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 2013, 30 singles ranked number one on the chart and 24 music acts were awarded first-place trophies. Eight songs collected trophies for three weeks and achieved a triple crown: "Caffeine" by Yang Yo-seob, "I Got a Boy" by Girls' Generation, "Gone Not Around Any Longer" by Sistar19, "Dream Girl" by Shinee, "Gentleman" by Psy, "This Love" by Shinhwa, "Give It to Me" by Sistar, and "Growl" by Exo. Of all releases for the year, only one song earned a perfect score of 10,000 points: "I Got a Boy" by Girls' Generation.
Scoring system Digital Single Sales 50%, Album Sales 10%, Age Preference 20%, Global Fan Vote 5%, Live Show Preferences 10%, SMS Vote 5%.
Chart history +Key Triple Crown Highest score of the year — No show was held Date Artist Song Points Yang Yo-seob "Caffeine" 9,795 Girls' Generation "I Got a Boy" 10,000 9,988 8,367 Baechigi "Shower Of Tears" 8,326 Sistar19 "Gone Not Around Any Longer" 8,086 9,642 9,140 Shinee "Dream Girl" 9,168 9,459 8,403 Lee Hi "It's Over" 8,449 Davichi "Just The Two Of Us" 7,263 Infinite "Man In Love" 8,810 Lee Hi "Rose" 8,802 Psy "Gentleman" 8,356 8,157 4Minute "What's Your Name?" 7,923 8,380 Shinhwa "This Love" 8,283 8,642 Lee Hyori "Bad Girls" 6,751 Sistar "Give It to Me" 7,995 8,430 8,417 Dynamic Duo "BAAAM" 7,193 2NE1 "Falling in Love" Infinite "Destiny" 7,532 Beast "Shadow" 8,373 f(x) "Rum Pum Pum Pum" 9,079 2NE1 "Do You Love Me" 8,017 Exo "Growl" 8,154 6,817 G-Dragon featuring Jennie "Black" 6,604 G-Dragon "Crooked" 7,369 Busker Busker "Love, at first" 9,419 9,415 IU "The Red Shoes" 9,052 Shinee "Everybody" 6,914 Trouble Maker "Now" 7,783 8,001 Miss A "Hush" rowspan="2" 2NE1 "Missing You" 7,982 Hyolyn "One Way Love" 8,044 Exo "Miracles in December" 8,878
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