Monsta X Worldwide

billboard - streaming guide

Stream like a human: interact with streaming app/ pausing, playing or skip are human behaviour

Use Monsta X or member focused playlists

Looping a song = bot behaviour = streams are filtred out

Get premium or free trail - premium accounts weight more on Billboard

While purchasing songs on Itunes/Amazon - rememeber to 'Delete from Library' for your streams to count

DO NOT USE VPN

Tracing Period: US and Global Billboard tracking resets every week at Friday OAM ET/1PM KST

STREAMING PLATFORMS

WHY PREMIUM?

WHY PRE-SAVE?

STREAMING PLATFORMS

LINKS TO FREE TRAIL:

Spotify
Apple Music
Youtube
Youtube Music
Amazon Music
TIDAL
Deezer
Audiomack
Qobuz
Pandora Premium
STATIONHEAD

SPOTIFY

WHY PREMIUM?

⚠️ Get paid (or premium free trial) ⚠️

👉 Hot 100

Streams value: Premium (1 full point), Free (0.66)

👉. Billboard 200

1 album sale = 1,250 premium streams = 3,750 free streams

👉 Billboard Global 200

1 track sale = 200 premium streams = 900 free streams

👉 Billboard Global Excl. US

1 album sale = 250 premium streams = 1,125 free streams

WHY PRE-SAVE?

What are pre-save?

Pre-save is like a pre-order but for streaming services. Pre-save albums will automatically be added to your playlists.

Why pre-save?

Pre-save is a third-party Spotify feature. Spotify Pre-save guarantees traction on the first day of release as music will be added on libraries automatically, which is what Spotify picks up for their algorithmic and editorial playlists.

More PRE-SAVE = higher chances to being included on bigger playlists.

us hot 100

Billboard Hot 100 is an all-genre chart that ranks the 100 most popular singles in the UNITED STATES based on:

U.S. Streams (video and audio)
U.S. Radio airplay
U.S. Sales (digital and physical)
Streams

billboard 200

Billboard 200 is an all-genre chart that ranks the 200 most popular albums in the UNITED STATES based on:

US/PR Sales:

Physical albums

Digital albums

Track equivalent sales (TEA)

1 album unit = 10 track sales

1 album unit = 10 sales

US/PR Streams

1 album unit = 1,250 paid/premium free trial streams

1 album unit = 3,750 free streams

billboard 200 global

Billboard 200 Global is an all-genre chart that ranks the 200 most popular singles GLOBALLY based on:

Global Sales

1 track unit = 1 song sale

Global Streams

1 track unit = 200 paid/premium free trial streams

1 track unit = 900 free streams

Global Sales

1 track unit = 1 song sale

Billboard 200 Global excl. US is an all-genre chart that ranks the 200 most popular singles GLOBALLY expect US based on:

billboard 200 global excl. us

Global Streams

1 track unit = 250 paid/premium free trial streams

1 track unit = 1,125 free streams

billboard - digital guide

To contribute digital sales, you need to buy the track from digital stores such as iTunes, Amazon, Qobuz, 7Digital etc.

Rules:

👉 1 song purchase per week, but because we need to impact charts. We recommend to buy title track several times.

👉 For email-delivered purchases, download all files until it says '0'

👉 Do not use VPN

👉Do not directly GIFT the song

👉 If available, use multiple payment methods

👉 Change your IP address every time you purchase

How to buy several times?

Billboard has a rule of 1 song purchase per week so if we want to make impact we need to buy it several times, this is how to do it:

1. use different e-mails/accounts every single time

2. use different/unique information every single time

3. use multiple payment

4. use different devices

5. change your IP address every time you purchase - turn on Airplane Mode for 20 seconds to get new IP

OTHER BILLBOARD CHARTS

👉 Bubbling Under Hot 100 – U.S. songs chart, sort of extension of Hot 100..

