Asian Pop Music Awards 2021: EXO, Blackpink, Hyuna, NCT win big at Chinese award show
With just four days left for 2021 to end, content platforms and entertainment committees are busy with their year-end lists and award shows, honoring those who made a huge impact this year. South Korea is practically dominating the global entertainment industry this year. In the drama industry, we have ‘Squid Game’ being nominated at international award shows like Critics’ Choice, People’s Choice and even the Golden Globes. At the same time, K-pop has taken over Western music shows with BTS making history at the MTV EMAs, AMAs and Grammys. And now we have the Asian Pop Music Awards 2021.
Other music industries also have seen an influx of idols with GOT7’s Jackson and EXO’s Lay representing K-pop in China, Eric Nam entering Bollywood, Blackpink having a big night at Brazil’s BreakTudo Awards while TXT rule in Japan. For the Asian Pop Music Awards 2021, we had winners from China like THE9, Japanese rockstar Kenshi Yonezu, English popstar Adele and K-pop acts like EXO, Blackpink members and Hyuna.
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2021 K-pop winners announced on YouTube
The Asian Pop Music Awards 2021 announced the winners on the VVV Music Group’s YouTube channel. The winners are selected on the basis of their performance on the Asian Pop Music Charts and the jurors picks. There are two categories — Chinese and Overseas. The awards were presented by Hong Kong movie star Simon Yam. Here are all the K-pop winners at the Chinese award show.
People’s Choice Award
Chinese category:
EXO Lay’s ‘East’
WayV’s ‘Kick Back’
Overseas category:
EXO’s ‘Don’t Fight The Feeling
Blackpink Rose’s ‘R’
EXO D.O.’s ‘Empathy’
EXO Kai’s ‘Mmmh’
Hyuna’s ‘I’m Not Cool’
Hyuna and Dawn’s ‘Ping Pong’
Blackpink Lisa’s ‘Lalisa’
Aespa’s ‘Savage’
Best Lyricist Award
Overseas category:
Sunmi’s ‘Borderline’
Best Composer Award
Overseas category:
Mamamoo’s ‘Where Are We Now’ - Kim Do-hoon, Cosmic Girl, Lee Hu-sang
Best Arranger Award
Overseas category:
Aespa’s ‘Savage’ - Jia Lih, Yoo Young-jin
Best Producer Award
Overseas category:
Girls’ Generation Taeyeon’s ‘Weekend’ - Lee Soo-man
Best Dance Performance Award
Chinese category:
WayV’s ‘Kick Back’
Overseas category:
Rain and JY Park’s ‘Switch to me’
Best OST Award
Overseas category:
EXO Baekhyun’s ‘U’ from ‘Doom At Your Service’
Best Music Video Award
Overseas category:
Blackpink Rose’s ‘On The Ground’
Best Collaboration Award
Overseas category:
Hyuna and Dawn’s ‘Ping Pong’
Song of the Year Award
Overseas category:
Blackpink Lisa’s ‘Lalisa’
Record of the Year Award
Overseas category:
CL’s ‘Lover Like Me’
Best New Artist Award
Overseas category:
Enhypen’s ‘Dimension: Dilemma’
Best Group Award
Chinese category:
PANTHEPACK’s ‘The Pack’ (GOT7’s Jackson is a member)
Overseas category:
NCT 127’s ‘Sticker’
Red Velvet’s ‘Queendom’
Best Female Artist Award
Overseas category:
Jeon Somi’s ‘XOXO’
Best Male Artist Award
Overseas category:
EXO Kai’s ‘KAI’
Top 20 Albums
Chinese category:
EXO Lay’s ‘East’
WayV’s ‘Kick Back’
Overseas category:
CL’s ‘Alpha’
EXO Baekhyun’s ‘Bambi’
Itzy’s ‘Crazy In Love’
Heize’s ‘Happen’
Hyuna’s ‘I’m Not Cool’
Blackpink Lisa’s ‘Lalisa’
IU’s ‘Lilac’
Red Velvet’s ‘Queendom’
Aespa’s ‘Savage’
NCT 127’s ‘Sticker’
Mamamoo’s ‘WAW’
Jeon Somi’s ‘XOXO’
Sunmi’s ‘1/6'
Lee Hi’s ‘4 Only’
Blackpink Rose’s ‘R’
Top 20 Songs
Overseas category:
Kang Daniel’s ‘Antidote’
EXO Baekhyun’s ‘Bambi’
Jessi’s ‘Cold Blooded’
EXO’s ‘Don’t Fight The Feeling’
Jeon Somi’s ‘Dumb Dumb’
Hyuna’s ‘I’m Not Cool’ and ‘Ping Pong’ with Dawn
Itzy’s ‘In the morning’ and ‘Loco’
TWICE’s ‘Kura Kura’
Blackpink Lisa’s ‘Lalisa’
IU’s ‘Lilac’
CL’s ‘Lover Like Me’
Blackpink Rose’s ‘On The Ground’
Seventeen’s ‘Rock with you’
Aespa’s ‘Savage’
Mamamoo’s ‘Where Are We Now’
Sunmi’s ‘You can’t sit with us’