
[K-BIZ Starter Guide] Vol.2: A Friendly Introduction to Hanteo & Circle Charts for First-Time Sellers
1. What are the major "album sales indicators" in K-POP?
When you're just starting out in K-POP distribution, you'll often hear questions like:
“Is this album counted on the Hanteo Chart?”
“How many copies were sold based on the Circle Chart?”
But what exactly are these charts—and why are they so important?
2. What are the Hanteo Chart and Circle Chart?
"Hanteo Chart" is a real-time chart that reflects actual physical album sales as they happen. It’s a key reference for fans, distributors, and entertainment companies alike.
"Circle Chart" (formerly known as Gaon Chart) is an official chart based on the total shipment volume reported by distributors. It’s operated by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Music Content Association.
3. Hanteo vs. Circle — What’s the Difference?
Category | <Hanteo Chart>

| <Circle Chart>
|
Data Basis
| Real-time sales (POS-based)
| Total shipment volume (distributor-reported)
|
Counting Method
| Actual album sales
| Total shipments, cumulative basis
|
Official Status
| Private chart (Global influence)
| Government-certified chart (MCST-supported)
|
Main Use
| Fandom marketing, debut sales (first-week), global visibility
| Industry statistics, market trend analysis
|
Key Metrics
| First-week sales, real-time data
| Monthly / yearly cumulative sales
|
International Use
| Linked with Billboard & other global charts
| Official data for K-POP industry reports
|
4. Why Do These Charts Matter?
1) ๐งFor fans:
Chart rankings, first-week sales (aka "์ด๋"), and sales records are a source of pride. Fans often prefer to buy from stores that count toward the charts.
2) ๐ชFor distributors & retailers:
Whether or not your sales are reflected on a chart directly affects your marketing power. Being able to say “We are an official Hanteo seller” or “Counts toward the Circle Chart” builds trust and draws in more fans.
3) ๐ข For entertainment agencies:
Chart results are used in promotions, investor relations, and global marketing. First-week and cumulative sales are also key indicators of an artist’s IP value.
โ
KODY is part of the Hanteo Family and continues to provide official chart-reflected sales to both the Hanteo and Circle charts. By working with KODY, you can ensure that your B2C customers experience the trust and credibility of an official distribution partner.
6. References
1) Hanteo Chart Official Website
๐https://www.hanteochart.com
2) Circle Chart Official Website
๐ https://circlechart.kr
KODY GLOBAL
๋ฌธ์ : b2b@haink.co
[K-BIZ ์
๋ฌธ์] ์ฒ์ ์ฌ์ฅ๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋ 2 : ์ฒ์ ์ฌ์ฅ๋์ ์ํ ์น์ ํ ํํฐ ๋ฐ ์จํด์ฐจํธ ์๋ด์
1. K-POP "์จ๋ฒ ํ๋งค ์งํ", ์ด๋ค ๊ฒ๋ค์ด ์์๊น์?
K-POP ์ ํต์ ์ฒ์ ์์ํ๋ฉด ๊ผญ ๋ฃ๊ฒ ๋๋ ๋ง์ด ์์ต๋๋ค.
“์ด ์จ๋ฒ, ํํฐ์ฐจํธ์ ๋ฐ์๋๋์?”
“์จํด์ฐจํธ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ช ์ฅ ํ๋ ธ์ด์?”
๋๋์ฒด ์ด ‘์ฐจํธ’๋ค์ ๋ฌด์์ด๊ณ , ์ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ผ๊น์?
2. “ํํฐ์ฐจํธ”์ “์ํด์ฐจํธ”๋ ๋ฌด์์ผ๊น์?
“ํํฐ์ฐจํธ(Hanteo Chart)”๋? ์ค์๊ฐ ํ๋งค๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก, ์ค๋ฌผ ์จ๋ฒ ์ ํต ‘์ค์๊ฐ’ ์์น๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ํฌ๊ณผ ์ ํต์ฌ, ๊ธฐํ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ณด๋ ์ฐจํธ์
๋๋ค.
