List of Inkigayo Chart winners (2016)

The Inkigayo Chart is a music program record chart that gives an award to the best-performing single of the week in South Korea. The chart measured digital performance in domestic online music services (5,500 points), social media via YouTube views (3,500 points), advanced viewer votes (500 points), and album sales (500 points) in its ranking methodology. The candidates for the number-one song of the week received additional points from live votes (1,000 points). Songs that spend three weeks at number one are awarded a Triple Crown and are removed from the chart and ineligible to win again. The show was hosted by six different people across the whole year. Kim Yoo-jung, Jackson Wang and Yook Sung-jae had hosted the show together since September 13, 2015. Yoo-jung left the show on April 3, 2016. Wang and Sung-jae continued to host the show till May 29, 2016. The following week Gong Seung-yeon, Jeongyeon and Kim Min-seok were announced as the new hosts of the show.

In 2016, there were 37 singles that ranked number one on the chart and 30 music acts received award trophies for this feat. Nine artists had more than one number one in 2016. Girl groups Blackpink, Twice and GFriend ranked number one on the chart for the first time with "Whistle", "Cheer Up" and "Rough", respectively. The three groups all went on to have another number one in 2016. Blackpink with "Playing with Fire", Twice with "TT" and GFriend with "Navillera". Both singles by Twice and GFriend ranked number one for three weeks each and went on to achieve a triple crown. Both groups ranked number one for six weeks making them the artists with the most wins of the year. The only other girl group to rank two singles at number one in 2016 is Red Velvet achieved with "One of These Nights" and "Russian Roulette". "Dream" by Suzy and Baekhyun ranked number one for three consecutive weeks in January and achieved a triple crown.

Boy groups Got7 and BTS also achieved their first Inkigayo award in 2016 with "Fly" in April and "Fire" in May, respectively. Both groups went on to achieve another number one on the chart in October with "Hard Carry" and "Blood Sweat & Tears", respectively. Other boy groups to rank two singles at number one include Block B with "A Few Years Later" and "Toy", and Exo with "Monster" and "Lotto". On the June 19 broadcast, Exo's "Monster" accumulated a perfect score of 11,000 points making it the single with the highest score of the year. The only soloist to have two number one singles on the chart is Taeyeon with "Rain" and "Why". Upon topping the ranking with "You're the Best", Mamamoo won its first music show award two years and two months after its debut. I.O.I, formed through the first season of the survival reality show Produce 101, achieved their first number one on the chart with "Very Very Very" in October. Besides Taeyeon, three other solo artists achieved their first number one on the chart in 2016. Rapper Gary won his first Inkigayo award for "Lonely Night" despite a lack of promotional activities on music programs. Other first-time Inkigayo winners as soloists include Jung Eun-ji's "Hopefully Sky" and Baek A-yeon's "So-So". The last number one of the year was "Fxxk It" by BigBang which went on to achieve a triple crown in 2017.