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2022 Korean Music Awards: BTS bag most Daesangs, aespa wins their first Grand Prize

BTS won the title for ‘Musician of the Year’ and aespa took home three awards including ‘Song of the Year’ for their single ‘Next Level’

The 19th Korean Music Awards took place on March 1, 2022, and among the big winners on the show, SM Entertainment rookies aespa shocked fans by winning the most number of awards.

Not only aespa, but BTS broke another record by bagging a new Daesang (Grand Prize) at the show, becoming the K-pop act with the most number of Daesangs in the history of Korean Music Awards. BTS seems to be solidifying its position as one of the biggest K-pop acts to exist as the septet also ranked first at the 2021 IFPI Global Best Recording Artist for two years in a row.

BTS also ranked Number 4 on the IFPI Global Album Sales Chart for their 2020 Japanese album ‘BTS: The Best’, Number 4 on the IFPI Global Digital Single Chart for the song ‘Butter’ among other international acts. aespa, on the other hand, is proving their monster rookie title by being the only act to win not one but three titles at the 2022 Korean Music Awards. Other than BTS and aespa, Chungha, IU, AKMU were some of the many popular K-pop winners at the show.

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BTS wins ‘Musician of the Year’

BTS took home the title of Musician of the Year at the 2022 Korean Music Awards. This marks the HYBE Labels group taking home the title for the fifth time in the history of the ceremony making them the only K-pop artists to do so. Not only did BTS win the Daesang - Grand Prize - which is the biggest prize of the night, the group also extended their personal record by becoming the artists with the most number of Daesangs - a total of 65 Daesang’s to their name. 

At the Korean Music Awards, BTS has bagged the title of Musician of the Year three times in 2018, 2019, and now in 2022. Not only that, other than these three Daesangs (Grand Prizes), BTS also won the Song of the Year Daesang for ‘Fake Love’ in 2019 and then again for their first English single ‘Dynamite’ in 2021.

With these titles, BTS has not only become the act with the most number of Daesangs at the Korean Music Awards, but also the only act with the most number of awards overall with a total of seven trophies in the history of Korean Music Awards

aespa bags three titles including ‘Song of the Year’

aespa is now proving to be the representative rookie girl group as they are setting new records each day. At the 19th Korean Music Awards, aespa came to become the only artist to bag more than one title. aespa took home three titles in total. Out of the four categories they were nominated for, aespa bagged the title for Best K-pop song with their 2021 single ‘Next Level’; the group also won the ‘Rookie of the Year’ (aka the Best New Artist Award) at the show.

Alongside those two titles, aespa won the grand prize for Song of the Year for ‘Next Level’, making them one of the three big winners at the Korean Music Awards. This marks aespa’s first-ever Daesang at the Korean Music Awards, making them one of the big names in K-pop. Over the history of the show, not many mainstream K-pop groups have bagged a Daesang at the show so early in their career. The SM Entertainment rookies are now proving that they really are on the next level.

Congratulations to BTS, aespa, and all the other winners at the 2022 Korean Music Awards. Find the detailed list of winners here.