“์จํด์ฐจํธ(Circle Chart) (๊ตฌ: ๊ฐ์จ์ฐจํธ)”๋? ์ ํต์ฌ ์ ์ฒด ์ถํ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก, ‘์ด ๋์ ์ถํ’ ์ค์ฌ์ ๊ณต์ ์ฐจํธ์ด๋ฉฐ,๋ฌธํ์ฒด์ก๊ด๊ด๋ถ์ ํ๊ตญ์์
์ฝํ
์ธ ํํ๊ฐ ์ด์ํฉ๋๋ค.
3. ํํฐ vs ์จํด, ๋ญ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ฅผ๊น์?
ํญ๋ชฉ | <ํํฐ์ฐจํธ> 
|
<์จํด์ฐจํธ>
|
๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๊ธฐ์ค | ์ค์๊ฐ ํ๋งค (POS ๊ธฐ์ค) | ์ ํต ์ถํ๋ (์ ํต์ฌ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ค) |
์ง๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์ | ์ค๋ฌผ ์จ๋ฒ ์ค์ ํ๋งค๋ | ์ถํ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ์ด ๋์ ์ง๊ณ |
๊ณต์ ์ฌ๋ถ | ๋ฏผ๊ฐ ์ฐจํธ (๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ O) | ์ ๋ถ ๊ณต์ธ ์ฐจํธ (๋ฌธํ์ฒด์ก๊ด๊ด๋ถ ์ง์) |
ํ์ฉ ์ฉ๋ | ํฌ๋ค ์ค์ฌ ๋ง์ผํ
, ์ด๋ ์ธ์ฆ, ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ | ์ ๋ถ·์ฐ์
ํต๊ณ, ์ ์ฒด ์์ฅ ํธ๋ ๋ ๋ถ์ |
๋ํ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ | ์ด๋, ์ค์๊ฐ ํ๋งค | ์๊ฐ/์ฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ํ๋งค๋ |
๊ตญ์ ํ์ฉ๋ | Billboard ๋ฑ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ฐจํธ ์ฐ๋ | K-POP ์ฐ์
๊ณต์ ํต๊ณ ์๋ฃ |
4. ํํฐ์ฐจํธ์ ์จํด์ฐจํธ ์ “์ค์”ํ ๊น์?
1) ํฌ ์
์ฅ์์๋
- ์ฐจํธ 1์, ์ด๋ ํ๋งค๋, ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ฌ์ฑ ๋ฑ์ ํฌ๋ค์ ์๋ถ์ฌ์
๋๋ค!
- ์ํฐ์คํธ ์ธ์ง๋์ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ์์น์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์, ํฌ๋ค์ ‘๋ฐ์๋๋ ์ผํ๋ชฐ’์์ ์ฌ๋ ๊ฑธ ์ค์ํ๊ฒ ์ฌ๊น๋๋ค.
2) ์ ํต์ฌ/๋ฆฌํ
์ผ๋ฌ ์
์ฅ์์๋
- ํ๋งค ํ๋ซํผ์ด ์ด๋ ์ฐจํธ์ ๋ฐ์๋๋์ง๊ฐ ์ํ ๋ง์ผํ
์ ํฐ ์ํฅ์ ์ฃผ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค!
- “ํํฐ ๊ณต์ ํ๋งค์ฒ์
๋๋ค” ๋๋ “์จํด์ฐจํธ ๋ฐ์”์ ํ๋งค ์ ๋ขฐ๋์ ํฌ ์ ์
์ ์ง์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
3) ๐ข ๊ธฐํ์ฌ/์ํฐ ์
์ฅ์์๋
- ์ฐจํธ ์์น๋ ํ๋ณด์๋ฃ, ํฌ์ ์ ์น, ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ง์ผํ
์๋ฃ๋ก ํ์ฉ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
- ์ด๋ ํ๋งค๋, ๋์ ํ๋งค๋์ ์ํฐ์คํธ IP ๊ฐ์น ์ธก์ ๊ธฐ์ค ์ค ํ๋์
๋๋ค.
