M!Countdown is a ranking program of the country's best songs co-produced by South Korea's two major music television stations, MNET and KMTV***. The ranking criteria are comprehensively compiled from surveys by specialized agencies, album sales, number of program appearances, selected group scores, on-site totals, digital surveys (MNET and KMTV online voting) and digital sales (MP3 downloads and online listening clicks). The first place was finally selected through SMS voting on the top 1, 2, and 3 candidate songs on the day of the live broadcast.