List of Gaon Album Chart number ones of 2016
The Gaon Album Chart is a record chart that ranks the best-selling albums and EPs in South Korea. It is part of the Gaon Music Chart which launched in February 2010. The data for the chart is compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Music Content Industry Association based on weekly and monthly physical albums and digital sales by six major distributors: LOEN Entertainment, S.M. Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Warner Music Korea, Universal Music and Mnet Media.
Overall, BTS' album Wings was Gaon Album Chart best selling album of 2016, selling 751,301 copies in a year. With Wings, BTS breaks the highest-selling album ever recorded on Gaon Music Chart since the chart’s inception in 2010. Five months earlier, BTS' album already topped Gaon Album Chart second place for the first half of 2016, selling 368,369 copies overall at the end of the year. BTS earned Artist of The Year at 2016 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Album of The Year at 2016 Melon Music Awards, Album of The Year at 6th Gaon Chart Music Awards and Disk Bonsang at 31st Golden Disc Awards. EXO sold South Korea best-selling album of 2016 with all standard Ex'Act and each of its reissue Ex'Act , Lotto and Lotto albums selling a total of 1,149,743 units overall.
Weekly charts
| Week | Album | Artist | |
| Sing for You | EXO | ||
| The Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 2 | BTS | ||
| Dream | Suzy, Baekhyun | ||
| Red Point | Teen Top | ||
| The Little Prince | Kim Ryeowook | ||
| Exit : E | WINNER | ||
| No.X | Jaejoong | ||
| No.X | Jaejoong | ||
| Press It | Taemin | ||
| Press It | Taemin | ||
| The Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 1 | BTS | ||
| The Velvet | Red Velvet | ||
| ' | Got7 | ||
| Remember That | BtoB | ||
| Blueming | CNBLUE | ||
| Blooming Period | Block B | ||
| Zelos | VIXX | ||
| Love&Letter | Seventeen | ||
| ' | BTS | ||
| ' | BTS | ||
| With Love, J | Jessica | ||
| She Is | Jonghyun | ||
| Xignature | Xia | ||
| Ex'Act | EXO | ||
| Ex'Act | EXO | ||
| Ex'Act | EXO | ||
| Why | Taeyeon | ||
| Highlight | Beast | ||
| Love & Letter Repackage | Seventeen | ||
| Where's the Truth? | F.T. Island | ||
| NCT #127 | NCT 127 | ||
| Listen to My Word | Oh My Girl | ||
| Hades | VIXX | ||
| Lotto | EXO | ||
| Hades | VIXX | ||
| Summer go! | UP10TION | ||
| Russian Roulette | Red Velvet | ||
| Gentlemen's Game | 2PM | ||
| Infinite Only | Infinite | ||
| ' | Got7 | ||
| 1 of 1 | SHINee | ||
| Wings | BTS | ||
| Wings | BTS | ||
| ' | TWICE | ||
| Hey Mama! | EXO-CBX | ||
| Lose Control | Lay | ||
| 1 and 1 | SHINee | ||
| Burst | UP10TION | ||
| Good Timing | B1A4 | ||
| Going Seventeen | Seventeen | ||
| Wonderland | Jessica | ||
| For Life | EXO | ||
| ' | TWICE |
Monthly charts
| Month | Album | Artist | Sales | |
| Red Point | Teen Top | 78,098 | ||
| No.X | Jaejoong | 84,868 | ||
| ' | Got7 | 99,977 | ||
| Love&Letter | Seventeen | 132,402 | ||
| ' | BTS | 310,243 | ||
| Ex'Act | EXO | 524,823 | ||
| Love & Letter Repackage | Seventeen | 89,311 | ||
| Lotto | EXO | 223,953 | ||
| Infinite Only | Infinite | 109,751 | ||
| Wings | BTS | 681,924 | ||
| Lose Control | Lay | 129,140 | ||
| For Life | EXO | 438,481 |