BTS, TWICE, EXO, SEVENTEEN, TVXQ, And More Earn Spots On Oricon's 2018 Year-End Rankings

Oricon has revealed its year-end music charts for 2018, and numerous K-pop artists made this year’s list!

On December 20 local time, the Japanese music chart published its 51st annual year-end rankings, a summary of 2018’s most successful music releases.

Not only did BTS top this year’s “Top Foreign Album Rankings” with their latest album “Love Yourself: Answer,” but the group also made strong showings on Oricon’s “Top Album Rankings” and “Top Single Rankings” as well. TWICE, TVXQ, SHINee, and MONSTA X also managed to make the top 100 on both lists.

Check out the full list of Korean artists who made this year’s rankings below!

Top Album Rankings

7. BTS’s “Face Yourself”
8. TWICE’s “BDZ”
14. BTS’s “Love Yourself: Answer”
18. BTS’s “Love Yourself: Tear”
25. TVXQ’s “TOMORROW”
26. SEVENTEEN’s “We Make You”
28. SEVENTEEN’s “You Make My Day”
30. EXO’s “Countdown”
43. SHINee “The Best From Now On”
55. TWICE’s “Summer Nights”
58. TWICE’s “What is Love?”
60. TWICE’s “YES or YES”
63. TWICE’s “Twicetagram”
64. Wanna One’s “1÷χ=1 (UNDIVIDED)”
65. iKON’s “Return”
70. SHINee’s Taemin’s “Eclipse”
72. EXO-CBX’s “MAGIC”
80. NCT 127’s “Chain”
83. Wanna One’s “0+1=1 (I PROMISE YOU)”
87. 2PM’s Junho’s “Imagination”
89. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon’s “Kwon Ji Yong”
90. TWICE’s “#TWICE”
91. MONSTA X’s “Piece”
92. BIGBANG’s Daesung’s “D-LITE”

Top Single Rankings

12. BTS’s “Fake Love/Airplane Pt. 2”
19. TWICE’s “Wake Me Up”
20. TWICE’s “Candy Pop”
45. TVXQ’s “Reboot”
57. JYJ’s Kim Jaejoong’s “Defiance”
64. JYJ’s Kim Jaejoong’s “Sign/Your Love”
69. TVXQ’s “Jealous”
73. TVXQ’s “Road”
77. MONSTA X’s “Livin’ It Up”
82. SHINee’s “Sunny Side”
93. MONSTA X’s “Spotlight”

Congratulations to all of the artists who made this year’s rankings!

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