Award Ceremonies – KPOPREVIEWED

[Special/Awards] 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Announcement of Winners

January 25, 2022April 7, 2022Posted in Award Ceremonies, Special1 Comment

Welcome all to the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Today, I will be presenting the winners of the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Since mid-November 2021 to the end of December 2021, you have been busy voting in the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards, selecting all the winners for each of the categories you will b seeing in this voting (aside from Best Side Track, the BLOG RELATED categories and Best Song of 2021, with the latter determined by 50% fan votes and 50% my Weekly KPOP Charts). And vote you all did! Many votes (much more than what I expected) were casted over this period, and I have over the last month been counting votes and preparing this Winners Announcement post.

As mentioned in the previous posts about the awards, the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Award is part of the 2021 Critics Award Circuit. Many of the other blogs who also participated have announced their winners for their own awards quite a while ago, so check the link above to see their winners!

Due to the number of categories, I have elected to split this post into four pages.

To view the ARTIST-RELATED categories (including Best Male and Female Soloists, and Best Male and Female Group, collectively the Artists of the Year categories), stay on this page and keep on scrolling.
To view the CHOREOGRAPHIES, VISUALS, PERFORMANCE and BLOG RELATED categories, click here or click the second page link at the bottom of this page.
To view the SONG-RELATED categories, click here or click the third page link at the bottom of this page.
To see who took out the BEST SONG OF 2021 category and the END OF YEAR CHARTS, click here or click the fourth page link at bottom of this page.

The post is very image-heavy, so if you prefer, a bandwidth-friendly version on Google Sheets is included in the link directly below this paragraph. It includes all of the nominees, winners, KPOPREVIEWED Choices, Honourable Mentions for the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards on the first sheet and an extended version of the 2021 End of Year Charts on the second sheet (Top 200).

CONSOLIDATED VERSION OF NOMINATIONS, WINNERS and KPOPREVIEWED Choice

So without further ado, I present to you the winners for the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

Best New Artists Award Categories

Best New Female Group of 2021

Winner: LIGHTSUM
Honourable Mention: PURPLE KISS
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: PURPLE KISS

Best New Male Group of 2021

Winner: ENHYPEN
Honourable Mention: MIRAE
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: EHYPEN

Best New Female Soloist of 2021

Winner: Yuqi ((G)I-DLE)
Honourable Mention: Wendy (Red Velvet)
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: Rosé (BLACKPINK)

Best New Male Soloist of 2021

Winner: Kai (EXO)
Honourable Mention: D.O (EXO)
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: Kai (EXO)

Best Delivery Award Categories

Best Vocals of 2021

Winner: Baekhyun (EXO) for Hurt
Honourable Mention: IU for My Sea
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: Pentagon for Lovesick Boys (Lovesick Girls Cover)

Best Rapper of 2021

Winner: JESSI for What Type of X
Honourable Mention: CL for Spicy
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: Changbin (Stray Kids) for DDU-DU DDU-DU Cover

Best Specialty Award Categories

Best Band of 2021

Nominees:
| DAY6 | IZ | LUCY | N.Flying | ONEWE | W24 |

Winner: DAY6
Honourable Mention: N.Flying
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: ONEWE

Best CO-ED Group of 2021

Winner: AKMU
Honourable Mention: HyunA & DAWN
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: AKMU

Best Subunit / Unit of 2021

Winner: NCT 127
Honourable Mention: NCT Dream
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: NCT Dream

Rising Star and Most Underrated Artist Categories

Rising Star of 2021

Winner: aespa
Honourable Mention: WOODZ
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: Brave Girls

Most Underrated Artist of 2021

Winner: Dream Catcher
Honourable Mention: ONEUS
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: ONEUS

Best Artists of the Year Categories

Best Female Soloist of 2021

Winner: IU
Honourable Mention: CHUNG HA
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: IU

Best Male Soloist of 2021

Winner: Baekhyun (EXO)
Honourable Mention: WOODZ
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: Kang Daniel

Best Female Group of 2021

Winner: (G)I-DLE
Honourable Mention: aespa
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: Brave Girls

Best Male Group of 2021

Winner: SEVENTEEN
Honourable Mention: Stray Kids
KPOPREVIEWED Choice: ONF

Page 1 – Artist Related Categories
Page 2 – Choreographies, Visuals, Performances & Blog Related Categories
Page 3 – Song Related Categories
Page 4 – Best Song of 2021 + End of Year Charts

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[Special/Awards] 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Voting Opens

November 15, 2021January 5, 2022Posted in Award Ceremonies, Special13 Comments

Welcome all to the next phase of the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Over the last few weeks, I have posted the nominations and announced my personal picks for who I personally thought was the best of the best in 2021. But in keeping with the annual KPOPREVIEWED Awards from previous years, the final decision of who should win each category will ultimately lie with you (the audience and readers of the blog).

From 15 November 2021 to the final second of 2021, you will be able to vote for your favourite artists, choreographies, visuals, songs and albums. Voting is officially now open, so click the link at the bottom of this post to be taken to the survey and get voting! 37 categories, including Best Male and Female New Artist, Best Male and Female Soloists and Groups, Best Music Video, Best Male and Female Choreography (Solo and Group), Best Album of 2021 now rest in your hands.

Like previous years, you will be able to vote up to five songs in the Best Song of 2021 category at the end of the survey, with your votes making up 50% of the criteria for the category (and the other 50% being my personal Weekly KPOP Charts). Putting five songs down is optional, however. But you must vote for at least one song. If you are certain you know which song is ultimately the best of 2021, then you are allowed to put down that one particular song. But you are open to putting up to five songs, so that you do not need to dwindle your list down to just one song. As always, there are some rules for the categories and they are as follows (you will be reminded of them once you get to that stage of the survey as well):

Please type out the title and artist, especially to differentiate songs with the same title. If I cannot tell which specific song by a particular artist it is, I cannot count your vote.
You can only vote for one song once. You cannot list the same song five times.
Eligibility period for this category is between 30th November 2020 to 24th October 2021. For a list of songs eligible, view this spreadsheet to help you out. (Note this is just a list of songs that I reviewed this year, and there are many other songs eligible that I haven’t reviewed yet).
Only title tracks or songs with a music video will be accepted for this category (sidetracks with a MV are permitted, but sidetracks without a music video are not).
English and Japanese language songs (like the ones nominated earlier) will be accepted this year in this category, so if you want to vote for BTS’s Butter or TXT’s Magic (for example), feel free to. However, title tracks or songs with MVs only – see the list above for eligible songs.

Happy voting. Check the blog in January 2022 to find out if the groups/artists you supported, songs you liked and the performances you enjoyed were awarded in the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT YOUR FAVOURITES IN THE 2021 KPOPREVIEWED AWARDS.

