Melon's Global-K Chart draws 1.02M visitors from 160 countries in its first month
Melon's new Global-K Chart, a joint project with Tencent and Line Music, drew over a million overseas visitors in its first month. BTS dominated every ranking.
One month after its June 1 launch, Melon's Global-K Chart logged 1,017,573 unique overseas visitors from 160 countries. Nearly all of that traffic came through mobile web.
The chart pools streaming data and fan activity from Korea's Melon, China's Tencent Music, and Japan's Line Music. Mobile web only—no app access for international users.
Indonesia sent the most visitors. Japan, the Philippines, the United States, Australia, and Thailand followed. Melon flagged something odd: "global interest far exceeding the actual service countries has been confirmed." The chart only operates in three countries, yet fans from 160 showed up anyway.
BTS held No. 1 across daily, weekly, and monthly rankings as of June 13.
The chart's arrival boosted Melon's numbers across the board. Combined domestic and overseas mobile web unique visitors in June jumped 36.1% versus May—the strongest half-year figure Melon recorded in 2026. On X and 30-plus global online communities, the chart got mentioned 106,840 times that same month.
(A lot of buzz for something you still can't download.)
Melon plans to "continue efforts to communicate with K-pop fans worldwide so that Global-K Chart can establish itself as a truly representative global chart for K-pop."
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