Gaon Album Chart , part of Gaon Music Chart , is a national chart that ranks the best-selling albums, including mini and single albums, in South Korea , provided by the Korea Music Content Industry Association. It has been tracking sales since the beginning of 2010 and launched in February the same year as part of the Gaon Music Chart.[ 1] The charts are made up of charts tracking domestic album sales , international album sales and a combined overall album sales in weekly, monthly and year-end format.[ 2]
In February 2011, it published information on both online and offline albums sales of 2010, including a detailed breakdown of online chart data and was the first time that offline album sales was released since 2008 when the Music Industry Association of Korea stopped compiling data.[ 3]
History
Gaon Music Chart, launched in February 2011, was part of the efforts of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Music Content Industry Association to create a national chart for Korea similar to the Billboard charts and Oricon charts . The chart tracks sales according to online and offline data provided by web-based music providers: Bugs, Olleh Music, Melon, Genie, Cyworld, Monkey3, Daum Music, Naver Music, Mnet and Soribada; and record distributors: LOEN Entertainment , CJ E&M Music and Live , KT Music , Sony Music Korea , Neowiz Internet , Universal Music Korea , and Warner Music Korea .[ 4]
Lists of number ones
Best-selling albums
2010
2010 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums
#
Album
Artist
Label
Total sales
Format
1
Bonamana [ 3]
Super Junior
S.M. Entertainment
200,193
Full Album
2
Oh!
Girls' Generation
S.M. Entertainment
197,934
Full Album
3
Hoot
Girls' Generation
S.M. Entertainment
163,066
EP
4
Run Devil Run
Girls' Generation
S.M. Entertainment
136,851
Repackaged
5
GD & TOP
G-Dragon & T.O.P
YG Entertainment
130,000
Full Album
6
Lucifer
SHINee
S.M. Entertainment
124,961
Full Album
7
To Anyone
2NE1
YG Entertainment
122,845
Full Album
8
The Beginning
JYJ
C-JeS Entertainment
99,903
Full Album
9
Bonamana (Repackaged)
Super Junior
S.M. Entertainment
99,355
Repackaged
10
The Beginning (New Limited Edition)
JYJ
C-JeS Entertainment
98,311
Full Album
2011 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums
#
Album
Artist
Label
Total sales
Format
1
The Boys
Girls' Generation
S.M. Entertainment
385,348
Full Album
2
Mr. Simple
Super Junior
S.M. Entertainment
343,348
Full Album
3
Keep Your Head Down
TVXQ
S.M. Entertainment
263,412
Full Album
4
In Heaven
JYJ
C-JeS Entertainment
220,442
Full Album
5
Fiction and Fact
Beast
Cube Entertainment
142,272
Full Album
6
Tonight
BIGBANG
YG Entertainment
136,594
EP
7
A-CHa
Super Junior
S.M. Entertainment
129,894
Repackaged
8
First Step
CNBLUE
FNC Music
115,467
Full Album
9
Break Down
Kim Hyun Joong
KeyEast
114,642
EP
10
Lucky
Kim Hyun Joong
KeyEast
101,705
EP
2012 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums
#
Album
Artist
Label
Total sales
Format
1
Sexy, Free & Single
Super Junior
S.M. Entertainment
356,431
Full Album
2
Alive
BIGBANG
YG Entertainment
266,848
EP
3
Catch Me
TVXQ
S.M. Entertainment
256,447
Full Album
4
One of a Kind
G-Dragon
YG Entertainment
204,326
EP
5
Sherlock
SHINee
S.M. Entertainment
181,415
EP
6
Still Alive (Special Edition)
BIGBANG
YG Entertainment
148,030
EP
7
MAMA
EXO-K
S.M. Entertainment
145,925
EP
8
Twinkle
Girls' Generation-TTS
S.M. Entertainment
144,222
EP
9
Midnight Sun
Beast
Cube Entertainment
144,175
EP
10
Infinitize
INFINITE
Woollim Entertainment
140,277
EP
2013 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums
#
Album
Artist
Label
Total sales
Format
1
Growl (Kiss Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
335,823
Repackage
2
I Got a Boy
Girls' Generation
S.M. Entertainment
293,302
Full Album
3
XOXO (Kiss Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
269,597
Full Album
4
Miracles in December (Korean Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
262,825
EP
5
Hello
Cho Yong-pil
Pil Records
250,046
Full Album
6
XOXO (Hug Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
200,870
Full Album
7
Growl (Hug Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
200,183
Repackage
8
Coup d'etat
G-Dragon
YG Entertainment
195,603
Full Album
9
Dream Girl – The Misconceptions of You
SHINee
S.M. Entertainment
185,357
Full Album
10
Miracles in December (Chinese Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
171,546
EP
2014 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums
#
Album
Artist
Label
Total sales
Format
1
Overdose (Korean Ver.)