[Special/Awards] 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – KPOPREVIEWED Choice

November 3, 2021November 15, 2021Posted in Award Ceremonies, Special5 Comments

Sorry for the slight delay. There was a lot of mistakes in my images that I needed to redo.

Welcome all, to the announcement of the KPOPREVIEWED Choice post for the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. In this post, I will be presenting to you who I personally think should be the winners in each category of the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. The KPOPREVIEWED Choices below are selected from the nominations that I had posted last week. Please note that the KPOPREVIEWED Choices are irrespective of the reviews that I have posted throughout the year – simply because my thoughts on artists and songs can change throughout the year.

But remember, these are not the final winners! You get to decide that in a fan vote! That will begin mid-November, so keep your eye out for the public voting post/link which I will publish in Mid-November.

As mentioned in the previous posts about the awards, the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Award is part of the 2021 Critics Award Circuit. Announcement of nominations was made by The 555 Review, 108 Ent and deforestedmusic (including Seoul Music Critics Nominations and the 2021 Online KPOP Music Critics Awards) last week for their respective award ceremonies, with more coming your way this week.

This week The 555 Reviews And 108 Ent have announced the winners for their respective awards alongside me! So make sure you check out who won in their awards as well!

The post is very image-heavy, so if you prefer, a reader-friendly version on Google Sheets is included so that you can see who/what the KPOPREVIEWED Choice for the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards is. Click on the link below.

READER-FRIENDLY VERSION OF NOMINATIONS LIST (Now showing the KPOPREVEWED Choices)

Also, due to the number of categories, I have elected to split this post into three pages.

To view the ARTIST-RELATED categories (including Best Male and Female Soloists, and Best Male and Female Group, collectively the Artists of the Year categories), stay on this page and keep on scrolling.
To view the CHOREOGRAPHIES, VISUALS and PERFORMANCE RELATED categories, click here or click to the second page at the bottom of this post.
To view the SONG-RELATED categories, click here or click to the third page at the bottom of this post.

So without further ado, I present to you the KPOPREVIEWED Choices for the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

Best New Artists Award Categories

Best Delivery Award Categories

Best Speciality Award Categories

Nominees for Best Band of 2021
| DAY6 | IZ | LUCY | N.Flying | ONEWE | W24 |

Rising Star and Most Underrated Artist Categories

Best Artists of the Year Categories

PaPage 1 – Artist Related Categories
Page 2 – Choreographies, Visuals, Performances Related Categories
Page 3 – Song Related Categories

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[Special/Awards] 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Nomination Announcement

October 27, 2021November 3, 2021Posted in Award Ceremonies, Special6 Comments

Welcome, all to the announcement of nominations for the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards! As mentioned on Sunday, this year the Awards will be slightly different to previous years. For an explanation of what is happening, click here to have a read of the schedule for the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

As mentioned in the previous post, the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Award is part of the 2021 Critics Award Circuit, which is currently underway with the announcement of nominations by The 555 Review, 108 Ent and deforestedmusic for their respective award ceremonies. As a result, the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED are happening a month earlier than usual, which means the eligibility period for the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards is now between 30 November 2020 to 24 October 2021. Songs released after 24 October 2021 will be considered in next year’s KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

These nominations are based on my thoughts and preferences from the year that has just passed. I have considered a wide range of acts, songs, albums, stages, videos etc. (including those I have not reviewed) as part of this year’s awards. Also, these awards are irrespective of the reviews that I have posted throughout the year – simply because my thoughts on artists and songs can change throughout the year.

PS. I tried to do something different this year with the announcement of nominees, by including pictures for the songs, artists and visuals nominated this year. I hope you can read them. I know for some, particularly the songs/album categories, the wording might be a bit too small. Don’t fret (or get angry at me). I have included a reader-friendly version on Google Sheets, which you can view by clicking the link.

READER-FRIENDLY VERSION OF NOMINATIONS LIST

Also, due to the number of categories, I have elected to split this post into three pages.

To view the ARTIST-RELATED categories (including Best Male and Female Soloists, and Best Male and Female Group, collectively the Artists of the Year categories), stay on this page and keep on scrolling.
To view the CHOREOGRAPHIES, VISUALS and COMEBACK RELATED categories, click here or click to the second page at the bottom of this post.
To view the SONG-RELATED categories, click here or click to the third page at the bottom of this post.

So without further ado, I present to you the nominees for the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

Artist Categories

Note: Pentagon’s Lovesick Girls cover was uploaded at the start of November 2020. However, I didn’t view the video until December 2020, and hence why it is eligible for Special Performance and Vocal awards.

Artists of the Year Categories

Page 1 – Artist Related Categories
Page 2 – Choreographies, Visuals, Comeback Related Categories
Page 3 – Song Related Categories

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[Special] 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Announcement

October 24, 2021October 31, 2021Posted in Award Ceremonies, Special2 Comments

It might be a tad early this year, but I am proud to unveil and announce the beginning of the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Once again, we are approaching the end of the year and it is time to look back at the year (ish) that has just passed. This year, things are happening in a slightly different order than previously (if you haven’t noticed, this particular post is coming out a month in advance than usual). More will be explained below.

The 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards will be part of the 2021 Critics Award Circuit, which is also soon to get underway. Keep your eyes out on other KPOP review blogs for their upcoming announcements. Think blogs that were part of the KPOP Songs of Summer collaboration that happened earlier this year, if you are wondering which specific blogs to look at. As those blogs post their awards posts, I will link to them here.

The 555 Awards of 2021: Nominations
10/10 – Music Critics Association Nominations
2021 deforestedmusic Awards Nominations

Okay, so now here are the details. I have once again added a bunch more categories to the awards this year. You will find out what they are in the coming days. This is on top of the many older categories such as Best New Artist, Best Artist, Best Choreography, Best Music Video etc. categories. And fan voting will still be a thing, so you will definitely still get to have your say in the final winners of each category.

In terms of eligibility for this year, any artist/song nominated will need to be active/released between 30 November 2020 and 22 October 2021. This will include songs such as ENHYPEN’s Given-Taken, Kai’s Mmmh, GOT7’s Last Piece (releases that occurred on 30 November 2020), up until track’s such as SEVENTEEN’s Rock With You and KINGDOM’s Black Crown (releases that occurred up until 22 October 2021). Any songs before the 30 November 2020 date were considered as part of the 2020 KPOPREVIEWED Awards, and any songs released after 22 October 2021 will be considered in the 2022 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

See below for the Key Dates for the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards (all times are based on my local time, AEDT):

24 October 2021 (i.e. today) – Announcement of the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards (this particular post in question!)

9 PM (27 October 2021 (this coming Wednesday) – Announcement of the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards nominees

9 PM 3 November 2021 – KPOPREVIEWED Choice of the 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards nominees – I usually hold off on announcing the KPOPREVIEWED Choice until I post the Winner Announcement post early in the new year. But this time, I will be posting who I think the winners should be in a week after the announcement of the 2021 KPORPEVIEWED Awards nominees.

