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Posted by Susan-Han Thursday, August 24, 2023

Streams with muted sound will no longer count on Melon

AKP STAFF

On August 25 KST, Korean music platform Melon announced that streams with muted sound will no longer count toward chart scores beginning on October 1 at 12 AM KST. 

The change will affect charts such as the 'Top 100', 'Hot 100', as well as Melon's daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly charts. 

Earlier this week, Circle Chart also announced its plans to install a system for screening muted streams within this year. 

However, some K-netizens were skeptical that the measure would truly affect the "mass streaming" practices of large K-Pop fandoms. They commented, "Just use headphones", "All you have to do is plug in corded headphones", "I'm already using an app to bypass this on other streaming services lol", "The fans have their ways, no matter how hard you try to stop them", "A lot of other streaming services already have this system, so why is Melon so late getting it kekekeke", and more. 

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123PoP7,969 pts Thursday, August 24, 2023 6
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When the song is trash and the fans still stream it 😂

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the-realist-44 pts Thursday, August 24, 2023 14
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And this is why all the kpop records for streaming are completely bloated and bogus. Stream counts shouldn't mean anything on any platform. Those numbers have been fake since day one. The bottom line should be sales. Youtube records should mean nothing.

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