The Show! Music Core Chart is a record chart on the South Korean MBC television music program Show! Music Core. Every week, the show awards the best-performing single on the chart in the country during its live broadcast. In 2021, 27 singles have ranked at number one on the chart and 19 music acts received first-place trophies. No release for the year achieved a perfect score, but "Antidote" by Kang Daniel, which attained the highest point total on the April 24 broadcast with 10,702 points. "Butter" by BTS was number 1 for 5 consecutive weeks. The artist with the most number of wins was IU with 10 total wins. (en)
BTS and IU were the first two recipients of Show! Music Core's newly established Quintuple Crown; they were awarded for their songs "Butter" and "Strawberry Moon," respectively. (en)
Lim Young-woong and Shinee's Key received their first-ever music show awards with their music show trophies for "My Starry Love" and "Bad Love," respectively. Lim became the first trot artist to win a music show in 14 years. (en)
NCT Dream , Astro , The Boyz , Aespa , IVE received their first Show! Music Core trophies for "Hot Sauce," "After Midnight," "Thrill Ride," "Savage," and "Eleven," respectively. (en)