The popularity of tvN’s drama series ‘Queen of Tears’ has been ongoing for nearly two months.
According to Good Data Corporation, an online competitiveness analysis agency, Queen of Tears has topped their TV-OTT drama topicality survey for the 4th week of April for the 8th consecutive week.
Since its first airing, the drama series has consistently broken its own record for seven weeks, making it the 5th show ever to achieve a ‘perfect record’.
A perfect record means that the show’s buzz score has increased from the start to the end of its airing, a feat previously accomplished by ‘SKY Castle’, ‘My Liberation Notes’, ‘Red Balloon’, and ‘Twinkling Watermelon’.
Additionally, Queen of Tears has recently achieved the top spot in the all-time topicality video category of dramas. It has surpassed the record set by ‘Penthouse 2′ in 2021, which was previously broken by ‘Marry My Husband’.
The achievement is the result of the series producing numerous content-filled clips on YouTube, with contributions from not only the lead actors but also various supporting characters.
Won Soon-woo, the D of the Good Data, said, “This achievement indicates the success of Queen of Tears in creating engaging content for its viewers.”
According to the topicality survey conducted by the Good Data corporation since 2015, the drama ‘Queen of Tears’ is ranked 5th in its category. The top four dramas are ‘Extraordinary Attorney Woo’, ‘Penthouse 2′, ‘Guardian: The Lonely and Great God’, and ‘Descendants of the Sun’.
Similarly, in the buzz survey for actors that began in the same year, Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-won both secured 4th and 6th positions respectively. The top three spots were held by stars from “Reply 1988″: Park Bo-gum, Hyeri, and Ryu Jun-yeol.
In its third week of broadcasting, tvN’s ‘Lovely Runner’ has reached record highs, placing 2nd. The show has been setting new records for two consecutive weeks and is already approaching the buzz score achieved by ‘Queen of Tears’ in its 6th week of airing.
‘Chief Detective 1958′ from MBC follows in 3rd place, with ‘The Escape of the Seven: Resurrection’ in 4th, ‘Goodbye Earth’ from Netflix in 5th, ‘Parasyte: The Gray’ from Netflix in 6th, ‘Beauty and Romantic’ from KBS2 in 7th, ‘Blood Free’ from Disney+ in 8th, ‘Nothing Uncovered’ from KBS2 in 9th, and ‘The Third Marriage’ from MBC in 10th.
The survey conducted by the Good Data Corporation’s FUNdex platform for the 4th week of April covers TV dramas and OTT original dramas scheduled to be broadcast from Apr. 22 to Apr. 28, 2024, including the actors who are part of these programs. The survey aimed to determine the most competitive programs of the week.
To analyze the program-related information, news articles, VON (Voice of Netizen), video clips, and SNS were taken into consideration, along with netizen reactions. Data that was irrelevant to the programs and suspected of artificially inflating buzz scores were filtered out, ensuring a more accurate analysis of competitiveness. The accuracy level of this analysis is over 97%.
