The Gaon Chart is a national record chart of South Korea. It is compiled by the Korea Music Content Industry Association and sponsored by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, with an aim to create a national chart for Korea similar to the Billboard charts and Oricon charts. It started tracking sales since the beginning of 2010.^[1] It was officially launched in February 2010 with a launching ceremony held on 23 February 2010 at The Westin Chosun hotel in Seoul. The launch also included a small awarding ceremony, which awarded girl group Girls' Generation with top artist of January and boy band Super Junior with best album of 2009.^[2]

It originally started in 2009 for monthly top single sales, and has expanded to contain weekly single and album sales.^[3] The charts are released each Friday.

In February 2011, it published information on both online and offline album sales of 2010, including a detailed breakdown of online chart data and was the first time that off-line album sales was released since 2008 when the Music Industry Association of Korea stopped compiling data.^[4]

Format[link]

There are two primary charts: Gaon Album Chart and Gaon Single Chart. The charts lists domestic artists' sales, international artists' sales and a combined overall sales in weekly, monthly and year-end format.

The Gaon Album Chart ranks physical album sales, including mini-albums. It is complied from offline data provided by record labels and distributors: LOEN Entertainment, Mnet Media, SM Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Universal Music Korea, and Warner Music Korea.

The Gaon Single Chart ranks best-selling non-physical, digital music sales listed as streaming content, downloads, background music, ringtones, karaoke and a combine overall singles charts, but excludes radio airplay and different versions of a song are listed as separate entries. It is complied from online data provided by web-based music providers: Bugs, Dosirak, Melon, Mnet and Soribada.

Awards[link]

• Gaon Chart Awards

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gaon Chart official homepage (Korean)

This article about a music publication is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e

This South Korea-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e