. Odds are you first heard it from me.

"Bar Bar Bar," live on June 8:

Watch on YouTube

Not that I'm any kind of great prognosticator. This is me on June 27: "'Bar Bar Bar' enters the Gaon Chart at 143, three lower than Chocolat's 'Black Tinkerbell' on its second week, which had debuted a week earlier at 81. Fingers crossed that 'Bar Bar Bar' is only just now getting known and will do better next week. I wouldn't bet on it, though."

[Gaon Chart site is screwed up at the moment so I can't access any of their lists after June. My guess is San E holds the number one spot there, but my prognostication is still not to be trusted.] [UPDATE: Gaon now working correctly. "Bar Bar Bar" falls from 3 to 5, which is about what I was expecting (is neck and neck with number 4, EXO's "Growl," and congrats to EXO for finally cracking the top five). See comment thread.]

Comments

[koganbot]

There are (at least) several things here I don't understand:

(1) Are the adjustments down or up?

(2) Does this means Gaon is not changing the weighting of downloads as opposed to streams but just getting a more accurate tally of downloads — and therefore the post above is incorrect and streams aren't being downgraded or downloads upgraded, the only change being a more accurate download number?

(3) Or is Gaon changing the weightings — so this isn't the actual number of downloads but a change in the weighted number assigned to downloads (so either a fractional multiplier lower than 1 was removed or a multiplier higher than 1 was added, or both)?

(4) Or is this change in the download number in addition to and unrelated to Gaon's changing the relative weighting given to downloads as opposed to streams, which is also happening?

By the way, the phrase "the Big 3 companies are planning to investigate digital manipulation of the charts" in the previous post does not inspire confidence. The Big 3 have a conflict of interest here, and a credible investigation needs to be independent.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

The post above has articles supporting it so I don't see any reason to not believe it. The adjustments for downloads are down - me and some others who have followed the Gaon wondered what happened when one week this spring numbers suddenly jumped from a relatively low average (lower than last year because prices have doubled for subscription services) to again going above a million per week for top 10 artists. Was it a sale? Did they start cocunting differently? But then it lasted for months. Now they're back to the general area they were before and adjusted the figures in that window. Some wondered if, due to presentation mistakes on Gaon's behalf, streaming or other digital consumption was actually counted in the download numbers for that period.

[koganbot]

So you're saying that my number 4 is right? ("(4) Or is this change in the download number in addition to and unrelated to Gaon's changing the relative weighting given to downloads as opposed to streams, which is also happening"?)

Just trying to make sure I understand.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why any of the changes were made, why the downloads got big and then smaller again, or anything.