The Korea Music Content Association (KMCA) was established in 2008, with the purpose of promoting the professional interests of its members, as well as being involved in anti-piracy.
It introduced the first official South Korean music charts in 2010,[1] and implemented record certifications in April 2018—only releases subsequent to January 1, 2018 would be eligible once they fulfilled the required thresholds.
[2][3] Since 2018, 355 albums have been certified by the KMCA in South Korea.
Boy band Seventeen has the most-certified albums of any artist, with twenty-two.
[5] As of September 2024, South Korea's highest-certified records are Map of the Soul: 7 (2020) by BTS, FML (2023) and Seventeenth Heaven (2023) by Seventeen, and 5-Star (2023) by Stray Kids.