12:00 AM 15 November 2021 – Public voting opens

11:59 PM 31 December 2021 – Public voting closes

(Date TBC) January 2022 – Announcement of 2021 KPOPREVIEWED Awards Winners

So based on the above, coming up very soon is the announcement of the 2021 KPOPREVIREWED Awards Nominees. Until then, have a great day/start of the week!

[Announcement] 2020 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Voting Page

December 1, 2020January 3, 2021Posted in Award Ceremonies, KPOPREVIEWED Awards, SpecialLeave a comment

It is officially the 1st of December (where I am). While that does mean we are in the last month of 2020 (yikes), it also means that I am opening up the 2020 KPOPREVIEWED Awards voting page. This year you will need to click on the link below to be taken the survey page.

You will be asked to vote in 27 categories, including the Best Song award where you will asked to supply a maximum of five title tracks from December 2019 to November 2020 (inclusive). More details are provided at the end of the survey about this category.

You have until 11:59 PM AEST on the 31st December 2020 to put your votes in. Winners of each category and the End of 2020 Charts will be published at the end of the January.

Please note that you will need to complete the entire survey in order to make all of your votes count!

CLICK HERE TO BE TAKEN TO THE VOTING PAGE.

[Review] On – BTS

February 21, 2020Posted in Award Ceremonies, KPOP, ReviewsTagged BTS2 Comments

We end the week with the return of the KPOP group that is breaking records left, right and centre. BTS has broken more ground that any other artist in KPOP ever in the industry. And yet they continue to do so with every comeback. Today, the group returns with On, the title track from their fourth Korean album, Map of The Soul: 7. The album also features all the tracks from their 2019 mini-album, Map of the Soul: Persona, including Boy With Luv. The album also features Black Swan and Interlude: Shadow, which were pre-releases back in January.

One of my previous complaints with BTS previous comebacks (they were still good songs) was that it was catered to the Western industry and consequently lost the darkness that I really enjoyed from BTS back in the day. While On isn’t totally a dark track like Fake Love or Blood Sweat and Tears, the song is a step in that direction with its edgy vibes. I love the marching drums in the instrumental. It keeps the song coming at you in a consistent manner, driving the song along with a subtle yet heavy intensity. The subtle voice synths (what is the technical terms for this?) in the chorus that were made to match the style of a rolling drum beat was also quite cool. The dance break took me by surprise when I heard the first time. It takes a slight trap influence and infuses it with brass and some electric guitar, which I think is really cool. The vocal work was superb (loving how Jin got more lines than usual) and the rapping was, as always, top notch.

The music video is awesome. There is an epic feel to the video thanks to the wide shot and the very familiar backdrop. I am sure it has appeared on other shows and videos before, but I recognize it from American Horror Story. The lighting is also quite bright, while everyone else is dressed in black. There is a strong contrast with the backup dancers and the scenery. In the end, the members pop, which I think is really cool. They are in a mixture of black and white, so they do standout in the crowd. I also liked how the video was set up and made to look like the members (for some parts) appear out of nowhere. Whether that is part of the choreography, I am not sure. But it looks fantastic either way.

The choreography was also a standout. The chorus, for one, was pretty memorable by the end of the music video. Especially when it came to the raining lyrics. The circular motions they made with their hands somehow keyed into my mind. The second part has to be the dance break. Intense, edgy and very tough, bringing me back to my favourite eras of BTS releases. I do wonder, with such an extravagant music video and routine setup, how they will pull off comeback stages. It is either going to be mind blowing or over the top.

Song – 10/10
Music Video – 10/10
Performance – 9/10
Overall Rating – 9.8/10

2019 KPOPREVIEWED AWARDS – VOTING NOW OPEN

December 1, 2019January 2, 2020Posted in Award Ceremonies, Special7 Comments

It is that time of the year where us fans need to do some hard decision making and vote for the best artist, song, performance etc. For the third year running, you will have a say on who was the best in each category.

I had a very hard job of nominating the groups, songs, performances etc. for this year. To the point where I let myself go and nominated 16 male and female groups each for Best Group Awards and 10 different music videos released in 2019. And now I hand over to you so that you can vote and collectively determine who is the best of the best in each category for 2019. Remember that your votes decide winner, excluding the Best Song of 2019, which is made up of 50% votes and 50% my personal Weekly Music Charts that I publish on Sundays (see below).

Voting opens on the 1st of December (0:00 AM) and will continue until 31st of December (11:59PM), giving you all exactly one month to pick and choose who you think deserves the awards. After that, I will be creating a post that shows you who won each award (like at the start of this year).

Please make sure you read the special instructions under some categories as I have made some changes to the voting process (namely for the Best Male and Female Group awards).

And once again, you all will have the opportunity to choose the BEST SONG OF 2019. There are a number of ground rules for this category, however:

Select your Top 5 songs and enter them in the provided section at the end of the survey.
ONLY 5 SONGS OR LESS WILL BE CONSIDERED. IF YOU ENTER IN MORE THAN 5 SONGS, ONLY THE FIRST 5 WILL BE CONSIDERED.
Include songs that were released between the dates of 1st of December 2018 and 30th of November 2019 ONLY. Songs released in December will not be considered this year (and will be considered for next year!).
Your votes will make up 50% of the criteria, whilst the other 50% will come from the Weekly Charts

Please note that all questions are mandatory. You will not be able to skip to through the survey until you answered all questions on the page.

For those who are unable to see the survey above, please click the link here to be directed straight to the survey.

Good luck to all nominees and happy voting!!

[Special] 2018 KPOPREVIEWED End Of Year Charts

January 18, 2019January 17, 2019Posted in Award Ceremonies, Special1 Comment

Welcome to the End of Year Charts for 2018. Yesterday, I announced the winners of each 2018 KPOPREVIEWED Awards categories, which you find by clicking here for the Artist based categories and here for the Song based categories. Congratulations to all the winners for that side of the 2018 KPOPREVIEWED Awards.

For a few years now, I have been collating all the songs released in the year into one massive chart, to see which artist and song reigned supreme for the year. This year, the criteria were similar to the previous year. That is:

50% of the End Of Year Charts was based on the weekly ranking from the Weekly Music Charts (i.e. my personal input) that I publish every Sunday.
50% of the End Of Year Charts are the votes you had submitted through the voting period of the 2018 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. Each song you voted for was allocated 1 vote.

Due to the logistics of the post, I will only be posting the Top 100 songs below. If you wish to see the entirety of the rankings, simply click the link below the charts to see all rankings for the End of Year Charts.

Bolded in blue is the song that got the most votes from you all. Bolded in red are the 5 songs that I voted for during the voting period.