👉 Artist 100 – U.S. chart based on overall sales, radio and streaming

👉 Top Album Sales – U.S. pure sales chart

👉Top Current Album Sales – U.S. pure sales chart of albums released in the last 18 months

👉 Digital Song Sales – U.S. all-genre track sales chart

👉 World Digital Song Sales – U.S. track sales chart in 'world' section

👉 Hot 100 - all-genre song chart in US Japan, Canada, Italy, Vietnam, Argentina

👉 HITS OF THE WORLD - Regional Top 25 chart based on sales and streams

BILLBOARD PHYSICAL GUIDE

Limit your purchase to 4 albums at max per transaction. Purchases of 5-9 will reflect only 4 units on chart

If buying more than 4, split transaction

Your album will count on Billboard upon shipment

STORES: Target, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Local Record Stores

music show voting guide

star planet tutorial

android

ios

app:

Star Planet

TUTORIAL

STAR PLANET (THE SHOW):

5% Pre-vote

period:

Friday - Monday

10 Heart Jelly = 1 vote

Pre-votes are unlimited

IMPORTANT

Expire Heart Jelly: 16th of each month

ONLY STAR JELLY DOESN'T EXPIRE

START COLLECTING and creating accounts for heart jellies AFTER 16TH when comeback is confirmed

LIVE VOTING (The Show)

100 Heart Jelly = 1 Vote

5x votes per account (you need 500 heart jellies to vote fully)

Make multiple accounts for more votes (every new account gets 100 Heart Jellies)

Watch ads

10ADs per day

50 heart jellies

Do missions

Buy star jellies

1 star jelly =

2 heart jellies

create many new

accounts

IDOL CHAMP TUTORIAL

android

ios

app:

IDOL CHAMP

TUTORIAL

IDOLCHAMP:

Pre-vote 20%

Pre-vote period: Friday to Monday (3 days)

You can vote with 900 or chamsim per day (300 x 3 hearts)

Expire: 1st every month

MNET TUTORIAL

WEBSITE

app:

MNET PLUS

TUTORIAL

Registration:

HOW TO VOTE:

MUBEAT TUTORIAL

app:

MUBEAT

TUTORIAL

MUBEAT:

Pre-vote period: MONDAY - WEDNESDAY

HeartBeats:

Watch ads (45 HeartBeats per day)

MISSIONS

QUIZZES

1 PRE-VOTE = 3 HEARTBEATS

Voting is unlimited

Expire: after 90 days

MUBEAT TUTORIAL

app:

MUBEAT

TUTORIAL

MUBEAT:

Pre-vote period: Tuesday - Thursday

HeartBeats:

Watch ads (45 HeartBeats per day)

MISSIONS

QUIZZES

1 PRE-VOTE = 3 HEARTBEATS

Voting is unlimited

Expire: after 90 days

150 HEART BEATS for live voting

EXCHANGE FOR 5 LIVE VOTING TICKETS

INKIGAYO

app:

SUPER STAR X

SUPER STAR X TUTORIAL

TUTORIAL

REGISTRATION:

Put in MONSTA X in the search bar

Click MONSTA X and your bias (you can choose up to 5 artists)

On Home Screen click MY

Back on Home Screen select MY and sign up

HOW TO COLLECT?:

On home screen click the diamond in upper right corner

Change to FREE RUBIES

Click the play button (you need to watch the add until the button turns grey) 1 ad = 5 rubies

RUBIES expire after 90 days!

Diamonds do not expire

HOW TO VOTE?:

Inkigayo Live vote:

5 votes per ID

1 vote = 30 rubies or 3 diamonds

total: 150 rubies or 15 per ID

HOT STAGE

5 votes per day (4 days voting period)

total of 20 votes : 600 rubies or 60 diamonds per ID

STATIONHEAD

YOUTUBE

STREAMING GUIDE

OPEN YOUTUBE ON YOUR BROWSER OR YOUTUBE APP

MANUALLY TYPE "MONSTA X/SOLO MV" IN THE SEARCH BAR

CLICK AND WATCH THE ENTIRE VIDEO

WATCH 2-3 VIDEOS IN BETWEEN (PREFERABLY OTHER SOLO OR MONSTA X MVS)

GO BACK TO STEP 3 AND REPEAT

DO:

LIKE THE MV AND LEAVE RELEVANT COMMENTS

SHARE OR EMBED THE MV LINK TO YOUR SNS ACCOUNTS

DON'T:

