Circle Chart Music Awards

The Circle Chart Music Awards (Korean: 써클차트 뮤직 어워드), formerly known as the Gaon Chart Music Awards, is a major music awards ceremony that is presented annually in South Korea by the Korea Music Content Association primarily based on the commercial performance of the songs and albums based on the national music record chart Circle Chart.

Circle Chart Music Awards
Current: 13th Circle Chart Music Awards
Official logo
Awarded for	Commercial performance of songs and albums
Country	South Korea
Presented by	Korea Music Content Association
First award	February 22, 2012; 13 years ago (2012-02-22)
Website	Official website

Since 2017, the awarding ceremony has been broadcast live worldwide via Mnet and V Live. In addition to the Gaon Chart being rebranded to the Circle Chart on July 7, 2022, it was announced the Gaon Chart Music Awards would be renamed to the Circle Chart Music Awards.^[1]

Host venues

Edition	Year	Date	Host city	Venue	Host	Ref.
1st	2011	February 22, 2012	Seoul	Blue Square Samsung Card Hall	Taeyeon and Joo Young-hoon
2nd	2012	February 13, 2013		Olympic Hall	Gain and Joo Young-hoon
3rd	2013	February 12, 2014		Olympic Gymnastics Arena	Yuri and Oh Sang-jin
4th	2014	January 28, 2015			Leeteuk and Hyeri
5th	2015	February 17, 2016		Olympic Hall	Leeteuk and Yura
6th	2016	February 22, 2017		Jamsil Arena	Leeteuk and Solar
7th	2017	February 14, 2018			Leeteuk and Dahyun
8th	2018	January 23, 2019			Kim Jong-kook and Nancy
9th	2019	January 8, 2020			Leeteuk and Lia
10th	2020	January 13, 2021		CJ E&M Center	Leeteuk, Lia, Jaejae and Joo Young-hoon
11th	2021	January 27, 2022		Jamsil Arena	Jaejae, Doyoung and Sieun
12th	2022	February 18, 2023		KSPO Dome	Doyoung and Miyeon	[2]
13th	2023	January 10, 2024	Busan	Busan Exhibition and Convention Center	Leeteuk, Sieun and Seok Matthew	[3]

Awards

Artist of the Year – Physical

Current format

List of winners (2023–present)

Edition	Year	Winners					Ref.
13th	2023	Jungkook	NCT Dream	Seventeen	Stray Kids	TXT	[4]

Previous format

List of winners (2011–2022)

Edition	Year	Winners				Ref.
		1st Quarter	2nd Quarter	3rd Quarter	4th Quarter
1st	2011	TVXQ	Beast	Super Junior	Girls' Generation
2nd	2012	BigBang	Girls' Generation-TTS	Super Junior	TVXQ
3rd	2013	Girls' Generation	Cho Yong-pil	Exo
4th	2014	TVXQ	Exo	Super Junior
5th	2015	Exo		Super Junior	Exo
6th	2016	Got7	Exo		BTS
7th	2017	BTS	Seventeen	BTS	Wanna One
8th	2018	Wanna One	BTS		Exo
9th	2019	Seventeen	BTS	Seventeen
10th	2020	BTS	Baekhyun		BTS
11th	2021	Iz*One	NCT Dream	BTS	NCT 127
12th	2022	NCT	Seventeen		Stray Kids	[2]

Artist of the Year – Digital Music

Current format

List of winners (2023–present)

Edition	Year	Winners			Ref.
		Global Streaming	Digital	Streaming Unique Listeners
13th	2023	(G)I-dle			[4]
		Ive
		NewJeans
		Jungkook		Aespa
		Jisoo	Le Sserafim

Previous format

List of winners (2019–2022)

