YG was in No.1 on Gaon’s monthly music chart for 5 months in 2015… The year of BIGBANG and iKON

[OSEN=최나영 기자] YG Entertainment (“YG”) stood out as the most prominent powerhouse on music chart for the year 2015.

According to Gaon chart, the songs of YG artists took No.1 on Gaon’s monthly music chart for five months from May to September this year.

Notably, BIGBANG swept the chart with their songs released every month from May to August this year. That was the materialization of the success of BIGBANG’s long-term comeback plan and the quality of the team’s music that appealed not only to their fans but also to the general public, on the chart.

BIGBANG released a single album titled “M”, “A”, “D”, and “E” for the four-month period from May to August this year. That was a repetition of BIGBANG’s debut project nine years ago, for which a single album was released for every month. Such unique plan of BIGBANG’s comeback drew a big attention.

Notably, BIGBANG recently gave back to such great support from the public, by unveiling the performance of “SOBER” and “IF YOU” for the first time at “2015 Melon Music Awards”.

To follow such footsteps of BIGBANG, YG’s rookie idol group iKON also succeeded in fascinating music fans immediately with their debut warm-up single “MY TYPE” released in September this year.

iKON followed the way of BIGBANG’s comeback plan, but iKON’s plan was something more than BIGBANG’s. iKON made a fancy debut by releasing debut warm-up single “MY TYPE” in September and “WELCOME BACK” in October. Originally, iKON was supposed to release debut half-album on October 1 and debut full-album on November 2, after the release of warm-up single on September 15.

However, YG’s head producer YANG HYUN SUK gave a special order to iKON and the comeback schedule was somewhat delayed. The goal of such delay was for iKON to come back with a better music.

The next YG artist to come back is iKON for the 16 and an unknown artist for the 21 this month. On the 1 next month, world-star PSY will come back and iKON’s full album will be released on December 14. As such, YG is getting even stronger momentum for their already-big success for this year, for the last two months of the year, which means, YG has more to show on the chart before the end of this year.

◈ No.1 on Gaon’s monthly music chart for this year

January. Mad Clown-“Fire”

February. Yoo Naul-“Living in the Same Time”

March. MC Mong-“Love Mash”

April. miss A-“Only You”

May. BIGBANG-“LOSER”

June. BIGBANG-“BANG BANG BANG”

July. BIGBANG-“IF YOU”

August. BIGBANG-“LET’S NOT FALL IN LOVE”

September. iKON-“MY TYPE”

October. TaeYeon-“I”

2015. 11. 13.

source: YG Life