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Success Factor in the K-Pop Music Industry: focusing on the mediated effect of Internet Memes

대중음악 흥행 요인에 대한 연구: 인터넷 밈(Internet Meme)의 매개효과를 중심으로

  • 심유정 (한양대학교 비즈니스인포매틱스학과) ;
  • 신민수 (한양대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2023.02.09
  • Accepted : 2023.03.10
  • Published : 2023.03.31
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Abstract

As seen in the recent K-pop craze, the size and influence of the Korean music industry is growing even bigger. At least 6,000 songs are released a year in the Korean music market, but not many can be said to have been successful. Many studies and attempts are being made to identify the factors that make the hit music. Commercial factors such as media exposure and promotion as well as the quality of music play an important role in the commercial success of music. Recently, there have been many marketing campaigns using Internet memes in the pop music industry, and Internet memes are activities or trends that spread in various forms, such as images and videos, as cultural units that spread among people. Depending on the Internet environment and the characteristics of digital communication, contents are expanded and reproduced in the form of various memes, which causes a greater response to consumers. Previously, the phenomenon of Internet memes has occurred naturally, but artists who are aware of the marketing effects have recently used it as an element of marketing. In this paper, the mediated effect of Internet memes in relation to the success factors of popular music was analyzed, and a prediction model reflecting them was proposed. As a result of the analysis, the factors with the mediated effect of 'cover effect' and 'challenge effect' were the same. Among the internal success factors, there were mediated effects in "Singer Recognition," the genres of "POP, Dance, Ballad, Trot and Electronica," and among the external success factors, mediated effects in "Planning Company Capacity," "The Number of Music Broadcasting Programs," and "The Number of News Articles." Predictive models reflecting cover effects and challenge effects showed F1-score at 0.6889 and 0.7692, respectively. This study is meaningful in that it has collected and analyzed actual chart data and presented commercial directions that can be used in practice, and found that there are many success factors of popular music and the mediating effects of Internet memes.

최근 K-POP 열풍에서 볼 수 있듯이 한국 음악 산업의 규모와 영향력은 더욱더 커지고 있다. 한국의 음원 시장에는 1년에 최소 6천 개의 음원이 공개되고 있지만 흥행했다고 말할 수 있는 음원은 많지 않다. 이에 흥행작을 만드는 요인이 무엇인지 밝히기 위한 많은 연구 및 시도가 이루어지고 있다. 음악의 상업적인 성공에는 음악의 질뿐만 아니라 미디어 노출이나 홍보와 같은 상업적인 요소 또한 중요한 역할을 담당한다. 최근 대중음악 산업에서는 인터넷 밈을 활용한 마케팅이 많이 나타나는데, 인터넷 밈이란 사람들 사이에서 확산되는 문화적 단위로 이미지나 동영상 등 다양한 형태로 확산되는 활동이나 트렌드라고 할 수 있다. 인터넷 환경과 디지털 커뮤니케이션 특성에 따라 다양한 밈의 형태로 콘텐츠들이 확대 재생산되고 있으며, 이는 소비자들에게 더 큰 반응을 일으킨다. 기존에 인터넷 밈현상은 자연적으로 발생해왔으나, 최근 마케팅 효과를 인지한 아티스트 측에서 마케팅의 요소로 활용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 대중음악의 흥행 요인과 흥행의 관계에서 인터넷 밈의 매개효과를 분석하고, 이를 반영한 예측모델을 제안하였다. 분석 결과, '커버효과'와 '챌린지효과'의 매개효과가 있는 요인은 동일하게 나타났다. 내부 흥행요인 중에서는 '가수의 인지도', 'POP, 댄스, 발라드, 성인가요, 일렉트로니카' 장르에서 매개효과가 존재하였으며, 외부 흥행 요인 중에서는 '기획사 역량','음악 방송 프로그램 출연 횟수', '뉴스 기사 수'에서 매개효과가 나타났다. 커버효과와 챌린지효과를 반영한 예측 모형은 각각 F1-score가 0.6889, 0.7692로 나타났다. 본 연구는 실제 차트 데이터를 수집·분석하여 실무적으로 활용 가능한 상업적인 방향성을 제시하였으며, 대중음악의 여러 흥행 요인과 인터넷 밈의 매개효과가 존재한다는 것을 발견하였다는 점에서 의의를 갖는다.

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