So without any more delays, I present to you the ranking for the End Of Year Charts!

Pos.	Song	Artist
1	Good Evening	SHINee
2	Fake Love	BTS
3	Ddu-Du Ddu-Du	BLACKPINK
4	Love Scenario	iKON
5	Boss	NCT U
6	Shine	Pentagon
7	I Love You	EXID
8	Tempo	EXO
9	Really Bad Boy	Red Velvet
10	YES or YES	TWICE
11	Siren	Sunmi
12	IDOL	BTS
13	Remember Me	Oh My Girl
14	Oh My!	Seventeen
15	Lullaby	GOT7
16	Shoot Out	Monsta X
17	Egotistic	Mamamoo
18	Heroine	Sunmi
19	Bad Boy	Red Velvet
20	Secret Garden	Oh My Girl
21	I’m So Sick	APINK
22	Now or Never	SF9
23	Hann	(G)I-DLE
24	Regular	NCT 127
25	Thanks	Seventeen
26	Our Page	SHINee
27	Starry Night	Mamamoo
28	Wind Flower	Mamamoo
29	Bingle Bangle	AOA
30	Killing Me	iKON
31	Simon Says	NCT 127
32	LATATA	(G)I-DLE
33	Shinin’	Kim Jonghyun (SHINee)
34	La Vie en Rose	IZ*ONE
35	Beautiful Pain	BTOB
36	Shoot Me	DAY6
37	Hi High	LOONA
38	Dreams Come True	WJSN (Cosmic Girls)
39	Time For The Moon Night	GFriend
40	Spring Breeze	Wanna One
41	Look	GOT7
42	Complete	ONF
43	Boom Boom	Momoland
44	Save You Save Me	WJSN
45	Only One For Me	BTOB
46	Black Dress	CLC
47	District 9	Stray Kids
48	No Air	The Boyz
49	What	Dream Catcher
50	Love Bomb	fromis_9
51	Loved	HIGHLGIHT
52	Between Us	Laboum
53	BBIBBI	IU
54	My Pace	Stray Kids
55	Scientist	VIXX
56	Baby It’s U	Jung Sewoon
57	Jealousy	Monsta X
58	I Want You	SHINee
59	You and I	Dream Catcher
60	That Day	Lovelyz
61	Dance The Night Away	TWICE
62	Boomerang	Wanna One
63	LOST N FOUND	Lovelyz
64	Goodbye Road	iKON
65	Hot Potato	N.Flying
66	Roller Coaster	Kim Chungha
67	SOLO	JENNIE (BLACKPINK)
68	Crush	Weki Meki
69	Tulips	Snuper
70	Lil’ Touch	SNSD-Oh!GG
71	Naughty Boy	Pentagon
72	Paint Me	Mamamoo
73	SOME (You’ll Be Mine)	NATURE
74	Always You	ASTRO
75	My Flower	JBJ
76	We Go Up	NCT Dream
77	Black Heart	UNB
78	I.P.U	Wanna One
79	Bam	Momoland
80	I Am YOU	Stray Kids
81	Ride On The Wind	KARD
82	Power Up	Red Velvet
83	Countless	SHINee
84	To Heart	Fromis_9
85	Love It Live It	YDPP
86	Help Me	NU’EST W
87	Just Do It	BSS (SEVENTEEN)
88	Blooming Days	EXO-CBX
89	Sense	UNB
90	Call Your Name	JBJ
91	Not That Type	Gugudan
92	NANANA	IMFACT
93	Oh! My Mistake	APRIL
94	Tell Me	Infinite
95	What Is Love?	Twice
96	Right Here	The Boyz
97	Time Of Sorrow	VICTON
98	Take Me Higher	A.C.E
99	Woo Woo	DIA
100	Get It	Pristin V

For the entire ranking, click here to see the spreadsheet!

Thank you once again for voting and checking out this post! I can’t wait to see which song will reign supreme throughout 2019!

[Special] 2018 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Song Categories Results

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019Posted in Award Ceremonies, SpecialTagged AOA, BOA, BTS, CHUNG HA, Cross Gene, EXO, Fromis_9, Momoland, Seulgi (Red Velvet), Seventeen, SHINee, SinB (GFriend), Soyeon ((G)I-DLE), Sunmi, WJSN3 Comments

Welcome back to the 2018 KPOPREVIEWED Awards! On the 1st of December 2018, I presented my readers with many categories filled with talented and deserving nominees for the 2018 KPORPEVIEWED Awards. For the month of December, all of you voted for your favourite artists and songs from January 2018 to November 2018. And today, I present to you who the winners of each category were.

This is the second section, which will look at the categories surrounding the artists including Best Male and Female Choreography, Best Album and Best Song of 2018.

In addition to the fan-voted categories, I have also included 5 categories that were not fan voted and I had personally selected the winners (or were determined throughout the year). They include Best Special Performance, Best Concept, Best Non-Title Track, Most Wins on Weekly KPOP Charts segment and Most Viewed Review of 2018. They are labelled clearly.

Each category (with the exception of the non-fan-voted categories) will have a WINNER (the artist that received the highest amount of fan votes), Honourable Mention (the artist/group that received the second highest amount of fan votes) and KPOPREVIEWED Choice (who I voted for).

So, drum roll please, for the winners of the 2018 KPOPREVIEWED Artist categories.

Best Male Choreography

Nominees – Fake Love (BTS), Tempo (EXO), Lullaby (GOT7), Thanks (Seventeen), Now or Never (SF9), Black Heart (UNB)

WINNER – Thanks (Seventeen)
Honourable Mention – Fake Love (BTS)
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Lullaby (GOT7)

Best Female Choreography

Nominees – Bingle Bangle (AOA), Woman (BoA), I Love You (EXID), Time For The Moon Night (GFriend), Siren (Sunmi), Dance The Night Away (TWICE)

WINNER – Woman (BoA)
Honourable Mentions – Siren (Sunmi) & Dance The Night Away (TWICE)
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – I Love You (EXID)

Best Special Performance

This is not a fan-voted category.

