The Circle Album Chart (), previously known as the Gaon Album Chart (), is a record chart ranking the 100 most popular albums, extended plays and single albums in South Koreabased on their physical sales. It is a part of the Circle Chart, previously known as the Gaon Chart. It compiles shipments in weekly, monthly, and year-end formats with detailed album sales.
History The Gaon Album Chart was launched as a part of the Gaon Chart in February 2010 by the Korea Music Content Association and South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
In February 2011, Gaon Chart published information on both online and offline album sales of 2010, including a detailed breakdown of online chart data, and was the first time that offline album sales were released since 2008 when the Music Industry Association of Korea stopped compiling data.
In July 2022, Gaon Chart was rebranded as Circle Chart with a reformation in the album chart that would also provide weekly physical album sales data in addition to monthly and yearly sales data.
Number-one albums
Best-selling albums
+2010 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Bonamana Super Junior SM Entertainment 200,193 Studio album 2 Oh! Girls' Generation 197,934 3 Hoot 163,066 EP 4 Run Devil Run 136,851 Repackage 5 GD & TOP GD & TOP YG Entertainment 130,000 Studio album 6 Lucifer Shinee SM Entertainment 124,961 7 To Anyone 2NE1 YG Entertainment 122,845 8 The Beginning JYJ C-JeS Entertainment 99,903 9 Bonamana (Version C) Super Junior SM Entertainment 99,355 Repackage 10 The Beginning (New Limited Edition) JYJ C-JeS Entertainment 98,311 Studio album
+2011 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 The Boys Girls' Generation SM Entertainment 385,348 Studio album 2 Mr. Simple Super Junior 343,348 3 Keep Your Head Down TVXQ 263,412 4 In Heaven JYJ C-JeS Entertainment 220,442 5 Fiction and Fact Beast Cube Entertainment 142,272 6 Tonight Big Bang YG Entertainment 136,594 EP 7 A-Cha Super Junior SM Entertainment 129,894 Repackage 8 First Step CNBLUE FNC Music 115,467 Studio album 9 Break Down Kim Hyun-joong KeyEast 114,642 EP 10 Lucky 101,705
+2012 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Sexy, Free & Single Super Junior SM Entertainment 356,431 Studio album 2 Alive Big Bang YG Entertainment 266,848 EP 3 Catch Me TVXQ SM Entertainment 256,447 Studio album 4 One of a Kind G-Dragon YG Entertainment 204,326 EP 5 Sherlock Shinee SM Entertainment 181,415 6 Still Alive (Special Edition) Big Bang YG Entertainment 148,030 7 Mama Exo-K SM Entertainment 145,925 8 Twinkle Girls' Generation-TTS 144,222 9 Midnight Sun Beast Cube Entertainment 144,17510 Infinitize Infinite Woollim Entertainment 140,277
+2013 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Growl (Kiss Version) Exo SM Entertainment 335,823 Repackage 2 I Got a Boy Girls' Generation 293,302 Studio album 3 XOXO (Kiss Version) Exo 269,597 4 Miracles in December (Korean Version) 262,825 EP 5 Hello Cho Yong-pil Pil Records 250,046 Studio album 6 XOXO (Hug Version - Chinese Version) Exo SM Entertainment 200,870 7 Growl (Hug Version) 200,183 Repackage 8 Coup d'etat G-Dragon YG Entertainment 195,603 Studio album 9 Dream Girl – The Misconceptions of You Shinee SM Entertainment 185,357 10 Miracles in December (Chinese Version) Exo 171,546 EP
+2014 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Overdose (Korean Version) Exo-K SM Entertainment 385,047 EP 2 Overdose (Chinese Version) Exo-M 272,718 3 Mamacita Super Junior 265,781 Studio album 4 Tense TVXQ 196,971 5 Mr.Mr. Girls' Generation 163,209 EP 6 Just Us JYJ C-JeS Entertainment 154,804 Studio album 7 Season 2 Infinite Woollim Entertainment 152,479 8 This Is Love (Special Edition) Super Junior SM Entertainment 143,515 Repackage 9 Good Luck Beast Cube Entertainment 134,449 EP 10 Who Am I B1A4 WM Entertainment 126,561 Studio album
