Korean pop culture, in numbers

Inside Netflix's two Top 10 files

Netflix publishes its weekly Top 10 as two tab-separated files. If you came here after pasting one of their addresses into a search box, this page is the thing that address does not come with: what is in each file, what each column means, and where each file stops carrying a number. Everything below was counted by downloading both files on 2026-08-22.

FileRowsWeeksCoversCountriesCategories
all-weeks-countries.tsv499,1802682021-07-04 → 2026-08-1694Films, TV
all-weeks-global.tsv10,7202682021-07-04 → 2026-08-16none — global onlyFilms (English), Films (Non-English), TV (English), TV (Non-English)

The two files do not join

This is the first thing to know and it is not written anywhere on the files themselves. The country file carries no viewing figure — no hours, no views, only a rank. The global file carries the viewing figures but no country. And they do not even label their categories the same way: the country file says Films and TV, the global file splits the same world into Films (English), Films (Non-English), TV (English), TV (Non-English). A title that was number one in forty countries cannot be converted into a number of views by joining these two tables, because the row you would need does not exist.

9,530 of the titles have no view count anywhere

We took every title in the country file — 13,395 of them, counting a season as its own title — and looked for it in the global file. 3,865 were there. 9,530 were not, which is 71.1% of them. Those titles reached a national top ten and Netflix has published no viewing figure for them, in this file or any other.

It is tempting to assume the missing ones are the small ones. 500 of them charted in 20 countries or more.

Charted in a national top 10, no global rowCountries
Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions83 of 94
The Rookie80 of 94
Knights of the Zodiac75 of 94
Clifford the Big Red Dog74 of 94
Heatwave71 of 94
The Black Phone69 of 94
Scream67 of 94
Ghostbusters: Afterlife66 of 94
Knock at the Cabin66 of 94
Night Swim66 of 94

Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions is the widest of them: 83 of the 94 countries Netflix reports, and not one row in the global file. Anyone ranking titles by views is ranking the 29% that happen to have one.

The view count starts in the middle of the file

weekly_views is empty for 102 of the 268 weeks in the global file — 38% of it. The last week with no views at all is 2023-06-11; the first week where every row has one is 2023-06-18. runtime is empty on exactly the same 4,080 rows. weekly_hours_viewed runs the whole way through.

So a chart of weekly_views over the full history silently begins in mid-2023 and drops 4,080 rows on the way. Nothing in the file marks this; the cells are simply empty. We say it here because an empty cell read as a zero is how a real drop gets invented.

Every column, both files

all-weeks-countries.tsv

country_name country_iso2 week category weekly_rank show_title season_title cumulative_weeks_in_top_10

all-weeks-global.tsv

week category weekly_rank show_title season_title weekly_hours_viewed runtime weekly_views cumulative_weeks_in_top_10

week is the Sunday that ends the week, written as a date. cumulative_weeks_in_top_10 counts that title's weeks in that chart, not its weeks on Netflix. season_title is empty for films, which is why a title key has to be the pair of them: two seasons of one show are two different rows.

Where the files are

We do not re-host them. They are Netflix's files, they change every week, and a copy of ours would be a stale copy within days. The links above go to the originals.

What we built out of them

We read these files every week for Korean titles, one country at a time — the part the global file cannot tell you. 528 titles have a page of their own showing every market they charted in, week by week.

What the whole Korean catalogue did, week by week · Where it travelled · Every dataset we keep and how it was built

What this is — The two public Netflix Top 10 files, measured column by column on the day shown: row counts, week coverage, and where the file stops carrying a number.
What this is not — Not a copy of the files and not a viewing estimate. Netflix publishes the files; we counted what is in them and what is missing from them.