Pop Music Takes 54% of Korea’s Weekly Top 50 Performances

Pop music accounted for 27 of the 50 performances in Korea’s week 43 box office ranking, raising its share of the list from 50% to 54%. It also held the top eight places, led by Kenshi Yonezu’s concert in Incheon.

Concerts dominate the top ten

The Melon Music Awards ranked second, followed by AND2BLE FAN-CON: W!nter inside in Seoul. Concerts by Park Ji-hyun, NELL, Lee Soo of M.C the MAX and Xdinary Heroes, along with Damien Rice’s Korea tour, completed the pop music run through eighth place. The musicals Elisabeth and Frozen took ninth and tenth.

Seoul hosted eight of the top ten ranked performances; the Yonezu and Xdinary Heroes concerts were in Incheon.

A changing ranking

The top 50 included 13 musicals, five classical music performances, three plays, one dance performance and one Korean traditional music performance. Thirty-two productions entered the ranking this week, while eight rose and eight fell.

The 54% figure describes pop music’s share of ranked productions. The digest does not provide ticket sales or revenue by genre, so the ranking alone cannot establish pop music’s share of overall box office receipts.

By the Numbers