The Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles in South Korea. Managed by the domestic Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST). Its data is compiled by the Korea Music Content Industry Association and published by the Gaon Music Chart. The ranking is based collectively on each single's weekly download sales, stream count, and background music usage. In mid-2008, the Recording Industry Association of Korea ceased publishing music sales data. The MCST established a process to collect music sales in 2009, and began publicly publishing its data with the introduction of the Gaon Music Chart the following February. With the creation of the Gaon Digital Chart, digital data for individual songs was provided in the country for the first time.
In 2010, 35 singles claimed the top spot in 52 weeks of rankings. Gain and Jo Kwon's collaboration "I Happen to Love You" became the first song to top the Digital Chart, doing so for three consecutive weeks. "Bad Girl Good Girl" by Miss A, the quartet's debut single, spent four consecutive weeks at number one on the Gaon Digital Chart. It went on to become the best-performing single of 2010, topping the year-end chart. Girls' Generation topped the chart with three different songs, more than any other act. On the monthly chart, Girls' Generation and IU had the most number-one singles, with two each. 2AM logged the most entries on the year-end chart, with five songs ranking in the top 100. "Can't Let You Go Even If I Die" was the most downloaded song with 3,352,827 sales.
Weekly chart
+KeyIndicates best-performing single of 2010
Week ending Song Artist(s) January 2"I Happen to Love You" ()Gain and Jo Kwon January 9 January 16 January 23"Can't Let You Go Even If I Die" ()2AM January 30 February 6 "Oh!" Girls' Generation February 13 "Try to Follow Me" () 2NE1 February 20"Lupin" ()Kara February 27 March 6"You Drive Me Crazy" ()T-ara March 13 March 20"Run Devil Run"Girls' Generation March 27 April 3 "Love Song" () Rain April 10 "Swing" () Lee Hyori featuring Gary April 17 "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Lee Hyori featuring Ceejay April 24 "Without U" 2PM May 1 "Spiteful Words" () Seo Young-eun featuring Jungyup May 8 "Nu ABO" () f(x) May 15 "Time Please Stop" () Davichi May 22"2 Different Tears"Wonder Girls May 29 June 5 June 12"Nagging" ()IU with Seulong June 19 June 26 July 3 "Sick Enough to Die" () MC Mong featuring Mellow July 10"Bad Girl Good Girl"miss A July 17 July 24 July 31 August 7 "I'm a Guy Like This" () DJ DOC August 14 "I Was Able to Eat Well" () Homme August 21 "Madonna" Secret August 28 "I Was Able to Eat Well" () Homme September 4 "Love Love Love" () F.T. Island September 11 "Why" () Supreme Team featuring Youngjun September 18"Go Away"2NE1 September 25 October 2 "It's You" () Sung Si-kyung with IU October 9 "Then Then Then" () Supreme Team featuring Youngjun October 16 "Irreversible" () Gain October 23 "By Instinct" () Kang Seung-yoon featuring Swings October 30 "Hoot" () Girls' Generation November 6 "You Wouldn't Answer My Calls" () 2AM November 13"Always" ()Huh Gak November 20 November 27 "Like a Star" () Taeyeon and The One December 4 "If It's Same" () Brown Eyed Soul December 11"Good Day" ()IU December 18 December 25
Monthly charts Month Song Artist January "Can't Let You Go Even If I Die" () 2AM February "Oh!"Girls' Generation March "Run Devil Run" April "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Lee Hyori featuring Ceejay May "Time Please Stop" () Davichi June "Nagging" () IU with Seulong July "Bad Girl Good Girl" miss A August "I Was Able to Eat Well" () Homme September "Go Away" 2NE1 October "Then Then Then" () Supreme Team featuring Youngjun November "Always" () Huh Gak December "Good Day" () IU
References
External links Digital Chart at Gaon Music Chart