Gallup Korea's Song of the Year

Gallup Korea's Song of the Year (Korean: 한국갤럽 올해를 빛낸 노래 1위) is selected annually through multiple public surveys conducted across South Korea by Gallup Korea. From 2020, survey is conducted in two categories on the basis of respondents' age group: 13–39, and 40 and above.^[1][2]

List of recipients

2000s

Year	Song	Artist	Vote %	Ref.
2007	"Tell Me"	Wonder Girls	33.9%	[3]
2008	"Nobody"		11.4%	[4]
2009	"Gee"	Girls' Generation	15.0%	[5]

2010s

Year	Song	Artist	Vote %	Ref.
2010	"Hoot"	Girls' Generation	7.2%	[6]
2011	"Good Day"	IU	3.9%	[7]
2012	"Gangnam Style"	Psy	30.7%	[2]
2013	"Bounce"	Cho Yong-pil	13.6%	[8]
2014	"The Meaning of You"	IU	7.7%	[9]
2015	"Bang Bang Bang"	Big Bang	7.2%	[10]
2016	"The Love I Committed"	Im Chang-jung	7.0%	[11]
2017	"Like It"	Yoon Jong-shin	8.8%	[12]
2018	"Ddu-Du Ddu-Du"	Blackpink	5.0%	[13]
2019	"Boy with Luv"	BTS	5.9%	[14]

2020s

Key

‡	Indicates category selected by respondents in age group: 13–39
†	Indicates category selected by respondents in age group: 40 and above

Year	Song	Singer(s)	Vote %	Ref.
2020	‡ "Dynamite"	BTS	19.6%	[1]
	† "Drink Makgeolli"	Young Tak	12.8%
2021	‡ "Butter"	BTS	26.6%	[15]
	† "Trust in Me"	Lim Young-woong	8.7%
2022	‡ "Dynamite"	BTS	8.5%	[16]
	† "Love Always Runs Away"	Lim Young-woong	6.9%
2023	‡ "Super Shy"	NewJeans	6.8%	[17]
	† "Love Always Runs Away"	Lim Young-woong	6.9%

Gallery

Gallery of singers indicated with year in which their song was selected as Song of the Year.

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  Wonder Girls (2007–2008)
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  Girls' Generation (2009–2010)
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  IU (2011, 2014)
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  Psy (2012)
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  Cho Yong-pil (2013)
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  Big Bang (2015)
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  Im Chang-jung (2016)
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  Yoon Jong-shin (2017)
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  Blackpink (2018)
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  BTS (2019–2022)
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  Young Tak (2020)
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  Lim Young-woong (2021–2023)
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  NewJeans (2023)

See also

• Gallup Korea's Actor of the Year
• Gallup Korea's Singer of the Year

References

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12. Kim, Mi-hwa (December 19, 2017). 아이유, 올해를 빛낸 가수 1위..올해의 노래는 '좋니' [IU, Singer of the Year, "Like It", Song of the Year]. Star News (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 11, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2021 – via Naver.
13. Park, Soo-yoon (December 18, 2018). 방탄소년단·트와이스, 올해를 빛낸 가수 1·2위 [BTS and TWICE ranked 1st and 2nd singers of the year]. Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 11, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
14. Park, So-hyun (December 19, 2019). 방탄소년단, 올해를 빛낸 가수·아이돌·노래 '석권' [BTS, singers, idols, and songs that shined this year 'sweep']. SPOTVNews (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 11, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2021 – via Naver.
15. Hicap, Jonathan (December 20, 2021). "Gallup Korea's year-end poll selects Korean singers who shined in 2021, best songs". Manila Bulletin. Archived from the original on January 10, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
16. Lee, Seung-rok (December 19, 2022). 2022 올해를 빛낸 가수, 방탄소년단과 임영웅이었다…신인 뉴진스, 10위권 첫 진입 [The singers who shone this year in 2022 were BTS and Lim Young-woong... Rookie New Jeans enters the top 10 for the first time]. MyDaily (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 31, 2023. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
17. Hicap, Jonathan (December 18, 2023). "Yearender: NewJeans, BTS, IVE, IU, BLACKPINK top Gallup Korea's favorite singer survey for 2023". Manila Bulletin. Archived from the original on December 28, 2023. Retrieved December 30, 2023.

External links

• Gallup Korea