How Music Bank Works

[Aquamaraqua]

Since the recent sajaegi claims have been brought up, here is an objective breakdown of how MuBank works.

 

In order of how it appears on the screen:

 

 

65% Digital Sales (Melon etc) [Total: 130,000]

 

20% Viewer Voting (requires KSSN, international fans cannot vote) [Total 40,000]

 

10% Broadcast Points (Frequency of appearances on KBS TV and Radio shows, song plays) [Total: 20,000]

 

5% Physical Album Sales (Hanteo etc) [Total: 10,000]

 

Total possible points: 200,000

 

Source

 

Music Bank's system for digital sales (and other categories) can be skewed because it only takes a percentage of the all digital songs.

 

Someone explained it better than I did so here's how it works:

 

The digital sales of all these songs are examined, for example

 

song1: 230,000 total digital sales this week

song2: 210,000
song3: 195,000
song4: 174,000
…
..
song99: 5,500
song100: 5,000
————————————————————–
total digital sales 7,320,000 (total of all 100 songs above) (*of course all numbers here I just made up to illustrate, and some things are simplified for the purpose of this explanation)

How many kchart points does song1 get now?
Out of 7,320,000 total digital sales, song1 has sales of 230,000.
That is 3.142%
So song1 gets 3.142% of the 120,000 kchart pointed allotted to the digital sales category.
Thus song1’s kchart point for digital category is 3770 points.
And so on for other songs

Source

 

With some quick math it's pretty clear how much an artist should or should not get for album+digital scores. The viewer voting and broadcast points are more vague, but I think depending on the competition, the artist and their track record, those can be pretty accurately generated.

 

You guys are free to make up your own minds. I personally think there's something fishy, albeit not exactly MuBank's fault.

[Happykpopper]

I think everyone know that today win is fishy.

 

 

also,why does percentage for physical album is very little.is physical sale not important??

 

[PastelPetals]

I really like laboum so it would be a shame if this was true since they are not a huge group this could destroy there career. I really hope this is not true...

[Aquamaraqua]

I think everyone know that today win is fishy.

 

 

also,why does percentage for physical album is very little.is physical sale not important??

 

Yes and no. Physical sales can help boost an artist, depending on the competition. Same thing with digitals. So even if physicals seem small, they might not be in the end. It all heavily relies on who is promoting (the main competition we had recently was WINNER, Minzy, Lee Haeri, IU and EXID). What can be changed is the numbers that Music Bank presents, of course, but it depends on whether or not people care enough I suppose to say something about it in order for MB to make a statement.

[Aquamaraqua]

I really like laboum so it would be a shame if this was true since they are not a huge group this could destroy there career. I really hope this is not true...

 

I don't see why people have to be happy about it tbh... I mean if it's unfair that just puts a lot of the hardwork other fans + artists do (nugu or not) in vain. 

[-Amethyst-]

honestly i didn't know that digitals sales counts for 60% 

 

i was happy for Laboum win but it seems kinda weird since IU is #1 on Melon and Laboum are not in the top100

[xRibbonsx]

 Not sure what to think anymore, this win over IU is obvious sketchy....

[Sacredproz]

People need to understand that while physical album sales only make up 5%, it still matters a lot, in fact it was brought down from 10% just to make it less impactful. Reason is that its easy for a big group(especially boy groups) to take the majority of the week's album sales meanwhile digital points are shared pretty evenly amongst a lot of groups/solos and is capped at 5500. A group like bts or exo can easily take up 80% of album sales, giving them the points to win digital kings/queens even if they dont do well digitally. 

[Sacredproz]

I think everyone know that today win is fishy.

 

 

also,why does percentage for physical album is very little.is physical sale not important??

 

It is easy for any big groups to take the majority of weekly album sales as albums are usually only bought when it is just/recently released, so they can take a majority of the physical points(since points allocated to physical is 10000 as long as they have 55% of the market share they can rival the max digital points already). Digitals on the other hand applies to all songs in the market thats why you can see songs that are months or even years old in melon top 100 and even the strongest digimon cant take up a majority of the points. 

