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2020 MBC Music Festival ‘Gayo Daejejeon: The Moment’: Who is part of the line-up? Date, time, how to live stream and all you need to know

This year, MBC Gayo Daejejeon will be hosted by the popular K-pop girl group Girl’s Generation’s  YoonA, Jang Sung-kyu and Kim Seon-ho

MBC music festival is set to end the year right on December 31 with a grand lineup of K-pop supergroups. Titled as ‘MBC Gayo Daejejeon: The Moment’, the annual music festival will showcase some of the best artists of 2020 with a unique line-up of performers. MBC Gayo Daejejeon is one of the oldest music fests in South Korea. Originally, in 1966 MBC Gayo started as a music competition but since 2005, MBC has stopped giving awards and only hold the show as a celebration of music and more.

From global K-pop sensation NCT, Stray Kids to Mamamoo, Twice, the MBC music festival is gearing up for a spectacular evening of K-pop bops. Date, time, the complete performers' list, where to live stream, we have you covered.

Hosts

This year, MBC Gayo Daejejeon will be hosted by the popular K-pop girl group Girl’s Generation’s  YoonA, Jang Sung-kyu and Kim Seon-ho.

The music festival will also feature quite a few premiering performances that haven’t been seen before. Jyp’s Park Jin-young and Rain will come together to sing their new track ‘Switch To Me’ for the first time. Plus, the winner of the 2019 reality television show ‘Miss Trot’, Song Ga In will join Canadian K-pop singer/actor Henry Lau for an exclusive performance. Two super popular girl group Twice and Iz*one are also rumored to have a collab stage on MBC. Another fan update suggests Iz*one could have a shared stage with Itzy.

However, this year, the MBC music festival will miss the presence of Grammy-nominated Kpop group BTS and other Big Hit’s groups like TXT, GFriend, and Pledis Entertainment’s Nu’est who all will be performing in the Weverse New Year’s Live concert on the same day. 

Date and time

MBC Gayo is scheduled for December 31 at 9 pm KST.

How to live stream/ Where to watch

2020 MBC music festival can be watched and live-streamed through Viki. Click here to know all about live streaming.

Line-up

Here’s the complete star-studded line-up for the event 

 
Rain
Park Jin-young
Uhm Jung-hwa
Lim Young-woong
Mamamoo
NCT
Song Ga-in X Henry
GOT7
Itzy
Stray Kids
Twice
Kang Seung-yoon (Winner)
Norazo
The Boyz
Kim Shin-young
(G)I-dle
Monsta X
Iz*One
Aespa
Oh My Girl
LOONA
Jessi
Paul Kim
 

Pre-buzz

There’s a lot of buzz regarding the MBC festival. Seventeen fans have been curious to know why the popular supergroup will not be attending either Big Hit’s concert or MBC Gayo. A fan wrote, “I'm fckin' curious about svt's schedule on dec 31”, another user said, “No blackpink again, and no treasure, no YG artist, okay.” Another user posted, “So no blackpink... To the person who made our hopes up, come out…” A fan page has also posted rumors of collabs that can take place on MBC, “2020 MBC Gayo Daejejeon Rumors of Collab Stage: Collab: #SOOJIN #SOYEON Yuri, Minju (IZ*ONE), Ryujin and Yeji (ITZY) -Reflection Collab: #MINNIE , Chaewon (IZ*ONE) and Hyojung (OMG) - Across the Universe.” Another fan shared, “It is rumored that IZ*ONE Jline will have a collab stage with Twice Jline at MBC Gayo Daejejeon. They will perform AKB48’s Aitakatta with Heavy Rotation Dance Break.”

Trailer 

There’s no new trailer for MBC Gayo Daejejeon yet. Check out some of the iconic performances of last year.