Weekly Idol () is a South Korean variety show, which aired on Wednesdays at 6:20 PM KST on MBC M, and 12:00 AM KST on MBC Every1, MBC's cable and satellite networks for its first five seasons.
For its first season, the show was hosted by comedian Jung Hyung-don and rapper Defconn.
The second season, which debuted on April 11, 2018, was hosted by former Roo'ra member Lee Sang-min and comedians Yoo Se-yoon & Kim Shin-young.
The third season, which debuted on January 9, 2019, was hosted by comedians Jo Se-ho & Nam Chang-hee and ZE:A's Hwang Kwang-hee. On February 12, 2020, it was announced that Jo Se-ho and Nam Chang-hee would leave their hosting roles, and there would be special MCs recruited to join Hwang Kwang-hee in hosting each episode, starting from the episode on February 19 until the episode on April 15. On April 17, it was announced that Super Junior's Eunhyuk would join as fixed host with Hwang Kwang-hee, starting from the episode on April 22.
On April 4, 2023, it was announced that Hwang Kwang-hee and Eunhyuk would leave their hosting roles after the episode on April 12, and BtoB's Seo Eun-kwang and Lovelyz's Mijoo would replace the former two beginning the episode on April 19; this marked the beginning of Season 4. A reorganisation of the show happened beginning the episode on November 1, 2023, and Mukbang YouTuber Heebab would join the fixed cast lineup only during the mukbang section. On December 26, 2023, it was announced that Seo Eun-kwang and Lee Mi-joo would leave their hosting roles, with their last episode airing the next day, and this marked the end of Season 4.
On January 2, 2024 it was announced that Boom and Golden Child's Lee Jang-jun would be the new hosts, beginning the episode on January 17, which would also be the beginning of Season 5.
The show went on a six-month hiatus after the episode on December 25, 2024, before confirming its return on June 6, 2025, as Season 6, with Monsta X's Minhyuk and Cravity's Hyeongjun named the new MCs. The season will also be aired in a new timeslot of Fridays at 5:30 PM KST on MBC M, and 11:30 PM KST on MBC Every1.
2011
No. in overall No. in season Air Date Featured guests Notes Season 1 - Hosts: Jeong Hyeong-don, Defconn 1 1 July 23 — 'Real Chart! Idol Self-Ranking' corner only 2 2 July 30 3 3 August 6 4 4 August 13 Infinite Introduced 'Idol of the Week' corner 5 5 August 20 MBLAQ 6 6 August 27 ZE:A 7 7 September 3 — Non-guest Special: Beast 8 8 September 10 Sistar 9 9 September 17 4Minute 10 10 September 24 U-KISS 11 11 October 1 G.NA 12 12 October 8 Special: Kara 13 13 October 15 Rainbow 14 14 October 22 — Non-guest Special: Girls' Generation 15 15 October 29 FT Island 16 16 November 5 — Non-guest Special: Kim Hyun-Joong 17 17 November 12 Orange Caramel 18 18 November 19 Girl's Day 19 19 November 26 Secret 20 20 December 3 Infinite, G.NA Unaired Scenes from Ep.4 and Ep.11 21 21 December 10 Rainbow, MBLAQ Unaired Scenes from Ep.5 and Ep.13 22 22 December 17 Wonder Girls 23 23 December 24 Infinite 24 24 December 31 — 1st Weekly Idol Awards
2012
No. in overall No. in season Air Date Featured guests Notes 25 25 January 7 Apink 26 26 January 14 B1A4 27 27 January 21 Boyfriend 28 28 January 28 Dal Shabet 29 29 February 4 T-ara (except Jiyeon and Eunjung) 30 30 February 11 MBLAQ 31 31 February 18 Teen Top 32 32 February 25 Special Appearance: Andy (Shinhwa) 33 33 March 3 Jay Park 34 34 March 14 FT Island 35 35 March 21 Miss A 36 36 March 28 37 37 April 4 Haha 38 38 April 11 39 39 April 18 2AM 40 40 April 25 B1A4 41 41 May 2 SHINee 42 42 May 9 43 43 May 16 4Minute, BtoB 44 44 May 23 Apink 45 45 May 30 Hyungdon and Daejun Special MCs: Haha, Sistar (Hyolyn, Soyou) 46 46 June 6 Nine Muses 47 47 June 13 