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Golden Disc Awards 2021: How to live stream, date, time, host, line-up and major nominations from BTS to Blackpink

‘Parasite’ and ‘Record of Youth’ actress Park So Dam, ‘Because You're My Woman’ crooner Lee Seung Gi, ‘The Beauty Inside’ actress Lee Da Hee and ‘The Voice of Korea 2020’ host Sung Si Kyung will host the show

For K-pop fans, January 2021 will be grand with all that is in store starting with Golden Disc Awards 2021 on January 9 and 10. The 35th edition of the award show will celebrate the best of entertainment artistry with a star-studded lineup of K-pop stars and K-drama actors as performers and presenters.

The Golden Disc Awards is a much-coveted annual award show, which recognizes and honors achievements of the South Korean music industry. Deemed as one of the most prestigious award shows of South Korea, Golden Disc Awards started in 1986. Last year, Grammy-nominated BTS dominated the award show, who will be taking the major trophies this year?

One of the main attractions for the award show lies in its tradition of highlighting the previous year’s best of music sales, both the digital sales and physical album sales along with an award for the ‘rookie of the year’. This year, YG Entertainment’s rookie group Treasure will be fighting for the Rookieaward with Big Hit Entertainment’s Enhypen, Starship Entertainment’s CRAVITY and more. Grammy-nominated BTS has been nominated for three major award categories while BLACKPINK nominated for the album Division Bonsang award. 

Along with the list of nominations, the award show has also released their host list that includes ‘Parasite’ and ‘Record of Youth’ actress Park So Dam, ‘Because You're My Woman’ crooner Lee Seung Gi, ‘The Beauty Inside’ actress Lee Da Hee and ‘The Voice of Korea 2020’ host Sung Si Kyung. While Park So Dam and Lee Seung Gi will be MC’s for the first day of the award show, Lee Da Hee and Sung Si Kyung will ramp the stage on day second, a report states. 

The award ceremony has also revealed the criteria for winning the prestigious GDA 2021. For major awards, the winners will be decided based on 60% based on sales and 40% based on the judges’ scores.

Date, time, voting time, major nominations, here’s what you need to know.

Date and time

The 35th edition of the Golden Disc Awards will be taking place on January 9 and 10 at 3.50 pm KST. The first day will highlight the digital releases in 2020 while day two will be focused on the achievements in the category of physical album releases of 2020. 

Nominations

In the digital song category deemed as the ‘main award’, BTS’ ‘Dynamite’, Blackpink ‘How You Like That’, Itzy’s ‘Wannabe’, Hwasa’s ‘Maria’, IU – ‘Blueming’, Jessi’s ‘NUNUNANA’ are some of ther major nominations. For Album of the year category, ATEEZ – ‘ZERO : FEVER Part.1’, BTS – ‘MAP OF THE SOUL : 7’, BLACKPINK – ‘THE ALBUM’, EXO – ‘OBSESSION’, GOT7 – ‘DYE’, ITZY – ‘Not Shy’, IU – ‘Love poem’, Kai - ‘KAI’ are some of the major contenders. Voting period is open from December 10, 2020, 11 am KST (9 pm ET) to December 31, 2020, 11:59 pm KST (9.59 am ET). 

Where to watch / How to live stream

The award show will be broadcasted from JTBC Network on JTBC, JTBC2 and JTBC4. This year, the show will be taking place without the presence of any live audience. 

You can watch GDA 2021 on a number of digital streaming platforms including LG U+, QQ MUSIC, POPS, http://LIVECON.TV, GYAO! and HAMI.

Hosts

Park So Dam,  Lee Seung Gi, Lee Da Hee and Sung Si Kyung, who hosted the 34th Golden Disc Awards will return to the GDA stage once again for hosting the two-day long award show.

Line-up

Here’s the list of stars attending the event.
BTS
GOT7
NCT 127
Stray Kids
TWICE
NU’EST
MONSTA X
SEVENTEEN 
Oh My Girl
ENHYPEN
ITZY
TREASURE
Noel 
The Boyz
LAPOEM
MAMAMOO 
Park Ji Chan
Park Jin Young
Rain 
IU 
(G)I-DLE
LOONA
Lee Seung Gi
Im Young Woong
Jessi
Changmo
TXT

Trailer

Watch the throwback clip of the 34th GDA awards including a major award sweep by BTS and more.