IU and BIBI’s Bam Yang Gang emerge as most searched singer and song on Melon’s cumulative data for first half of 2024; know more
IU has emerged as the most searched singer and BIBI’s Bam Yang Gang as the most searched song on Melon’s data for the first half of 2024.
Melon is a famous online music streaming service in South Korea and it has revealed the cumulative data for the first half of the year 2024. According to the data, it has been revealed that IU is the most searched singer and BIBI’s Bam Yang Gang is the most searched song.
IU and BIBI’s Bam Yang Gang were revealed as the most searched singer and song for the first half of 2024
On July 12, 2024, Melon revealed the cumulative data recorded for the first half of the year 2024. A total of 5.84 million songs have been streamed, with 620,000 artists playing them.
The average length of the songs played was 3 minutes per song. The interesting revelation came that IU was the most searched-for singer on Melon. IU dropped her comeback album, The Winning, this year, which appears to have garnered much love among fans.
Additionally, BIBI’s hit song Bam Yang Gang became the most searched song for the first half of 2024 on Melon. BIBI also released her comeback single album earlier this year with the hit track Bam Yang Gang, which became her first track to achieve a perfect all-kill.
This proves that IU and BIBI have emerged among the most influential names for the first half of this year.
Meanwhile, the data analyzed by Melon also revealed that the highest streaming day was April 5, 2024, and that day alone recorded 132.42 million streams. Another high streaming day was May 3, 2024, which was the first day of the Golden Long Weekend holiday with 131.5 million streams.
The highest-streamed album was ASTERUM:134-1 by the virtual K-pop boy group PLAVE. Additionally, the title track of the album WAY 4 LUV was the most streamed song on the music platform, with 140 million streams.
Which other songs were most streamed on Melon?
Additionally, other songs that topped the Melon monthly chart for the first half of the year 2024, with the most streams, were: Rain Rhapsody by Lim Jae Hyun for January; Love Wins All by IU for February; and Bam Yang Gang by BIBI for March.
For April, Magnetic by ILLIT took the top spot, SPOT! by Zico and BLACLPINK’s Jennie were the most streamed for May, and finally, Supernova by aespa emerged as the top most streamed song for June.
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