Infinite 48 48 June 20 49 49 June 27 Teen Top 50 50 July 4 G.NA 51 51 July 11 f(x) 52 52 July 18 After School Weekly Idol 1st Anniversary 53 53 July 25 54 54 August 1 Hello Venus, NU'EST 55 55 August 8 Skull & Haha 56 56 August 15 Infinite 57 57 August 22 B.A.P 58 58 August 29 Beast 59 59 September 5 60 60 September 12 Super Junior (Leeteuk, Eunhyuk, Ryeowook, Kyuhyun) 61 61 September 19 62 62 September 26 Secret 63 63 October 3 64 64 October 10 Tasty, Hyungdon and Daejun Special MCs: Infinite (Sungkyu, Hoya) 65 65 October 17 ZE:A 66 66 October 24 BtoB 67 67 October 31 Orange Caramel 68 68 November 7 Spica, Fiestar 69 69 November 14 Miss A 70 70 November 21 Special MC: Ilhoon (BtoB) 71 71 November 28 Block B 72 72 December 5 Jewelry Special MC: Ilhoon (BtoB) 73 73 December 12 B1A4, Special Appearance: Hyukjin (100%) 74 74 December 19 Girl's Day Special MC: Ilhoon (BtoB) 75 75 December 26 Sunggyu (Infinite), Ilhoon (BtoB) 2nd Weekly Idol AwardsSpecial MC: Sohyun (4Minute)
2013
No. in overall No. in season Air Date Featured guests Notes 76 76 January 2 Ailee 77 77 January 9 Yang Yo-seob (Beast) 78 78 January 16 Hello Venus 79 79 January 23 INFINITE H 80 80 January 30 2Yoon, Sohyun (4Minute) Special MC: Ilhoon (BtoB) 81 81 February 6 Nine Muses 82 82 February 13 Dal Shabet 83 83 February 20 Sistar19 84 84 February 27 Huh Gak, Hyungdon and Daejun Special MCs: Sohyun (4Minute), Ilhoon (BtoB) 85 85 March 6 B.A.P Special Appearance: Kim Bohyung (Spica) 86 86 March 13, 2013 Rainbow 87 87 March 20 4Minute Special MC: Ilhoon (BtoB) 88 88 March 27 89 89 April 3 SHINee Minho is absent 90 90 April 10 91 91 April 17 Speed (Special Corner Segment), Teen Top Special MC: Ilhoon (BtoB) 92 92 April 24 RaNia 93 93 May 1 INFINITE 94 94 May 8 95 95 May 15 Secret 96 96 May 22 15& 97 97 May 29 B1A4 98 98 June 5 BtoB 99 99 June 12 100% 100 100 June 19 Rainbow, Secret, 4Minute 100th Episode Special 101 101 June 26 102 102 July 3 MBLAQ 103 103 July 10 Exo 104 104 July 17 Apink 105 105 July 24 Girl's Day Weekly Idol 2nd Anniversary 106 106 July 31 Jewelry 107 107 August 7 INFINITE Summer Special 1 108 108 August 14 Exo Summer Special 2 109 109 August 21 Beast Summer Special 3 110 110 August 28 111 111 September 4 B.A.P Summer Special 4 112 112 September 11 Tasty Special Appearance: DefconnSpecial MC: Bomi (Apink) 113 113 September 18 BtoB Chuseok Special 114 114 September 25 A-JAX, 2EYES 115 115 October 2 Teen Top 116 116 October 9 Henry (Super Junior-M) Special Appearance: Kyuhyun (Super Junior) 117 117 October 16 Ladies' Code 118 118 October 23 Block B 119 119 October 30 Spica 120 120 November 6 IU 121 121 November 13 122 122 November 20 K.Will 123 123 November 27 Park Ji-yoon, Lim Kim 124 124 December 4 G-Dragon 125 125 December 11 126 126 December 18 Shin Bora 127 127 December 25 Bomi (Apink), Ilhoon (BtoB), P.O. (Block B) 3rd Weekly Idol Awards
2014
No. in overall No. in season Air Date Featured guests Notes 128 128 January 1 Kim Hee-chul (Super Junior) 129 129 January 8 Yong Jun-hyung (Beast) 130 130 January 15 Secret 131 131 January 22 AOA 132 132 January 29 Rainbow Blaxx 133 133 February 5 History 134 134 February 12 Girl's Day 135 135 February 19 B1A4 136 136 February 26 BtoB 137 137 March 5 B.A.P 138 138 March 12 Gain (Brown Eyed Girls) 139 139 March 19 CNBLUE 140 140 March 26 141 141 April 2 4Minute 142 142 April 9 Apink 143 143 April 16 Crayon Pop 144 144 April 30 BTS 145 145 May 7 Bestie, 100% 146 146 May 14 Got7 147 147 May 21 G.NA Special Appearance: Ilhoon (BtoB) 148 148 May 28 Jun Hyoseong (Secret) 149 149 June 4 Jiyeon (T-ara) 150 150 June 11 Wheesung 151 151 June 18 Beast 152 152 June 25 INFINITE INFINITE's 10th Appearance Special 153 153 July 2 154 154 July 9 