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Music Streaming Services Struggle to Fight Streaming Fraud, Chart Manipulation

SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Flo, the third-biggest music streaming service in South Korea, has recently revamped the compilation method of its music charts in a countermeasure against a lingering controversy over music chart manipulation. The music streaming service run by SK Telecom introduced a new “Flo Chart” to replace a real-time music chart [...]

Chart Manipulation Suspicion Continues to Rock K-pop Industry

SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In the whirlwind of A-list K-pop groups’ releases in April 2018, a unlikely 2017 ballad topped the charts of major online music stores, raising many a fan’s eyebrows. Even amid the heated competition between such top-rung bands as TWICE, WINNER and EXO-CBX, a subunit of EXO, who dropped new [...]