Gaon Digital Chart

The Gaon Digital Chart is the music industry standard record chart in South Korea for singles, provided by the Korea Music Content Industry Association and published weekly by the Gaon Music Chart.^[1] The chart provides rankings on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis, which are based on an aggregate of downloads, streaming and background music.^[2] In addition to rank ranking all songs, it also supplies separate rankings for domestic and international releases. It started tracking sales in 2009, which were published the following February.^[3][4] It is compiled from online data provided by web-based music providers Bugs, Genie, KakaoMusic, Melon, Mnet, Naver Music, Olleh Music, and Soribada.^[5]

History

The Gaon Music Chart was launched on February 23, 2010, by the domestic Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Music Content Industry Association. It was originally planned to be a bi-annual chart when the Gaon Charts launched in early 2010.^[4] Eventually, the chart covered this and was released weekly and monthly like all the other charts.^{[citation needed]}

Lists of number ones

• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2010
• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2011
• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2012
• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2013
• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2014
• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2015
• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2016
• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2017
• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2018
• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2019
• List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2020

International chart

• List of number-one international songs of 2011 (South Korea)
• List of number-one international songs of 2012 (South Korea)
• List of number-one international songs of 2013 (South Korea)
• List of number-one international songs of 2014 (South Korea)
• List of number-one international songs of 2015 (South Korea)
• List of number-one international songs of 2016 (South Korea)
• List of number-one international songs of 2017 (South Korea)
• List of number-one international songs of 2018 (South Korea)

Songs with the most weeks at number one

6 weeks

• iKON – "Love Scenario" (2018)

5 weeks

• IU – "Good Day" (2010)
• PSY – "Gangnam Style" (2012)

4 weeks

• miss A – "Bad Girl Good Girl" (2010)
• Twice – "TT" (2016)
• Exo – "Ko Ko Bop" (2017)
• Loco and Hwasa – "Don't Give It to Me" (2018)
• Ben – "180 Degrees" (2018)
• Paul Kim – "So Long" (2019)
• Akdong Musician – "How Can I Love the Heartbreak, You're the One I Love" (2019)
• IU – "Blueming" (2019)

Artist with most number one songs

The current holder who has the most number one songs since 2010 is IU with 22. She is followed by Big Bang (10 songs), 2NE1, Sistar and Twice (both 9 consecutive songs), Huh Gak, Girls' Generation and Davichi (8 songs), Zion.T, Taeyeon and Park Hyo-shin (7 songs).

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
Artist	IU	Big Bang	2NE1, Sistar, Twice	Huh Gak, Girls' Generation, Davichi	Zion.T, Taeyeon, Park Hyo-shin
Total songs	22	10	9	8	7

Artist with most weeks at number one

The current holder who has spent the most weeks at number one is IU with 41 weeks. She is followed by, Big Bang (19 weeks), Twice (15 weeks), Sistar (12 weeks), 2NE1 (11 weeks), Girls' Generation, Davichi (10 weeks).

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Artist	IU	Big Bang	Twice	Sistar	2NE1	Girls' Generation, Davichi
Total weeks	41	19	15	12	11	10

Artist with most months at number one

The current top 5 holders who have spent the most months at number one are IU with 10 months, Big Bang (8 months), Davichi, 2NE1 and PSY (4 months), Girls' Generation, Wonder Girls and G-Dragon (3 months).

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Artist	IU	Big Bang	Davichi, 2NE1, PSY	Girls' Generation, Wonder Girls, G-Dragon
Total months	10	8	4	3

Year-end chart

References

External links

• Gaon Chart Official website