Gaon chart

Gaon chart
legal form
founding	February 23, 2010
Seat	Seoul , South Korea
management	Korea Music Content Association
Branch	Music charts
Website	gaonchart.co.kr/

The Gaon Chart shows the weekly best-selling songs and music albums in South Korea . The Korea Music Content Industry Association gets its data for the charts from online and offline sales at the largest web providers and stores in South Korea. It is the Korean equivalent of the US Billboard charts and aims to give an accurate overview of the actual popularity of albums and singles.

history

In February 2010, the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism together with the Korea Music Content Industry Association initiated the Gaon Chart. However, the monthly sales figures for 2009 were already collected beforehand.

methodology

The most important charts are the album and digital charts. The digital charts list the 200 best-selling digital songs. These are determined from the download, streaming and BGM charts. The album charts take into account sent units of physical sound carriers (tape, LP, CD, USB, etc.). The numbers are corrected in the event of returns. Three different ones are created from these charts: One that only takes South Korean music into account - one that only takes into account international music and one that combines both.

Charts

Charts	Elevation	methodology	description
Album chart (Top 100)	Both	Physical albums	best-selling albums
	domestic		best-selling albums by South Korean artists
	International		best-selling albums by non-South Korean artists
Digital chart (Top 200)	Both	Downloads , streams and background music	best-selling songs
	Domestic		best-selling songs by South Korean artists
	International		best-selling songs by non-South Korean artists
Download chart (Top 200)	Both	Downloads	Digital sales
	Domestic		Digital sales from South Korean artists
	International		Digital sales from non-South Korean artists
Streaming chart (Top 200)	Both	Streams	Most streamed songs
	Domestic		Mostly streamed songs by South Korean artists
	International		Mostly streamed songs by non-South Korean artists
BGM chart (Top 100)	Both	Background music	best-selling background music
Mobile chart (Top 100)	Ringtones	Ringtones and ringing tones	best-selling ringtones and dial tone tones
	Dial tone tones
Noraebang chart (Top 200)	Both	Karaoke	most played karaoke songs
	Domestic		most played domestic karaoke songs
	International		most played international karaoke songs

Limits to the award of phonograms

Record awards were introduced in April 2018.

Albums

Award	from January 1, 2018
platinum	250,000
million	1,000,000

Downloads (singles)

Award	from January 1, 2018
platinum	2,500,000
diamond	10,000,000

Streamings

Award	from January 1, 2018
platinum	100,000,000
billion	1,000,000,000

Singles

"Long-running"

7 weeks

• Zico - Any Song

6 weeks

• iKon - Love Scenario

5 weeks

• IU - Joeun Nal ( 좋은 날 ; Good Day )
• Psy - Gangnam Style

4 weeks

• miss A - Bad Girl Good Girl
• Twice - DD
• Exo - Ko Ko Bop

Albums

"Long-running"

4 weeks

• Super Junior - Mr. Simple
• Girls' Generation - The Boys

3 weeks

• Girls' Generation - Oh!
• SS501 - destination
• Various - Sungkyunkwan Scandal OST
• Girls' Generation - I Got a Boy

See also

• Korea K-Pop Hot 100

Individual evidence

1. ^ Han Sang-hee: Korea Launches First Official Music Charts Gaon. In: Korea Times . February 23, 2010, accessed June 15, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Seo Jeong-min: 대중 음악 공인 '가온 차트' 출범. In: The Hankyoreh . February 23, 2011, Retrieved June 15, 2011 (Korean). 
3. ↑ Gaon Certification ( Korean ) In: Gaon Chart . April 20, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.

Web links

• www.gaonchart.co.kr