+2015 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Exodus (Korean Version) Exo SM Entertainment 478,856 Studio album 2 Sing For You (Korean Version) 318,698 EP 3 Love Me Right (Korean Version) 299,623 Repackage 4 Exodus (Chinese Version) 281,320 Studio album 5 The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2 BTS Big Hit Entertainment 274,135 EP 6 The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 1 203,664 7 Sing For You (Chinese Version) Exo SM Entertainment 176,239 8 Odd Shinee 172,999 Studio album 9 Devil Super Junior 167,742 Compilation album 10 Rise as God TVXQ 151,625 Studio album
+2016 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Wings BTS Big Hit Entertainment 751,301 Studio album 2 Ex'Act Exo SM Entertainment 549,378 3 For Life 438,481 EP 4 The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever BTS Big Hit Entertainment 368,369 Compilation album 5 Twicecoaster: Lane 1 Twice JYP Entertainment 350,852 EP 6 Hey Mama! Exo-CBX SM Entertainment 275,191 7 Lose Control Lay 274,238 8 Ex'Act (Chinese Version) Exo 247,899 Studio album 9 Lotto (Korean Version) 232,564 Repackage 10 Flight Log: Turbulence Got7 JYP Entertainment 225,617 Studio album
+2017 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Love Yourself: Her BTS Big Hit Entertainment 1,493,443 EP 2 The War (Korean Version) Exo SM Entertainment 949,827 Studio album 3 You Never Walk Alone BTS Big Hit Entertainment 768,402 Repackage 4 1X1=1 (To Be One) Wanna One YMC Entertainment 741,546 EP 5 1-1=0 (Nothing Without You) 614,072 Repackage 6 Universe Exo SM Entertainment 516,062 EP 7 The Power of Music (Korean Version) 455,269 Repackage 8 7 for 7 Got7 JYP Entertainment 368,589 EP 9 Teen, Age Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 357,296 Studio album 10 Flight Log: Arrival Got7 JYP Entertainment 334,316 EP
+2018 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Love Yourself: Answer BTS Big Hit Entertainment 2,197,808 Compilation album 2 Love Yourself: Tear 1,849,537 Studio album 3 Don't Mess Up My Tempo Exo SM Entertainment 1,452,030 4 0+1=1 (I Promise You) Wanna One Swing Entertainment 782,562 EP 5 1÷x=1 (Undivided) 641,131 6 1¹¹=1 (Power of Destiny) 605,128 Studio album 7 Love Shot Exo SM Entertainment 499,849 Repackage 8 You Make My Day Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 389,937 EP 9 Blooming Days Exo-CBX SM Entertainment 363,567 10 What Is Love? Twice JYP Entertainment 348,797
+2019 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Map of the Soul: Persona BTS Big Hit Entertainment 3,718,230 EP 2 An Ode Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 858,872 Studio album 3 Obsession Exo SM Entertainment 766,294 4 Emergency: Quantum Leap X1 Swing Entertainment 580,573 EP 5 BTS World: Original Soundtrack BTS Big Hit Entertainment 553,364 Soundtrack album 6 City Lights Baekhyun SM Entertainment 525,935 EP 7 Color on Me Kang Daniel Konnect Entertainment 500,134 8 You Made My Dawn Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 475,998 9 Time Slip Super Junior SM Entertainment 427,647 Studio album 10 Feel Special Twice JYP Entertainment 413,459 EP
+2020 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Map of the Soul: 7 BTS Big Hit Entertainment 4,376,975 Studio album 2 Be 2,692,022 3 Heng:garæ Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 1,377,813 EP 4 NCT Resonance Pt. 1 NCT SM Entertainment 1,289,594 Studio album 5 The Album Blackpink YG Entertainment 1,244,802 6 Semicolon Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 1,122,850 EP 7 Delight Baekhyun SM Entertainment 971,554 8 Neo Zone NCT 127 836,779 Studio album 9 NCT Resonance Pt. 2 NCT 791,590 10 Skool Luv Affair Special Addition BTS Big Hit Entertainment 670,500 Repackage
+2021 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Butter BTS Big Hit Music 2,999,407 Single album 2 Sticker NCT 127 SM Entertainment 2,427,559 Studio album 3 Hot Sauce NCT Dream 2,097,185 4 Attacca Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 2,059,073 EP 5 Universe NCT SM Entertainment 1,630,715 Studio album 6 Your Choice Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 1,462,405 EP 7 Don't Fight the Feeling Exo SM Entertainment 1,326,189 8 Noeasy Stray Kids JYP Entertainment 1,303,106 Studio album 9 Dimension: Dilemma Enhypen Belift Lab 1,205,949 10 Be BTS Big Hit Entertainment 1,049,496