WINNER – Dreams Come True (WJSN) at KCON 2018 Japan

Best Music Video

Nominees – Bingle Bangle (AOA), DDU-DU DDU DU (BLACKPINK), Fake Love (BTS), Love Bomb (fromis.9), Really Bad Boy (Red Velvet), Now or Never (SF9), District 9 (Stray Kids), The Chance of Love (TVXQ), Yes or Yes (TWICE), Spring Breeze (Wanna One)

WINNER – Fake Love (BTS)
Honourable Mention – DDU-DU DDU-DU (BLACKPINK)
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Fake Love (BTS)

Best Japanese Song Released by a Korean Artist

Nominees – Electric Kiss (EXO), Memoria (GFriend), Chain (NCT 127), Call Call Call (Seventeen), BDZ (TWICE)

WINNER – Electric Kiss (EXO)
Honourable Mention – Call Call Call (Seventeen)
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Call Call Call (Seventeen)

Best Collaboration

Nominees – Still In Love (Lee Hong Ki & Yoo Hwe Sung), Wow Thing! (Seulgi, SinB, Kim Chungha, Kim Soyeon), Dinner (Suho & Jang Jae In), Page 0 (Taeyeon & Melomance), Love It Like It (YDPP)

WINNER – Wow Thing! (Seulgi, SinB, Kim Chungha, Kim Soyeon)
Honourable Mention – Still In Love (Lee Hong Ki & Yoo Hwe Sung)
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Love It Like It (YDPP)

Song With Most Wins on Weekly KPOP Charts segment

This is not a fan-voted category

WINNER – Heroine (Sunmi) & Bingle Bangle (AOA)
[3 Weeks Each]

Most Viewed Review of 2018

This was not a fan-voted category

WINNER – Boom Boom (Momoland)

Best Concept

This was not a fan-voted category

WINNER – Love Bomb (fromis.9)

Best Non-Title Track

This is not a fan-voted category.

WINNER – Dystopia (Cross Gene)

Best Album

Nominees – Love Yourself: Answer (BTS), Don’t Mess With My Tempo (EXO), The Story of Light – Epilogue (SHINee), Something New (Taeyeon (SNSD)), 1÷x = 1 (Undivided) (Wanna One)

WINNER – The Story of Light – Epilogue (SHINee)
Honourable Mention – Love Yourself: Answer (BTS)
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Love Yourself: Answer (BTS)

Best Song of 2018

Nominees – All title tracks released from January 2018 to November 2018.
The following song had the highest fan votes in the Best Song of 2018 category. The fan votes in this category will also contribute to 50% of the End Of The Year charts.

WINNER – Good Evening (SHINee)

And that completes the Song Categories for the 2018 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. The Artist Categories were previously posted so you can access it by clicking here!

And for the End of Year Charts – they will be out tomorrow. I will update this post with the link once it is out.

Thank you for all voting and checking out who you all selected to be the winners! I hope to do this again for 2019!

[Special] 2018 KPOPREVIEWED Awards – Artist Categories Results

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019Posted in Award Ceremonies, SpecialTagged (G)I-DLE, BTS, DAY6, EXO-CBX, KARD, Mamamoo, MONSTA X, Red Velvet, RM (BTS), Seungri (Big Bang), Seventeen, Stray Kids, Sunmi, Taeyeon (SNSD), Yuri (SNSD)5 Comments

This is the first section, which will look at the categories surrounding the artists including Best New Groups, Best Female and Male Groups and many others.

Each category will have a WINNER (the artist/group that received the highest amount of fan votes), Honourable Mention (the artist/group that received the second highest amount of fan votes) and KPOPREVIEWED Choice (who I voted for).

So, drum roll please, for the winners of the 2018 KPOPREVIEWED Artist categories.

Best New Male Group

Nominees – ATEEZ, NOIR, Stray Kids, The Boyz, UNB

WINNER – Stray Kids
Honourable Mention – The Boyz
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – The Boyz

Best New Female Group

Nominees – fromis.9, (G)I-DLE, IZ*ONE, LOONA, NATURE

WINNER – (G)I-DLE
Honourable Mention – LOONA
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – fromis.9

Best New Soloist

Nominees – Kim Dong Han, Leo (VIXX), LONGGUO, SOHEE (ELRIS), Yuri (SNSD)

WINNER – Yuri (SNSD)
Honourable Mention – Leo (VIXX)
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Kim Dong Han

Rising Star

Nominees – (G)I-DLE, Lovelyz, Momoland, Oh My Girl, Pentagon

WINNER – (G)I-DLE
Honourable Mention – Pentagon
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Momoland

Most Underrated Artist of the Year

Nominees – A.C.E, CLC, N.Flying, KARD, Snuper

WINNER – KARD
Honourable Mention – CLC
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – N.Flying

Best Unit Group / Subunit

Nominees – EXO-CBX, NCT 127, NCT Dream, Oh My Girl BANHANA, SNSD-Oh!GG

WINNER – EXO-CBX
Honourable Mention – SNSD-Oh!GG
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – NCT 127

Best Male Solo Artist

Nominees – Eric Nam, Hwang Chi Yeul, Jung Sewoon, Samuel, Seungri (Big Bang)

WINNER – Seungri (Big Bang)
Honourable Mention – Eric Nam
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Eric Nam

Best Female Solo Artist

Nominees – BoA, Hyolyn, Kim Chungha, Sunmi, Taeyeon (SNSD)

WINNER – Taeyeon (SNSD)
Honourable Mention – Sunmi
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Sunmi

Best Band

Nominees – DAY6, IZ, N,Flying, The East Light, The Rose

WINNER – DAY6
Honourable Mention – The Rose
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – DAY6

Best Raps

Nominees – B.I (iKON), Ilhoon (BTOB), Jooheon (Monsta X), Mino (WINNER), RM (BTS)

WINNER – RM (BTS)
Honourable Mention – Mino (WINNER)
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Jooheon (Monsta X)

Best Vocals

Nominees – BOL4, BTOB, Hwang Chi Yeul, Mamamoo, Minseo

WINNER – Mamamoo
Honourable Mention – BTOB
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Mamamoo

Best Male Group

Nominees – BTOB, BTS, EXO, GOT7, iKON, Monsta X, NCT, NU’EST W, Pentagon, Seventeen, SF9, SHINee, VIXX, Wanna One, Winner

WINNER – BTS
Honourable Mention – SHINee
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – iKON

Best Female Group

Nominees – AOA, APRIL, BLACKPINK, CLC, Dream Catcher, EXID, GFriend, Lovelyz, Mamamoo, Momoland, Oh My Girl, Red Velvet, TWICE, Weki Meki, WJSN (Cosmic Girls)

WINNER – Red Velvet
Honourable Mention – BLACKPINK
KPOPREVIEWED Choice – Mamamoo

Artists Who Topped The Weekly KPOP Charts The Most in 2018

This is not a fan-voted category

WINNER – Monsta X, Seventeen & Sunmi

And that completes the Artist Categories for the 2018 KPOPREVIEWED Awards. The Song Categories will be unveiled shortly and you can access it by clicking here!

And for the End of Year Charts – they will be out tomorrow. I will update this post with the link once it is out.

Thank you for all voting and checking out who you all selected to be the winners! I hope to do this again for 2019!

Recap of 31st Golden Disk Awards + Thoughts

February 2, 2017February 16, 2017Posted in Award Ceremonies, KPOPLeave a comment

The 31st Golden Disk Awards was held on the 13th and 14th of January 2017, for the artists who the best and most successful acts of 2016. The award ceremony is split into two nights. The 13th of January was dedicated to the digital charts and the 14th of January focused on the album charts.

