Welcome to the first edition of our weekly K-pop Chart, bringing you the Top 40 songs and albums, in the UK.

The chart is based on real numbers and solid facts, using a simple combination of complex formulae to find out the best of the best in the UK for K-Pop. Similar to the Korean charts, the UK K-Pop Chart uses sales numbers, votes from the fans and broadcast exposure, to calculate automatically without bias, the Top 40 K-Pop singles and albums in the UK.

This weeks chart does not include votes, however over the next few days we will be releasing polls to help determine next weeks charts!

So without further ado, the first UKP K-pop Top 40 albums…

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HYUNA – MELTING – EP

Release: October 21st 2012

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BEAST – HARD TO LOVE, HOW TO LOVE

Release: July 19th 2013

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TROUBLE MAKER – TROUBLE MAKER – EP

Release: November 30th 2011

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G DRAGON & T.O.P – GD & TOP

Release: December 24th 2010

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4MINUTE – NAME IS 4MINUTE – EP

Release: April 26th 2013

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BEAST – MIDNIGHT SUN – EP

Release: July 22nd 2012

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4MINUTE – VOLUME UP

Release: April 9th 2012

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1

RAINBOW – RAINBOW SYNDROME – EP

Release: February 13th 2013

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RAINBOW – RAINBOW SYNDROME, PT.2

Release: June 5th 2013

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VIXX – HYDE – EP

Release: May 20th 2013

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Rank Album Artist(s)
11 Hit Your Heart 4Minute
12 Last Fantasy IU
13 Mine – EP Kim Jae Joong
14 Grown 2PM
15 Hands Up 2PM
16 Wonder World Wonder Girls
17 Harvest Moon – EP 2Yoon
18 The First Collage – EP Yang Yoseob
19 Sixth Sense Brown Eyed Girls
20 Moya – EP AOA
21 Jump Up FTISLAND
22 Little Giant Huh Gak
23 Real IU
24 My Love Lee Seung Chul
25 Beautiful Journey – EP FTISLAND
26 Rebirth – EP SS501
27 A Class Miss A
28 Fall in L – EP Juniel
29 So Cool SISTAR
30 이것만은 알고 가 (Before U Go) TVXQ
31 꽃보다 남자 (Boys Over Flowers) – KBS Drama Series (Original Sound Track) Various Artists
32 골든 15 Lee Moon Sae
33 이문세 (Lee Moonsae) 13집 Lee Moon Sae
34 Independent Women, Pt. III – EP Miss A
35 The Special to Kissme EP U-KISS
36 Born To Beat – EP BTOB
37 Carnival (이적+김동률 프로젝트 앨범) 카니발 (Carnival)
38 Tarantallegra Xia
39 Touch (The 4th Project Touch) – EP Miss A
40 Pres Play – EP BTOB

 

Some fan favourites were obviously expected, but we were also surprised by the low sales numbers of some of the big headline groups who recently made a comeback… which meant that some of them didn’t even make the Top 40!

And proving that we Brits are a little different from the Koreans and Americans, we really do love the classic K-Pop, with some great tracks still making up the Top 40 best selling music in K-Pop in the UK months after their first release!

 

What do you think about the rankings?
Did you buy any of the new releases this week?
Why do you think the sales numbers for new releases in the UK are so low?

Want to know how the chart works? Here we explain how!

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