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 | 2,258 | 1.916 | -0.395 |
| Any other title arrives | 36,654 | 0.563 | -0.014 |
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 | 643 | 0.13 | 21,459 | 0.157 | -0.027 |
| 1 | 527 | -0.237 | 10,634 | -0.188 | -0.049 |
| 2 | 347 | -0.519 | 2,808 | -0.296 | -0.222 |
| 3 | 357 | -0.617 | 1,294 | -0.503 | -0.114 |
| 4 or more | 384 | -1.173 | 459 | -0.875 | -0.298 |
At the bottom row of the table there is no effect at all: a market with no other Korean title gains 0.13 after a Korean arrival and 0.157 after any other, so the difference is -0.027.
Weighted to the same starting levels, the control falls -0.273 where the Korean cases fall -0.395. What is left is -0.122 — 68% of the raw gap of -0.381 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 0.395. Non-Korean arrivals cost 0.014. That looks decisive until you notice the two groups start from different heights.
10 August 2026