Edition	Year	Winners												Ref.
		December	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November
9th	2019	Ben	MC the Max	Hwasa	Taeyeon	Bolbbalgan4	Davichi	Jang Hye-jin & Yoon Min-soo	Ben	Sunmi	AKMU	MC Mong	IU
10th	2020	Red Velvet	Zico	BTS	MC the Max	Oh My Girl	IU	Blackpink	Zico	BTS	Chungha & Christopher	Blackpink	BTS
11th	2021	Taeyeon	IU	Shinee	IU	Kang Daniel	BTS	Brave Girls	BTS	Red Velvet	Coldplay & BTS	IU	Twice
12th	2022	Ive	Kep1er	Taeyeon	(G)I-dle	Ive	Le Sserafim	BTS	Aespa	Blackpink		Le Sserafim	Itzy	[2]

List of winners (2011–2018)

Edition	Year	Winners												Ref.
		January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
1st	2011	Secret	IU	K.will	BigBang	2NE1	Secret	T-ara	Leessang	Davichi	Lee Seung-gi	Wonder Girls	IU
2nd	2012	T-ara	BigBang		Busker Busker	Girls' Generation-TTS	Wonder Girls	2NE1	Psy	Jung Eun-ji & Seo In-guk	Gain	Lee Hi	Lee Seung-gi
3rd	2013	Girls' Generation	Sistar19	Davichi	Psy	4Minute	Sistar	Dynamic Duo	San E	Soyou & Mad Clown	IU	Miss A	Seo In-guk & Zia
4th	2014	Girl's Day	Soyou & Junggigo	2NE1	AKMU	g.o.d	Taeyang	San E & Raina	Park Bo-ram	Sistar	Kim Dong-ryool	MC Mong	Apink
5th	2015	Mad Clown	Naul	MC Mong	Miss A	BigBang				iKon	Taeyeon	Zico	Psy
6th	2016	GFriend	Mamamoo	Jang Beom-june	Twice	Urban Zakapa	Sistar	Wonder Girls	Blackpink	Im Chang-jung	Twice	Blackpink	BigBang
7th	2017	AKMU	Twice	IU		Psy	G-Dragon	Exo	Sunmi	Sechs Kies	Epik High	Wanna One	Twice
8th	2018	iKon	Roy Kim	BigBang	Twice	Bolbbalgan4	Blackpink	Twice	Red Velvet	Im Chang-jung	IU	Jennie	Lovelyz

New Artist of the Year

Current format

List of winners (2023–present)

Edition	Year	Winners			Ref.
		Global Streaming	Streaming Unique Listeners	Album
13th	2023	Babymonster	Riize	Zerobaseone	[4]

Previous format

List of winners (2011–2022)

Edition	Year	Winners				Ref.
		Male Group	Female Group	Male Solo	Female Solo
1st	2011	B1A4	Apink	Huh Gak	Kim Bo kyung
2nd	2012	B.A.P	Hello Venus	John Park	Ailee
3rd	2013	BTS	Ladies' Code	Jung Joon-young	Lim Kim
4th	2014	Winner	Mamamoo	—	—
5th	2015	iKon	GFriend	—	—
6th	2016	NCT 127	Blackpink	—	—
7th	2017	Wanna One	Weki Meki	Woo Won-jae	—
8th	2018	Stray Kids	(G)I-dle & Iz*One	Haon	—
9th	2019	TXT	Itzy	—	—
10th	2020	Enhypen	Aespa	—	—
11th	2021	—	—	Lee Mu-jin & Lee Chan-won	—
12th	2022	Tempest	NewJeans & Ive	—	—	[2]

Discovery of the Year

Edition	Year	Winners (Category)							Ref.
		Hip-Hop	Indie	R&B	Ballad	Trot	Group	J-Pop
1st	2011	—	The Koxx	Noel	—	—	Girl's Day	—
2nd	2012	Double K	3rd Line Butterfly	—	—	Apink	—	—
3rd	2013	—	Rose Motel	—	—	—	—	—
4th	2014	Epik High	—	Red Velvet	—	—	Lovelyz	—
5th	2015	Song Min-ho	Hyukoh	Zion.T	—	Lee Ae Ran	—	—
6th	2016	BewhY	Bolbbalgan4	Dean	Han Dong-geun	—	—	—
7th	2017	Changmo	MeloMance	Heize	Hwang Chi-yeul	—	—	—
8th	2018	—	—	Punch	Ben	—	Stray Kids	—
9th	2019	—	—	—	Kassy	—	N.Flying	—
10th	2020	—	—	—	—	Young Tak	—	—
11th	2021	Homies	—	—	—	—	STAYC	—
12th	2022	Be'O	—	—	—	—	—	—	[2]
13th	2023	—	—	—	Parc Jae-jung	Lee Chan-won	—	imase	[4]