[freeask?]

that 10% of physical is A LOT. groups can really dominate there (having more than 50% total sales of that week, means having 5000+ points, like Laboum). While in digital you may be #1 but only have like 3-4% total sales from that week. NOTED that all IU song is selling well, not only Palette, but 9 other track as well. also there are high sales from other groups too. 

that 10% of physical is A LOT. groups can really dominate there (having more than 50% total sales of that week, means having 5000+ points, like Laboum). While in digital you may be #1 but only have like 3-4% total sales from that week. NOTED that all IU song is selling well, not only Palette, but 9 other track as well. also there are high sales from other groups too. 

[AnonSone]

I think everyone know that today win is fishy.

 

 

also,why does percentage for physical album is very little.is physical sale not important??

 

About physical sales the percentage looks small but it can gives so much impact because unlike digital, artists can conquer majority of weekly physical sales.

 

Plus, digital songs have to compete with many songs compare to physical albums that only have to compete with smaller amount.

 

Read more below (about the physical points):

 

"Now what is wrong with this Music Bank Kchart formula? The problem is that the way the points are distributed can allow one single album sales to dominate the kchart points. For example,

 

album1: 50,000 copies sold this week

album2: 3,000 copies

album3: 2,500

…

..

album100: 50 copies

———————————————

Total album sales :80,000 copies this week

album1 alone sold 62.5% of the week’s total

album1’s kchart point will be 12,500 points out of 20,000 kchart points alloted for this category.

 

So unlike other categories, album sales can have these giant selling albums that can result in huge kchart points. See how tricky this formula is, the “10%†for album category makes it look like albums are worth only up to 10% but in fact that’s not the case as seen here. With kchart point like that 12,500 it is easy to win Music Bank even if the song is not popular at all and ranks very low on digital charts. We can obviously see there’s going to be controversy about this. Music Bank tried to fix this problem by adjusting the album category percentage from 15% to 10% but the problem is still there because the problem is still with the point distributing formula itself."

 

===

Even after adjusting the scoring system for few times, the problem is still there.

 

In my opinion, they have to separate the chart to digital and physical just like year-end music awards.

 

Because album is an album and it consists of many songs, while for digital, the one that get nominated is only one song, not the whole album.

 

So, we will never see comment like "how can songs that charted low win?" again.

 

I still don't understand why they put physical sales points in the nomination of the song itself.

[Happykpopper]

Thank you to everyone who explained it to me

[looks]

200,000 total points in Music Bank

 

don't let the 65% digital and 5% physical fool you

 

even though there are 130,000(200,000 x 0.65) digital points distributed, the highest i saw was 8630 points(160916 KBS Music Bank K-Chart) by Lim Chang Jung - The Love I Committed(that record breaking roof hitting / pak song last year) which only makes up 6.6% of the 130,000 points.

 

10,000(200,000 x 0.05) for physical points seems way less compared to digital points, but when you sell a great amount and take up most of the portion of the top 100 sales combined that week, you could get very high physical points, exo sold 464,967 copies and took up 88.53% of that weeks top 100 sales combined, so they got 8785(close to 10,000 x 0.8853) physical points in 160617 KBS Music Bank.

[Twice1]

 

200,000 total points in Music Bank

 

don't let the 65% digital and 5% physical fool you

 

even though there are 130,000(200,000 x 0.65) digital points distributed, the highest i saw was 8630 points(160916 KBS Music Bank K-Chart) by Lim Chang Jung - The Love I Committed(that record breaking roof hitting / pak song last year) which only makes up 6.6% of the 130,000 points.

 

10,000(200,000 x 0.05) for physical points seems way less compared to digital points, but when you sell a great amount and take up most of the portion of the top 100 sales combined that week, you could get very high physical points, exo sold 464,967 copies and took up 88.53% of that weeks top 100 sales combined, so they got 8785(close to 10,000 x 0.8853) physical points in 160617 KBS Music Bank.

"don't let the 65% digital and 5% physical fool you"

This

[Aquamaraqua]

that 10% of physical is A LOT. groups can really dominate there (having more than 50% total sales of that week, means having 5000+ points, like Laboum). While in digital you may be #1 but only have like 3-4% total sales from that week. NOTED that all IU song is selling well, not only Palette, but 9 other track as well. also there are high sales from other groups too. 

