How to vote for Seoul Music Awards 2021? BTS, NCT, Stray Kids, EXO, Twice, Seventeen among main nominations
The much-coveted 30th High1 Seoul Music Awards will take place at the end of January and the voting period will last till January 24 for the various group of awards. This year, Grammy-nominated K-pop group BTS, globally popular girl group Blackpink, SM Entertainment's 4th generation superstars NCT, Stray Kids, are among the major K-pop groups nominated.
Seoul Music Awards, which was started in 1990 by Sports Seoul, is held every year to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the South Korean music industry. This year, the award show will be held without the presence of a live audience following restrictions due to Covid 19 pandemic. Nominations for all the major categories including Main Award, Rookie Award, Trot Award, Ballad Award, R&B/Hip Hop Award, OST Award, Popularity Award, and K-Wave Award, plus the additional special 30th-anniversary Legal Grand Prize award and Legend Rookie award, were announced earlier.
Criteria for SMA
For the major categories of awards like Main, Rookie, Trot Ballad, R&B/Hip Hop, and OST, the criteria for winning is 40% judge panel and SMA organizing committee, 30% album and song sales (as per Hanteo Chart) and 30% mobile votes.
The popularity award will be based on 100% votes. For the prestigious K-wave award, the winner will be decided based on votes outside Korea. Categories including Band, Performance Culture, Discovery of the Year, and Judge’s Special Awards will be given to winners decided by judge panel and SMA organizing committee.
Voting period
The voting period for SMA started on December 21 and will continue till January 24.
How to vote
Each person can cast up to ten votes per day for each category. To cast a free vote per day, download the mobile voting app of the 30th High1 Seoul Music Awards or check the link here.
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Nominations
Check nominations for all the major categories below.
Main Award
AB6IX – ‘VIVID’
Apink – ‘LOOK’
APRIL – ‘Da Capo’
ASTRO – ‘GATEWAY’
ATEEZ – ‘ZERO : FEVER Part.1’
Baekhyun – ‘Delight’
Baek Ji Young – ‘I still love you a lot’
BLACKPINK – ‘How You Like That’
BOL4 – ‘Puberty Book Ⅱ Pum’
BTS – ‘MAP OF THE SOUL: 7’
Chungha – ‘PLAY’
CIX – ‘Hello, Strange Time’
DAY6 – ‘The Book of Us : The Demon’
DreamCatcher – ‘Dystopia : The Tree of Language’
EXO – ‘EXO PLANET #5 –EXplOration– Live Album’
GFRIEND – ‘回:LABYRINTH’
(G)I-DLE – ‘DUMDi DUMDi’
GOT7 – ‘DYE’
Ha Sung Woon – ‘Twilight Zone’
Hwasa – ‘María’
ITZY – ‘IT’z ME’
IU – ‘eight’
IZ*ONE – ‘BLOOM*IZ’
Jessi – ‘NUNA’
Kang Daniel – ‘MAGENTA’
LOONA – “[#]”
MAMAMOO – ‘Dingga’
MONSTA X – ‘FANTASIA X’
NCT – ‘RESONANCE Pt.1’
NCT 127 – ‘NCT #127 Neo Zone’
NCT DREAM – ‘RELOAD’
NU’EST – ‘The Nocturne’
Oh My Girl – ‘NONSTOP’
Park Ji Hoon – ‘The W’
Park Jin Young – ‘When We Disco’
Paul Kim – ‘Maum, Pt. 2’
PENTAGON – ‘WE:TH’
SEVENTEEN – ‘Heng:garæ’
SF9 – ‘9loryUS’
Stray Kids – ‘GO生 (GO LIVE)’
Sunmi – ‘pporappippam’
Super Junior-D&E – ‘BAD BLOOD’
Super Junior-K.R.Y. – ‘When We Were Us’
Taemin – ‘Never Gonna Dance Again: Act 1’
Taeyeon – ‘Happy’
The Boyz – ‘CHASE’
TXT – ‘MINISODE 1: BLUE HOUR’
TWICE – ‘MORE & MORE’
VICTON – ‘Mayday’
Zico – ‘Any Song’
Rookie of the Year
Aespa – ‘Black Mamba’
CRAVITY – ‘HIDEOUT: REMEMBER WHO WE ARE – SEASON 1.’