Music Steady Seller of the Year

Edition	Year	Winner	Song	Ref.
3rd	2013	Girl's Day	"Expectation"
4th	2014	Soyou & Junggigo	"Some"
5th	2015	Naul	"You in The Same Time"
6th	2016	MC the Max	"No Matter Where"
7th	2017	IU	"Through the Night"
8th	2018	iKon	"Love Scenario"
9th	2019	Paul Kim	"Me After You"
10th	2020	IU	"Blueming"
11th	2021	BTS	"Dynamite"
12th	2022	Lim Young-woong	"Love Always Runs Away"
13th	2023	NewJeans	"Hype Boy"	[4]

Retail Album of the Year

Edition	Year	Winner	Album	Ref.
9th	2019	BTS	Map of the Soul: Persona
10th	2020		Map of the Soul: 7
11th	2021		Butter
12th	2022		Proof	[2]
13th	2023	Seventeen	FML	[4]

Top Kit Seller of the Year

Edition	Year	Winner	Album	Ref.
9th	2019	Exo	Obsession
10th	2020	NCT	NCT 2020 Resonance Pt. 1
11th	2021	NCT Dream	Hot Sauce
12th	2022	NCT	Universe	[2]
13th	2023	Seventeen	—	[4]

Popular Singer of the Year

Edition	Year	Winner	Song	Ref.
3rd	2013	Roy Kim & Jung Joon-young	"Becoming Dust"
4th	2014	Im Chang-jung	"A Glass of Soju"
5th	2015	So Chan Whee	"Tears"
6th	2016	MC the Max	"No Matter Where"
7th	2017	Yoon Jong-shin	"Like It"
8th	2018	Jang Deok Cheol	"Good Old Days"
9th	2019	Lim Jae-hyun	"If There Was Practice in Love"
10th	2020	Hwang in-wook	"Phocha"
11th	2021	Standing Egg	"Old Song"

Overseas Music Awards

Edition	Year	Winner	Song	Ref.
1st	2011	Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera	"Moves like Jagger"	[5]
2nd	2012	Maroon 5	"Payphone"
3rd	2013	DJ Gollum	"The Bad Touch"
4th	2014	Maroon 5	"Maps"
5th	2015	Adele	"Hello"
6th	2016	Maroon 5	"Don't Wanna Know"
7th	2017	Ed Sheeran	"Shape of You"
8th	2018	Camila Cabello	"Havana"
9th	2019	Anne-Marie	"2002"
11th	2021	Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon	"Peaches"
12th	2022	The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber	"Stay"	[2]
13th	2023	Charlie Puth	"Dangerously"	[4]

Composer/Lyricist of the Year

Edition	Year	Winners		Ref.
		Composer	Lyricist
1st	2011	Yoon Sang	Kim Eana
2nd	2012	Teddy	Kim Eana
3rd	2013	Duble Sidekick	Kim Eana
4th	2014	Min Yeon-jae	Kim Do-hoon
5th	2015	Black Eyed Pilseung	Kim Eana
6th	2016	Black Eyed Pilseung	Jo Yoon-kyung
7th	2017	Pdogg	IU
8th	2018	Teddy	Seo Ji-eum
9th	2019	Black Eyed Pilseung	Min Yeon-jae
10th	2020	Pop Time	IU
11th	2021	Ryan S. Jhun	IU
12th	2022	Ryan S. Jhun	Seo Ji-eum	[2]
13th	2023	250	Gigi	[4]