 

that 10% of physical is A LOT. groups can really dominate there (having more than 50% total sales of that week, means having 5000+ points, like Laboum). While in digital you may be #1 but only have like 3-4% total sales from that week. NOTED that all IU song is selling well, not only Palette, but 9 other track as well. also there are high sales from other groups too. 

Thing is in the case of Laboum, the other categories, even if they managed to get really high physical sales, are still questionable. Viewer voting was literally 44 points for IU to the 2086 of Laboum's. This means that Laboum alone got 10% of the viewers voting, despite acts like EXID, Lee Haeri (Davichi) and Minzy promoting (not to mention boygroups with pretty dedicated fanbases like SF9 in the running too). Even if the story of Laboum's Chinese fans is true, they don't have Korean social security numbers so they can't vote... ._.

[looks]

Thing is in the case of Laboum, the other categories, even if they managed to get really high physical sales, are still questionable. Viewer voting was literally 44 points for IU to the 2086 of Laboum's. This means that Laboum alone got 10% of the viewers voting, despite acts like EXID, Lee Haeri (Davichi) and Minzy promoting (not to mention boygroups with pretty dedicated fanbases like SF9 in the running too). Even if the story of Laboum's Chinese fans is true, they don't have Korean social security numbers so they can't vote... ._.

 

the 44 and 2086 were broadcast points, not viewer voting, laboum got 0 viewer voting points cause it was their 1st week, this was the full chart today.

[FactMan]

 

In order of how it appears on the screen:

 

 

65% Digital Sales (Melon etc) [Total: 130,000]

 

20% Broadcast Points (Frequency of appearances on KBS TV and Radio shows, song plays) [Total 40,000]

 

10% Viewer Voting (requires KSSN, international fans cannot vote) [Total: 20,000]

 

5% Physical Album Sales (Hanteo etc) [Total: 10,000]

 

Total possible points: 200,000

 

 

 

According to this thread, the order is different. Broadcast and Voting are exchanged. Clarifications please?

 

https://onehallyu.com/topic/508683-naver-laboum-surpass-iu-music-bank-win-the-secret-is-broadcast%C2%B7album-score/?hl=%20laboum

 

edit: you only confused people, thanks for wasting our time.

[chandeliers]

omg it's year 2017 and people still yap without understanding how Music Bank K-chart works?

 

Their point system distributes the scores to each contestant based on a relative scale (aka how well you are doing compared to others)

 

if your digitals are really really strong, like having 200 roof hits and stuff, then it is possible for you to just win that MB trophy without breaking a sweat (no broadcast points, physical album sales, etc needed)

 

 

 

lim chang jung had 8630 points just for the digital score in the third week of September, 2016, and 7428 digital points the following week. His digital score alone can get him the Music Bank win easily.

 

IU's digitals were just not that strong this week (or last week's chart) compared to the other songs on the digital streaming sites. She received less than 4000 points although she was topping the weekly chart. I guess it's because the difference between her song's performance and others below her was negligible, so they evenly share the points.

 

OP is clearly wrong in stating that "because it only takes a percentage of the top 100 digital songs." Music Bank allots their 130,000 digital points to ALL songs in the digital music market, not just top 100.

 

 

Also, about physical album sales. Laboum sold a lot this time compared to how they used to be doing in the past. But it was like 28k in the first week sales? It is not actually a lot in comparison to other real big sellers. But they were just lucky because there weren't many other groups selling their albums in the same week (SF9 came back but did not have any fansigns) So 28k copies of their album were enough to get them 2344 points out of those total 10000 album points. (aka Laboum's 28k copies were equivalent to 23.44% of ALL the copies of any physical album sold in the whole Korean market that week)

 

When you are unlucky, like EXO-CBX last year, then even if you sell like more than 100k albums in the first week. you don't get many album points. At that time, Lay also had his solo album and he was selling his almost as many copies of the album, so Lay took away a good chunk of those album points, hence why EXO-CBX didn't get to win Music Bank, despite selling lots of physical albums.

