Nominees have been revealed for the 37th Golden Disc Awards!

Songs and albums that were released between November 2021 through mid-November 2022 were eligible to be nominated this year, with music excluded from nomination last year included this year. For the album division awards, only albums with at least six new tracks (excluding intros, outros, and instrumentals) were eligible. OSTs and project songs from TV programs were not considered.

The final winners for Bonsang (Main Award) and Daesang (Grand Prize) are chosen 60 percent based on sales counted until mid-December 2022 and 40 percent based on scoring by the expert panel. The same evaluation criteria applies for Rookie Artist of the Year.

Voting will only be available for the Popularity Award, which will be 100 percent determined by votes.

The nominees are as follows:

Digital Song Division Bonsang (Main Award)

• (G)I-DLE – “TOMBOY”
• BE’O – “Counting Stars (Feat. Beenzino)”
• BIG Naughty – “Beyond Love (Feat. 10CM)”
• BIGBANG – “Still Life”
• BLACKPINK – “Pink Venom”
• GOT the beat – “Step Back”
• IVE – “LOVE DIVE”
• LE SSERAFIM – “FEARLESS”
• MSG Wannabe (M.O.M) – “Do you want to hear”
• NewJeans – “Attention”
• Choi Ye Na – “SMILEY (Feat. BIBI)”
• KyoungSeo – “Dear my X”
• MeloMance’s Kim Min Seok – “DrunKen Confession”
• TWICE’s Nayeon – “POP!”
• Red Velvet – “Feel My Rhythm”
• Jay Park – “GANADARA (Feat. IU)”
• PSY – “That That (prod. & feat. BTS’s Suga)”
• IU – “Drama”
• Lee Mujin “When it snows (Feat. Heize)”
• Lim Young Woong – “Our Blues, Our Life”
• Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon – “INVU”

Album Division Bonsang (Main Award)

• (G)I-DLE – “I love”
• ATEEZ – “THE WORLD EP.1 : MOVEMENT”
• BLACKPINK – “BORN PINK”
• ENHYPEN – “MANIFESTO : DAY 1”
• ITZY – “CHECKMATE”
• BTS’s J-Hope – “Jack In The Box”
• NCT – “Universe”
• NCT 127 – “2 Baddies”
• NCT DREAM – “Glitch Mode”
• SMTOWN – “2021 Winter SMTOWN : SMCU EXPRESS”
• Stray Kids – “MAXIDENT”
• TREASURE – “THE SECOND STEP : CHAPTER ONE”
• TWICE – “BETWEEN 1&2”
• Kim Ho Joong – “PANORAMA”
• TWICE’s Nayeon – “IM NAYEON”
• THE BOYZ – “BE AWARE”
• Red Velvet – “The ReVe Festival 2022 – Feel My Rhythm”
• BTS – “Proof”
• SEVENTEEN – “Face the Sun”
• Youngtak – “MMM”
• Lim Young Woong – “IM HERO”

Rookie Artist of the Year

• ATBO
• Billlie
• BLANK2Y
• IVE
• Kep1er
• LE SSERAFIM
• NewJeans
• NMIXX
• TEMPEST
• TNX
• Xdinary Heroes
• Choi Ye Na

The 37th Golden Disc Awards will be held on January 7 at Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.

Stay tuned for the lineup and further updates!

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Voting is now underway for the 32nd Seoul Music Awards (SMA)!

On December 6, the Seoul Music Awards officially announced the nominees for this year’s award ceremony, which will take place on January 19, 2023 at the KSPO Dome in Seoul.

This year, mobile voting will be conducted for the following awards: the Main Award (Bonsang), Rookie of the Year, Popularity Award, K-Wave Award, OST Award, Trot Award, Ballad Award, and R&B/Hip Hop Award.

Voting will be conducted in two phases of 20 days each: Phase 1 will run from December 6 through 11:59 p.m. KST on December 25, while Phase 2 will start on December 27 at noon KST and end on January 15 at 11:59 p.m. KST. Each phase will count for 50 percent of nominees’ total voting scores.

The Popularity Award will be awarded based entirely on votes placed within Korea, while the K-Wave Award will be based entirely on votes from outside of Korea. All of the nominees for the Main Award (Bonsang) and Rookie of the Year are automatically nominated for the Popularity and K-Wave Awards.

The winners of the Main (Bonsang), Rookie, OST, Trot, Ballad, and R&B/Hip Hop Awards will be determined based 40 percent on judges’ evaluations, 30 percent on album and song sales in 2022 (according to Hanteo Chart data), and 30 percent on mobile votes.

The nominees have not yet been revealed for the awards that are not included in the mobile voting.

Check out the nominees for the categories that are open for voting below!

