The Inkigayo Chart is a music program record chart that gives an award to the best-performing single of the week in South Korea. The chart measured digital performance in domestic online music services (5,500 points), social media via YouTube views (3,500 points), advanced viewer votes (500 points), and album sales (500 points) in its ranking methodology. The candidates for the number-one song of the week received additional points from live votes (1,000 points). Songs that spend three weeks at number one are awarded a Triple Crown and are removed from the chart and ineligible to win again. The show was hosted by six different people across the whole year. Kim Yoo-jung, Jackson Wang and Yook Sung-jae had hosted the show together since September 13, 2015. Yoo-jung left the show on April 3, 2016. Wang and Sung-jae continued to host the show till May 29, 2016. The following week Gong Seung-yeon, Jeongyeon and Kim Min-seok were announced as the new hosts of the show.
In 2016, there were 37 singles that ranked number one on the chart and 30 music acts received award trophies for this feat. Nine artists had more than one number one in 2016. Girl groups Blackpink, Twice and GFriend ranked number one on the chart for the first time with "Whistle", "Cheer Up" and "Rough", respectively. The three groups all went on to have another number one in 2016. Blackpink with "Playing with Fire", Twice with "TT" and GFriend with "Navillera". Both singles by Twice and GFriend ranked number one for three weeks each and went on to achieve a triple crown. Both groups ranked number one for six weeks making them the artists with the most wins of the year. The only other girl group to rank two singles at number one in 2016 is Red Velvet achieved with "One of These Nights" and "Russian Roulette". "Dream" by Suzy and Baekhyun ranked number one for three consecutive weeks in January and achieved a triple crown.
Boy groups Got7 and BTS also achieved their first Inkigayo award in 2016 with "Fly" in April and "Fire" in May, respectively. Both groups went on to achieve another number one on the chart in October with "Hard Carry" and "Blood Sweat & Tears", respectively. Other boy groups to rank two singles at number one include Block B with "A Few Years Later" and "Toy", and Exo with "Monster" and "Lotto". On the June 19 broadcast, Exo's "Monster" accumulated a perfect score of 11,000 points making it the single with the highest score of the year. The only soloist to have two number one singles on the chart is Taeyeon with "Rain" and "Why". Upon topping the ranking with "You're the Best", Mamamoo won its first music show award two years and two months after its debut. I.O.I, formed through the first season of the survival reality show Produce 101, achieved their first number one on the chart with "Very Very Very" in October. Besides Taeyeon, three other solo artists achieved their first number one on the chart in 2016. Rapper Gary won his first Inkigayo award for "Lonely Night" despite a lack of promotional activities on music programs. Other first-time Inkigayo winners as soloists include Jung Eun-ji's "Hopefully Sky" and Baek A-yeon's "So-So". The last number one of the year was "Fxxk It" by BigBang which went on to achieve a triple crown in 2017.
Chart history
+Key Indicates the song achieved a Triple Crown Indicates the highest score of the year — No show was held
+ Episode Date Artist Song Points 845 Turbo "Again" 9,089 846 Gary "Lonely Night" 7,202 847 Suzy & Baekhyun "Dream" 10,000 848 8,854 849 7,979 — GFriend "Rough" 8,881 850 Taeyeon "Rain" 9,797 851 GFriend "Rough" 9,386 852 9,429 853 Mamamoo "You're the Best" 9,433 854 9,825 855 Lee Hi "Breathe" 9,194 856 Red Velvet "One of These Nights" 9,495 857 Got7 "Fly" 8,938 858 Block B "A Few Years Later" 8,229 859 10cm "What the Spring??" 7,660 860 Block B "Toy" 10,324 861 Jung Eun-ji "Hopefully Sky" 9,334 862 Twice "Cheer Up" 10,429 863 BTS "Fire" 7,487 864 Twice "Cheer Up" 9,631 865 9,543 866 Baek A-yeon "So-So" 7,118 867 EXID "L.I.E" 7,208 868 Exo "Monster" 11,000 869 9,430 870 Sistar "I Like That" 9,144 871 Taeyeon "Why" 10,557 872 Wonder Girls "Why So Lonely" 9,501 873 GFriend "Navillera" 10,328 874 10,156 875 10,028 876 Hyuna "How's This?" 7,575 877 Blackpink "Whistle" 9,030 878 Exo "Lotto" 10,122 879 7,733 880 Blackpink "Whistle" 7,126 — Im Chang-jung "The Love That I Committed" 6,727 881 Red Velvet "Russian Roulette" 8,226 882 Infinite "The Eye" 7,744 883 Got7 "Hard Carry" 9,185 884 Shinee "1 of 1" 8,887 885 BTS "Blood Sweat & Tears" 10,000 886 I.O.I "Very Very Very" 8,893 887 Twice "TT" 9,782 888 9,978 889 10,256 890 Blackpink "Playing with Fire" 9,083 891 9,019 892 Zico "Bermuda Triangle" 7,582 893 Heize "Star" 6,785 — BigBang "Fxxk It" 9,500
See also List of M Countdown Chart winners (2016) List of Music Bank Chart winners (2016)
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