
Loen Entertainment, the parent company of MelOn is hosting this award ceremony and received over 1,740,000 online votes in the first round that counted as 20% of the final score. The other 80% consisted of the artists' scores based on their music sales.
In the end, these artists were chosen as the Top 10 of 2013: EXO, Davichi, Dynamic Duo, Busker Busker, B2ST, SHINee, SISTAR, IU, Ailee, and G-Dragon.
EXO received the most votes with 24% (417,952), B2ST was second with 20% (353,692), and SHINee was third with 12% (204,708).

These members in the top 10 will be put in a second round of votes that will take place until November 13th to choose the winners of the top three awards: Best Artist, Best Album, and Best Song. The winners will be announced on November 14th at the fifth annual award ceremony which will take place at Seoul's Olympic Gymnastics Arena.
Source: allkpop
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Date: 2013-10-30 05:29 pm (UTC)like no snsd or infinite (okay I know infinite's songs didn't do extremely well, but they still had two releases this year that did okay. then again they probably only did well physically).
IU's only had one comeback this year though right? she must be slaying digitally to be beating out other groups in this short time period @_@
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Date: 2013-10-30 05:51 pm (UTC)well watch exo saesangs ruin this and they win all three
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Date: 2013-10-31 04:44 am (UTC)what do sasaengs have to do with this o_o
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Date: 2013-10-30 08:44 pm (UTC)Also Shadow didn't do that badly, their three singles charted pretty well for a male idol group.
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Date: 2013-10-30 09:51 pm (UTC)a lot of the groups missing in the top 10 are nominated for song of the year tho... snsd, 4minute, cho yong pil, roy kim, psy, akdong musician etc
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Date: 2013-10-30 10:16 pm (UTC)It's like no one in this comm knows how to read charts lol.
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Date: 2013-10-30 10:23 pm (UTC)Also, this isn't just based on digital scores, apparently there were other factors involved (hence why Psy is nowhere to be found) such as fan voting, and Melon's own bias (hence why B2ST is here..... again)
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Date: 2013-10-30 10:42 pm (UTC)Weren't they #1 in Gaon digital chart last week? And they're still top 15-20 after 3 weeks and that's not bad for a boygroup. I've seen other groups dropping to #30 or #40 after a week tbh.
And DG did really well digitally indeed.
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Date: 2013-10-30 10:48 pm (UTC)IGAB might only have done well bc it is snsd but it doesn't matter why they did well, they still have pretty good dl numbers. gentlemen only did well bc it's psy, busker busker's songs only did well bc it is busker busker... it doesn't matter lmao
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Date: 2013-10-30 10:54 pm (UTC)SNSD's comeback was pretty early in the year so I feel like most people probably forgot about it tbh. Idk otherwise I think they'd be in here too because I know they do well regardless but I'm not about to get mad about a stupid music show lol.
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Date: 2013-10-30 11:15 pm (UTC)sorry for the 3231 edits lol
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