Hanteo Chart currently operates a total of 7 charts, including albums, world, certification, music, sound source, social, and stars. In addition to album sales, Hanteo Chart provides reliable and informative information to K-pop fans and media organizations by presenting different charts that combine a variety of information such as album charts, album sales rankings, album release dates, album pre-orders, and album sales outlets
Index
- Hanteo Chart – Detailed Explanation of 7 Types of Charts
- Hanteo Chart First Week Sales Certification Plaque, Significance and End Reason
- Hanteo Chart Authentication Chart Technology and Introduction Reason
Hanteo Chart– Detailed Explanation of 7 Types of Charts
Hanteo Chart is the largest album sales tracking website in Korea. It was founded in 1999 and currently tracks the sales of all albums released in Korea
the Hanteo Chart 7 Types of Charts (as of July 2023)
- Album Chart: This chart tracks the weekly sales of albums released in Korea.
- World Chart: This chart tracks the weekly sales of albums released worldwide.
- Certification Chart: This chart tracks the sales of albums that have been certified by Hanteo Chart.
- Music Chart: This chart tracks the weekly sales of digital music tracks in Korea.
- Sound Source Chart: This chart tracks the weekly streams of digital music tracks in Korea.
- Social Chart: This chart tracks the weekly social media activity of K-pop artists.
- Star Chart: This chart tracks the popularity of K-pop artists
Each chart is divided into a time table of real-time, daily, weekly, monthly, and annual.
The reason why Hanteo Chart is becoming increasingly appealing to K-pop fans is because they can observe the rise in the rankings of their favorite K-pop stars in real time, daily, weekly, monthly, and annually by purchasing their albums.
- Real-time: Real-time chart ranking at the time of access
- Daily: Based on data collected from 00:00 to 24:00 the previous day
- Weekly: From 00:00 to 24:00 on Monday of the previous week to Sunday
- Monthly: From 00:00 on the first day of the previous month to 24:00 on the last day
- Annual: From 00:00 on January 1 of the previous year to 24:00 on December 31
Hanteo Chart First Week Sales Certification Plaque, Significance and End Reason
Hanteo Chart introduced the Hanteo Chart Certification Plaque issuance system on September 22, 2020.
Hanteo Chart Official First Week Sales Certification Plaque
The Hanteo Chart Official First Week Sales Certification Plaque is a plaque that commemorates the official record based on the first week sales of albums compiled by Hanteo Chart, a real-time comprehensive music chart. It has contributed to raising the status and credibility of Hanteo Chart.
Types of Certification Plaques
1. New Record Certification Plaque
– Male/Female/Coed Group Category
– Male/Female Solo Category
-> The plaque is awarded to artists who set new first-week sales records in the male, female, coed group, and male and female solo categories
2. Certification Plaques by Level (Sales)
- 1st Step: 100,000 copies
- 2nd Step: 200,000 copies
- 3rd Step: 500,000 copies
- 4th Step: 1,000,000 copies
Hanteo Chart Official First Week Sales Certification Plaque Suspension and Reason
Hanteo Chart decided to stop issuing certification plaques from January 1, 2023.
The reason for the suspension of certification plaque issuance was that there were criticisms that the certification plaque was being used as a means to exaggerate album sales.
In other words, since the certification plaque is awarded based on ‘first-week sales’, there were criticisms that the album sales were exaggerated in the early stages in order to receive the certification plaque for the artists they support. Hanteo Chart decided to suspend the issuance of certification plaques in order to raise the credibility of album sales.
Since 2023, Hanteo Chart has been awarding a Hanteo Chart First Week Record Badge on each artist’s page.
Hanteo Chart Authentication Chart Technology and Introduction Reason
Hanteo Chart includes various data such as albums, music, SNS big data, and Whosfan mobile activity index, but the most important factor is still album sales. Therefore, there have always been inquiries about the Hanteo Chart album sales tracking method, and it is constantly evolving for a more fair chart tracking.
HATS (Hanteo Chart Patent Technology) Development
Hanteo Chart developed its own technology called HATS to create a “authentication chart” that certifies purchased albums with a QR code in order to improve the credibility of the chart.
HATS stands for Music Copyright Genuine Certification and Chart Reflection System. HATS technology was patented on January 17, 2019, and registered on June 17, 2021.
- Albums (genuine certification card is provided to the copyrighted work)
- Buyers authenticate the genuine product with a mobile app
- This is reflected in the Hanteo “authentication Chart”
In addition, the certified chart is reflected in the Hanteo Global Chart in real time based on GPS.
According to an article reporting the intermediate results shortly after the introduction, K-pop albums were purchased in 100 global countries, and the percentage of buyers who have certified genuine albums has exceeded 50%.
Intermediate results article
https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/079/0003187332?sid=001
The meaning of Hanteo Chart authentication chart
The meaning of Hanteo Chart authentication chart is that K-pop fans can support their favorite artists by authenticating the albums they purchase, and most importantly, they can help create a transparent and fair K-pop chart with Hanteo Chart.
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