This week Maroon 5's Payphone (feat. Wiz Khalifa) is bound to beat the record for highest-charting non-korean song in the korean charts. The current highest-charting song is Ke$ha's TiK ToK, which peaked at #12. "Payphone" debuted at #4 in the biggest music download site of the country, Melon, responsible for over 40% of total sales, which gives them already a shot for the weekly top 10.
Melon weekly download chart website
The 2nd record is for Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera), which is set to enter the list of the 10 best-selling songs ever in Korea. The hit debuted and peaked at #21, reaching #14 in the digital charts with 256.848 sold in its first week. It has sold a total of 3,447,388 downloads as of last week.
Best-selling songs in Korea of all time so far:
Pos | Artist | Song | Sales |
1 | IU | You&I | 4698661 |
2 | T-ara | Roly-Poly | 4273762 |
3 | HyunA & Hyunseung | Trouble Maker | 4059714 |
4 | Wonder Girls | Be My Baby | 3807669 |
5 | T-ara | Cry Cry | 3673022 |
6 | GG (feat. Bom of 2NE1) | Having An Affair | 3625939 |
7 | Sistar | So Cool | 3565500 |
8 | IU | Good Day | 3539438 |
9 | Davichi | Don't Say Goodbye | 3533251 |
10 | Girls' Generation | The Boys | 3494491 |
11 | 2NE1 | I Am The Best | 3476862 |
12 | miss A | Good-bye Baby | 3474821 |
13 | Maroon 5 (feat. Christina Aguilera) | Moves Like Jagger | 3447388 |
14 | T-ara | Lovey-Dovey | 3390833 |
15 | Huh Gak | Hello | 3381263 |
16 | 2AM | Won't Let You Go Even If I Die | 3352827 |
16 | Girls' Generation | Oh! | 3316889 |
18 | LMFAO | Party Rock Anthem | 3300167 |
19 | miss A | Bad Girl Good Girl | 3119784 |
20 | Leessang (feat. T) | Turned Off The TV | 3112687 |
21 | 4Men (Feat. 美) | Unable | 3093483 |
22 | 처진 달팽이 | 압구정 날라리 | 3081488 |
23 | T-ara | I Go Crazy Because Of You | 3042224 |
24 | IU (feat. Seulong of 2AM) | Nagging | 3008795 |
25 | 2NE1 | UGLY | 3005896 |
Bold = Still charting.
So, what do you think? Will Jagger enter the all-tme top 10? Will Payphone enter the weekly top 10?
GaOn weekly chart is out on Thursday 11:30~12:00 KST, which is 10 hours from now