โ
KODY๋ ํํฐ ํจ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ํ ๊ณต์ ์ ํต์ฒ๋ก, ๊พธ์คํ ํํฐ·์จํด ์ฐจํธ ๋ฐ์์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. KODY์ ํจ๊ปํ์๋ฉด, B2C ๊ณ ๊ฐ์๊ฒ๋ ‘๊ณต์ ์ ํต’์ด๋ผ๋ ํ์คํ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฌํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค!
5. ์ฐธ๊ณ
1) ํํฐ์ฐจํธ
๐https://www.hanteochart.com
2) ์จํด์ฐจํธ
๐ https://circlechart.kr
KODY GLOBAL
๋ฌธ์ : b2b@haink.co
[K-BIZ Starter Guide] Vol.2: A Friendly Introduction to Hanteo & Circle Charts for First-Time Sellers
1. What are the major "album sales indicators" in K-POP?
When you're just starting out in K-POP distribution, you'll often hear questions like:
“Is this album counted on the Hanteo Chart?”
“How many copies were sold based on the Circle Chart?”
But what exactly are these charts—and why are they so important?
2. What are the Hanteo Chart and Circle Chart?
"Hanteo Chart" is a real-time chart that reflects actual physical album sales as they happen. It’s a key reference for fans, distributors, and entertainment companies alike.
"Circle Chart" (formerly known as Gaon Chart) is an official chart based on the total shipment volume reported by distributors. It’s operated by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Music Content Association.
3. Hanteo vs. Circle — What’s the Difference?
<Hanteo Chart>
<Circle Chart>
(POS-based)
cumulative basis
(Global influence)
debut sales (first-week),
global visibility
market trend analysis
real-time data
cumulative sales
& other global charts
for K-POP industry reports
4. Why Do These Charts Matter?
1) ๐งFor fans:
Chart rankings, first-week sales (aka "์ด๋"), and sales records are a source of pride. Fans often prefer to buy from stores that count toward the charts.
2) ๐ชFor distributors & retailers:
Whether or not your sales are reflected on a chart directly affects your marketing power. Being able to say “We are an official Hanteo seller” or “Counts toward the Circle Chart” builds trust and draws in more fans.
3) ๐ข For entertainment agencies:
Chart results are used in promotions, investor relations, and global marketing. First-week and cumulative sales are also key indicators of an artist’s IP value.
โ KODY is part of the Hanteo Family and continues to provide official chart-reflected sales to both the Hanteo and Circle charts. By working with KODY, you can ensure that your B2C customers experience the trust and credibility of an official distribution partner.
6. References
1) Hanteo Chart Official Website
๐https://www.hanteochart.com
2) Circle Chart Official Website
๐ https://circlechart.kr
KODY GLOBAL
๋ฌธ์ : b2b@haink.co
[K-BIZ ์ ๋ฌธ์] ์ฒ์ ์ฌ์ฅ๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋ 2 : ์ฒ์ ์ฌ์ฅ๋์ ์ํ ์น์ ํ ํํฐ ๋ฐ ์จํด์ฐจํธ ์๋ด์
1. K-POP "์จ๋ฒ ํ๋งค ์งํ", ์ด๋ค ๊ฒ๋ค์ด ์์๊น์?
K-POP ์ ํต์ ์ฒ์ ์์ํ๋ฉด ๊ผญ ๋ฃ๊ฒ ๋๋ ๋ง์ด ์์ต๋๋ค.
“์ด ์จ๋ฒ, ํํฐ์ฐจํธ์ ๋ฐ์๋๋์?”
“์จํด์ฐจํธ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ช ์ฅ ํ๋ ธ์ด์?”