The first night was hosted by Hwang Chi Yeol, Seohyun and Jung Yong Hwa, while the second night was hosted by Kang Sora and Sung Si Kyung. Mostly everyone who won an award on those nights performed on stage with the exception of Lim Chang Jung, Bang Shi Hyuk and Jaejoong (JYJ). Uhm Jung Hwa, Gain (Brown Eyed Girls) and Rain was invited to perform as special guests.

Here is a recap of the awards:
Disk Daesang (Album Of The Year) – EX’ACT (EXO)
Digital Daesang (Song Of The Year) – Cheer Up (Twice)
Disk Bonsang (Best Artist) – Monsta X, Seventeen, GOT7, Infinite, VIXX, BTS, EXO, Taemin (SHINee), SHINee.
Digital Bonsang (Best Artist) – Twice, Mamamoo, GFriend, Urban Kakapa, Suzy & Baekhyun, Lee Hi, Zico (Block B), Taeyeon (SNSD), Lim Chang Jung.
Best New Artist – BlackPink, Bolbbalgan4, NCT 127, I.O.I
Popularity Award – SHINee
Best R&B / Soul – Crush
Best Band – CN Blue
Best OST – Gummy (You Are My Everything)
Asian Choice Award – Jaejoong (JYJ)
Ceci Asian Icon Award – Red Velvet, EXO
Global KPOP Artist Award – BTS
Best Performance Male Group – Sechs Kies
Best Performance Female Group – Sistar
Best Producer Award – Bang Shi Hyuk

The awards were fair. The artists for both digital and physical album awards did make a lot of sense. I am amazed at how little girl groups were present for the physical album night (second night). The only group there was Red Velvet and I am equally surprised that they didn’t win a bonsang for last year’s releases.

With regards to the performances, I was quite disappointed with the first night. Everything felt plain and very typical. The only standout was Zico’s medley performance. Not a major hip-hop or RnB fan when it comes to Korean music, but his performance was the only one I grooved along that night. I feel like Taeyeon’s performance would have been amazing (as it is an awesome song) but it was unfortunately riddled with audio and microphone issues.

The second night was much more promising. I guess the first night failed to do it for me because there were different genres, so of which I don’t really listen to. The second night was more KPOP centred. Seventeen’s performance was good, but why did they do their 2015 songs as well? They should have done rearrangements of Very Nice and Boom Boom as well. The hypocrite within is resurfacing because while I say that about Seventeen’s performance, I thought BTS’s medley of songs (from their debut to Fire) was amazing. Even if the Blood Sweat and Tears part was for transition, I need a full remix because it sounded amazing as well. Infinite had a freaking bomb-ass stage with their dance breaks in the song. Finally, I really liked the For Life song (it grew even more on me) and when I heard they were going to perform, I was quite overjoyed. It was the one performance I waited for and they performed the track perfectly (luckily, no audio problems).

I think that will be it for this segment. I intended for this one to be up the weekend after the two nights, but I kept pushing it back. WordPress kept reminding me about it and at one point, I actually trashed it. But I ended reviving it and here it is. So just to notify you, I will not be doing for SMA 2017 and the Gaon Chart Awards.

Recap of MAMA 2016 + Thoughts

January 18, 2017January 16, 2017Posted in Award CeremoniesLeave a comment

It has been a month and a half since the MAMA awards ceremony. Do you remember much from it? Well, here I am with another recap of the MAMA 2016. As we all know, MAMA is one of the biggest award ceremonies that celebrates South Korean music in 2016. It also looks at the achievements of artists and music within the Asian continent, as well. Once again, this year the ceremony was held in Hong Kong on the 2nd of December 2016.

So who attended the awards? Well, YG Entertainment artists were a no show for this award ceremony, which is considered odd, as they tend to go to the MAMA awards and sweep the awards each year. Instead, the performances during the ceremony came from: GOT7, BTS, EXO, NCT, Taemin (SHINee), GFriend, Twice, I.O.I, Seventeen, Red Velvet, Taeyeon (SNSD), Monsta X, Suzy (Miss A), Zico (Block B), Dean, Crush, Eric Nam, BeWhy, Lee Juck, Ko Sang Ji, Yoo Ah In and Yiruma. NCT Dream, I.O.I and SF9 performed on the red carpet. The MAMA awards also invite international artists to perform on the show and this year they invited Timbaland, Gallant and Wiz Khalifa.

Who won an award? See below!
Best New Male Artist – NCT127
Best New Female Artist – I.O.I
Best Male Vocal Performance – Crush ft. Taeyeon (Don’t Forget)
Best Female Vocal Performance – Ailee (If You)
Best Male Dance Performance – BTS (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
Best Female Dance Performance – GFriend (Rough)
Best Solo Dance Performance – Taemin (Press Your Number)
Best Collaboration / Subunit – Suzy & Baekhyun (Dream)
Best Rap Performance – Cjamm & BeWhy (Puzzle)
Best Band Performance – CN BLUE (You’re So Fine)
Best Male Group – EXO
Best Female Group – Twice
Best Male Artist – Zico
Best Female Artist – Taeyeon
Best Music Video – BlackPink (Whistle)
Best Album (Album of the Year) – EXO (EX’ACT)
Best Song (Song Of The Year) – Twice (Cheer Up)
Best Artist (Artist Of The Year) – BTS
However, the list does not stop there. There are few extra awards given out to the Korean artists. Also, there were also awards given to other Asian artists for their success. While I won’t be listing those awards, you can check Wikipedia’s page for the 2016 MAMA awards for the winners.
World Performer Award – Seventeen
Worldwide Favourite Artist – GOT7
Best of Next Artist Award – Monsta X & BlackPink
Best Producer – Black Eyed Pilseung
Best Asian Style – EXO
On top of all of that:
Best International Producer: Timbaland

Awards first. Thought it was okay. There were some which I didn’t agree with such as Best Music Video, Best Band, Best Rap, Best New Male Artist but those who won those awards also deserved it as well. I think the Daesangs (Song, Album and Artist of the Year awards) were what everyone expected, so no surprises there. I honestly did not expect Crush to win Best Male Vocal Performance. Clearly, he didn’t as well.

In terms of the performances, this has to be one of the messiest MAMA awards that I have ever seen. Incorrect artists names were written on the screen, performances were unappealing, an anticipated performance was removed. And that is probably what we saw on the outside. Imagine what happened behind the curtains! The worst performance was, by far, Timbaland’s collaboration with Eric Nam. Eric Nam put in his fair share of effort. Timbaland, like everyone is saying, had no idea what he was doing there. And besides his award, we don’t either.

