List of Show! Music Core Chart winners (2021)

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Show! Music Core Chart winners (2021)
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"Antidote" by Kang Daniel was the highest-scoring song on Show! Music Core for 2021. Kang Daniel March 2020.png
"Antidote" by Kang Daniel was the highest-scoring song on Show! Music Core for 2021.

The Show! Music Core Chart is a record chart on the South Korean MBC television music program Show! Music Core . Every week, the show awards the best-performing single on the chart in the country during its live broadcast.

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In 2021, 27 singles have ranked at number one on the chart and 19 music acts received first-place trophies. No release for the year achieved a perfect score, but "Antidote" by Kang Daniel, which attained the highest point total on the April 24 broadcast with 10,702 points. "Butter" by BTS and "Strawberry Moon" by IU were number 1 for 5 consecutive weeks, both earning a Quintuple Crown. The artist with the most number of wins was also IU with 10 total wins.

Scoring system

Period coveredChart system
BroadcastDigital salesPhysical albumVideo viewsVoting
September 26, 2020 – February 20, 20215% (MBC radio)60% (50% gaon + 10% FLO*)10%10%35% (10% committee + 10% pre-vote* + 15% live-vote)
February 27, 2021 – May 8, 202110% (MBC TV + Radio)15%25% (5% committee + 10% pre-vote + 10% live-vote)
May 8, 2021 - May 29, 202150%
June 5, 2021 – present10%20% (5% committee + 5% pre-vote + 10% live-vote)

Chart history

Highlight's (pictured) win for "Not the End" marked the group's first Show! Music Core trophy since 2017. (TVten) hairaiteu(Highlight) 10-Star maegeojin 7weolho hwabo (2).jpg
Highlight's (pictured) win for "Not the End" marked the group's first Show! Music Core trophy since 2017.
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BTS (left) and IU (right) were the first two recipients of Show! Music Core's newly established Quintuple Crown; they were awarded for their songs "Butter" and "Strawberry Moon," respectively.
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Lim Young-woong (left) and Shinee's Key (right) received their first-ever music show awards with their music show trophies for "My Starry Love" and "Bad Love," respectively. Lim became the first trot artist to win a music show in 14 years.
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Blackpink's Rosé (left) and Brave Girls (right) won their first Show! Music Core awards for "On the Ground" and "Chi Mat Ba Ram," respectively.
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NCT Dream (top), Astro (center left), The Boyz (center right), Aespa (bottom left), IVE (bottom right) received their first Show! Music Core trophies for "Hot Sauce," "After Midnight," "Thrill Ride," "Savage," and "Eleven," respectively.
Key
Indicates a Quintuple Crown
Highest score in 2021
No show was held
Episode [1] DateArtistSongPointsRef.
708January 2 BTS "Life Goes On"8,141 [2] [3]
709January 98,389 [4] [5]
710January 167,819 [6] [7]
711January 23 (G)I-dle "Hwaa"9,831 [8] [9]
712January 307,454 [10] [11]
713February 6 IU "Celebrity"10,204 [12] [13]
February 13No show, winner not announced [14]
714February 20IU"Celebrity"8,847 [15] [16]
715February 27 Kang Daniel "Paranoia"10,323 [17] [18]
716March 6 Shinee "Don't Call Me"9,546 [19] [20]
717March 13IU"Celebrity"6,935 [21] [22]
718March 20 Lim Young-woong "My Starry Love"8,292 [23] [24]
719March 27 Rosé "On the Ground"8,394 [25] [26]
April 3No show, winner not announced [27]
April 10 [28]
720April 17IU"Lilac"6,883 [29] [30]
721April 24Kang Daniel"Antidote"10,702 [31] [32]
722May 1 NU'EST "Inside Out"8,800 [33] [34]
723May 8IU"Lilac"6,949 [35] [36]
724May 15 Highlight "Not The End"7,504 [37] [38]
725May 22 NCT Dream "Hot Sauce"10,000 [39] [40]
726May 29BTS"Butter"8,344 [41] [42]
727June 58,300 [43] [44]
728June 128,200 [45] [46]
729June 197,792 [47] [48]
730June 267,907 [49] [50]
731July 3 Brave Girls "Chi Mat Ba Ram"7,268 [51] [52]
732July 10NCT Dream"Hello Future"6,720 [53] [54]
733July 17BTS"Permission to Dance"7,310 [55] [56]
July 24No show, winner not announced [57]
July 31
August 7
734August 14 Astro "After Midnight"8,015 [58] [59]
735August 21 The Boyz "Thrill Ride"7,401 [60] [61]
736August 28 Red Velvet "Queendom"8,967 [62] [63]
737September 46,454 [64] [65]
738September 117,321 [66] [67]
September 18No show, winner not announced [68]
739September 25 NCT 127 "Sticker"8,602 [69] [70]
740October 28,532 [71] [72]
741October 9 Key "Bad Love"6,419 [73] [74]
742October 16 Aespa "Savage"9,099 [75] [76]
743October 237,271 [77] [78]
744October 30IU"Strawberry Moon"6,797 [79] [80]
745November 6NCT 127"Favorite (Vampire)"8,456 [81] [82]
746November 13The Boyz"Maverick"7,435 [83] [84]
747November 20IU"Strawberry Moon"6,039 [85] [86]
748November 275,823 [87] [88]
749December 45,530 [89] [90]
750December 115,570 [91] [92]
751December 18 Ive "Eleven"7,486 [93] [94]
752December 25Special episode, winner not announced [95]

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