 

So it really depends on the timing and how lucky you are when you do your promos. (it ALWAYS is about how much competition there is when it comes to korean music shows, not just Music Bank)

 

Then broadcast points. Some say it is fishy. But it really isn't imo. Some shows like SBS MTV The Show don't even nominate you if you don't show up to perform. Show Champion and MCountDown also have broadcast point category. MCountDown gives 0 broadcast points for Winner (for 3 consecutive weeks) and 0 point also for IU because they don't appear on MCD. Trust me, KBS Music Bank has their own rating system for those 40,000 total broadcast points and it's about how many times the artist's song is played (in the background) on any of their channels (radio, kbs1 channel, kbs2 channel, etc) during the week. If you want to be able to calculate those broadcast points, then you have to be constantly checking what is airing and playing on all of the KBS networks 24/7. 

 

Of course, Music Bank gives preference to those who come to their music show and their other programmes. But as a person who regularly goes to the pre-recording sessions and live studio of those music shows, I say it is A LOT of effort and hard work. The artists have to come to the broadcasting station at TV staff's convenience (even at crazy hours) and they have to spend so much time there in the waiting room and stuff for the 4-min segment they get on the music show. On top of that, the artists have to pay for everything, to get their hair done, costumes, makeup, stage decorations, transportation, their managers' and other field staff's pay, everything. TV promos are very expensive. But most groups do it, and many attend ALL music shows just to maintain friendly relationships with the TV station. If they go to all music shows (simply kpop on monday, the show on tuesday, show champion on wednesday, mcd on thursday, music bank on friday, music core on saturday, inki on sunday) then those idols get no time off literally and they prolly get 2 hours of sleep a day during their promotions. Still, kpop groups do it just in hopes of getting their name out there. So I say that the groups deserve the broadcast points they receive when they go attend those shows multiple times.

 

 

Oh and again about the digital points. Music Bank's 130,000 points are broken down into two categories. 13,000 (10% of the total) are for mobile sales (ringtones, coloring, and such) and the rest are assigned to digital scores from 6 charts (Naver Music, MelOn, Bugs, Soribada, Olleh music, Genie). Music Bank gives heavy weight towards Naver music chart over others. Other music shows don't look at mobile sales, and they also have different charts that they look at to determine their digital score (Mnet music chart for MCD, for example). So it is only naturally that sometimes A artist has higher digitals than B in Music Bank but maybe lower in other music shows.

 

Music Bank has explained their chart system in extensive detail.

 

http://nbbs.kbs.co.kr/section/board/bbs_view.html?bbs_cd=2te_music_vboard02&seq=1075627&goto_page=1

 

Actually, KBS Music Bank is the music show that is most open about how they mark the points on the chart. And when fans have raised questions, they have given pretty good feedback and clarification (other music shows don't even bother). Sometimes they even admitted their wrong and made the change.

 

You may want to say Music Bank's system is weird. But at the end of the day, not all music shows have to have the same grading system. What would be the fun in that? If it were like that, then there's no point in watching till the end of the show to find out who the winner is that day. We might as well just announce the winner for all of the music shows of that week on the internet and not bother with who wins which music show and loses out on which one.

 

 

 

 

 

[Aquamaraqua]

the 44 and 2086 were broadcast points, not viewer voting, laboum got 0 viewer voting points cause it was their 1st week, this was the full chart today.

 

omg it's year 2017 and people still yap without understanding how Music Bank K-chart works?

 

Their point system distributes the scores to each contestant based on a relative scale (aka how well you are doing compared to others)

 

if your digitals are really really strong, like having 200 roof hits and stuff, then it is possible for you to just win that MB trophy without breaking a sweat (no broadcast points, physical album sales, etc needed)

 

 

 

lim chang jung had 8630 points just for the digital score in the third week of September, 2016, and 7428 digital points the following week. His digital score alone can get him the Music Bank win easily.

 

IU's digitals were just not that strong this week (or last week's chart) compared to the other songs on the digital streaming sites. She received less than 4000 points although she was topping the weekly chart. I guess it's because the difference between her song's performance and others below her was negligible, so they evenly share the points.

