RESCENE "With" Tops Melon in 2 Hours. Can It Chart Globally?

RESCENE's "With" reached No. 1 on Melon's TOP100 two hours after its release on 3 November 2026, Starnews reported. For most of the day the chart gives the latest hour half the weight, which lets a new song catch up fast. Globally the group starts far behind: on 2 November, all of RESCENE's songs together drew 60 percent of the Spotify streams of the No. 200 song on the global chart.

Melon is the South Korean streaming service run by Kakao Entertainment, and the TOP100 is its main chart. "With" came out at 6 p.m. Korean time and was No. 1 on the 8 p.m. chart. Five older RESCENE songs were already in Spotify's South Korea top 50 the day before. Outside Korea, the group has never appeared on Spotify's daily Global 200, by Kworb's record of the charts.

How RESCENE's "With" reached No. 1 on Melon in two hours

Melon updates the TOP100 every hour. The chart guide on its customer support site, dated January 2026, gives the formula: 50 percent of a song's usage over the past 24 hours plus 50 percent of its usage over the past hour. Usage blends streams and downloads at 40 to 60. The guide also says that in every chart a stream counts once per account, so replays by the same listener add nothing to a song's score.

Under that formula a new release does not need a full day. At the 8 p.m. chart on 3 November, "With" had been out for two of the 24 hours in the daily half, which left it little to show there. The hourly half measured every song over the same window, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., and "With" was available for all 60 minutes of it, so in that half it was counted the same way as songs that had been out for weeks.

Overnight the weighting changes. When Melon introduced the TOP100 in August 2021, it said that from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m., when fewer people listen, the chart would use the past 24 hours only, and the 2026 guide keeps a 24-hour-only rule for the early morning. At 1 a.m. "With" had seven hours inside that window and at 7 a.m. it had 13, while older songs had a full day.

Melon runs a second hourly chart, the HOT100, for songs released in the past 30 or 100 days, and it ranks them by the last hour alone. Starnews reported that all five tracks from Pulse held the top five places on it, and that "With" was also No. 1 on the real-time charts of Bugs and Genie Music, two other Korean services.

The audience "Love Attack" built in Korea

RESCENE is a five-member group from The Muze Entertainment that debuted in March 2024. Its biggest song took two years to peak: "Love Attack", released in August 2024, reached No. 1 on Melon's TOP100 in July 2026, after videos on member Woni's personal YouTube channel spread on social media, Sports Khan reported. A remake of Kara's "Pretty Girl", released the same week, gave the group its first music-show win, on The Show on 14 July.

RESCENE's older songs were still charting daily when "With" arrived. On Spotify's South Korea chart for 2 November, the day before the release, the group had five songs in the top 50.

The five songs drew 211,958 streams in South Korea that day between them. By then "Love Attack" had spent 22 days at No. 1 on the same chart, according to Kworb's record of Spotify's daily charts.

Spotify's Korean chart is a fair window on that audience, though not the only one. In June 2026 Spotify had about 6.22 million monthly users in South Korea, behind YouTube Music with 9.49 million and ahead of Melon with 5.93 million, according to WiseApp Retail figures reported by The Herald Business.

Who wrote "With": the "Love Attack" lyricists and new composers

Three of the four lyricists credited on "With" also wrote "Love Attack", according to the credits on Bugs, another Korean streaming service. The music changed more. Two of the six composers of "With" return from "Love Attack", and none of the first three composers named on "Love Attack", Wilhelmina, Simon Jonasson and Gustav Landell, is credited on the new song. On "With", the first three composers named are Gusten Dahlqvist, Arineh Karimi and Christian Fast, and two writers credited to The Muze, RESCENE's label, appear as both composers and lyricists.

Watch RESCENE's "With" music video on YouTube

"With" runs 3 minutes 11 seconds, about ten seconds longer than "Love Attack". Starnews describes it as a song about running toward a voice that calls your name and finally meeting someone you had long dreamed of. Apple Music lists Pulse as five songs and 15 minutes.

The B-side "Inside Out", titled "Baekhwayoran" in Korean, lists EJAE among its five composers. EJAE co-wrote and sings on "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard Global 200, and "Golden" was still at No. 125 on Spotify's global chart on 2 November 2026.

Is RESCENE popular outside Korea? Spotify listeners

Spotify showed 2.3 million monthly listeners for RESCENE on 4 November 2026. Kworb's ranking of artists by Spotify monthly listeners put the group at No. 6,936, with 2,324,591. ILLIT, which debuted on 25 March 2024, one day before RESCENE, was No. 466 on the same list with 19,769,900, or 8.5 times as many.

The split between Korea and the rest of the world differs even more. On 2 November, ILLIT's "You're Under Arrest" was No. 2 in South Korea with 131,079 streams and No. 72 on the global chart with 1,476,477, so 9 percent of its streams that day came from Korea. For RESCENE's five charting songs, our calculation puts the Korean share at 46 percent: 211,958 Korean chart streams out of about 459,000 worldwide.

