When a Korean title arrives at the top of a market, do the other Korean titles there lose their places?
We published the sentence "there is one Korean slot and the biggest title takes it" as an explanation on /hard-markets without measuring it.
| Arrivals at the top 3 | Cases | Other Korean titles before | Change after |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korean title arrives | 2,458 | 1.906 | -0.403 |
| Any other title arrives | 37,098 | 0.58 | -0.015 |
Titles. The count is of *other* Korean titles on that chart, with the arriving title removed.
A Korean title reaches the top three most often in markets that already carry several Korean titles, and a chart that starts high falls whatever arrives. The control is weighted to the same starting levels as the Korean cases.
| Other Korean titles before | Korean arrivals | Change | Other arrivals | Change | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 755 | 0.106 | 21,391 | 0.157 | -0.051 |
| 1 | 544 | -0.235 | 10,913 | -0.187 | -0.048 |
| 2 | 373 | -0.544 | 2,924 | -0.265 | -0.279 |
| 3 | 362 | -0.624 | 1,380 | -0.471 | -0.152 |
| 4 or more | 424 | -1.211 | 490 | -0.881 | -0.33 |
At the bottom row of the table there is no effect at all: a market with no other Korean title gains 0.106 after a Korean arrival and 0.157 after any other, so the difference is -0.051.
Weighted to the same starting levels, the control falls -0.255 where the Korean cases fall -0.403. What is left is -0.148 — 62% of the raw gap of -0.388 was the starting level, not the arrival.
It shows places, not why they moved. A title leaving after a hit arrives may be ending its own run rather than being displaced, and nothing in a rank table separates the two.
Which markets only take the wide titles · How a title leaves · Not one a week · How we count
When a Korean title reaches a market's top three, the other Korean titles there fall by 0.403. Non-Korean arrivals cost 0.013. That looks decisive until you notice the two groups start from different heights.
10 August 2026