 

OP is clearly wrong in stating that "because it only takes a percentage of the top 100 digital songs." Music Bank allots their 130,000 digital points to ALL songs in the digital music market, not just top 100.

 

 

Also, about physical album sales. Laboum sold a lot this time compared to how they used to be doing in the past. But it was like 28k in the first week sales? It is not actually a lot in comparison to other real big sellers. But they were just lucky because there weren't many other groups selling their albums in the same week (SF9 came back but did not have any fansigns) So 28k copies of their album were enough to get them 2344 points out of those total 10000 album points. (aka Laboum's 28k copies were equivalent to 23.44% of ALL the copies of any physical album sold in the whole Korean market that week)

 

When you are unlucky, like EXO-CBX last year, then even if you sell like more than 100k albums in the first week. you don't get many album points. At that time, Lay also had his solo album and he was selling his almost as many copies of the album, so Lay took away a good chunk of those album points, hence why EXO-CBX didn't get to win Music Bank, despite selling lots of physical albums.

 

So it really depends on the timing and how lucky you are when you do your promos. (it ALWAYS is about how much competition there is when it comes to korean music shows, not just Music Bank)

 

Then broadcast points. Some say it is fishy. But it really isn't imo. Some shows like SBS MTV The Show don't even nominate you if you don't show up to perform. Show Champion and MCountDown also have broadcast point category. MCountDown gives 0 broadcast points for Winner (for 3 consecutive weeks) and 0 point also for IU because they don't appear on MCD. Trust me, KBS Music Bank has their own rating system for those 40,000 total broadcast points and it's about how many times the artist's song is played (in the background) on any of their channels (radio, kbs1 channel, kbs2 channel, etc) during the week. If you want to be able to calculate those broadcast points, then you have to be constantly checking what is airing and playing on all of the KBS networks 24/7. 

 

Of course, Music Bank gives preference to those who come to their music show and their other programmes. But as a person who regularly goes to the pre-recording sessions and live studio of those music shows, I say it is A LOT of effort and hard work. The artists have to come to the broadcasting station at TV staff's convenience (even at crazy hours) and they have to spend so much time there in the waiting room and stuff for the 4-min segment they get on the music show. On top of that, the artists have to pay for everything, to get their hair done, costumes, makeup, stage decorations, transportation, their managers' and other field staff's pay, everything. TV promos are very expensive. But most groups do it, and many attend ALL music shows just to maintain friendly relationships with the TV station. If they go to all music shows (simply kpop on monday, the show on tuesday, show champion on wednesday, mcd on thursday, music bank on friday, music core on saturday, inki on sunday) then those idols get no time off literally and they prolly get 2 hours of sleep a day during their promotions. Still, kpop groups do it just in hopes of getting their name out there. So I say that the groups deserve the broadcast points they receive when they go attend those shows multiple times.

 

 

Oh and again about the digital points. Music Bank's 130,000 points are broken down into two categories. 13,000 (10% of the total) are for mobile sales (ringtones, coloring, and such) and the rest are assigned to digital scores from 6 charts (Naver Music, MelOn, Bugs, Soribada, Olleh music, Genie). Music Bank gives heavy weight towards Naver music chart over others. Other music shows don't look at mobile sales, and they also have different charts that they look at to determine their digital score (Mnet music chart for MCD, for example). So it is only naturally that sometimes A artist has higher digitals than B in Music Bank but maybe lower in other music shows.

 

Music Bank has explained their chart system in extensive detail.

 

http://nbbs.kbs.co.kr/section/board/bbs_view.html?bbs_cd=2te_music_vboard02&seq=1075627&goto_page=1

 

Actually, KBS Music Bank is the music show that is most open about how they mark the points on the chart. And when fans have raised questions, they have given pretty good feedback and clarification (other music shows don't even bother). Sometimes they even admitted their wrong and made the change.

