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Digital ranking of the artists who won the Daesang ‘Seoul Music Awards’ each year: Why are Super Junior, EXO and NCT criticized by Knet?

This result made the Korean online community once again believe that ‘Seoul Music Awards’ is no different from ‘SM Music Awards’.

On January 23rd, the 31st “Seoul Music Awards” (also known as the 31st SMA) ended with a grand concert at Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul, Korea. At this event, many famous singers and groups appeared to perform their songs released during the year and brought home many important awards to honor their dedication throughout the year 2021.

Daesang Seoul Music Awards

However, after the award ceremony ended, the 31st “Seoul Music Awards” quickly became the subject of intense controversy on online forums in Korea because the results were said to be too confusing. In particular, the Daesang results left many people speechless when NCT 127 surpassed 2 artists with great achievements in 2021, IU and BTS, to take the throne at SMA’s most prestigious award. The reason why many people feel frustrated with this result is because NCT 127 has very good album sales, but their digital music achievements are quite bad. They didn’t make it to the top 100 of the annual charts and even did not make it to the top 100 in the monthly chart either.

Daesang Seoul Music Awards

At the controversial results of the 31st “Seoul Music Awards”, Korean netizens recently looked at the digital music rankings of artists who have won Daesang in SMA history. Since 2010, a total of 6 groups/singers have won the highest award of the “Seoul Music Awards”, but not all of these have convincing enough digital achievements for Knets.

2010 – SNSD

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 1

2011 – SNSD

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 6

2012 – Super Junior

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 56

2013 – PSY

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 1

2014 – EXO

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 12

2015 – EXO

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 33

2016 – EXO

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 22

2017 – EXO

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 55

2018 – BTS

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 12

2019 – BTS

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 16

2020 – BTS

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 3

2021 – BTS

Digital music ranking in the year: No. 12

2022 – NCT 127

Digital music ranking in the year: Not in the top 100

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Among the artists who have won the Daesang at the “Seoul Music Awards” since 2010 until now, Super Junior, EXO and NCT 127 are the 3 names that are most mocked and ridiculed by the Korean online community because of their actual digital music achievements. These results have made Korean netizens once again believe that “Seoul Music Awards” is actually “SM Music Awards” when the organizers are finding ways for SM artists to win the most important award.

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