๋๋์ฒด ์ด ‘์ฐจํธ’๋ค์ ๋ฌด์์ด๊ณ , ์ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ผ๊น์?
2. “ํํฐ์ฐจํธ”์ “์ํด์ฐจํธ”๋ ๋ฌด์์ผ๊น์?
“ํํฐ์ฐจํธ(Hanteo Chart)”๋? ์ค์๊ฐ ํ๋งค๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก, ์ค๋ฌผ ์จ๋ฒ ์ ํต ‘์ค์๊ฐ’ ์์น๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ํฌ๊ณผ ์ ํต์ฌ, ๊ธฐํ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ณด๋ ์ฐจํธ์ ๋๋ค.
“์จํด์ฐจํธ(Circle Chart) (๊ตฌ: ๊ฐ์จ์ฐจํธ)”๋? ์ ํต์ฌ ์ ์ฒด ์ถํ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก, ‘์ด ๋์ ์ถํ’ ์ค์ฌ์ ๊ณต์ ์ฐจํธ์ด๋ฉฐ,๋ฌธํ์ฒด์ก๊ด๊ด๋ถ์ ํ๊ตญ์์ ์ฝํ ์ธ ํํ๊ฐ ์ด์ํฉ๋๋ค.
3. ํํฐ vs ์จํด, ๋ญ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ฅผ๊น์?
ํญ๋ชฉ
<ํํฐ์ฐจํธ>
<์จํด์ฐจํธ>
๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๊ธฐ์ค
์ค์๊ฐ ํ๋งค
(POS ๊ธฐ์ค)
์ ํต ์ถํ๋
(์ ํต์ฌ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ค)
์ง๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์
์ค๋ฌผ ์จ๋ฒ ์ค์ ํ๋งค๋
์ถํ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ์ด ๋์ ์ง๊ณ
๊ณต์ ์ฌ๋ถ
๋ฏผ๊ฐ ์ฐจํธ
(๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ O)
์ ๋ถ ๊ณต์ธ ์ฐจํธ
(๋ฌธํ์ฒด์ก๊ด๊ด๋ถ ์ง์)
ํ์ฉ ์ฉ๋
ํฌ๋ค ์ค์ฌ ๋ง์ผํ ,
์ด๋ ์ธ์ฆ, ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ
์ ๋ถ·์ฐ์ ํต๊ณ,
์ ์ฒด ์์ฅ ํธ๋ ๋ ๋ถ์
๋ํ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ
์ด๋, ์ค์๊ฐ ํ๋งค
์๊ฐ/์ฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ํ๋งค๋
๊ตญ์ ํ์ฉ๋
Billboard ๋ฑ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ฐจํธ ์ฐ๋
K-POP ์ฐ์ ๊ณต์ ํต๊ณ ์๋ฃ
4. ํํฐ์ฐจํธ์ ์จํด์ฐจํธ ์ “์ค์”ํ ๊น์?
1) ํฌ ์ ์ฅ์์๋
2) ์ ํต์ฌ/๋ฆฌํ ์ผ๋ฌ ์ ์ฅ์์๋
3) ๐ข ๊ธฐํ์ฌ/์ํฐ ์ ์ฅ์์๋
โ KODY๋ ํํฐ ํจ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ํ ๊ณต์ ์ ํต์ฒ๋ก, ๊พธ์คํ ํํฐ·์จํด ์ฐจํธ ๋ฐ์์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. KODY์ ํจ๊ปํ์๋ฉด, B2C ๊ณ ๊ฐ์๊ฒ๋ ‘๊ณต์ ์ ํต’์ด๋ผ๋ ํ์คํ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฌํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค!
5. ์ฐธ๊ณ
1) ํํฐ์ฐจํธ
๐https://www.hanteochart.com
2) ์จํด์ฐจํธ
๐ https://circlechart.kr
KODY GLOBAL
๋ฌธ์ : b2b@haink.co