Performers of the Year

Edition	Year	Winners		Ref.
		Chorus	Musical Instrument
1st	2011	Kim Hyun-a	Kang Soo-ho
2nd	2012	Kim Hyo-soo	Shin Hyun-kwon
3rd	2013	Gil Eun-kyung	Tommy Kim
4th	2014	Kang Tae-woo	Jang-hyeok
5th	2015	Lee Tae-yoon	Kang Sung-ho
6th	2016	Kim Ryeong	Lee Seong-yeol & Choi Tae-wan
7th	2017	Kang Tae-woo	Lee Seung-yeob
8th	2018	Jun Jae Hee	Kim Mi-jung & Shin Sang-won
9th	2019	Joo Chan Yang	Choi Hun
10th	2020	KREEZE	Jung Jae-pil (Young)
11th	2021	Kim Yeon Seo	Jung Jae-pil (Young)
12th	2022	Bae Soo-jung	Choi In-sung	[2]
13th	2023	Perrie	Hareem	[4]

Style of the Year

Edition	Year	Winners		Ref.
		Choreographer	Stylist
1st	2011	Prepix	Seo Soo-kyung
2nd	2012	Lee Ju-sun	Song Jeong-ok
3rd	2013	Yama & Hot Chicks	Jung Bo-yoon
4th	2014	Choreography Team DQ	Park Seo-hyun, Choi Ji-hyang
5th	2015	Yama & Hot Chicks	Ji Eunie
6th	2016	Son Sung Deuk	Choi Hee Sun
7th	2017	Lia Kim	Kim Ye-jin, Choi Kyung-won
8th	2018	Son Sung Deuk	Ji Eunie
9th	2019	Choi Ri An	Choi Hee Sun
10th	2020	Son Sung Deuk	Kim Bal-ko & Park Min-hee
11th	2021	Son Sung Deuk	Kim Wook
12th	2022	Kim Eun-ju & Kim Young-hoo	Park Min-hee	[2]
13th	2023	Park So-yeon	Kim Hye-soo	[4]

Record Production of the Year

Edition	Year	Winner	Record	Ref.
7th	2017	Fave Entertainment	IU – "Through the Night"
8th	2018	iKon	iKon – "Love Scenario"
9th	2019	MNH Entertainment	Chungha – "Gotta Go"
10th	2020	Ambition Musik	Changmo – "Meteor"
11th	2021	EDAM Entertainment	IU – "Lilac"
12th	2022	Cube Entertainment	(G)I-dle – I Never Die	[2]

Social Hot Star of the Year

Edition	Year	Winner	Ref.
9th	2019	BTS
10th	2020	Blackpink
11th	2021	BTS
12th	2022	BTS	[2]
13th	2023	Blackpink	[4]

Hot Performance of the Year

Edition	Year	Winner	Ref.
3rd	2013	Apink
4th	2014	AOA
5th	2015	Red Velvet
		VIXX
6th	2016	Seventeen
		Infinite
7th	2017	NU'EST W
		Got7
8th	2018	Seventeen
9th	2019	NCT Dream
		Chungha
10th	2020	Iz*One
		Stray Kids
11th	2021	Oh My Girl
		The Boyz
12th	2022	Enhypen	[2]

World K-pop Star

Edition	Year	Winner	Ref.
3rd	2013	2NE1
4th	2014	Kara
5th	2015	BTS
6th	2016	Shinee
7th	2017	Got7
8th	2018	Seventeen
9th	2019	Monsta X
10th	2020	NCT
11th	2021	Stray Kids
12th	2022	Tomorrow X Together	[2]
13th	2023	NCT Dream	[4]

World K-Pop Rookie

Edition	Year	Winners		Ref.
3rd	2013	B.A.P	—
4th	2014	BTS	—
5th	2015	Seventeen	AOA
7th	2017	—	Blackpink
8th	2018	The Boyz	Momoland
9th	2019	Stray Kids	(G)I-dle
10th	2020	Ateez	Itzy
11th	2021	Enhypen	Aespa
12th	2022	STAYC		[2]

International Rising Star of the Year

Edition	Year	Winner	Ref.
6th	2016	Charlie Puth
7th	2017	Shawn Mendes
9th	2019	Billie Eilish
10th	2020	Tones and I
11th	2021	Kid Laroi
12th	2022	Gayle	[2]

