Melon, Tencent Music, and Line Music to Launch "Global-K Chart" in June

Tencent in China and Line Music in Japan Join Forces

Global K-Chart Artist Celebration. Provided by Melon

Kakao Entertainment announced on May 26 that music platform Melon, Tencent Music Entertainment in China, and Line Music in Japan will partner to launch the "Global-K Chart" next month.

The chart is the result of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the three companies in December of last year. Each company agreed to integrate K-pop usage data from their respective platforms to create a unified K-pop chart.

The Global-K Chart will aggregate and provide actual usage data collected by major music platforms in Korea, China, and Japan. Melon has been providing music services in Korea for 22 years.

Tencent Music operates QQ Music, KUGOU Music, KUWO Music, and JOOX in China and Southeast Asia. Line Music is linked to the LINE messenger app, which has 100 million users in Japan, to provide music services. The three companies plan to collect major platform user data from the three countries and utilize it throughout the K-pop industry.

Ahead of the launch, Melon will upload congratulatory video messages from artists such as NCT Taeyong, Le Sserafim, AlphaDriveOne, and Andouble sequentially on Melon and its official social networking services (SNS) starting this morning.

A Melon representative said, "A chart participated in by all three platforms will become a global standard that accurately reflects K-pop trends," and added, "We plan to hold various events before and after the launch and engage with fans around the world."

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