So whose performances did I like? Seventeen & GFriend’s collaboration, I.O.I and Twice’s stage (just minus the cringeworthy introduction) and BTS’s stage. Everything else just seemed a little underwhelming. You can judge and watch the performances above. The playlist only contains Korean songs, so Timbaland’s collab with Eric Nam is not there. As mentioned above, MAMA is one of the biggest ceremonies of the year, so I did expect a lot. Maybe I am just harsh or unappreciative. Sadly, I just was not enjoying the stages this year.

Okay, so that is my recap and thoughts on the MAMA awards. Comment below with your favourite performance! Maybe you enjoyed the show more than me.

Recap of MelOn Music Awards 2016 + Thoughts

January 15, 2017January 13, 2017Posted in Award CeremoniesLeave a comment

Look at the time, it has already been 2 months. The 2016 MelOn Music Awards were held on the 19th of November 2016. The award show is one of the few awards shows that focuses on the digital side of KPOP and is centred around the MelOn Charts and fan votes.

The show invited a range of artists to perform on the stage this year. The lineup included: BeWhy, 10cm, Seventeen, Mamamoo, BlackPink, Jung Eunji (APINK), Red Velvet, I.O.I, iKON, Twice, Zico (Block B), GFriend, BTS, Sechs Kies and EXO. Other artists (such as AKMU, Bolbbalgan4, Hong Jin Young, Yoo Mi Rae), actors and comedians were in attendance as well.

Below are the winners on the night. Afterwards, I have left some comments regarding some awards:
Top 10 Artist – Twice, Taeyeon, Red Velvet, Zico (Block B), GFriend, EXO, BTS, Mamamoo, BeWhy, AKMU
Best New Artist – BlackPink
Best Rap/Hip Hop – Zico ft. Zion T (Eureka)
Best Ballad – Jung Eun Ji (Hopefully Sky) & Lim Chang Jung (The Love I Committed)
Best RnB & Soul– Suzy & Baekhyun (Dream)
Best Rock – Ha Hyun Woo (Don’t Cry)
Best OST – Yoo Mi Rae (Always)
Best Trot – Hong Jin Young (Thumbs Up)
Best Male Dance – EXO (Monster)
Best Female Dance – GFriend (Rough)
Best Folk – 10cm (What The Spring??)
Best Indie – Bolbbalgan4 (Galaxy)
Netizen Popularity Award – EXO (Monster)
Hot Trend Award – Zico
Best Music Video – Red Velvet (Russian Roulette)
Song Writer Award – Hitman Bang
MBC Music Star Award – Seventeen
QQ Asia Artist Award – iKON
Kakao Artist Award – EXO
Hall Of Fame Award – Sechs Kies
Album Of The Year (Daesang) – BTS (The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever)
Song Of The Year (Daesang) – Twice (Cheer Up)
Artist Of The Year (Daesang) – EXO

I think the awards overall were fair. They summarised 2016 pretty well. So, I am not sure why people are so ticked off that their favourites didn’t win this and win that. But I guess it is just something we have to just get used to, given the competition. Sure, it was disappointing for I.O.I as they were the only invited guest to perform on the show to not win an award. I am sure the people behind this award show could have pulled an award out of thin air for them (A particular award show in Korea gave out numerous awards recently, but I am quite sure they all mean the same thing – just renamed differently). Also, I always thought Jung Eun Ji’s song was folk, but for some reason, it was categorised as a ballad in this show.

Moving along to performances: only a few caught my attention. The award show overall felt a little empty. Seventeen’s little remix for Very Nice sounded really amazing (full version please!) and their dance intro looked really cool. BTS had a spectacular interlude (I don’t know what to call that small segment between Blood Sweat & Tears and Fire), that was truly lit (I debated whether to write that, otherwise it would have said – ‘their performance was on Fire’). GFriend had a very beautiful stage, with Yuju’s beautiful/powerful vocals and that really nice butterfly effect and their award-worthy dancing. I also loved their orchestra remix (that was overpowered by the original instrumental) of Rough.

Highlight of the night would probably BTS’s reaction to winning the Daesang. Those few seconds where they had to do a double-take and make sure that they actually won.

And that is just the recap, my thoughts on the awards and performances for the 2016 Melon Music Awards. Do check back because I will be posting recaps and thoughts for other awards shows as I finish them.

Recap of Gaon Chart KPOP Awards 2015 + Thoughts

February 25, 2016February 21, 2016Posted in Award CeremoniesLeave a comment

The final award ceremony in this very busy season. The 5th Gaon Chart KPOP Awards was held on the 17th of Feburary of this year, to celebrate achievements of artists in 2015 on the widely known KPOP chart. For those who don’t know, the Gaon Chart is one of the important charts and well publicised chart in South Korea, which is known for calculating weekly and monthly rankings for songs, albums, karaoke, social media and many other categories. The award ceremony is based on performance of each artist, along with recorded values from the year 2015 and also popularity voting.

This year, the award show was hosted by Leeteuk (Super Junior) and Yura (Girl’s Day). Artists who attended the show included: Big Bang, EXO, Mad Clown, GFriend, VIXX, BTS, Red Velvet, Seventeen, iKON, Taeyeon (SNSD), Zico (Block B), Mino (Winner), Kang Seung Yoon (Winner), Baek Ah Yeon, B.A.P, AOA Cream, Zion.T, Lee Ae Ran, So Chan Whee and Hyukoh. Psy and Miss A (Min and Fei only) attended the award show to accept awards, but did not perform.

To recap the awards, it was a very long list and also had a hard time of trying to work out how to present it. I split it into 3 parts to make it easy for me to type it out and for you to read it all.

Artist Of The Year (Song)
January – Mad Clown
February – Naul
March – MC Mong
April – Miss A
May – Big Bang
June – Big Bang
July – Big Bang
August – Big Bang
September – iKON
October – Taeyeon (SNSD)
November – Zico
December – Psy

Artist Of The Year (Album)
1st Quarter – EXO
2nd Quarter – EXO
3rd Quarter – Super Junior
4th Quarter – EXO

New Artist Of The Year – iKON, GFriend
Discovery Of The Year (World Rookie) – Seventeen, AOA
Discovery Of The Year (Hot Trend) – Baek Ah Yeon, B.A.P
Long Run Song Of The Year – Naul’s “You in The Same Time”
Popular Singer Of The Year – So Chan Whee (Tears)
International Song Of The Year – Adele’s Hello
Hot Performance Of The Year – Red Velvet, VIXX
Best Hip Hop – Mino (Winner)
Best Indie – Hyukoh
Best Trot – Lee Ae Ran
Best R&B – Zion.T
Mobile Popularity Vote Award – EXO
Weibo Kpop Star Award – Sehun (EXO)
KPOP World Hallyu Star Special Award – BTS
Most Influential Group of Asia – Big Bang
Composer Of The Year – Black Eyed Pilseung
Lyricist Of The Year – Kim Eana
Best Back Up Vocal – Lee Tae Yoon
Best Instrumental – Kang Sung Ho
Best Cheographer – Yama & Hot Chicks
Best Stylist – Ji Eun
Producer Of The Year – Yang Hyun Suk (YG Entertainment)

Not technically sure how I can judge this, since most of the awards are based on the values of purchases or downloads. I find it odd how AOA got the World Rookie award. Not that I am really complaining, but they have been in the industry for around 4 years now, so a rookie award for them seems a little weird. And B.A.P for Hot Trend seems a little far fetched. Last time I checked, they were not a trend last year nor did their comeback achieve such an award in my eyes. Big Bang took out the most awards this year with 4 Artist of the Year Months awards and Most Influential Group of Asia . EXO followed closely behind with 4 awards, 3 of which were Artist Of the Year Album Awards and the Mobile Populairty Award. I don’t consider Sehun’s award to be EXO’s award, but if I did count it, Big Bang and EXO would have been even. Congrats to Big Bang, EXO and all other award recipients.

