IU's 'Love Wins All' Gets Most 'Likes' This Year

The song that received the most 'likes' this year was IU's 'Love wins all'. G-Dragon's 'POWER' recorded 100,000 'likes' in the shortest amount of time.

Melon, a music platform of Kakao Entertainment, announced the first part of its year-end report on the 12th, highlighting the achievements of domestic and international artists this year based on big data created together with users.

Music platform Melon announced the first part of its year-end report on the 12th, highlighting the achievements of domestic and international artists this year based on big data created with users. [Photo = Melon]

Melon, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, will divide the year-end settlement of each of its representative services into 1 to 3 parts through its music big data analysis content 'Data Lab' and release them sequentially until early next year.

According to Melon Data Lab, the song that received the most likes during the aggregation period from January 1 to November 12 of this year was IU's 'Love Wins All'. This song also recorded the highest number of actual listeners, proving that it was loved evenly by a wide range of listeners.

G-Dragon's new song 'POWER', which has returned after a long wait, has confirmed the public's unchanging interest and warm affection by reaching 100,000 likes in the shortest amount of time.

The song that stayed in the top 10 of Melon's TOP 100 for the longest period of time and received the most love this year was Espa's 'Supernova', which won 7 awards including 3 grand prizes at the MMA2024 (Melon Music Awards), proving its immense popularity with data.

In 'Melon Hall of Fame,' a space where Melon commemorates the honorable records of artists, a total of 46 albums achieved 1 million streams within 24 hours of release and were crowned 'Millions Albums' (0.0058% of all albums this year), and 111 artists achieved 1 billion cumulative streams and entered the 'Billions Club.'

Among them, Playb's 2nd mini-album 'ASTERUM: 134-1' set the 'shortest' record of the year by surpassing 1 million streams in just 4 hours and 10 minutes after its release, and at the same time achieved the 'most' streaming of the year with 6.04 million in the first 24 hours of its release, standing tall as an artist representing not only virtual idols but all of K-pop with overwhelming data. Espa added a total of 3 million albums this year alone, becoming the only artist active in 2024 to 'possess 3 million albums'. Lee Young-ji's 1st mini-album '16 Fantasy' caught attention with the most dramatic record by achieving 1.01 million streams in just 23 hours and 50 minutes, with just 10 minutes left until the deadline.

This year, Lim Young-woong earned the highest rank of the Billions Club, the DIA badge (over 10 billion cumulative streams), becoming the second artist to reach this rank after BTS. Lim Young-woong also received the love of music fans by achieving a total of over 1.9 billion streams as the artist with the highest number of streams this year.

The track that Melon DJs selected the most this year was DAY6's 'Be A Page'. DAY6 enjoyed their best heyday since their debut, climbing up the charts with both new and old songs, and received consistent love and attention from the public throughout the year.

The most played song on the DJ playlist, which gives a glimpse into Melon users' tastes, was Sung Si-kyung's "All of Your Moments." This song is the OST for the drama "My Love from the Star," and even though it's been over 10 years since its release, it's still loved and has established itself as a representative steady seller on the Melon chart.

The most-played pop song on DJ playlists was 'I Don't Think That I Like Her' by Charlie Puth, a pop star loved by Koreans.