 

You may want to say Music Bank's system is weird. But at the end of the day, not all music shows have to have the same grading system. What would be the fun in that? If it were like that, then there's no point in watching till the end of the show to find out who the winner is that day. We might as well just announce the winner for all of the music shows of that week on the internet and not bother with who wins which music show and loses out on which one.

 

Fixing OP. But broadcast points 44 for IU is not any less fishy, lol

[Aquamaraqua]

omg it's year 2017 and people still yap without understanding how Music Bank K-chart works?

 

Their point system distributes the scores to each contestant based on a relative scale (aka how well you are doing compared to others)

 

if your digitals are really really strong, like having 200 roof hits and stuff, then it is possible for you to just win that MB trophy without breaking a sweat (no broadcast points, physical album sales, etc needed)

 

 

 

lim chang jung had 8630 points just for the digital score in the third week of September, 2016, and 7428 digital points the following week. His digital score alone can get him the Music Bank win easily.

 

IU's digitals were just not that strong this week (or last week's chart) compared to the other songs on the digital streaming sites. She received less than 4000 points although she was topping the weekly chart. I guess it's because the difference between her song's performance and others below her was negligible, so they evenly share the points.

 

OP is clearly wrong in stating that "because it only takes a percentage of the top 100 digital songs." Music Bank allots their 130,000 digital points to ALL songs in the digital music market, not just top 100.

 

 

Also, about physical album sales. Laboum sold a lot this time compared to how they used to be doing in the past. But it was like 28k in the first week sales? It is not actually a lot in comparison to other real big sellers. But they were just lucky because there weren't many other groups selling their albums in the same week (SF9 came back but did not have any fansigns) So 28k copies of their album were enough to get them 2344 points out of those total 10000 album points. (aka Laboum's 28k copies were equivalent to 23.44% of ALL the copies of any physical album sold in the whole Korean market that week)

 

When you are unlucky, like EXO-CBX last year, then even if you sell like more than 100k albums in the first week. you don't get many album points. At that time, Lay also had his solo album and he was selling his almost as many copies of the album, so Lay took away a good chunk of those album points, hence why EXO-CBX didn't get to win Music Bank, despite selling lots of physical albums.

 

So it really depends on the timing and how lucky you are when you do your promos. (it ALWAYS is about how much competition there is when it comes to korean music shows, not just Music Bank)

 

Then broadcast points. Some say it is fishy. But it really isn't imo. Some shows like SBS MTV The Show don't even nominate you if you don't show up to perform. Show Champion and MCountDown also have broadcast point category. MCountDown gives 0 broadcast points for Winner (for 3 consecutive weeks) and 0 point also for IU because they don't appear on MCD. Trust me, KBS Music Bank has their own rating system for those 40,000 total broadcast points and it's about how many times the artist's song is played (in the background) on any of their channels (radio, kbs1 channel, kbs2 channel, etc) during the week. If you want to be able to calculate those broadcast points, then you have to be constantly checking what is airing and playing on all of the KBS networks 24/7. 

 

Of course, Music Bank gives preference to those who come to their music show and their other programmes. But as a person who regularly goes to the pre-recording sessions and live studio of those music shows, I say it is A LOT of effort and hard work. The artists have to come to the broadcasting station at TV staff's convenience (even at crazy hours) and they have to spend so much time there in the waiting room and stuff for the 4-min segment they get on the music show. On top of that, the artists have to pay for everything, to get their hair done, costumes, makeup, stage decorations, transportation, their managers' and other field staff's pay, everything. TV promos are very expensive. But most groups do it, and many attend ALL music shows just to maintain friendly relationships with the TV station. If they go to all music shows (simply kpop on monday, the show on tuesday, show champion on wednesday, mcd on thursday, music bank on friday, music core on saturday, inki on sunday) then those idols get no time off literally and they prolly get 2 hours of sleep a day during their promotions. Still, kpop groups do it just in hopes of getting their name out there. So I say that the groups deserve the broadcast points they receive when they go attend those shows multiple times.