Mubeat Choice Award

Edition	Year	Winners		Ref.
		Male	Female
10th	2020	Lim Young-woong	Blackpink
11th	2021	BTS	Lisa
12th	2022	Lim Young-woong	Blackpink	[2]
13th	2023	Lim Young-woong	NiziU	[4]

Mobile Vote Popularity Award

Edition	Year	Winner	Ref.
3rd	2013	Exo
4th	2014	Exo
5th	2015	Exo
6th	2016	Sehun
		Exo
7th	2017	Taeyeon
		Wanna One
13th	2023	Zhang Hao	[4][6]

Discontinued awards

K-pop Contribution Award / Lifetime Achievement Award

Edition	Year	Winner	Ref.
1st	2011	Lee Soo-man
2nd	2012	Hong Seung-sung
3rd	2013	Cho Yong-pil
4th	2014	Shin Hae-chul
6th	2016	Sechs Kies
7th	2017	Yoon Jong-shin
8th	2018	BTS
10th	2020	Lee Soo-man

Special Awards

Edition	Year	Awards	Winner	Ref.
1st	2011	Oricon Special Award	Girls' Generation
2nd	2012	Hallyu Special Award	CNBLUE
4th	2014	Weibo Kpop Star Award	Super Junior
5th	2015	Weibo Kpop Star Award	Sehun
		Most Influential Group of Asia	Big Bang
6th	2016	V Live Global Popularity Award	BTS

Technical Award

Edition	Year	Winner	Ref.
1st	2011	Ko Seung-wook

Hot Trend Award

Edition	Year	Winners		Ref.
2nd	2012	Apink	—
3rd	2013	Crayon Pop	—
4th	2014	Block B	EXID
5th	2015	B.A.P	Baek A Yeon

Producer of the Year

Edition	Year	Winner	Ref.
1st	2011	Kim Kwang-soo (Core Contents Media)
2nd	2012	Yang Hyun-suk (YG Entertainment)
3rd	2013	Yang Hyun-suk (YG Entertainment)
4th	2014	Kim Shi-dae (Starship Entertainment)
5th	2015	Yang Hyun-suk (YG Entertainment)
6th	2016	Bang Si-hyuk (Big Hit Entertainment)

New Media Platform

Edition	Year	Winners	Ref.
1st	2011	Daum
		YouTube
3rd	2013	Bugs!
4th	2014	Kakao Music

Music Distribution

Edition	Year	Winners		Ref.
		Online	Offline
2nd	2012	LOEN Entertainment	KMP Holdings
3rd	2013	CJ E&M Music
4th	2014	Universal Music

Sound Engineer of the Year

Edition	Year	Winners	Ref.
1st	2011	Ko Seung-wook
2nd	2012	Jeon Hoon
3rd	2013	Jo Joon-sung

Most awards

The following artists (arranged in alphanumeric order) has received three or more awards.

Overall

Awards	Artist
32	BTS
16	Exo
	IU
14	Blackpink
12	Seventeen

Artist of the Year – Physical

Awards	Artist
10	BTS
	Exo
6	Seventeen
5	Super Junior
3	TVXQ

Artist of the Year – Digital

Awards	Artist
11	IU
9	BigBang
7	Blackpink
	BTS
	Twice

See also

• Record production portal

References

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2. Park, Dong-sun (February 18, 2023). "'작지만 꽉 찬 K팝스탠다드' 2022 써클차트 어워즈...'BTS·임영웅 다관왕→도영 소신발언'" ['Small but full K-pop standard' 2022 Circle Chart Awards... 'BTS, Lim Young-woong's multi-crown → Do-young's conviction'] (in Korean). ET News. Archived from the original on February 19, 2023. Retrieved February 19, 2023 – via Naver.
3. "'써클차트 뮤직어워즈 2023' 내년 1월 10일 부산 개최 [공식]" ['Circle Chart Music Awards 2023' will be held in Busan on January 10th next year [official]]. Newsen (in Korean). Naver. October 13, 2023. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
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External links

• Official website