The '31st High1 Seoul Music Awards' was held at Gocheok Sky Dome, and this year's hosts were AOA's Seolhyun, Boom, and Kim Seong Joo.
The 'Seoul Music Awards' show first began in 1990 and is held annually by Sports Seoul to recognize outstanding achievements in the Korean music industry. The winners are selected from the past year of releases by calculating 20% mobile votes, 10% Sports Seoul's popularity poll, 40% digital downloads and album sales, and 30% judge scores. (Popularity awards are decided 100% by a popularity poll.)
Check out the winners below!
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Daesang (Grand Prize) | NCT 127
Album of the Year | NCT Dream ('Hot Sauce')
Song of the Year | IU ("Lilac")
Bonsang (Main Prize) | ENHYPEN | HEIZE | Brave Girls | Oh My Girl | Kang Daniel | aespa | ATEEZ | NCT 127 | The Boyz | Lim Young Woong | BTS | Seventeen | IU
Rookie of the Year | Lee Mu Jin | OMEGA X | EPEX
Ballad | Red Velvet's Wendy ("Like Water")
OST | Lim Young Woong ("Love Always Runs Away")
Hip-Hop/R&B | HyunA ("I'm Not Cool")
Trot | Lim Young Woong ("My Starry Love")
Best Performance | STAYC | ENHYPEN
Discover of the Year | Lang Lee
Popularity Award (Korea) | Lim Young Woong
K-Wave Award (Outside Korea) | EXO
Judges Special Award | BTS/ARMY
Fan PD Artist Award | Jung Dong Ha
U+Idol Live Best Artist Award | BTS
World Best Artist Award | BTS
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Congratulations to all the winners!
nct dream, txt, stray kids, lisa, rosé not winning the bonsang when they’re in the top of the rankings but some who aren’t even on the top 20 received a bonsang? Lol what a joke.. what’s the use of voting if you're just going to ignore? I ain’t even mad at the groups who won, just SMA itself
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