+2022 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Proof BTS Big Hit Music 3,482,598 Anthology 2 Maxident Stray Kids JYP Entertainment 3,176,233 EP 3 Face the Sun Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 2,867,353 Studio album 4 Born Pink Blackpink YG Entertainment 2,522,941 5 Glitch Mode NCT Dream SM Entertainment 2,095,544 6 2 Baddies NCT 127 1,825,170 7 Minisode 2: Thursday's Child TXT Big Hit Music 1,806,679 EP 8 Girls Aespa SM Entertainment 1,803,050 9 Oddinary Stray Kids JYP Entertainment 1,762,168 10 After Like Ive Starship Entertainment 1,652,402 Single album
+2023 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 FML Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 5,546,930 EP 2 5-Star Stray Kids JYP Entertainment 5,246,998 Studio album 3 Seventeenth Heaven Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 4,807,288 EP 4 Rock-Star Stray Kids JYP Entertainment 3,992,703 5 ISTJ NCT Dream SM Entertainment 3,369,118 Studio album 6 The Name Chapter: Temptation TXT Big Hit Music 2,868,866 EP 7 The Name Chapter: Freefall 2,352,891 Studio album 8 Golden Jungkook 2,208,348 9 My World Aespa SM Entertainment 2,050,530 EP 10 Youth in the Shade Zerobaseone WakeOne 2,037,790
+2024 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Spill the Feels Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 3,180,338 EP 2 17 Is Right Here 3,153,616 Compilation album 3 Ate Stray Kids JYP Entertainment 2,880,052 EP 4 Romance: Untold Enhypen Belift Lab 2,402,335 Studio album 5 Dream()scape NCT Dream SM Entertainment 2,208,837 EP 6 Hop Stray Kids JYP Entertainment 2,041,231 Mixtape 7 Minisode 3: Tomorrow TXT Big Hit Music 1,716,505 EP 8 The Star Chapter: Sanctuary 1,665,335 9 Ive Switch Ive Starship Entertainment 1,665,125 10 Dreamscape NCT Dream SM Entertainment 1,407,843 Studio album
+2025 Yearly Top 10 Best-Selling Albums # Album Artist Label Total sales Format 1 Karma Stray Kids JYP Entertainment 3,397,810 Studio album 2 Happy Burstday Seventeen Pledis Entertainment 2,559,694 3 Do It Stray Kids JYP Entertainment 2,314,271 Mixtape 4 Desire: Unleash Enhypen Belift Lab 2,166,881 EP 5 The Star Chapter: Together TXT Big Hit Music 1,801,907 Studio album 6 Never Say Never Zerobaseone WakeOne 1,456,708 7 Ive Empathy Ive Starship Entertainment 1,425,261 EP 8 Odyssey Riize SM Entertainment 1,412,159 Studio album 9 Color NCT Wish 1,366,466 EP 10 Back to Life &Team YX Labels 1,331,733
Achievements by artists
Total albums Artist Album Year released 22 Exo XOXO 2013 XOXO XOXO (Repackage Edition) XOXO (Repackage Edition) Miracles in December Miracles in December Exodus 2015 Exodus Love Me Right Sing For You Sing For You Ex'Act 2016 For Life Ex'Act Lotto The War 2017 The Power Of Music Universe Don't Mess Up My Tempo 2018 Love Shot Obsession 2019 Don't Fight the Feeling 2021 16 BTS The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 1 2015 The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2 Wings 2016 The Most Beautiful Moment In Life: Young Forever You Never Walk Alone 2017 Love Yourself: Her Love Yourself: Answer2018 Love Yourself: Tear Map of the Soul: Persona2019 BTS World: Original Soundtrack Map of the Soul: 7 2020 Skool Luv Affair Special Addition Be Butter 2021 Be Proof 2022 11 Seventeen Teen, Age 2017 You Make My Day 2018 You Made My Dawn 2019 An Ode Heng:garæ 2020 Semicolon Your Choice 2021 Attacca Face the Sun 2022 FML 2023 Seventeenth Heaven 9 Super Junior Bonamana 2010 Bonamana (Repackaged) Mr. Simple 2011 A-Cha Sexy, Free & Single 2012 Mamacita 2014 This Is Love Devil 2015 Time Slip 2019 6 Girls' Generation Oh! 2010 Hoot Run Devil Run The Boys 2011 I Got a Boy 2013 Mr.Mr. 2014