AOA 155 155 July 16 Jung Joon-young 156 156 July 23 Got7, Apink (Bomi, Namjoo, Hayoung), BtoB, Rainbow, Beast (Doojoon, Yoseob, Dongwoon) Weekly Idol 3rd Anniversary 157 157 July 30 4Minute, Hyomin (T-ara), Nine Muses (Hyuna, Euaerin, Sungah, Kyungri), Boyfriend, FT Island (Jonghoon, Jaejin, Seunghyun), CNBLUE (Jonghyun, Minhyuk), AOA 158 158 August 6 HyunA (4Minute) 159 159 August 13 B1A4 160 160 August 20 Big Byung (Sungjae (BtoB), N (VIXX), Hyuk (VIXX), Jackson (Got7)) 161 161 August 27 Tiny-G 162 162 September 3 Kara 163 163 September 10 164 164 September 17 NU'EST, Fiestar 165 165 September 24 T-ara 166 166 October 1 Kim Jong-min (Koyote) 167 167 October 8 Teen Top 168 168 October 15 Red Velvet 169 169 October 22 Winner 170 170 October 29 VIXX 171 171 November 5 Orange Caramel 172 172 November 12 Song Jieun (Secret) Special Appearance: Jung Hana (Secret) 173 173 November 19 AOA 174 174 November 26 Boyfriend 175 175 December 3 Apink 176 176 December 10 Kim Ian, Changjo (Teen Top) Special Appearance: Sweden Laundry 177 177 December 17 Got7 178 178 December 24 EXID 179 179 December 31 Big Byung (Sungjae (BtoB), N (VIXX), Hyuk (VIXX), Jackson (Got7)) 4th Weekly Idol Awards Special MC: Bomi (Apink), Ilhoon (BtoB)
2015
No. in overall No. in season Air Date Featured guests Notes 180 180 January 7 Hong Jin-young 181 181 January 14 Boys Republic 182 182 January 21 Junggigo, Mad Clown, Jooyoung 183 183 January 28 Lizzy (After School) Special Appearance: Eunkwang (BtoB) 184 184 February 4 Nine Muses 185 185 February 11 4Minute 186 186 February 18 Jung Yong-hwa (CNBLUE) 187 187 February 25 Big Byung (Sungjae (BtoB), Hyuk (VIXX), Jackson (Got7)), Chamsonyeo (G.NA, Sohyun (4Minute), Youngji (Kara)) N (VIXX, Big Byung) and Lizzy (After School, Chamsonyeo) are absent 188 188 March 4 Niel (Teen Top) Special Appearance: Teen Top (C.A.P, L.Joe, Ricky) 189 189 March 11 Rainbow 190 190 March 18 Lovelyz 191 191 March 25 Boyfriend 192 192 April 1 Apink Weekly Idol in Saipan Special in honor of MBC Media Plus 14th Anniversary 193 193 April 8 194 194 April 15 Berry Good, GFriend 195 195 April 22 K.Will 196 196 April 29 FT Island 197 197 May 6 EXID 198 198 May 13 CLC 199 199 May 20 Kim Sung-kyu (INFINITE) 200 200 May 27 Secret (Hana, Jieun), AOA (Jimin, ChoA), Sistar (Bora, Soyou), Sonamoo, Monsta X, N.Flying (Lee Seung-hyub, Kim Jae-hyun) 200th Episode Special 201 201 June 3 202 202 June 10 Kara 203 203 June 17 UNIQ (First half corner), BTS (Main Guest) 204 204 June 24 AOA 205 205 July 1 Teen Top 206 206 July 8 BtoB 207 207 July 15 INFINITE Summer Special 1 208 208 July 22 Apink Summer Special 2 209 209 July 29 Beast Summer Special 3 210 210 August 5 Girl's Day Summer Special 4 211 211 August 12 Wonder Girls Summer Special 5 212 212 August 19 Girls' Generation Summer Special 6 213 213 August 26 214 214 September 2 Mamamoo 215 215 September 9 April Rookie Special 1Special Appearance: Rainbow (Seungah, Jisook) 216 216 September 16 Monsta X Rookie Special 2 217 217 September 23 Red Velvet Rookie Special 3 218 218 September 30 CNBLUE 219 219 October 7 Lovelyz 220 220 October 14 Got7 221 221 October 21 GFriend 222 222 October 28 Seventeen 223 223 November 4 Oh My Girl 224 224 November 11 Brown Eyed Girls 225 225 November 18 N.Flying 226 226 November 25 EXID 227 227 December 2 VIXX Special MC: Sungkyu (INFINITE) 228 228 December 9 Twice 229 229 December 16 BTS Special MC: Kim Heechul (Super Junior) 230 230 December 23 Lovelyz (Jisoo, Kei, Sujeong), GFriend (Yerin, Yuju, SinB), Twice (Nayeon, Dahyun, Tzuyu) Christmas SpecialSpecial MC: Kim Heechul (Super Junior) 231 231 December 30 Oh Ha-young (Apink), N (VIXX), Mina (AOA) 5th Weekly Idol AwardsSpecial MC: Yoon Bo-mi (Apink)
2016