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The Gaon Album Chart is a weekly and monthly chart that ranks the best-selling physical albums including mini-albums and singles in South Korea, provided by the Korea Music Content Industry Association. It started tracking sales since the very beginning of 2010 and launched in February the same year as part of the Gaon Chart.[1]
History
The album chart is part of the efforts of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Music Content Industry Association to launch a national chart for Korea similar to the Billboard charts. They were created in hopes of an organized and reliable music industry. The album chart sums up the album sales from six major distributing firms: LOEN Entertainment, Mnet Media, SM Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Korea.
Similar charts
The Gaon Charts were made in hopes of being as effective and similar to the Billboard charts and the Oricon charts. The Billboard equivalent to the Album Chart would be the Billboard 200, and the Oricon equivalent would be the Albums Chart.
Lists of number ones
Year-end number ones
- 2010: Super Junior — Bonamana[2]
References
- ^ Han, Sang-hee (February 23, 2010). "Korea Launches First Official Music Charts Gaon". The Korea Times. The Korea Times. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
- ^ "2010년 가온차트 부문별 Top 100위". Gaon Chart (in Korean). Korea Music Content Industry Association. February 8, 2011. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
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