DO NOT REPLAY, FAST FORWARD OR PAUSE THE MV

DO NOT MUTE THE VIDEO

DO NOT DELETE THE VIEWING HISTORY

DO NOT USE INCOGNITO AND MULTIPLE TABS

DO NOT USE PLAYLISTS FOR THE FIRST 24 HOURS

SPOTIFY

STREAMING GUIDE

CHANGE PLAYLIST AFTER 3 HOURS

USE MULTIPLE PLAYLISTS, CREATE YOUR OWN OR USE PLAYLISTS FROM FANBASES

INTERACT WITH SPOTIFY TO AVOID BOT BEHAVIOR - SOMETIMES SKIP THE SONG, LIKE THE SONG, SEARCH FOR THE SONG

DO:

DON'T USE HACKED APPS DURING STREAMING LIKE VPN

DON'T LOOP SONGS OR PLAYLISTS

DON'T SKIP OR FAST FORWARD ANY OF MONSTA X SONGS

DON'T:

PROCESS:

MAKE SURE TO ACTUALLY SHARE THE SONG!

SHARE THE SONG THROUGH THE SNS OPTIONS

THE MORE TIMES YOU SHARE IT THE MORE EFFECTIVE IT WILL BE

DO NOT COPY THE LINK!

VIRAL 50

SPOTIFY

WHY SHARE?

WILL GET THE SONG ON VIRAL/HOT PLAYLIST OF YOUR COUNTRY

WILL HELP OUR STREAMS

WILL BRING MORE CASUAL LISTENERS

KOREAN DIGITALS

How important Korean digitals are?

Digital Sales is one of the MOST important criteria to win in a music show.

Higher digital sales will help us rise our chances to win.

Digitals are the largest percentage of all criteria. This also helps in the year end award shows & nominations in certain award criterias.

A lot of times when Monsta X was nominated for 1st place in music shows like Music Core and Inkigayo - even if they leaded on every other categories like MV views, album sales - we always lost to artist with the strongest digitals. That's why digitals are really important to win music show.

The most important info about Korean platforms

Diffrence between unlimited and limited pass

30 days unlimited pass:

Limited pass:

You can stream the song in a limited number of streams
You can't use the streaming playlist
You can only stream the song once in every hour
Every stream counts matter
Cheaper than unlimited pass
You need to play song every hour

You can stream the song as many time as much as you like until your passes expire.
You can follow and loop the streaming playlist given by a fanbase
You can leave your phone streaming while doing something else.
Expensive

WHAT 'UNIQUE LISTENER' MEANS?

Unique Listener are fans/non fans who are streaming or listening to song

Unique Listener = 1 Account

The more unique listeners song have the higher will chart

Why downloads are important?

It helps to boost the song to chart higher on particular platforms.

The more people downloading the song at the same hour, the higher it can chart.

1 Song Download = 100 streams

Gaon weighs more downloads than streaming for music shows like Music Core.

You can download the song only once from one account.

Show

MUSIC SHOW DIGITAL CRITERIA

percentage

40%

Platform for digitals

40%

45%

65%

+ VIBE

50%

55%

MELON

ios

MelOn is one of the main and most important streaming platforms in South Korea

FOR 24HITS: 60% DOWNLOAD, 40% LAST 24HRS ULS

FOR TOP 100: 50% DOWNLOADS, 50% STREAMING

Streams and downloads from MelOn are counted in the digital criteria for ALL MUSIC SHOWS , either directly frm the MelOn chart or indirectly through the Circle Chart.

MELON - Streaming tutorial

audio quality settings

the playlist settings

the cache settings

turn on Audio Focus Settings

*This is for andriod only

How to activate a pass?

How to check your streams?

BACK TO KR DIGITALS

FLO

FLO is a streaming service created by South Korean Telecom.

FLO is only based on unique listeners and it is one of the hardest platform to chart.

100% STREAMING

Streams and downloads from FLO are counted in the digital criteria of ALL MUSIC SHOWS, either directly from the FLO Chart or indirectly through the CIRCLE Chart.

FLO also weighs one of the largest contribution for digital points as you don't need for you to enter the TOP150/200 to get a digital points.

Charting on FLO is already a big help.

FLO - STREAMING TUTORIAL

HOW TO LOG IN

HOW TO CHECK IF YOUR PASS IS ACTIVATE

HOW TO DELETE SONGS

BACK TO KR DIGITALS

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