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The Gaon Download chart ranks the bestselling individual songs in South Korea every week, and it also has a component that looks at the biggest titles every month. In January 2022, several contributions to soundtracks that accompany popular TV shows rank as among the bestselling tunes in the Asian nation, while superstar IU manages to fill more than one spot inside the top 10 yet again.
The bestselling song in South Korea in January 2022 was Lee Seung Yoon’s “The Giving Tree,” which is taken from the soundtrack of the local rom com show Our Beloved Summer. Impressively, another track from the same series appears at No. 4. BTS member V contributed the seasonal smash “Christmas Tree,” which improves from its performance in December 2021, entering the top 10 on the latest monthly list.
IU claims a pair of spots inside the top 10 on the ranking of the bestselling tunes in South Korea in January 2022, as her tracks “Winter Sleep” and “Drama” land at Nos. 2 and 5, respectively. Both cuts are taken from her recent effort Pieces, which was released just a few days before 2022 rolled around. The rest of the titles on the short set also all appear somewhere inside the top 40.
Kim Min-seok’s “Drunken Confession” rockets more than 20 spaces month-over-month to end January 2022 as the third-bestselling song in South Korea.
New at No. 6 (behind both V and IU) comes “Step Back” by brand new super girl group Got The Beat. The band features members from Girls’ Generation, Aespa, Red Velvet and solo star Boa, and their first-ever single quickly became a bestseller in the country. Just after that cut comes a Got The Beat singer, Taeyeon, whose new solo smash “Can’t Control Myself” was the seventh-bestselling release of last month.
Up from where it ranked at the end of December is Lim Young-woong’s “Love Always Runs Away” (No. 8) while Aespa’s “Dreams Come True” bolts double-digit rungs to finish as the ninth-bestseller. The last entry inside the top 10 on the monthly ranking is Lee Sun-hee’s “I’ll Leave You,” yet another soundtrack appearance.
These were the 10 bestselling songs in South Korea last month.
No. 1 – Lee Seung Yoon – “The Giving Tree”
No. 2 – IU – “Winter Sleep”
No. 3 – Kim Min-seok – “Drunken Confession”
No. 4 – V – “Christmas Tree”
No. 5 – IU – “Drama”
No. 6 – Got The Beat – “Step Back”
No. 7 – Taeyeon – “Can’t Control Myself”
No. 8 – Lim Young-woong – “Love Always Runs Away”
No. 9 – Aespa – “Dreams Come True”
No. 10 – Lee Sun-hee – “I’ll Leave You”
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2022/02/16/btss-v-iu-taeyeon-aespa-and-got-the-beat-the-10-bestselling-songs-in-korea-in-january-2022/