MEOMURU’s “The Adult I Dreamed Of” tops Melon’s daily chart with a Suno vocal

MEOMURU’s “The Adult I Dreamed Of,” a single with vocals generated using Suno, rose to No. 1 on Melon’s all-genre daily chart for Nov. 14. It was also No. 1 on the platform’s TOP100 at 7 p.m. Korea Standard Time on Nov. 15. MEOMURU disclosed the use of Suno in the release notes on Melon and said the project handled the concept, lyrics and overall production direction.

“NEON,” credited to A2O and A2O LITE, was second on the daily chart, followed by RESCENE’s “With.” Yonhap had reported that MEOMURU led the hourly TOP100 at 5 p.m. on Nov. 13. The daily chart records a separate result based on a day of activity. It places the AI-assisted track at the top of Melon’s all-genre list.

Where the credits show Suno’s role

Melon lists the recording as a one-track digital single released on June 23. It puts the song in its rock and metal category, while the album description calls its sound modern rock. Melon names Glorywave Sound as the label and OGQ Blending as the distributor. MEOMURU is the project name used by the production duo Glorywave, Lee Yong-seok and Choi Sung-hyuk. The two said in an October interview with the Kyunghyang Shinmun that they wrote the lyrics themselves.

Glorywave told The Korea Economic Daily that the duo planned the subject and the sound before drafting the lyrics. They used Suno to generate a melody, arrangement and vocal, then brought the material into Cubase, a music production program. They added sounds and edited the material before mixing and mastering the recording. Those steps put the production direction credited in the album notes into concrete terms.

The version delivered to YouTube by its distributor lists MEOMURU as the lyricist, composer and arranger. Melon displays a lyricist credit on its track page. The artist’s notes on the album page identify which tool generated the voice.

In the description of the official lyric video, MEOMURU traces the song to the gap between the adult imagined in childhood and the person facing everyday worries now. It describes taking stock after coming home at the end of the day. YouTube dates the lyric video to June 23, and the distributor’s audio listing gives June 23 as the single’s release date.

How Melon counts a day and an hour

Melon’s help center says its daily rankings use a score based on streaming and downloads, weighted at 40 and 60 percent respectively. Streams count once for each account under Melon’s rules. Only the initial download counts. The published ranking shows the order of songs by score, with no raw count of streams or downloads next to the track.

Melon’s TOP100 calculates usage with the same streaming and download weights, then gives equal weight to the preceding day and the latest hour. In the early hours, when activity is lower, it uses the preceding 24 hours alone. The result for Nov. 14 and the 7 p.m. TOP100 reading the next day measure different periods. At that Nov. 15 reading, “NEON” and “With” also occupied the next two places.

Melon also runs a HOT100 for newer releases. Its two lists cover tracks first released within 30 or 100 days, with both using the latest hour of activity. MEOMURU’s June 23 single had passed both cutoffs by Nov. 14.

Interest in the song was visible on another platform. At 7:01 p.m. KST on Nov. 15, its official lyric video had accumulated more than 21.02 million views and about 146,000 likes on YouTube. The channel showed roughly 51,000 subscribers. Those totals reflect activity on a lyric video posted in June and are separate from the scores Melon compiled for its rankings.

YouTube also carries a separately published audio listing supplied by the distributor. The listing, posted Sept. 10 Pacific time, names Glorywave Sound as the recording rights holder and Sound Republica as its licensee. The view count above comes from a single upload: the lyric video MEOMURU posted on June 23.