The M Countdown Chart is a record chart on the South Korean Mnet television music program M Countdown . Every week, the show awards the best-performing single on the chart in the country during its live broadcast.
In 2011, 29 singles ranked number one on the chart and 24 music acts were awarded first-place trophies. Seven songs collected trophies for three weeks and achieved a triple crown: "Tonight" by Big Bang, "Intuition" by CNBLUE, "Pinocchio (Danger)" by f(x), "Fiction" by Beast, "Mr. Simple" by Super Junior, "The Boys" by Girls' Generation, and "Trouble Maker" by Trouble Maker. No release for the year earned a perfect score, but "Intuition" by CNBLUE acquired the highest point total on the April 7 broadcast with a score of 9,654.
| Triple Crown | |
| Highest score of the year | |
| — | No show was held |
| Date | Artist | Song | Points | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 6 | GD & TOP | "High High" | 951 | [1] |
| January 13 | Secret | "Shy Boy" | 847 | [2] |
| January 20 | TVXQ | "Keep Your Head Down" | 954 | [3] |
| January 27 | Seungri | "V.V.I.P" | 963 | [4] |
| February 3 | "What Can I Do" | — | [5] [6] | |
| February 10 | 943 | |||
| February 17 | G.NA | "Black & White" | 941 | [7] |
| February 24 | 907 | [8] | ||
| March 3 | Big Bang | "Tonight" | 952 | [9] |
| March 10 | 9,090 | |||
| March 17 | 9,171 | |||
| March 24 | Wheesung | "Heart Aching Story" | 8,999 | [10] |
| March 31 | CNBLUE | "Intuition" | 9,255 | [11] [12] |
| April 7 | 9,654 | |||
| April 14 | 8,901 | |||
| April 21 | 4Minute | "Mirror Mirror" | 9,117 | [13] |
| April 28 | Big Bang | "Love Song" | 8,901 | [14] |
| May 5 | f(x) | "Pinocchio (Danger)" | 8,845 | [15] [16] [17] |
| May 12 | 8,675 | |||
| May 19 | 8,301 | |||
| May 26 | Beast | "Fiction" | 9,136 | [18] [19] |
| June 2 | 9,253 | |||
| June 9 | 9,191 | |||
| June 16 | Kim Hyun-joong | "Break Down" | 8,078 | [20] |
| June 23 | 8,561 | [21] | ||
| June 30 | f(x) | "Hot Summer" | 8,919 | [22] |
| July 7 | 2PM | "Hands Up" | — | [ citation needed ] |
| July 14 | T-ara | "Roly-Poly" | 9,130 | [23] |
| July 21 | 8,864 | |||
| July 28 | Miss A | "Good-bye Baby" | 8,616 | [24] |
| August 4 | 2NE1 | "Ugly" | 8,946 | [25] [26] |
| August 11 | Super Junior | "Mr. Simple" | 9,036 | [27] [28] [29] |
| August 18 | 9,155 | |||
| August 25 | 8,540 | |||
| September 1 | Infinite | "Be Mine" | 8,775 | [30] [31] |
| September 8 | 8,241 | |||
| September 15 | Kara | "Step" | 9,016 | [32] |
| September 22 | 9,314 | |||
| September 29 | Huh Gak | "Hello" | 8,746 | [33] |
| October 6 | Brown Eyed Girls | "Sixth Sense" | — | [34] |
| October 13 | Infinite | "Paradise" | 9,072 | [35] |
| October 20 | Brown Eyed Girls | "Sixth Sense" | 7,674 | [36] |
| October 27 | Girls' Generation | "The Boys" | 9,180 | [37] |
| November 3 | — | |||
| November 11 | 8,805 | |||
| November 17 | Wonder Girls | "Be My Baby" | 9,290 | [38] |
| November 24 | — | |||
| December 1 | T-ara | "Cry Cry" | [39] | |
| December 8 | 8,757 | |||
| December 15 | Trouble Maker | "Trouble Maker" | 9,167 | [40] |
| December 22 | 9,043 | |||
| December 29 | 8,972 | |||
"The Chaser" is a song recorded by South Korean boy group Infinite. It was released as the second single from the group's third extended play Infinitize, which was released through Woollim Entertainment on May 15, 2012. The song received critical acclaim, and was named the third best K-pop song of the 2010s by Billboard as well as one of Rolling Stone's best boy band songs of all time.