G-Dragon지드래곤

G-Dragon (지드래곤; real name Kwon Ji-yong, 권지용) is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter and entrepreneur, born in Seoul on August 18, 1988. He is the leader of BIGBANG, and Wikipedia says he has been dubbed the "King of K-pop" and has written or co-written 24 number-one songs on the Gaon Digital Chart.¹ His third studio album, Übermensch (2025), brought him the Melon Music Awards' Album of the Year, and its singles "Home Sweet Home" and "Too Bad" reached number one, according to Wikipedia.¹

DabPop's archives record his awards at the two biggest year-end shows. At the Melon Music Awards (MMA) he won his first daesang at the first ceremony in 2009, Album of the Year for his first solo studio album, Heartbreaker; at the 17th ceremony in 2025 he won Artist, Album (Übermensch) and Song of the Year ("Home Sweet Home", featuring his BIGBANG bandmates Taeyang and Daesung), seven awards in all, and no solo artist had won more than two daesang at one MMA ceremony before.² At MAMA he won Artist of the Year in 2025, 12 years after he first won it in 2013, and is the only soloist ever to win that category; every other winner has been a group.³

The same two songs rank among the year's biggest in Korea: on Circle Chart's yearly Digital Chart for 2025, "HOME SWEET HOME" (featuring Taeyang and Daesung) is No. 5 with a score of 494,037,343 and "TOO BAD" (featuring Anderson .Paak) is No. 14 with 390,222,844, in DabPop's table of the biggest songs in Korea in 2025.⁴ Wikipedia adds that South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism awarded him the Okgwan Order of Cultural Merit, fourth grade, in 2025.¹