[K-BIZ Starter Guide] Vol.2: A Friendly Introduction to Hanteo & Circle Charts for First-Time Sellers

10 Apr 2025

[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) ๐Ÿ‘งFor fans:

Chart rankings, first-week sales (aka "์ดˆ๋™"), and sales records are a source of pride. Fans often prefer to buy from stores that count toward the charts.

2) ๐ŸชFor 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) ๐Ÿข 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.


โœ… 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 

๐ŸŒhttps://www.hanteochart.com

2) Circle Chart Official Website

๐ŸŒ https://circlechart.kr


KODY GLOBAL

๋ฌธ์˜ : b2b@haink.co


[K-BIZ ์ž…๋ฌธ์„œ] ์ฒ˜์Œ ์‚ฌ์žฅ๋‹˜ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ 2  : ์ฒ˜์Œ ์‚ฌ์žฅ๋‹˜์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ํ•œํ„ฐ ๋ฐ ์จํด์ฐจํŠธ ์•ˆ๋‚ด์„œ


1. K-POP "์•จ๋ฒ” ํŒ๋งค ์ง€ํ‘œ", ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

K-POP ์œ ํ†ต์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ผญ ๋“ฃ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ง์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
“์ด ์•จ๋ฒ”, ํ•œํ„ฐ์ฐจํŠธ์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜๋‚˜์š”?”
“์จํด์ฐจํŠธ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋ช‡ ์žฅ ํŒ”๋ ธ์–ด์š”?”

๋„๋Œ€์ฒด ์ด ‘์ฐจํŠธ’๋“ค์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๊ณ , ์™œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ผ๊นŒ์š”?


2. “ํ•œํ„ฐ์ฐจํŠธ”์™€ “์„œํด์ฐจํŠธ”๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ผ๊นŒ์š”?

“ํ•œํ„ฐ์ฐจํŠธ(Hanteo Chart)”๋ž€? ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ, ์‹ค๋ฌผ ์•จ๋ฒ” ์œ ํ†ต ‘์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„’ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํŒฌ๊ณผ ์œ ํ†ต์‚ฌ, ๊ธฐํš์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋Š” ์ฐจํŠธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

“์จํด์ฐจํŠธ(Circle Chart) (๊ตฌ: ๊ฐ€์˜จ์ฐจํŠธ)”๋ž€? ์œ ํ†ต์‚ฌ ์ „์ฒด ์ถœํ•˜๋Ÿ‰ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ, ‘์ด ๋ˆ„์  ์ถœํ•˜’ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ๊ณต์‹ ์ฐจํŠธ์ด๋ฉฐ,๋ฌธํ™”์ฒด์œก๊ด€๊ด‘๋ถ€์™€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์Œ์•…์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ํ˜‘ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์šด์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


3. ํ•œํ„ฐ vs ์จํด, ๋ญ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ๊นŒ์š”?

ํ•ญ๋ชฉ

<ํ•œํ„ฐ์ฐจํŠธ>


<์จํด์ฐจํŠธ>

   

๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ์ค€

์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํŒ๋งค
(POS ๊ธฐ์ค€)

์œ ํ†ต ์ถœํ•˜๋Ÿ‰
(์œ ํ†ต์‚ฌ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์ค€)

์ง‘๊ณ„ ๋ฐฉ์‹

์‹ค๋ฌผ ์•จ๋ฒ” ์‹ค์ œ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰

์ถœํ•˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ด ๋ˆ„์  ์ง‘๊ณ„

๊ณต์‹ ์—ฌ๋ถ€

๋ฏผ๊ฐ„ ์ฐจํŠธ
(๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ O)

์ •๋ถ€ ๊ณต์ธ ์ฐจํŠธ
(๋ฌธํ™”์ฒด์œก๊ด€๊ด‘๋ถ€ ์ง€์›)

ํ™œ์šฉ ์šฉ๋„

ํŒฌ๋ค ์ค‘์‹ฌ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…,
์ดˆ๋™ ์ธ์ฆ, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ

์ •๋ถ€·์‚ฐ์—… ํ†ต๊ณ„,
์ „์ฒด ์‹œ์žฅ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ ๋ถ„์„

๋Œ€ํ‘œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ

์ดˆ๋™, ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํŒ๋งค

์›”๊ฐ„/์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ˆ„์  ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰

๊ตญ์ œ ํ™œ์šฉ๋„

Billboard ๋“ฑ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ฐจํŠธ ์—ฐ๋™

K-POP ์‚ฐ์—… ๊ณต์‹ ํ†ต๊ณ„ ์ž๋ฃŒ


4. ํ•œํ„ฐ์ฐจํŠธ์™€ ์จํด์ฐจํŠธ ์™œ “์ค‘์š””ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?

1) ํŒฌ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š”

  • ์ฐจํŠธ 1์œ„, ์ดˆ๋™ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰, ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ ๋“ฑ์€ ํŒฌ๋ค์˜ ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!
  • ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ ์ธ์ง€๋„์™€ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ํŒฌ๋“ค์€ ‘๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜๋Š” ์‡ผํ•‘๋ชฐ’์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊น๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2) ์œ ํ†ต์‚ฌ/๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š”

  • ํŒ๋งค ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์–ด๋А ์ฐจํŠธ์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜๋Š”์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์— ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!
  • “ํ•œํ„ฐ ๊ณต์‹ ํŒ๋งค์ฒ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค” ๋˜๋Š” “์จํด์ฐจํŠธ ๋ฐ˜์˜”์€ ํŒ๋งค ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋„์™€ ํŒฌ ์œ ์ž…์— ์ง์ ‘ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3) ๐Ÿข ๊ธฐํš์‚ฌ/์—”ํ„ฐ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š”

  • ์ฐจํŠธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ํ™๋ณด์ž๋ฃŒ, ํˆฌ์ž ์œ ์น˜, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ž๋ฃŒ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ดˆ๋™ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰, ๋ˆ„์  ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰์€ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ IP ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ธก์ • ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


โœ…KODY๋Š” ํ•œํ„ฐ ํŒจ๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ์— ์†ํ•œ ๊ณต์‹ ์œ ํ†ต์ฒ˜๋กœ, ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ํ•œํ„ฐ·์จํด ์ฐจํŠธ ๋ฐ˜์˜์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. KODY์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด, B2C ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ‘๊ณต์‹ ์œ ํ†ต’์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

 

5. ์ฐธ๊ณ 

1) ํ•œํ„ฐ์ฐจํŠธ
๐ŸŒhttps://www.hanteochart.com

2) ์จํด์ฐจํŠธ
๐ŸŒ https://circlechart.kr


KODY GLOBAL

๋ฌธ์˜ : b2b@haink.co 

HAINK Co., Ltd.

Business Registration Number: 455-81-02944    Contact: +82-70-8211-1618

Email: b2b@haink.co
(08362) 1007·1008, A, GuroSKV1center, 

88, Bugwang-ro, Guro-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 

Bank Account Information

NongHyup Bank

Account Number: 301-0320-9412-21

Account Holder: HAINK Co., Ltd. 

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Account Number: 240-910018-03738

Account Holder: HAINK Co., Ltd. 


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