[Special] 2023 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Nomination Announcement

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Welcome to the Nomination Announcement post for the 2023 KPOPREVIEWED Awards! Today, you will find out whom I have nominated under each category of the 2023 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

In total, 36 categories and the nominations associated with the categories, are announced today. As there is a fair bit of categories to get through, I have split them over three pages under this post. You can find weblinks to the pages at the top or bottom of each page, or you can navigate to via the numbers at the bottom of each page.

On 10 November 2023, I will be posting the KPOPREVIEWED (i.e., my) Choice of winners for the 2023 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. And voting will officially begin on 15 November 2023 at 12AM AEDT.

But until then, I present to you the nominees for the 2023 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

Page 1 – Artist Categories (this page)
Page 2 – Performance, Visuals & Comeback Categories
Page 3 – Song & Album Categories

Artist Categories

Best New Group and Soloist Awards

Best New Male Group of 2023 Nominees: BOYNEXTDOOR, EVNNE, RIIZE, THE WIND, xikers, ZEROBASEONE

Best New Female Group of 2023 Nominees: EL7Z UP, FIFTY FIFTY, KISS OF LIFE, LOOSSEMBLE, ODD EYE CIRCLE, tripleS

Best New Female Soloist of 2023 Nominees: CHUU, JIHYO (TWICE), JINI, JISOO (BLACKPINK), MIJOO (LOVELYZ), ROA (ROCKING DOLL)

Best New Male Soloist of 2023 Nominees: JAECHAN (DKZ), JIMIN (BTS), Joohoney (MONSTA X), Jimin (BTS), Jung Kook (BTS), RM (BTS), V (BTS)

Most Underrated and Rising Star Awards

Most Underrated Artist of 2023 Nominees: cignature, CSR, LUCY, NMIXX, SECRET NUMBER, THE NEW SIX (TNX)

Rising Star of 2023 Nominees: DKB, CRAVITY, FIFTY FIFTY, H1-KEY, KWON EUN BI, XDINARY HEROES

Best Band, Rap and Vocal Performance Awards

Best Band Performance of 2023 Nominees: FTISLAND (for Sage), LUCY (for HAZE), ONEWE (for Omnipresent), ROLLING QUARTZ (for FEARLESS), W24 (for Voyager), Xdinary Heroes (for Break The Brakes)

Best Rap Performance of 2023 Nominees: AGUST D (BTS) for Haegeum, Dynamic Duo & Lee Young Ji for Smoke, J-HOPE (BTS) for on the street, MARK (NCT) for Golden Hour, RM (BTS) for Wild Flower, Stray Kids’ Rappers for S-Class.

Best Vocal Performance of 2023 Nominees: Ailee for I’ll Hold You, AESPA ft. Naevis for Welcome To My World, APINK for D N D, BIG NAUGHTY & Lee Suhyun (AKMU) for Hopeless Romantic, BTOB for Wind & Wish, LUCY for HAZE.

Best Subunit Award

Best Subunit of 2023 Nominees: BSS (SEVENTEEN), NCT DOJAEJUNG, NCT DREAM, MAMAMOO+, MOONBIN & SANHA (ASTRO), T5 (TREASURE)

Best Soloist Awards

Best Male Soloist of 2023 Nominees: AGUST D (SUGA – BTS), KAI (EXO), KANG DANIEL, KEY (SHINee), TAEYANG (BIGBANG), WOODZ

Best Female Soloist of 2023 Nominees: HWASA (MAMAMOO), JEON SOMI, JO YURI, KWON EUN BI, LEE CHAE YEON, SUNMI

Best Group Awards

Best Female Group of 2023 Nominees: (G)I-DLE, aespa, IVE, LE SSERAFIM, NewJeans, TWICE

Best Male Group of 2023 Nominees: ATEEZ, NCT, SEVENTEEN, STRAY KIDS, THE BOYZ, TXT

Best Overall Artist of 2023 – Grand Award

Once again, you will be help decide, in combination with my Weekly KPOP Charts, who will be awarded the ‘Best Overall Artist of 2023”. Think it like the Artist Daesang that is awarded at the end of the Korean award shows for the biggest and most successful artist of the year.

All you have to do is name 1 to 3 Korean artists in the voting form, once voting begins on 15 November 2023. It can be any artist from any category above, or another artist (provided they released music between 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2023) who you think is worthy of becoming the ‘Best Overall Artist of 2023’.

Page 1 – Artist Categories (this page)
Page 2 – Performance, Visuals & Comeback Categories
Page 3 – Song & Album Categories

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5 thoughts on “[Special] 2023 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Nomination Announcement”

    1. While NMIXX undoubtedly had strong album sales this year, I considered more than just album sales when nominating a group under that ‘Most Underrated Artist’ category, such as reaction/responses to their comebacks, the amount of fanfare the comebacks got (relative to similar groups to NMIXX) etc.
      Furthermore, I have previously nominated other groups that are much more senior and definitely not ‘nugu’ status under that award, considering their performance during the year against other groups of a similar nature.

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