On January 10, the 'Circle Chart Awards' took place at BEXCO in Busan. The event was hosted by the Super Junior member Leeteuk, STAYC's Sieun, and ZEROBASEONE's Seok Matthew.
Celebrating its 13th year, the 'Circle Chart Awards' is a popular music awards ceremony that selects winners based on the 'Circle Chart' data, which combines and aggregates data from domestic and international online music platforms, physical album distributors, and social media platforms.
This year, NCT Dream won the Digital Album Award, with NewJeans sweeping up the most awards and BABYMONSTER winning the Rookie of the Year Award (Global Streaming category).
Check out the full list of winners for the 2023 Circle Chart Awards below!
▲ Digital Album of the Year = NCT Dream
▲ Artist of the Year (Album Category) = NCT Dream, TXT, Seventeen, Stray Kids, BTS's Jungkook
▲ Artist of the Year (Global Streaming Category) = (G)I-DLE, IVE, NewJeans, BTS's Jungkook, BLACKPINK's Jisoo
▲ Artist of the Year (Unique Listener Category) = aespa, LE SSERAFIM, NewJeans, (G)I-DLE, IVE
▲ Artist of the Year (Circle Index Category) = (G)I-DLE, IVE, LE SSERAFIM, NewJeans, Jungkook
▲ Long-Running Song of the Year = NewJeans' "Hype Boy"
▲ Retail Album of the Year = Seventeen's 'FML'
▲ Kit Album of the Year = Seventeen
▲ Rookie of the Year = BABYMONSTER (Global Streaming Category), RIIZE (Unique Listener Category), ZEROBASEONE (Album Category)
▲ V Coloring of the Year = AKMU
▲ Genre of the Year = Imase (J-POP Category), Lee Chan Won (Trot Category), Parc Jae Jung (Ballad Category)
▲ International Song of the Year = Charlie Puth's "Dangerously"
▲ Busan Is Good Award = AKMU, KyoungSeo
▲ Mubeat Global Choice Award = Lim Young Woong (Male Category), NiziU (Female Category)
▲ New Artist of Next Generation = Kiss of Life, NiziU
▲ Icon of the Year = STAYC, MAMAMOO's Hwasa
▲ World Hallyu Star Award = NCT Dream
▲ VIAJE Global Popularity Award = ZEROBASEONE's Zhang Hao
▲ Social Hot Star of the Year = BLACKPINK
▲ Composer of the Year = 250
▲ Lyricist of the Year = Gigi
▲ Chorus Performer of the Year = Perry
▲ Musician of the Year = Hareem
▲ Performance Director of the Year = Park So Yeon
▲ Visual Director of the Year = Kim Hye Soo
Ok, if ever anyone wanted evidence that charts are fixed, there it is, right there.
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The most derided and crass debut we've seen for a long time, with a really not-very-good song, and they get Rookie of the Year? Lol.
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