EXO-K
S.M. Entertainment
385,047
EP
2
Overdose (Chinese Ver.)
EXO-M
S.M. Entertainment
272,718
EP
3
Mamacita
Super Junior
S.M. Entertainment
265,781
Full Album
4
Tense
TVXQ
S.M. Entertainment
196,971
Full Album
5
Mr.Mr.
Girls' Generation
S.M. Entertainment
163,209
EP
6
Just Us
JYJ
C-JeS Entertainment
154,804
Full Album
7
Season 2
INFINITE
Woollim Entertainment
152,479
Full Album
8
This Is Love (Special Edition)
Super Junior
S.M. Entertainment
143,515
Repackage
9
Good Luck
Beast
Cube Entertainment
134,449
EP
10
Who Am I
B1A4
WM Entertainment
126,561
Full Album
2015 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums
#
Album
Artist
Label
Total sales
Format
1
Exodus (Korean Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
478,856
Full Album
2
Sing For You (Korean Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
318,698
EP
3
Love Me Right (Korean Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
299,623
Repackage
4
Exodus (Chinese Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
281,320
Full Album
5
The Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 2
BTS
Big Hit Entertainment
274,135
EP
6
The Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 1
BTS
Big Hit Entertainment
203,664
EP
7
Sing For You (Chinese Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
176,239
EP
8
Odd
SHINee
S.M. Entertainment
172,999
Full Album
9
Devil
Super Junior
S.M. Entertainment
167,742
Special Album
10
Rise as God
TVXQ
S.M. Entertainment
151,625
Special Album
2016 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums
#
Album
Artist
Label
Total sales
Format
1
Wings
BTS
Big Hit Entertainment
751,301
Full Album
2
Ex'Act
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
549,378
Full Album
3
For Life
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
438,481
EP
4
The Most Beautiful Moment In Life: Young Forever
BTS
Big Hit Entertainment
448,912
Compilation album
5
TWICEcoaster: LANE 1
TWICE
JYP Entertainment
350,852
EP
6
Hey Mama!
EXO-CBX
S.M. Entertainment
275,191
EP
7
Lose Control
Lay
S.M. Entertainment
274,238
EP
8
EX'ACT (Chinese Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
247,899
Full Album
9
Lotto (Korean Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
232,564
Repackage
10
Flight Log: Turbulence
GOT7
JYP Entertainment
225,617
Full Album
2017 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums
#
Album
Artist
Label
Total sales
Format
1
Love Yourself: Her
BTS
Big Hit Entertainment
1,493,443
EP
2
The War (Korean Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
949,827
Full Album
3
You Never Walk Alone
BTS
Big Hit Entertainment
768,402
Repackage
4
1X1=1 (To Be One)
Wanna One
YMC Entertainment and CJ E&M
741,770
EP
5
1-1=0 (Nothing Without You)
Wanna One
YMC Entertainment and CJ E&M
629,047
Repackage
6
Universe
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
531,951
EP
7
The Power Of Music (Korean Ver.)
EXO
S.M. Entertainment
455,269
Repackage
8
7 for 7
GOT7
JYP Entertainment
368,589
EP
9
Teen, Age
Seventeen
Pledis Entertainment
357,296
Full Album
10
Flight Log: Arrival
GOT7
JYP Entertainment
334,316
EP
2018 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums
#
Album
Artist
Label
Total sales
Format
1
Love Yourself: Answer
BTS
Big Hit Entertainment
2,001,191
Compilation album
2
Love Yourself: Tear
BTS
Big Hit Entertainment
1,815,644
Full Album
3
0+1=1 (I Promise You)
Wanna One
YMC Entertainment
829,275
EP
4
1÷x=1 (Undivided)
Wanna One
YMC Entertainment
640,491
EP
5
You Make My Day
Seventeen
Pledis Entertainment
405,799
EP
6
Blooming Days
EXO-CBX
S.M. Entertainment
362,495
EP
7
What Is Love?
TWICE
JYP Entertainment
342,760
EP
8
Eyes On You
GOT7
JYP Entertainment
332,420
EP
9
NCT 2018 Empathy
NCT
S.M. Entertainment
314,107
Full Album
10
Summer Nights
Twice
JYP Entertainment
311,561
EP
Achievement by artists
Artist with most number of albums in the Yearly Top 10 Best Selling Album List
Artist with most weeks at number one
Artist with most months at number one
Albums with most consecutive weeks at number one
Albums with most consecutive months at number one
References
External links
Charts List of number-ones
Albums Songs International songs
Awards Certifications See also