The Music Bank Chart is a record chart established in 1998 on the South Korean KBS television music program Music Bank. Every week during its live broadcast, the show gives an award for the best-performing single on the South Korean chart. The chart includes digital performance on domestic online music services (65%), album sales (5%), number of times the single was broadcast on KBS TV (20%), and viewers' choice (10%) in its ranking methodology. The score for domestic online music services is calculated using data from Melon, Bugs, Genie Music and Soribada. Laboum member Ahn Sol-bin and actor Lee Seo-won hosted the show in 2017. Ahn Sol-bin began hosting the show in July 2016 while Lee Seo-won began hosting in November 2016.
In 2017, 35 singles reached number one on the chart, and 26 acts were awarded first-place trophies. Out of all releases within the year, BTS's "Spring Day" acquired the highest point total with a score of 13,250, after the single debuted at number one on the February 24 broadcast. "Plz Don't Be Sad" earned boy group Highlight (formerly Beast) their first Music Bank award since leaving Cube Entertainment and re-debuting with Around Us Entertainment. Their single, along with "DNA" by BTS and "Signal" by girl group Twice, spent three weeks at number one on the chart, making those three the most-awarded songs of the year. Twice had five number one singles on the chart, the most of any act in 2017, including "TT", "Knock Knock", "Likey" and "Heart Shaker", along with "Signal". The five songs spent a total of nine weeks atop the chart, making Twice the act with the most wins of the year.
Nine acts gained their first number ones on the chart in 2017. Miss A member Suzy achieved her first solo music show award with her debut single "Pretend" in January. In April, girl group Laboum achieved their first music show award with "Hwi Hwi" from their second mini album. Two weeks later, Sechs Kies made their debut at number one with "Be Well". Hwang Chi-yeul achieved his first music show award with "A Daily Song" on the June 23 broadcast, over 10 years after his debut. Boy group Wanna One achieved their first number one on Music Bank with their debut single "Energetic", which was immediately followed into the top spot by another first time chart-topper, Yoon Jong-shin with his song "Like It". Yoon achieved his first number one over 27 years after his debut. NU'EST W, a subgroup of boy group NU'EST, achieved their first number one with their debut single "Where You At". The final artist to reach number one for the first time in 2017 was the hip hop trio Epik High who topped the chart for the first time in November with "Love Story".
Chart history
+Key Highest score in 2017 — No show was broadcast
+ Episode Date Artist Song Points 868 January 6 Twice "TT" 6,037 869 January 13 Big Bang "Fxxk It" 7,067 870 January 20 5,173 — Suzy "Pretend" 4,288 871 3,986 872 Red Velvet "Rookie" 6,275 873 6,621 874 BTS "Spring Day" 13,250 875 Twice "Knock Knock" 12,175 876 Taeyeon "Fine" 9,533 — Twice "Knock Knock" 6,014 877 Got7 "Never Ever" 8,695 878 Highlight "Plz Don't Be Sad" 8,502 879 6,204 880 5,231 881 Teen Top "Love Is" 6,189 882 Laboum "Hwi Hwi" 4,546 — IU "Palette" 7,921 883 Sechs Kies "Be Well" 8,031 884 IU "Palette" 4,303 885 Twice "Signal" 11,362 886 Seventeen "Don't Wanna Cry" 9,627 887 Twice "Signal" 6,430 888 6,501 889 Hwang Chi-yeul "" 6,380 890 G-Dragon "Untitled, 2014" 7,458 891 Mamamoo "Yes I Am" 7,641 892 Heize "You, Clouds, Rain" 7,174 893 Red Velvet "Red Flavor" 9,383 894 Exo "Ko Ko Bop" 12,181 895 12,103 — GFriend "Love Whisper" 7,486 — Wanna One "Energetic" 10,823 896 11,014 897 Yoon Jong-shin "Like It" 7,420 898 6,707 899 Exo "Power" 9,914 900 6,929 901 BTS "DNA" 12,581 — 8,876 902 9,851 903 NU'EST W "Where You At" 7,153 904 BtoB "Missing You" 7,526 905 Epik High "Love Story" 5,562 906 Twice "Likey" 9,231 907 Seventeen "Clap" 6,265 908 Wanna One "Beautiful" 10,828 909 6,676 910 Minseo "Yes" 4,873 911 Naul "Emptiness In Memory" 5,241 912 Twice "Heart Shaker" 6,880 — 5,592
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