35th Golden Disc Awards Nominees for Major Categories Revealed

Nominees for the 35th Golden Disc Awards for three major categories have been revealed.

On Dec. 10, Golden Disc Awards with Curaprox has unveiled the nominations for major categories such as the Digital Sound Source Award, the Record Division Award (album), and the Rookie Award. Candidates for each category can be viewed on mobile phones starting from Dec. 10 at 10 a.m. KST, while it can be viewed on PCs from Dec. 11 at 10 a.m. KST.

There are 30 artists for Digital Sound Source and Record Division each, while there are 11 candidates for the Rookie Award. Some of the nominees for the first two categories are as follows:

Digital Sound Source Sector:

BLACKPINK ("How You Like That")

BTS ("Dynamite")

ITZY ("WANNABE")

MAMAMOO ("HIP)

Red Velvet ("Psycho")

TWICE ("MORE & MORE")

Hwasa ("Maria")

IU ("Blueming)

Jinyoung Park ("When We Disco" duet with Sunmi)

Lee Hi ("Alone")

To see other nominees, click here.

Record Division:

AB6IX ("VIVID")

ATEEZ ("ZERO: FEVER Part. 1")

BLACKPINK ("THE ALBUM")

CRAVITY ("Hideout: The New Day We Step Into- Season 2")

EXO ("OBSESSION")

GOT7 ("DYE")

ITZY ("Not Shy")

NCT ("NCT - The2ndAlbum RESONANCE Pt. 1")

NCT 127 ("#NCT127NeoZone")

Stray Kids ("IN生")

To see other nominees, click here.

For the Rookie Award, the candidates are CRAVITY, ENHYPEN, H&D, MCND, TOO, TREASURE, Hojoong Kim, Driffin, Shin Yeyoung, Wii, and Eunsang Lee.

Works released from November 2019 through November 2020 are qualified to be nominated this year. Songs and albums that were excluded from the evaluation due to the previous year's judging count deadline are included in this year's judging. Nominees are selected based on quantitative measures such as sales. The final winners will be chosen based on sales (60%) and the judging panel's scores (40%).

The judging panel comprises the ceremony's executive committee alongside 50 industry professionals including music critics, directors of music programs, music distribution representatives, journalists specializing in music, and more. They will be evaluating qualitative measures such as the music's achievement and influence on the public.

Online voting will not be held for any of the major categories and will only take place for the popularity award, which is CURAPROX Golden Disc Popularity Award and QQ Music Fans' Choice K-Pop Artist Award. The voting for the first award is through the CURAPROX Golden Disc Award website. Fans can participate after logging in to their SNS account.

Meanwhile, the fan choice award is held at QQ Music, China's largest digital music platform, and is only available for mobile phones. Fans who want to vote must download the QQ music app. The voting period for the two popularity awards will occur from Dec. 10 at 11 a.m. to Dec. 31 at 11:59 p.m. KST.

The "Golden Disc Awards" has been running for 35 years, starting with its first episode in 1986. The 35^th Golden Disc Awards with CURAPROX will be conducted non-face-to-face without an audience. It will be broadcast on Jan. 9 and 10 on JTBC, JTBC2, and JTBC4.

What are you waiting for? Vote for your favorite groups or artists for the popularity awards now!

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Written by Mhaliya S.