The Inkigayo Chart is a music program record chart on Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) that gives an award to the best-performing single of the week in South Korea. In 2022, the chart awarded points based on digital performance in domestic online music services (5,500 points), social media via YouTube views (3,000 points), album sales (1,000 points), network on-air time (1,000 points), viewer votes in advance of the show (500 points), and real-time voting via the Starpass mobile app (500 points) in its ranking methodology. Songs that spend three weeks at number one are awarded a triple crown and are removed from the chart and ineligible to win again. Treasure's Jihoon, Riize's Sungchan, and Ive's An Yu-jin had been hosting the show since March 7, 2021 and continued to do so till March 27, 2022. Starting in April 2022, actress Roh Jeong-eui, actor Seo Bum-june, and Tomorrow X Together member Choi Yeon-jun became the new hosts of the show.

In 2022, 20 singles achieved number one on the chart, and 15 acts were awarded first-place trophies for this feat. Eleven songs collected trophies for three weeks and earned a triple crown: Ive's "Eleven" and "Love Dive", Taeyeon's "INVU", Big Bang's "Still Life", Psy's "That That", (G)I-dle's "Tomboy" and "Nxde", Nayeon's "Pop!", Blackpink's "Pink Venom" and "Shut Down", and Younha's "Event Horizon". The number-one song at the start of the year was Ive's debut single "Eleven". The group had two more singles rank number one in 2022: "Love Dive" and "After Like". The three songs spent a total of seven weeks atop the chart making Ive the artist with the most weeks at number one in 2022. Got the Beat, a supergroup consisting of BoA, Taeyeon and Hyoyeon from Girls' Generation, Seulgi and Wendy from Red Velvet, and Karina and Winter from Aespa, achieved their first number one with their debut single "Step Back" on the January 30 broadcast. Member Taeyeon had one number-one single on the chart in 2022, "INVU", which also achieved a triple crown. Girl group NewJeans made their first appearance on the chart with their debut single "Attention". Twice's Nayeon achieved her first-ever Inkigayo award with her debut single "Pop!".

Besides Ive, three other acts had more than one number one on the chart in 2022. (G)I-dle had two singles rank number one in 2022, "Tomboy" and "Nxde", both of which ranked number one for three weeks and achieved triple crowns. Their single "Tomboy" acquired 9,648 points on the April 3 broadcast, making it the song with the highest score of the year. Blackpink also had two number-one singles, "Pink Venom" and "Shut Down", both of which achieved triple crowns. The only other artist to have two number-one singles in 2022 was NCT Dream, who achieved this with their singles "Glitch Mode" and "Beatbox".

Chart history

+Key Indicates the song achieved a triple crown Indicates the highest score of the year — No show was held

+ Episode Date Artist Song Points — colspan="3" 1,121 Ive "Eleven" 8,533 1,122 6,583 1,123 5,927 1,124 Got the Beat "Step Back" 5,612 — rowspan="2" colspan="3" — 1,125 Got the Beat "Step Back" 7,224 1,126 Taeyeon "INVU" 7,041 1,127 6,783 1,128 7,083 1,129 Kim Min-seok "Drunken Confession" 5,514 1,130 (G)I-dle "Tomboy" 8,037 1,131 9,648 1,132 NCT Dream "Glitch Mode" 6,845 1,133 Big Bang "Still Life" 8,673 1,134 9,394 1,135 8,681 1,136 Ive "Love Dive" 6,726 1,137 Psy "That That" 9,402 1,138 9,108 1,139 7,620 1,140 June 5 (G)I-dle "Tomboy" 6,314 1,141 June 12 NCT Dream "Beatbox" 7,292 1,142 June 19 BTS "Yet to Come" 7,007 1,143 June 26 9,479 1,144 July 3 Ive "Love Dive" 6,126 1,145 July 10 Nayeon "Pop!" 6,922 1,146 July 17 Ive "Love Dive" 5,955 1,147 July 24 Nayeon "Pop!" 7,103 1,148 July 31 Seventeen "_World" 7,092 1,149 August 7 Nayeon "Pop!" 7,201 1,150 August 14 Itzy "Sneakers" 7,353 1,151 August 21 NewJeans "Attention" 8,273 1,152 August 28 6,300 1,153 September 4 Blackpink "Pink Venom" 9,292 — colspan="3" 1,154 September 18 Blackpink "Pink Venom" 7,977 1,155 September 25 7,129 1,156 October 2 "Shut Down" 9,077 1,157 October 9 8,991 1,158 October 16 7,641 1,159 October 23 Ive "After Like" 7,038 — October 30 colspan="3" 1,160 November 6 (G)I-dle "Nxde" 9,409 1,161 November 13 9,164 1,162 November 20 6,624 1,163 November 27 Younha "Event Horizon" 6,482 1,164 December 4 6,319 1,165 December 11 6,164 — December 18 rowspan="2" colspan="3" — December 25

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