 

 

Oh and again about the digital points. Music Bank's 130,000 points are broken down into two categories. 13,000 (10% of the total) are for mobile sales (ringtones, coloring, and such) and the rest are assigned to digital scores from 6 charts (Naver Music, MelOn, Bugs, Soribada, Olleh music, Genie). Music Bank gives heavy weight towards Naver music chart over others. Other music shows don't look at mobile sales, and they also have different charts that they look at to determine their digital score (Mnet music chart for MCD, for example). So it is only naturally that sometimes A artist has higher digitals than B in Music Bank but maybe lower in other music shows.

 

Music Bank has explained their chart system in extensive detail.

 

http://nbbs.kbs.co.kr/section/board/bbs_view.html?bbs_cd=2te_music_vboard02&seq=1075627&goto_page=1

 

Actually, KBS Music Bank is the music show that is most open about how they mark the points on the chart. And when fans have raised questions, they have given pretty good feedback and clarification (other music shows don't even bother). Sometimes they even admitted their wrong and made the change.

 

You may want to say Music Bank's system is weird. But at the end of the day, not all music shows have to have the same grading system. What would be the fun in that? If it were like that, then there's no point in watching till the end of the show to find out who the winner is that day. We might as well just announce the winner for all of the music shows of that week on the internet and not bother with who wins which music show and loses out on which one.

 

Laboum's physicals are still questionable, and yeah nobody is monitoring KBS airplay of songs, but to have that huge chunk and IU only 44 is still WTF. It's literally so arbitrary anyone can mess with it. I don't see why you're bringing up the point about idols being on music shows when both Laboum + IU performed on MB.

 

I updated OP on the top 100 thing because I know that seemed outdated and incorrect. 

[looks]

Fixing OP. But broadcast points 44 for IU is not any less fishy, lol

 

i mean, her broadcast points are pretty consistent, consistently low on music bank.

 

2017-04-07

24 pts  IU - Through the Night

 

2017-04-14

47 pts  IU - Through the Night

 

2017-04-21

23 pts  IU - Can't Love You Anymore (With Oh Hyuk)

12 pts  IU - Through the Night

 

2017-04-28

44 pts  IU - Can't Love You Anymore (With Oh Hyuk)

22 pts  IU - Through the Night

[miseol]

i c no sajaegi

[Aquamaraqua]

 

i mean, her broadcast points are pretty consistent, consistently low on music bank.

 

2017-04-07

24 pts  IU - Through the Night

 

2017-04-14

47 pts  IU - Through the Night

 

2017-04-21

23 pts  IU - Can't Love You Anymore (With Oh Hyuk)

12 pts  IU - Through the Night

 

2017-04-28

44 pts  IU - Can't Love You Anymore (With Oh Hyuk)

22 pts  IU - Through the Night

 

Do you have stats to compare that with previous years? For both artists?

[looks]

Do you have stats to compare that with previous years? For both artists?

 

nope, i don't think iu did anything last year, and i don't think laboum was ever in the top 20 last year.

[chandeliers]

Laboum's physicals are still questionable, and yeah nobody is monitoring KBS airplay of songs, but to have that huge chunk and IU only 44 is still WTF. It's literally so arbitrary anyone can mess with it. I don't see why you're bringing up the point about idols being on music shows when both Laboum + IU performed on MB.

 

I updated OP on the top 100 thing because I know that seemed outdated and incorrect. 

 

 

Yes, Laboum's physical sales look odd to me as well. But it is not Music Bank's fault in any way you look at it, they just give scores based on the figures they get from Hanteo charts. You can take that issue to Hanteo Systems. 

Laboum's 2086 broadcast points out of 40,000 total is not that strange. Music Bank have given more points than that to other groups like Gugudan and Monsta X (they got like 2500~3000).

IU's 44 points probably because KBS didn't play IU's song on their channels as much. KBS doesn't have to play this song over that other song from some artist because some reason. They have the right to put whatever music suits their shows and programmes. Also, all scores (digital, physical, broadcast) are from what happened last week. IU appeared on KBS this week but she did not perform on Music Bank last week, she only went to Inki last week. Going to the music show to perform in the first week of your promos is given quite some consideration, in the Korean music show world. (as funny as it seems, the music show producers are quite keen about this issue because it's about attracting more attention by having more artists on their show)