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. Actor Park Seo-joon and Sistar member Yoon Bo-ra had hosted the show since October 2013 and continued to do so until April 24, 2015. Starting May 1, actor and singer Park Bo-gum and Red Velvet member Irene became the hosts of the show. BTS member V and B.A.P member Kim Him-chan appeared as special hosts along with Park Bo-gum on the December 4 broadcast in lieu of Irene.
In 2015, 35 singles reached number one on the chart, and 27 acts were awarded first-place trophies. Of all releases for the year, Exo's "Call Me Baby" acquired the highest point total on the April 10 broadcast with a score of 12,681, and along with "Lion Heart" by Girls' Generation, are ranked number one on the chart for four consecutive weeks, making both singles the most awarded songs of the year. The first winner of the year was "December, 2014 (The Winter's Tale)" by Exo which debuted at number one on the January 2 broadcast. The group had four number one singles on the chart in 2015: "December, 2014 (The Winter's Tale)", "Call Me Baby", "Love Me Right" and "Sing for You", the most of any act in 2015. The four songs spent a total of nine weeks atop the chart, making Exo the act with the most wins of the year. Girl group Girls' Generation won their 100th music show win on the July 17 broadcast with their win for "Party" becoming the first artist to do so in South Korean music show history. Member Taeyeon won her first Music Bank trophy for her debut single "I" featuring rapper Verbal Jint. The single spent three weeks at number one on the chart, the most of any solo artist in 2015.
Super Junior's sub-unit Super Junior-D&E consisting of members Donghae and Eunhyuk won their first ever music show trophy on Music Bank with their single "Growing Pains". Girl group Red Velvet achieved their first music show win on Music Bank with "Ice Cream Cake" from their debut extended play of the same name. Boy group BTS won their first Music Bank trophy three years after their debut with "I Need U" on the May 8 broadcast. EXID won their first Music Bank award for "Up & Down" over four months after its release after a fan-recorded video of member Hani performing the song went viral on South Korean social networking websites. CNBLUE's Jung Yong-hwa and Teen Top's Niel received their first ever solo music show trophies on Music Bank with "One Fine Day" and "Bad Girl" respectively.
Chart history
+Key Highest score in 2015 — No show was broadcast
+ Episode Date Artist Song Points 768 Exo "December, 2014 (The Winter's Tale)" 4,924 769 EXID "Up & Down" 5,054 770 4,224 771 Jonghyun "Déjà-Boo" 8,835 772 Jung Yong-hwa "One Fine Day" 7,810 773 Davichi "Cry Again" 5,748 774 Jung Yong-hwa "One Fine Day" 5,799 — Naul "You From The Same Time" 6,541 775 Niel "Lovekiller (Bad Girl)" 6,226 776 VIXX "Love Equation" 8,963 777 Shinhwa "Sniper (Target)" 7,614 778 Super Junior-D&E "Growing Pains" 6,442 779 Red Velvet "Ice Cream Cake" 5,156 780 F.T. Island "Pray" 4,454 781 Exo "Call Me Baby" 12,681 782 10,525 783 8,182 784 7,746 785 BTS "I Need U" 5,973 786 Big Bang "Loser" 8,999 787 6,277 788 Shinee "View" 7,297 789 8,272 790 Exo "Love Me Right" 10,595 791 8,084 792 Baek A-yeon "Shouldn't Have" 5,907 793 Sistar "Shake It" 8,180 794 7,762 795 Girls' Generation "Party" 7,380 796 Infinite "Bad" 6,770 797 Apink "Remember" 6,645 798 Beast "YeY" 9,299 799 Shinee "Married to the Music" 6,636 800 Big Bang "Let's Not Fall in Love" 6,755 801 Girls' Generation "Lion Heart" 5,612 802 9,280 803 8,235 804 6,382 — CNBLUE "Cinderella" 6,267 805 5,793 806 Im Chang-jung "Love Again" 8,113 807 Taeyeon "I" 8,708 808 8,382 809 6,007 810 f(x) "4 Walls" 7,105 811 5,836 812 VIXX "Chained Up" 6,659 813 B.A.P "Young, Wild & Free" 5,574 814 Lee Hong-gi "Insensible" 3,919 815 BTS "Run" 7,799 816 Exo "Sing for You" 8,372 817 7,607
See also List of Inkigayo Chart winners (2015) List of M Countdown Chart winners (2015) List of Show! Music Core Chart winners (2015)
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