Artist of the Year (Digital Music) – 12 winners
A winner will be chosen from each month from December 2018 through to November 2019 based on the entire Gaon Chart data for 30 days after the song’s release.
Nominees (the following months are yet to be revealed):
January
May
Artist of the Year (Physical Album) – 4 winners
A winner will be chosen from each quarter of 2019 based on the entire Gaon Chart data for six weeks after the album’s release.
Nominees (the following months are yet to be revealed):
1st Quarter (January 1 and March 31)
2nd Quarter (April 1 and June 30)
A winner will be chosen from each month from December 2018 through to November 2019 based on the entire Gaon Chart data for 30 days after the song’s release.
Nominees (the following months are yet to be revealed):
January
- M.C the MAX – “After You’ve Gone”
- Woody – “Fire up”
- Lee Sora – “Song Request” (Feat. Suga)
- Chungha– “Gotta Go”
- Paul Kim – “Traffic Light”
- (G)I-DLE– “Senorita”
- ITZY – “DALLA DALLA”
- Nilo – “The day, I hate myself”
- Loco – “It’s been a while” (Feat. Zion.T)
- Hwasa – “twit”
- Park Bom – “Spring” (Feat. Sandara Park)
- Baek Yerin – “Maybe It’s Not Our Fault”
- Epik High – “LOVEDRUNK” (Feat. Crush)
- Jang Bum Joon – “every moment with you”
- Taeyeon– “Four Seasons”
May
- WINNER – “AH YEAH”
- Davichi– “Unspoken Words”
- Monday Kiz – “My love has faded away”
- Park Hyo Shin – “Goodbye”
- Lee Hi – “NO ONE” (Feat. B.I)
- Kim Na Young – “To be honest”
- Red Velvet– “Zimzalabim”
- Urban Zakapa – “Seoul Night” (Feat. Beenzino)
- Jang Hye Jin and Yoon Min Soo– “Drunk On Love”
- Chungha – “Snapping”
- ITZY – “ICY”
- MeloMance – “You&I”
- BEN – “Thank you for Goodbye”
- Younha – “On A Rainy Day”
- Heize – “We don’t talk together” (Feat. Giriboy) (Prod. Suga)
- X1 – “FLASH”
- Nilo – “He’story”
- Red Velvet – “Umpah Umpah”
- Sunmi– “LALALAY”
- Crush – “NAPPA”
Artist of the Year (Physical Album) – 4 winners
A winner will be chosen from each quarter of 2019 based on the entire Gaon Chart data for six weeks after the album’s release.
Nominees (the following months are yet to be revealed):
1st Quarter (January 1 and March 31)
- Stray Kids– “Clé 1 : MIROH”
- MONSTA X– “WE ARE HERE”
- SEVENTEEN– “YOU MADE MY DAWN”
- ASTRO– “All Light”
- TXT– “The Dream Chapter: STAR”
2nd Quarter (April 1 and June 30)