According to Melon's yearly top 10 chart of 2023 thus far, NewJeans and IVE are dominating in Korea.
Melon is South Korea's biggest music subscription service, with over 28 million monthly active users. According to the Melon yearly top 10 chart of the year 2023, so far, NewJeans had 4 songs and IVE had 3 songs on the chart. LE SSERAFIM, Younha, and Charlie Puth each had one song on the top 10 most played songs of this year.
After the chart was shared on May 13th, netizens shared their thoughts, commenting:
"I feel like NewJeans will add another song once they come back in July."
"I didn't know Charlie Puth was that popular in Korea lol"
"Wow, it's only been a month since 'Kitsch' was released. This is incredible."
"NewJeans, IVE, and LE SSERAFIM domination."
"'Ditto' is winning by landslide. I think it'll take first place at the end of this year."
"This the era of girl groups."
"lol, no wonder I know all the songs on this chart."
"NewJeans will be winning all Daesangs this year."
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