The

Gaon Album Chart 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 Korea based on their Record sales, pure sales. It is a part of the Circle Chart, pr ...

is a

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that ranks the best-selling albums and EPs in South Korea. It is part of the

Gaon Music Chart The Circle Chart (), previously known as the Gaon Music Chart or the Gaon Chart (), tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in South Korea. It is produced by the Korea Music Content Association and sponsored by South Korea's ...

which launched in February 2010. The data for the chart is compiled by the

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and the Korean Music Content Industry Association based on weekly and monthly physical albums and digital sales by six major distributors:

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Warner Music Korea Warner Music Group's labels include the following. Flagship labels *Atlantic Records *Elektra Records *Parlophone Records *Warner Records Atlantic Records Group * 1st & 15th Entertainment * All Money In * Artist Partners Group * Asylum Rec ...

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and

Mnet Media Stone Music Entertainment (Hangul: 스톤 뮤직 엔터테인먼트), is a South Korean music distribution company under CJ ENM, along with music streaming store Genie Music. It was one of the largest co-publisher companies in South Korea. The ...

. Overall,

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' album ''

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'' was

best selling album of 2016, selling 751,301 copies in a year. With ''

'',

breaks the highest-selling album ever recorded on

since the chart’s inception in 2010. Five months earlier,

' album '' The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever'' already topped

second place for the first half of 2016, selling 368,369 copies overall at the end of the year.

earned Artist of The Year at

2016 Mnet Asian Music Awards The 2016 Mnet Asian Music Awards ceremony, organized by CJ E&M through its music channel Mnet, took place at the AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong. The ceremony was the seventh consecutive Mnet Asian Music Awards to be hosted outside of South Korea a ...

, Album of The Year at

2016 Melon Music Awards The 2016 Melon Music Awards ceremony, organized by Kakao M (a Kakao company) through its online music store Melon, took place on Saturday, November 19, 2016, in Seoul, South Korea. The eighth installment of the event since its offline launch in ...

, Album of The Year (4th Quarter) at 6th Gaon Chart Music Awards and Disk Bonsang at

31st Golden Disc Awards The 31st Golden Disc Awards ceremony was held on January 13–14, 2017. The JTBC network broadcast the show from the Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX) in Ilsan. Hwang Chi-yeul, Seohyun and Jung Yong-hwa served as hosts on the first ...

EXO Exo ( ko, 엑소; stylized in all caps) is a South Korean-Chinese boy band based in Seoul formed by SM Entertainment in 2011 and debuted in 2012. The group consists of nine members: Xiumin, Suho, Lay, Baekhyun, Chen, Chanyeol, D.O., Kai ...

sold South Korea best-selling album of 2016 with all standard '' Ex'Act (korean ver)'' and each of its reissue '' Ex'Act (chinese ver)'', '' Lotto (korean ver)'' and '' Lotto (chinese ver)'' albums selling a total of 1,149,743 units overall.

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

References

External links

Gaon Charts
- Official Website {{Gaon

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Korea, South albums 2016 in South Korean music