Talking about Big Bang, apparently, they only appeared at their table when it was their award or when they were performing. That is what I am reading online. Now I was not there, so I cannot really judge them, but if that was the case: Taeyang should never have said anything because now he sounds like a hypocrite. Think back to Taeyang at the MAMA awards, in which he was said he was disappointed in nearly everyone leaving just before Big Bang’s Artist of The Year award. They left because of schedules and how MAMA was poorly planned. I haven’t seen nor can I think of any other reason to why Big Bang would not have sat at their table like all other bands. I personally don’t care if he is royalty or a hard to approach sunbae, it is just out of respect that you support other people’s stage. While I cannot confirm if this actually occurred, it just makes Big Bang look like they did not give a damn about anyone else but themselves. Hopefully, they were out and about during the show and that people are just picking up on how they disappeared behind the stage just for an excessive amount of times. After all, if you are successful, people will attack you for the littlest of things.

Performance wise, probably the crappiest stage to date. Maybe because I have been recapping these performances, but none of them seems to bring anything new or different to the table. Really disappointed that AOA did not perform as a whole group. Not a big fan of them, but they got an award as a whole, so I really wanted to see them perform. Really suprised about Lee Ae Ran’s and So Chan Whee’s stages. I thought they would not get any attention (since everyone just want to see their bias or bias’ band), but they managed to prove me wrong and bring everyone together. I personally loved So Chan Whee’s stage. So many supported Lee Ae Ran’s speech, which surprised me but also put a smile on my face.

And that is it. All of the big awards ceremonies have been recapped. How did you like this small segment? Did you like it or was it a waste of time? Please leave comments below. This one was a long one, to be honest, but we got there.

Recap of Golden Disk Awards 2016 + Thoughts

February 19, 2016February 17, 2016Posted in Award CeremoniesTagged AOA, APINK, Big Bang, BTOB, BTS, CN BLUE, EXID, EXO, F(x), GFriend, HIGHLIGHT, iKon, Jonghyun (SHINee), Jung Yong Hwa (CN Blue), Kyuhyun (Super Junior), MONSTA X, Park Jin Young, Red Velvet, Sane, Seventeen, SHINee, Sistar, SNSD, Super Junior, Taeyeon (SNSD), TWICE, VIXX, Zion.TLeave a comment

Probably one of the biggest award ceremonies for music and also probably one of the most prestigious, the 30th Golden Disk Awards (GDA) was held on the 20th to the 21st of January 2016. The GDA was supposed to be held in China but was moved back to South Korea due to the recent earthquakes that occurred there just 1 or two weeks before the scheduled event. Even though many people were shocked and feared the award ceremony would be either postponed or cancelled, the ceremony went off without a single hiccup and was broadcast live in both Korea and China.

What I like about this particular awards is that is focuses on both the physical albums and downloaded songs of the year. In other words, more awards for everyone. It is also nice to see who excelled in what (hahahaha…). The digital awards were handed out on the 20th of January, while the physical album awards were handed out on the 21st of January. The award show on the first night was hosted by Jun Hyun Moo, Kim Jong Kook and Seohyun (SNSD). The second night was hosted by Jun Hyun Moo, Leeteuk (Super Junior) and Krystal (F(x)) I have recapped the award winners on the two nights below.

Disk Daesang (Album Of The Year) – EXODUS (EXO)
Digital Daesang (Song Of The Year) – Loser (Big Bang)
Disk Bonsang (Best Artist) – APINK, VIXX, F(x), BTS, CNBLUE, Jonghyun (SHINee), EXO, Beast, Super Junior
Digital Bonsang (Best Artist) – Red Velvet, EXID, AOA, Zion.T, Park Jin Young, Sistar, Taeyeon (SNSD), Kyuhyun (Super Junior), Big Bang, Girl’s Generation
Best New Artist – GFriend, iKON, Seventeen, Twice
Popularity Award – SHINee
Best Rap / Hip Hop – SanE
Best Rock – Hyukoh
Global Popularity Award – EXO
Best Group Vocal Award – BTOB
Best Solo Vocal Award – Jung Yonghwa (CN Blue)
Best Male Artist Award – Big Bang
Best Female Artist Award – Taeyeon (SNSD)
Next Generation Star Award – Monsta X

Once again, this wide spread of award winners seem to be more representative of main stream KPOP. Not that I am complaining. Most of the award recipients were similar to the Seoul Music Award 2016, however a lot more artists won in this ceremony, since their was more rewards. Not that I am being a hater or anything, but Kyuhyun’s bonsang award seems a little far fetched. From memory (correct me if I am wrong though), his song never charted high on the charts and likewise Super Junior barely makes an impact on the digital side of the music industry. So I am a little suspicious of how he managed to get an award for a digital bonsang. Saying that, he did sell a lot. Like a lot on the physical side. But beside that, I think it was a nice range of artists who won and I think it is accurate (as in which artists managed to shine the brightest in 2015).

I really need to think of ways to start off the different sections, but once again… I think out of the all the ceremonies that have already been broadcast (NOTE: I am typing this prior to the Gaon Chart Awards), GDA has the best performances. Why? Because many of the artists performed multiple songs and I really enjoy how some artists (or their producers) integrate different songs together. GFriend, Red Velvet, EXID, Seventeen and BTS had the best stages on the nights. Some artists performed some songs that were released in the past (in previous years, such as EXID’s Up & Down, VIXX’s Error, Sistar’s Touch My Body etc.), which I kind of liked, but, the songs were released last year… so maybe a little outdated. But overall, the performances, I think, were to a very high standard and pleased me (*points at myself* and *acting as the biggest critic of all time*).

Below are just the few performances that I found and slapped together in a playlist format in no particular order.

For a last minute change to the ceremony, it managed to do pretty well in my books. Awards, performances. Everything was just great. There is one more to go of this season’s award ceremonies, which will be coming out in the coming days. Until then, bye!!