The Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing international songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly, monthly, and yearly charts, as according to the Gaon 국외 (Foreign) Digital Chart. The Digital Chart ranked songs according to their performance on the Gaon Streaming, Download, BGM, and Mobile charts. [1]
The Gaon Digital Chart is the music industry standard record chart in South Korea for singles, provided by the Korea Music Content Industry Association and published weekly by the Gaon Music Chart. The chart provides rankings on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis, which are based on an aggregate of downloads, streaming and background music. In addition to rank ranking all songs, it also supplies separate rankings for domestic and international releases. It started tracking sales in 2009, which were published the following February. It is compiled from online data provided by web-based music providers Bugs, Genie, KakaoMusic, Melon, Mnet, Naver Music, Olleh Music, and Soribada.
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Sales before the year 2011 were not released.
Date | Song | Artist |
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January 2 | "Tik Tok" | Kesha |
January 9 | ||
January 16 | "Telephone" | Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce |
January 23 | "Slow Motion" | Karina |
January 30 | ||
February 6 | "Tik Tok" | Kesha |
February 13 | "Poison" | Beyonce |
February 20 | "Tik Tok" | Kesha |
February 27 | ||
March 6 | "Blah Blah Blah" | Kesha |
March 13 | ||
March 20 | "Nothin' On You" | B.O.B featuring Bruno Mars |
March 27 | ||
April 3 | ||
April 10 | ||
April 17 | ||
April 24 | ||
May 1 | ||
May 8 | ||
May 15 | ||
May 22 | ||
May 29 | ||
June 5 | ||
June 12 | "Tell Me Goodbye" | BIGBANG |
June 19 | "Nothin' On You" | B.O.B featuring Jay Park |
June 26 | ||
July 3 | ||
July 10 | "Love The Way You Lie" | Eminem featuring Rihanna |
July 17 | ||
July 24 | ||
July 31 | ||
August 7 | ||
August 14 | ||
August 21 | ||
August 28 | "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" | Usher featuring Pitbull |
September 4 | ||
September 11 | "Because Of You" | Kelly Clarkson |
September 18 | ||
September 25 | "Give A Little More" | Maroon 5 |
October 2 | ||
October 9 | ||
October 16 | "Because Of You" | Kelly Clarkson |
October 23 | ||
October 30 | "Like A G6" | Far East Movement featuring Dev & The Cataracs |
November 6 | ||
November 13 | ||
November 20 | ||
November 27 | ||
December 4 | ||
December 11 | ||
December 18 | ||
December 25 | ||
December 31 | "Love Letter" | R.Kelly |
Month | Song | Artist |
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January | "Slow Motion" | Karina |
February | "Tik Tok" | Kesha |
March | "Nothin' on You" | B.O.B featuring Bruno Mars |
April | ||
May | ||
June | B.O.B featuring Jay Park | |
July | "Love The Way You Lie" | Eminem featuring Rihanna |
August | ||
September | "Because Of You" | Kelly Clarkson |
October | "Like A G6" | Far East Movement featuring Dev & The Cataracs |
November | ||
December | ||
Note: all data can be retrieved through going to Gaon Digital Chart and selecting 국외 (international), 월간 (monthly) and the month. |
Rank | Song | Artist(s) |
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1 | "Nothin' on You" | B.O.B featuring Bruno Mars |
2 | "Love The Way You Lie" | Eminem featuring Rihanna |
3 | "Tik Tok" | Kesha |
4 | "Because Of You" | Kelly Clarkson |
5 | "Nothin' on You" | B.O.B featuring Jay Park |
6 | "I'm Yours" | Jason Mraz |
7 | "Baby" | Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris |
8 | "Telephone" | Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce |
9 | "Like A G6" | Far East Movement featuring Dev & The Cataracs |
10 | "Shots" | LMFAO featuring Lil Jon |
The Gaon Music Chart tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in South Korea. It is produced by the Korea Music Content Association and sponsored by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, with an aim to create a national chart for South Korea similar to the Billboard charts of the United States and the Oricon charts of Japan. It started tracking sales since the beginning of 2010. 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. Meanwhile, Hit single "We Fell In Love", performed by Jo Kwon of 2AM and Ga-in of Brown Eyed Girls, took the title of best weekly mobile ringtone.
"Miracles in December" is a song recorded by South Korean boy band Exo for their second extended play Miracles in December. It was released in both Korean and Chinese by S.M. Entertainment on December 4, 2013.
"We Like 2 Party" is a song recorded by South Korean boy band Big Bang. It was released digitally on June 5, 2015, by YG Entertainment, as the second single from Made, being included in the single album A. It was written by Teddy, Kush and group members G-Dragon and T.O.P. The first three also produced the track with Seo Won Jin.
"Sober" is a song recorded by South Korean boy band Big Bang. It was released digitally on July 1, 2015 by YG Entertainment, as the third single from Made, being included in the single album D. "Sober" was written by Teddy, G-Dragon and T.O.P, and was produced by the first two with Choice37.
"Let's Not Fall in Love" is a song recorded by South Korean boy band Big Bang. It was released digitally on August 5, 2015, by YG Entertainment as the fourth single from Made and as part of the single album E. The song was announced on July 30, 2015. "Let's Not Fall in Love" received positive reviews from music critics and peaked at number one on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart and on Billboard World Digital Songs.
GD & TOP is a South Korean duo formed by G-Dragon and T.O.P, the rappers of the K-pop boy band Big Bang in 2010. The release of their first album, GD & TOP (2010) was a commercial success becoming one of the best selling albums of the year in South Korea, and spawning the top-five hits "High High", "Oh Yeah", and "Knock Out" on the Gaon Digital Chart. After a five year hiatus, they released the single "Zutter", which peaked at number two on the Gaon Digital Chart.
GD X Taeyang is a South Korean duo from YG Entertainment, consisting of G-Dragon and Taeyang from Big Bang. After several years of appearing on each other's solo materials, the duo officially released the single "Good Boy" in 2014, which went on to top Billboard's World Digital Songs chart and sold over a million digital units in South Korea.
"Lotto" is a song recorded by South Korean boy group EXO for the repackaged edition of their third studio album Ex'Act. It was released in Korean and Chinese versions by S.M. Entertainment on August 18, 2016.
Jang Da-hye, better known by her stage name Heize, is a South Korean singer, rapper, songwriter and composer signed to Stone Music Entertainment. After making her debut in 2014 with the EP Heize, she gained attention after appearing on the second season of South Korean reality show Unpretty Rapstar.
"Nagging" is a song recorded by South Korean singers IU and Lim Seulong. Written by Kim Eana and composed by Lee Min-soo, the pop ballad duet was used as one of the theme songs for the second season of the variety show, We Got Married, along with "We Fell in Love" by Jo Kwon and Ga-in.