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South Korea music chart report

This country report reads the latest South Korea chart snapshot from Chart Atlas and compares the current Top 10 with the previous stored week. It is useful for spotting local breakouts, returning hits, and songs that are stronger in this market than globally.

Latest week: 2026-07-18Region: AsiaPrevious comparison: 2026-07-11
REDREDCurrent #1 by CORTIS
605,500combined streams across this Top 10 sample
2Top 10 songs moving up versus the previous snapshot
1Top 10 songs not seen in this country last snapshot

South Korea Top 10

RankSongArtistMovementStreams
#1REDREDCORTISunchanged100,625 streams
#2LOVE ATTACKRESCENEunchanged73,847 streams
#3Pretty GirlRESCENEup 762,759 streams
#4It's MeILLITdown 160,024 streams
#5LEMONADEaespanew this week57,193 streams
#6WhoJiminup 555,340 streams
#7Lemon TangHearts2Heartsdown 252,686 streams
#8Landing in LoveHANROROunchanged48,656 streams
#90+0HANROROdown 248,130 streams
#10SuddenlyI.O.Idown 446,240 streams

Local signal versus the global table

The clearest local signals this week: LOVE ATTACK by RESCENE (local #2, on 1 of 35 tracked charts); Pretty Girl by RESCENE (local #3, on 1 of 35 tracked charts); It's Me by ILLIT (local #4, on 2 of 35 tracked charts). Songs like these hold Top 10 positions in South Korea while staying nearly invisible in the cross-country aggregate — usually a sign of language-market momentum or a domestic release cycle rather than a global push.

Working in the other direction, 12 of the current global aggregate Top 15 songs do not chart in South Korea at all this week, including Dai Dai by Shakira, Wonderwall - Remastered by Oasis, Billie Jean by Michael Jackson. When a cross-market hit skips a market entirely, the gap usually maps to language, genre preference, or a local release calendar.

40 of the 50 songs on the full South Korea chart appear nowhere else in the tracked set this week. The highest-ranked market exclusives: LOVE ATTACK by RESCENE at local #2; Pretty Girl by RESCENE at local #3; Lemon Tang by Hearts2Hearts at local #7.

Stability and turnover

REDRED by CORTIS has now led the South Korea chart for 10 consecutive stored weeks. The longest-running current Top 10 song is REDRED by CORTIS, present in the local Top 10 for 10 of the last 10 stored weeks.

8% of the full local chart is new versus the previous stored week, in line with the 12% average across the tracked set — typical turnover for this comparison window.

How to read this market

South Korea belongs to the Asia region in Chart Atlas. A song that rises here but remains flat globally can indicate a local event, language-market momentum, or a regional genre signal. A song that is simultaneously strong here and in several other countries is more likely to be part of a cross-market trend.

The movement labels compare stored weekly snapshots. They are not a claim about every daily chart change between the two capture dates.