Golden Disc Awards – the awards ceremony is considered as Grammy of Korea – announced the nomination. Surprisingly, no girl group qualified as the nominee for the Rookie of the Year award.
On December 10, the 35th Golden Disc Awards (GDA) ceremony announced nominations in four categories of digital music, album, rookie, and popularity (Popularity Awards). This is a prestigious award ceremony, dubbed the “Korean Grammy”, so it is expected by the Kpop fan community.
To be nominated, the song and album must be released between November 2019 and November 2020. Albums are only qualified if they have at least 6 tracks (excluding intro, outro, and background music), soundtrack and project track from the TV show do not count. The results also took digital music data and hard disk as of mid-December.
The 35th GDA Awards nominated 30 artists in the album and digital music categories. Normally, 10 artists are receiving the Bonsang Award, the Daesang award is awarded to the highest performer among them. This year, the album and digital music segment is considered a race between BTS and BLACKPINK, but the Big Hit male group has a bigger advantage because of the outstanding album sales and a series of records from the nominated song, Dynamite.
Digital Song Division Bonsan
1. Apink – Dumhdurum
2. Baek Ji Young – No Love, No Heartbreak
3. Baek Yerin – Square (2017)
4. BLACKPINK – How You Like That
5. BOL4 – Leo (Feat. Baekhyun)
6. BTS – Dynamite
7. CHANGMO – METEOR
8. Davichi – Dear.
9. Hwang In Wook – Sad Drinking
10. Hwasa – Maria
11. ITZY – WANNABE
12. IU – Blueming
13. Jessi – NUNUNANA
14. Jin Minho – half
15. Park Jin Young – When We Disco (hát cùng Sunmi)
16. Kim Na Young, Yang Da Il – Goodbye List
17. Lee Hi – HOLO
18. Lim Young Woong –Trust in me
19. MAMAMOO – HIP
20. MC MONG –FAME (Feat. Song Ga In, Chancellor)
21. M.C the MAX – BLOOM
22. Noel – Late Night
23. Oh My Girl – Nonstop
24. OVAN – I Need You
25. Red Velvet – Psycho
26. Sin Ye Young – why break up?
27. Sunmi – pporappippam
28. TWICE – MORE & MORE
29. VIBE –Call me back
30. Zico – Any Song
Album Division Bonsang
1. AB6IX – VIVID
2. ATEEZ – ZERO: FEVER Part.1
3. Baekhyun – Delight
4. BLACKPINK – THE ALBUM
5. BTS – MAP OF THE SOUL: 7
6. CRAVITY – HIDEOUT: THE NEW DAY WE STEP INTO – SEASON 2
7. EXO – OBSESSION
8. EXO-SC – 1 Billion Views
9. GOT7 – DYE
10. ITZY – Not Shy
11. IU – Love poem
12. Kai – KAI
13. Kang Daniel – MAGENTA
14. Kim Ho Joong – We Are Family
15. MAMAMOO – TRAVEL
16. MONSTA X –FATAL LOVE
17. NCT – RESONANCE Pt.1
18. NCT 127 – NCT #127 Neo Zone
19. NU’EST – The Table
20. Red Velvet – Irene & Seulgi – Monster
21. SEVENTEEN – Heng:garae
22. Stray Kids – IN LIFE
23. Suho – Self-Portrait
24. Super Junior-K.R.Y – When We Were Us
25. SuperM – Super One
26. Taemin – Never Gonna Dance Again: Act 1
27. TXT – The Dream Chapter: ETERNITY
28. TWICE – MORE & MORE
29. Wonho – Love Synonym #1 : Right for Me
30. WOODZ (Cho Seung Youn) – EQUAL
There are 11 artists nominated for the Rookie of the Year award, but unexpectedly, girl groups are completely absent in this category, including Weeekly. They recently received the Rookie of the Year award at the Melon Music Awards and the Mnet Asian Music Awards, but are still not on the GDA nominees list.
Rookie Artist of the Year
1. CRAVITY
2. DRIPPIN
3. ENHYPEN
4. H&D
5. Kim Ho Joong
6. Lee Eun Sang
7. MCND
8. Sin Ye Young
9. TOO
10. TREASURE
11. WEi
In the Popularity Awards category, winners are chosen from 30 artists, determined by 100% of the votes. The voting round also applies only to this award, from now until the end of December 31.
Popularity Award
1. Apink
2. ATEEZ
3. BLACKPINK
4. BTS
5. CRAVITY
6. Davichi
7. ENHYPEN
8. EXO
9. GOT7
10. ITZY
11. IU
12. Kang Daniel
13. Kim Ho Joong
14. Lee Hi
15. Lim Young Woong
16. MAMAMOO
17. MONSTA X
18. NCT
19. NU’EST
20. Oh My Girl
21. Park Jin Young
22. Red Velvet
23. SEVENTEEN
24. Stray Kids
25. Sunmi
26. Super Junior-K.R.Y
27. TREASURE
28. TWICE
29. TXT
30. Zico Due to the epidemic
The 35th GDA Awards will take place online, with no audience attending. The ceremony will be held in 2 days: January 9 (digital music award) and January 10 (album award) in 2021.
Source:kenh14
