Melon, a music platform operated by Kakao Entertainment, has compiled the records set by G-DRAGON following his comeback based on big data.

On the 28th at 3 PM, Melon announced the major records related to G-Dragon‘s third full-length album ‘Übermensch’ through the music big data analysis content Melon Data Lab.

Ahead of his full-length album, G-Dragon heated up the expectations of global fans by consecutively releasing the singles ‘PO￦ER’ and ‘HOME SWEET HOME (feat. Taeyang, Daesung)’. Both songs entered the ’Millions Albums’ of the ‘Melon Hall of Fame’, which certifies albums that achieved over 1 million streams within 24 hours of release, and simultaneously topped the Melon TOP 100 chart, proving G-Dragon’s unwavering influence.

‘HOME SWEET HOME (feat. Taeyang, Daesung)’ has topped the weekly chart for 11 consecutive weeks, recording a total of 76 first place finishes on the daily chart as of the 26th. ‘PO￦ER’ has also maintained the TOP 10 of the weekly chart for 17 consecutive weeks since its release, and set the highest record for a male solo artist with 209,991 streams in the first hour within 24 hours of its release.

This is the first time since IU in the third week of March 2024 that a solo artist has had two or more songs in the TOP 10 of the weekly chart, and the first for a male solo artist since BE’O in the third week of February 2022. The only male solo artist to have three or more songs in the TOP 10 was Zion.T in the second week of February 2017, so expectations are high that G-Dragon will set a new milestone in eight years.

G-Dragon set a new Melon record with his third full-length album ‘Übermensch’, released on the 25th. An hour after its release, the title track ‘TOO BAD (feat. Anderson .Paak)’ went straight to #1 on the TOP 100 chart, and all eight tracks (including two previously released songs) settled within the top 15. This is the first case since the Melon TOP100 chart was reorganized in August 2021 that all songs on an album (8 songs or more) entered the top 15 within an hour of release.

The new album also swept the top ranks of the HOT100 chart, which targets new songs released within 100 days of release, with all six songs from the new album taking first to sixth places.

The ‘Übermensch’ album also proved its unrivaled presence once again in Melon‘s Hall of Fame by breaking major records for solo artists.

‘Übermensch’ surpassed 1 million streams in just 4 hours of release, becoming the ‘Millions Album’, setting the fastest record for a solo artist. The accumulated 24-hour streaming amounted to 4.2 million, surpassing IU’s ‘The Winning’‘s previous solo artist record of 3.18 million, and ranking 12th all-time among all artists.

The maximum number of streams recorded in one hour was 271,300, which also broke IU’s solo artist record of 266,300. On the daily chart on the 26th, all the songs on the album entered the top 20, and this is the first time since IU‘s ‘LILAC’ in 2021 that all the songs on an album (8 songs or more) entered the top 20 of the daily chart immediately after release.

Melon Data Lab is content that analyzes and records the proud records and significant achievements of domestic and foreign artists on a monthly basis. The full contents of this Melon Data Lab related to G-Dragon can be found in the Melon app’s ‘Magazine’ and Melon‘s official SNS channels.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com reporter jhj@donga.com

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