List of M Countdown Chart winners (2016)

The M Countdown Chart is a record chart on the South Korean Mnet television music program M Countdown. Every week, the show awards the best-performing single on the chart in the country during its live broadcast.

In 2016, 36 singles achieved a number one on the show and 27 music acts were awarded first-place trophies. Six songs collected trophies for three weeks and achieved a triple crown: "Daddy" by Psy, "Dumb & Dumber" by iKon, "Rough" and "Navillera" by GFriend, "Cheer Up" by Twice, and "Monster" by Exo. No release for the year earned a perfect score, but "Monster" acquired the highest point total on the June 23 broadcast with 10,849 points.

"Monster" by Exo (above) was the highest-scoring song of 2016 on M Countdown. It won first place on episode 480 with 10,988 points, and subsequently achieved a triple crown.

Blackpink (above) won their first M Countdown trophy with their debut single "Whistle".

Scoring system

Songs were judged based on a combination of digital music sales (50%), album sales (15%), social media performance (official YouTube music video views and SNS buzz: 15%), popularity (global fan votes and age range preference: 10%), Mnet's broadcast score (10%), and a live SMS vote (10%) that took place during the show, for a total of 11,000 points.

Chart history

Key

	Triple Crown
	Highest score in 2016
—	No show was held

Episode	Date	Artist	Song	Points	Ref.
455	January 7	Psy	"Daddy"	8,433	[1]
456	January 14	iKon	"Dumb & Dumber"	10,175	[2]
457	January 21			9,499	[3]
458	January 28			8,930	[4]
459	February 4	GFriend	"Rough"	9,424	[5]
460	February 11			—	[6]
461	February 18			8,959	[7]
462	February 25	Winner	"Sentimental"	9,895	[8]
463	March 3	Taemin	"Press Your Number"	7,771	[9]
464	March 10	Mamamoo	"You're the Best"	9,528	[10]
465	March 17	Lee Hi	"Breathe"	8,210	[11]
466	March 24	Red Velvet	"One of These Nights"	7,922	[12]
467	March 31	Got7	"Fly"	7,032	[13]
468	April 7	BtoB	"Remember That"	7,140	[14]
469	April 14	CNBLUE	"You're So Fine"	—	[15]
470	April 21	Block B	"Toy"	9,092	[16]
471	April 28	Jung Eun-ji	"Hopefully Sky"	8,614	[17]
472	May 5	Twice	"Cheer Up"	10,264	[18]
473	May 12	BTS	"Fire"	7,692	[19]
474	May 19	Twice	"Cheer Up"	9,205	[20]
475	May 26			9,095	[21]
476	June 2	Baek A-yeon	"So-So"	—	[22]
477	June 9			7,084	[23]
478	June 14	KCON France Special Episode, winners were not announced			[24]
479	June 16	Exo	"Monster"	9,877	[25]
480	June 23			10,849	[26]
481	June 30			—	[27]
482	July 7	Sistar	"I Like That"	9,519	[28]
483	July 14	Wonder Girls	"Why So Lonely"	8,250	[29]
484	July 21	GFriend	"Navillera"	9,154	[30]
485	July 28			9,406	[31]
486	August 4			—	[32]
487	August 9	KCON LA Special Episode, winners were not announced			[33]
488	August 11	Hyuna	"How's This?"	8,403	[34]
489	August 18	I.O.I	"Whatta Man"	8,158	[35]
490	August 25	Exo	"Lotto"	8,310	[36]
491	September 1			8,150	[37]
492	September 8	Blackpink	"Whistle"	7,330	[38]
—	September 15	Red Velvet	"Russian Roulette"	—	[39][40]
493	September 22			9,576
494	September 29	Infinite	"The Eye"	7,714	[41]
495	October 6	Got7	"Hard Carry"	7,994	[42]
496	October 13	Shinee	"1 of 1"	10,023	[43]
497	October 20	BTS	"Blood Sweat & Tears"	9,852	[44]
498	October 27	I.O.I	"Very Very Very"	—	[45]
499	November 3	Twice	"TT"	10,511	[46][47]
500	November 10			8,362	[48]
501	November 17	MAMA Special Broadcast, winners were not announced			[49]
502	November 24
—	December 1
—	December 8
503	December 15	Seventeen	"Boom Boom"	6,834	[50]
504	December 22	Big Bang	"Fxxk It"	8,535	[51]
—	December 29	No. 1 Special Broadcast, winners were not announced			[52]