Main Award (Bonsang)

• 10cm – “5.3”
• aespa – “Girls”
• ASTRO – “Drive to the Starry Road”
• ATEEZ – “THE WORLD EP.1 : MOVEMENT”
• BIGBANG – “Still Life”
• BLACKPINK – “BORN PINK”
• BOL4 – “Seoul”
• THE BOYZ – “BE AWARE”
• BTOB – “Be Together”
• BTS – “Proof”
• Choi Ye Na – “SMiLEY”
• CRAVITY – “NEW WAVE”
• Crush – “Rush Hour”
• DKZ – “CHASE EPISODE 2. MAUM”
• ENHYPEN – “MANIFESTO : DAY 1”
• fromis_9 – “from our Memento Box”
• (G)I-DLE – “I NEVER DIE”
• Girls’ Generation – “FOREVER 1”
• GOT the beat – “Step Back”
• GOT7 – “GOT7”
• ITZY – “CHECKMATE”
• IVE – “LOVE DIVE”
• Jay Park – “GANADARA”
• J-Hope (BTS) – “Jack In The Box”
• Jin (BTS) – “The Astronaut”
• Kang Daniel – “The Story”
• Kihyun (MONSTA X) – “VOYAGER”
• Kim Ho Joong – “PANORAMA”
• Lim Young Woong – “IM HERO”
• MONSTA X – “SHAPE of LOVE”
• Nayeon (TWICE) – “IM NAYEON”
• NCT 127 – “2 Baddies”
• NCT DREAM – “Glitch Mode”
• ONEUS – “MALUS”
• P1Harmony – “HARMONY : ZERO IN”
• PSY – “PSY 9th”
• Red Velvet – “The ReVe Festival 2022 – Feel My Rhythm”
• Seulgi (Red Velvet) – “28 Reasons”
• SEVENTEEN – “Face The Sun”
• STAYC – “YOUNG-LUV.COM”
• Stray Kids – “MAXIDENT”
• Suho (EXO) – “Grey Suit”
• Super Junior – “The Road : Winter for Spring”
• Taeyeon (Girls’ Generation) – “INVU”
• TREASURE – “THE SECOND STEP : CHAPTER ONE”
• TWICE – “BETWEEN 1&2”
• TXT – “minisode 2: Thursday’s Child”
• WEi – “Love Pt.2 : Passion”
• WINNER – “HOLIDAY”
• Zico (Block B) – “New thing”

Rookie of the Year

• ATBO – “The Beginning : 開花”
• Billlie – “the Billage of perception: chapter two”
• CLASS:y – “CLASS IS OVER”
• CSR – “Sequence : 7272”
• H1-KEY – “Athletic Girl”
• Kep1er – “FIRST IMPACT”
• Lapillus – “HIT YA!”
• LE SSERAFIM – “FEARLESS”
• NewJeans – “New Jeans”
• NINE.i – “NEW WORLD”
• NMIXX – “AD MARE”
• TAN – “1TAN”
• TEMPEST – “It’s ME, It’s WE”
• TNX – “WAY UP”
• TRENDZ – “BLUE SET Chapter 1. TRACKS”
• VIVIZ – “Beam Of Prism”
• YOUNITE – “YOUNI-BIRTH”

OST Award

• 10cm – “Spring to Love” (“Our Blues”)
• BIBI – “Very, Slowly” (“Twenty Five, Twenty One”)
• Davichi – “Remember me” (“Our Blues”)
• Heize – “The Last” (“Our Blues”)
• Jimin (BTS) and Ha Sung Woon – “With you” (“Our Blues”)
• Lee Seok Hoon – “Dear. My Fool” (“Discovery of Love”)
• Lee Seung Yoon – “The Giving Tree” (“Our Beloved Summer”)
• Lee Sun Hee – “I’ll Leave You” (“The Red Sleeve“)
• Lim Young Woong – “Our Blues” (“Our Blues”)
• MeloMance – “Love, Maybe” (“A Business Proposal”)
• Sam Kim – “Summer Rain” (“Our Beloved Summer”)
• Sunwoojunga – “Beyond My Dreams” (“Extraordinary Attorney Woo”)
• Taeil (NCT) – “Starlight” (“Twenty Five, Twenty One”)
• Tiger JK – “WADADADA” (“One Dollar Lawyer”)
• Wheein (MAMAMOO) – “You, You” (“Nth Romance”)
• Wonstein – “Your Existence” (“Twenty Five, Twenty One”)

Trot Award

• Jang Min Ho – “Essay ep.1”
• Jang Yoon Jung – “estrena”
• Jeong Dong Won – “Handwritten Letter”
• Kim Hee Jae – “Heejae”
• Kim Tae Yeon – “Cheer up!”
• Lim Young Woong – “IM HERO”
• Na Hoon-a – “Seven-Colored Scent”
• Song Ga In – “THE SONG OF LOVE”
• Young Tak – “MMM”

Ballad Award

• BEN – “Spring Days”
• Davichi – “Season Note”
• Han Dong Geun – “It’s love”
• JuHo – “without me”
• Kang Min Kyung (Davichi) and Jannabi – “Because we loved”
• Kassy – “Always love you”
• KyoungSeo – “Dear my X”
• Lim Jae Hyun – “Drunken confession at night”
• Monday Kiz – “It has to be you”
• Noel – “How Can I Forget You”
• Paul Kim – “Like Yesterday”
• Tei – “Monologue”
• Tophyun – “Horang Suwolga”
• Younha – “END THEORY : Final Edition”
• V.O.S – “talks about pain”

R&B/Hip Hop

• BE’O – “LOVE me”
• BIG Naughty – “Beyond Love”
• Coogie – “RE:UP”
• Epik High – “Epik High Is Here”
• Jessi – “ZOOM”
• Joosiq – “Baby I Need You”
• Leellamarz and TOIL – “TOYSTORY3”
• Punch – “The Love”
• Woo (Woo Won Jae) and meenoi – “Ghosting”

Which artists are you rooting for this year?

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