Show! Music Core winners
“Blingy” by NCT 127 won Show! Music Core on September 5, 2026. Every Show! Music Core #1 since 2005, updated after each Saturday broadcast.
Updated 513 trophiesSource: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
CORE
Saturday · 15:15 KST
MBC · #1 since 2017
Recent winners
Records on Show! Music Core
Most wins
Most-decorated songs
- 1Dynamite10BTS · 2020
- 2Boy with Luv9BTS · 2019
- 3Life Goes On6BTS · 2020
- 4Queencard5I-dle · 2023
- 5Strawberry Moon5IU · 2021
Highest scores
- 1“Life Goes On”11,881BTS · December 5, 2020
- 2“Life Goes On”10,981BTS · December 12, 2020
- 3“Psycho”10,895Red Velvet · January 4, 2020
- 4“More & More”10,871Twice · June 13, 2020
- 5“Dumhdurum”10,780Apink · April 25, 2020
54 songs won Show! Music Core three times or more (all triple crowns).
Scoring
What a Show! Music Core trophy measures, and how that has changed.
How Show! Music Core picks its #1Digital sales 50 % · Physical album 10 % · Music video views 10 % · … · since May 2026
- 50 %Digital sales
- 10 %Physical album
- 10 %Music video views
- 10 %Global pre-vote (Mubeat, MUNIVERSE)
- 6 %Live vote – global app
- 4 %Live vote – text message
- 5 %Broadcast
- 5 %Viewer committee
Changes
- 2021-06-05: digital 50, album 10, video 10, broadcast 10, viewer committee 5, pre-vote 5, live vote 10.
- 2024-04-13: win limit cut from five to three.
- 2026-05-30: broadcast 10 → 5; pre-vote becomes a 10 % global vote on Mubeat and MUNIVERSE; live vote split into 6 % app and 4 % text.
- Formula since
- May 2026
- Perfect score
- 10,000 points
- Voting
- Pre-vote on Mubeat and, since May 2026, MUNIVERSE (roughly Tuesday to Thursday); live vote for the three nominees during the show via app and text message.
- Win limit
- Triple crown since 13 April 2024: a song leaves the chart after three wins (from February 2021 to April 2024 the limit was five).
- Not confirmed
- The start time: MBC's own listings say 15:15, other sources 15:20 or 15:30. The May 2026 weights come from the Korean Namu wiki; English Wikipedia had not yet recorded the change.
By year
Every year's full table: date, episode, song, artist, points.
Winners compiled from Wikipedia's per-year winner lists (CC BY-SA 4.0); points and episode numbers as published there, each row links to its source. Where a broadcast is listed without a winner, the source lists none.
Quick answers
- Who won Show! Music Core most recently?
- “Blingy” by NCT 127 won Show! Music Core on September 5, 2026 with 8,741 points.
- Who has the most Show! Music Core wins?
- BTS with 43 Show! Music Core trophies, ahead of IU (24) and Exo (22).
- Which song has won Show! Music Core the most times?
- “Dynamite” by BTS, 10 times. The highest score ever listed is 11,881 points for “Life Goes On” by BTS (December 5, 2020).
- How is the Show! Music Core winner decided?
- Digital sales 50 %, Physical album 10 %, Music video views 10 %, Global pre-vote (Mubeat, MUNIVERSE) 10 %, Live vote – global app 6 %, Live vote – text message 4 %, Broadcast 5 %, Viewer committee 5 %; a perfect score is 10,000 points. Triple crown since 13 April 2024: a song leaves the chart after three wins (from February 2021 to April 2024 the limit was five).
- When does Show! Music Core air?
- Saturdays at 15:15 KST on MBC. Results are on this site within hours of the broadcast.
- What is the longest Show! Music Core winning streak?
- BTS: 16 weeks in a row (Aug 25–30 – Jan 12–17, 2021) with “Life Goes On” and “Dynamite”.
More music show pages
Show! Music Core by year