What "With" needs for the Spotify Global 200

The No. 200 song on Spotify's global chart drew 1,072,106 streams on 2 November, which set the cutoff for that day. All of RESCENE's songs together drew about 646,000 worldwide. "Love Attack" alone drew about 148,000, so "With" would need roughly 7.3 times the daily streams of the group's biggest song to enter.

On 2 November's numbers, South Korea alone could not supply that many streams. The No. 1 song on Spotify's South Korea chart that day, "NEON", credited to A2O with A2O LITE, drew 152,069, or 14 percent of the global cutoff, and it was not on the Global 200 either. If "With" splits its listening the way RESCENE's current songs do, with 46 percent from Korea, reaching No. 200 worldwide would take about 495,000 streams a day in South Korea, more than three times what the Korean No. 1 drew. By our calculation, a global chart place for "With" depends on growth outside Korea, the kind of reach ILLIT's single already has.

Billboard Global 200: a short first tracking week

Billboard's Global 200 ranks songs by streams and downloads from more than 200 territories over a Friday-to-Thursday tracking week, compiled by Luminate. "With" came out on the evening of Tuesday 3 November in Korea, so the first week that includes it, ending Thursday 5 November, covers only the release day, Wednesday and Thursday. Its first full week runs from 6 to 12 November. We counted how Billboard's weeks add up on the Hot 100 in our piece on the longest running number one song.

On YouTube, the official music video for "With" had 6,107,268 views at 7:58 p.m. KST on 4 November, 26 hours after it went up, or about 235,000 views an hour.

Spotify's South Korea chart will show whether "With" passes the 66,451 daily streams "Love Attack" drew on 2 November, and the group's monthly listeners, 2.3 million on 4 November, will show whether the release reaches new listeners abroad. Our other chart counts are in the Charts & Data section.

"With" topped Melon in two hours on a chart that, outside the early-morning hours, counts the latest hour as half of each ranking, with five older RESCENE songs still charting daily in Korea. The global charts are a bigger climb: on 2 November the group's whole Spotify catalog was about 426,000 streams a day short of what one song needed for No. 200.

About the data

We read Melon's chart guide, a customer support page dated 26 January 2026, Soompi's report of Melon's August 2021 chart change and Edaily's 2023 report on the HOT100 on 4 November 2026. The 1 a.m. to 7 a.m. window comes from the 2021 announcement; the 2026 guide describes a 24-hour-only rule for early-morning hours without giving times. Melon's chart pages did not load from our location, so the No. 1 rests on the Starnews report, and we do not know where "With" placed in the overnight charts. The 8 p.m. time is our reading of a 6 p.m. release plus the two hours Starnews reported; Starnews gives no chart time.

Spotify figures come from Kworb's copies of Spotify's daily charts for 2 November 2026, global and South Korea, and from Kworb's per-song figures for RESCENE, updated the same day. For RESCENE songs that are not on the global chart, the worldwide number is the day's change in Spotify's public play count, a different measure from chart streams, so the 46 percent Korean share is approximate. Monthly listener figures come from Spotify's artist page for RESCENE and Kworb's listener ranking, read on 4 November. Credits are from Bugs, running times from Bugs and Apple Music, and the YouTube view count from the video page, read at 7:58 p.m. KST on 4 November.

The shares, ratios, the 495,000 estimate, the 426,000 gap, the hourly view rate and the hours inside Melon's 24-hour window are our own arithmetic. How Mymyin checks its numbers is set out on the About page.

Sources

• Starnews, "'National Girl Group' Dominates the Charts! Rescene Tops Melon TOP100 Just Two Hours After New Album Release", 4 November 2026.
• Melon, "How are Melon chart rankings decided?" (in Korean), customer support guide dated 26 January 2026.
• Soompi, "Melon Announces Changes To Chart System", August 2021.
• Edaily via Daum, report on Melon's HOT100 chart (in Korean), 21 June 2023.
• Sports Khan, report on "Love Attack" reaching No. 1 on Melon's TOP100 (in Korean), 9 July 2026.
• The Herald Business, "Melon falls to No. 3 as Spotify surges on Naver membership tie-up", 28 July 2026.
• Kworb, Spotify daily charts for 2 November 2026, global and South Korea; RESCENE songs and chart history; Spotify monthly listeners, ranks 1 to 2,500 and 5,001 to 7,500, read 4 November 2026.
• Spotify, RESCENE artist page, read 4 November 2026.
• Bugs, credits for "With", "Inside Out" and "Love Attack" (in Korean), read 4 November 2026.
• Apple Music, PULSE - EP by RESCENE.
• YouTube, official music video for "With", views read 4 November 2026.
• Wikipedia, read 4 November 2026: "Rescene", "Illit", "Ejae", "Golden (Huntrix song)" and "Billboard Global 200".