DRIPPIN – ‘Boyager’
ENHYPEN – ‘BORDER : DAY ONE’
GHOST9 – ‘PRE EPISODE 1: DOOR’
Natty – ‘NINETEEN’
P1Harmony – “DISHARMONY : STAND OUT”
SECRET NUMBER – ‘Who Dis?’
STAYC – ‘Star To A Young Culture’
TREASURE – ‘THE FIRST STEP: CHAPTER ONE’
Weeekly – ‘We are’
WEi – ‘IDENTITY: First Sight’
Trot Award
Jang Minho – ‘Read and Ignored’
Jang Yoon Jung – ‘To Destiny’
Jo Myung Sup – ‘When the Flowers Bloom and the Bird Cry’
Jung Dong Won – ‘Hit it off’
Kim Ho Joong – ‘We Are Family’
Kim Soo Chan – ‘Soo Chan Song Party’
Lim Young Woong – ‘Trust in me’
Na Hoon Ah – ‘Story of Nine’
Na Tae Joo – ‘Train of Life’
Ryu Ji Kwang – ‘Line 5 Woman’
Song Ga In – ‘HwaRyuChoonMong’
SUPERFIVE – ‘Hello’
Ballad Award
Ailee – ‘I’m’
Baek Ji Young – ‘I still love you a lot’
Car, the garden – ‘All Night Long’
Huh Gak – ‘Without you’
Im Chang Jung – ‘Love should not be harsh on you’
Jang Beom June – ‘Can’t Sleep’
Jeon Sang Keun – ‘One Step: Trace’
Kim Jae Hwan – ‘Goodbye’
Kyuhyun – ‘The Moment My Heart’
Noel – ‘Suddenly’
Paul Kim – ‘Hangover’
Sandeul – ‘Slightly Tipsy’
R&B/Hip Hop Award
Baekhyun – ‘Delight’
GIRIBOY – ‘Like a Film’
Jessi – ‘NUNA’
Lee Hi – ‘HOLO’
LOCO – ‘SOME TIME’
LUNCH – ‘I Don’t Need You’
MAKTUB – ‘Red Moon : SUPERNOVA’
OVAN – ‘I Need You’
Paul Kim – ‘Maum, Pt. 2’
Sik-K, pH-1, Jay Park, HAON – ‘GANG Official Remix’
Zico – ‘Any song’
OST Award
Baekhyun – ‘My Love’ (‘Dr. Romantic 2’ OST)
Baek Yerin – ‘Here I Am Again’ (‘Crash Landing On You’ OST)
Jo Jung Suk – ‘Aloha’ (‘Hospital Playlist’ OST)
Gaho – ‘Start’ (‘Itaewon Class’ OST)
Ha Hyun Woo – ‘Diamond’ (‘Itaewon Class’ OST)
Heize and Punch – ‘Midnight’ (‘Do You Like Brahms’ OST)
IU – ‘Give You My Heart’ (‘Crash Landing On You’ OST)
Jeon Mi Do – ‘I Knew I Love’ (‘Hospital Playlist’ OST)
Joy – ‘Introduce me a good person’ (‘Hospital Playlist’ OST)
Kim Feel – ‘Someday, The Boy’ (‘Itaewon Class’ OST)
Kyuhyun – ‘Confession Is Not Flashy’ (‘Hospital Playlist’ OST)
Lee Suhyun – ‘In Your Time’ (‘It’s Okay to Not Be Okay’ OST)
Taeyeon – ‘Kiss me’ (‘Do You Like Brahms?’ OST)
Urban Zakapa – ‘Beautiful My Love’ (‘Hospital Playlist’ OST)
Wheein – ‘With My Tears’ (‘Hospital Playlist’ OST)
For more nominations, check here.