"Music Bank" Responds To Complaints That BTS Winning No. 1 Was Incorrect

Following last week’s “Music Bank,” in which BTS won over I.O.I’s “Very Very Very” with their song “Blood Sweat & Tears,” some viewers suspected that there had been a mistake in the point calculations, and requested that the show reveal how they got their results.

“Music Bank” complied, and revealed their numbers for last week’s show.

They clarified that the percentages listed denote what percent each category accounts for in the point total.

“Music Bank” point breakdown:

Digital: worth 65 percent of total, 130,000 possible points (online 117,000 + mobile 13,000)

Album sales: 5 percent, 10,000 points

Broadcast appearances: 20 percent, 40,000 points (TV 34,000 + radio 6,000)

Viewer voting: 10 percent, 20,000 points

For the October 28 “Music Bank”:

BTS’s “Blood Sweat & Tears”:

Digital: 2,535.4 (online) + 138.1 (mobile) = 2,673.5

Album sales: 89,308 sales (41.52 percent share) = 4,152

Broadcast appearances: 685.88 (TV) + 59.52 (radio) = 745.4

Viewer voting: 284/6,987 votes = 4.1 percent = 813

Total: 8,384 points

I.O.I’s “Very Very Very”:

Digital: 4,338 (online) + 503 (mobile) = 4,844

Album sales: 50,433 sales (23.45 percent share) = 2,345

Broadcast appearances: 588 (TV) + 83 (radio) = 671

Viewer voting: Not included because the song was released the previous week.

Total: 7,860

“Music Bank” stated, “We’d like to clarify again that each chart’s point system is not the same, so predictions for results made by other organizations and our K Chart results are different.”

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