Korean pop culture, in numbers

The Sound of Magic

A Korean series that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 36 of 93 markets, holding 74 chart places across 3 weeks between 2022-05-08 and 2022-05-22. Its best position anywhere was number 1.

What a place is. A place is one appearance in one country's weekly top 10. A title that sat at number 4 in Vietnam for three weeks holds three places there. Reach counts the countries a title appeared in at least once, out of 93.

Beside the median charting Korean title

The Sound of MagicMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached362
Weeks on a chart somewhere34
Chart places held745

The median is taken across all 915 Korean titles that reached any country top 10, most of which charted in one or two markets. This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.

Where it charted — all 36 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Bahrain322022-05-082022-05-22
Bangladesh312022-05-082022-05-22
Bolivia172022-05-152022-05-15
Dominican Republic1102022-05-152022-05-15
Ecuador1102022-05-152022-05-15
Egypt132022-05-152022-05-15
Guatemala1102022-05-152022-05-15
Honduras1102022-05-152022-05-15
Hong Kong162022-05-152022-05-15
India322022-05-082022-05-22
Indonesia322022-05-082022-05-22
Japan172022-05-152022-05-15
Jordan222022-05-082022-05-15
Kuwait322022-05-082022-05-22
Lebanon1102022-05-152022-05-15
Malaysia312022-05-082022-05-22
Maldives312022-05-082022-05-22
Mauritius262022-05-082022-05-15
Mexico172022-05-152022-05-15
Morocco352022-05-082022-05-22
New Caledonia1102022-05-152022-05-15
Nigeria252022-05-082022-05-15
Oman322022-05-082022-05-22
Pakistan312022-05-082022-05-22
Peru192022-05-152022-05-15
Philippines312022-05-082022-05-22
Qatar322022-05-082022-05-22
Réunion1102022-05-152022-05-15
Saudi Arabia312022-05-082022-05-22
Singapore142022-05-152022-05-15
South Korea342022-05-082022-05-22
Sri Lanka322022-05-082022-05-22
Thailand322022-05-082022-05-22
Turkey162022-05-152022-05-15
United Arab Emirates322022-05-082022-05-22
Vietnam242022-05-082022-05-15

Markets are in alphabetical order, not in order of size. A market name is a link only where that country has a page of its own; the rest are plain text rather than a link that goes nowhere.

Companies credited on it

CompanyCredited as
SLL제작

From Wikidata, listed alphabetically. A credit is not a share of the work — it records that a company is attached, not how much of the budget or the decision it held. Companies inside one corporate group are listed separately because we did not confirm the ownership tree.

Cast recorded as Korean

6 names, alphabetically. Wikidata cast lists are incomplete and skew toward better-known names, so this is not a full cast list and a short one does not mean a small production.

Choi Sung-eun · Hong Seo-hui · Hwang In-youp · Ji Chang-wook · Nam Da-reum · Yoo Jae-myung

Where these numbers come from, and what they cannot answer

Every Korean title that has charted · How far a company's catalogue travels · How we count