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In K-pop, a comeback simply means an artist is releasing new music and returning to active promotion — even if the previous release was only months ago. The word covers the whole cycle: the music, the videos, the broadcast stages and the fan events around them.
Chodong (초동) is Korean shorthand for an album's first-week sales — the number of physical copies sold in the first seven days after release. In K-pop, this window is watched more closely than any other sales figure.
South Korea has a fixture that most other music markets do not: weekly televised music shows. Programs such as M Countdown, Music Bank, Show! Music Core, Inkigayo, Show Champion and The Show each air once a week, feature live or pre-recorded stages from currently promoting artist