2023 Korean Music Awards Announces This Year’s Nominees

Feb 9, 2023

2023 Korean Music Awards Announces This Year’s Nominees

 

The 2023 Korean Music Awards has announced the nominees for this year!

In contrast to many other South Korean music awards, which typically use sales figures as a major criterion in determining each year’s winners, the Korean Music Awards focuses on musical achievement as its primary criterion. The Korean Music Awards also places greater importance on songs and albums in and of themselves.

Check out this year’s nominees below!

Album of the Year

  • 250 – “PPONG”
  • The Black Skirts – “TEEN TROUBLES”
  • Nucksal, CADEJO – “Sincerely Yours”
  • Line and Circle – “Night and Day”
  • Song Young Joo – “Atmosphere”
  • NewJeans – “New Jeans”

Song of the Year

  • (G)I-DLE – “TOMBOY”
  • Silica Gel – “NO PAIN”
  • Younha – “Event Horizon”
  • Jang Ki Ha – “Envy None”
  • IVE – “LOVE DIVE”
  • NewJeans – “Attention”

Artist of the Year

  • 250
  • Nucksal, CADEJO
  • Younha
  • Jang Ki Ha
  • NewJeans

Rookie of the Year

  • Kim Yujin
  • Sion
  • HANRORO
  • IVE
  • LE SSERAFIM
  • NewJeans

Best K-Pop Album

  • (G)I-DLE – “I Love”
  • (G)I-DLE – “I NEVER DIE”
  • Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon – “INVU”
  • LE SSERAFIM – “ANTIFRAGILE”
  • NewJeans – “New Jeans”

Best K-Pop Song

  • (G)I-DLE – “TOMBOY”
  • IVE – “LOVE DIVE”
  • LE SSERAFIM – “ANTIFRAGILE”
  • NewJeans – “Attention”
  • Red Velvet – “Feel My Rhythm”

Best Pop Album

  • Light & Salt – “Here We Go”
  • AKMU’s Lee Chan Hyuk – “ERROR”
  • Lim Young Woong – “IM HERO”
  • Jang Ki Ha – “Levitation”
  • Choi Beck Ho – “Moment”

Best Pop Song

  • 250 – “It Was All a Dream”
  • DAY6’s Wonpil – “A Journey”
  • Younha – “Event Horizon”
  • AKMU’s Lee Chan Hyuk – “Panorama”
  • Jang Ki Ha – “Envy None”

Best Rock Album

  • Lanalogue – “Stereo Out!”
  • Concorde – “Supersonic Airliner”
  • ABTB – “iii”
  • BADLAMB – “Universal Anxiety”
  • OVerdrive Philosophy – “OVerdrive Philosophy”

Best Rock Song

  • BADLAMB – “Love, Lies, Bleeding”
  • HarryBigButton – “Thelma & Louise”
  • OVerdrive Philosophy – “Painful Truth”
  • Jambinai – “from the place been erased” (feat. Sunwoojunga)
  • Concorde – “Rainbow flowers are blooming”

Best Modern Rock Album

  • TRPP – “Here to stay”
  • The Black Skirts – “TEEN TROUBLES”
  • The Bowls – “Blast From The Past”
  • Say Sue Me – “The Last Thing Left”
  • Huckleberryfinn – “The Light Of Rain”

Best Modern Rock Song

  • Say Sue Me – “To Dream”
  • Silica Gel – “NO PAIN”
  • Cho Yong Pil – “Moment”
  • HANRORO – “Let Me Love My Youth”
  • Huckleberryfinn – “Tempest”

Best R&B and Soul Album

  • Slom – “WEATHER REPORT”
  • A.TRAIN – “PRIVATE PINK”
  • CHE – “Kpop”
  • Joe Layne – “Life O Life”
  • Rad Museum – “RAD”
  • Soul delivery – “FOODCOURT”

Best R&B and Soul Song

  • BIBI – “JOTTO”
  • Sion – “Braindead”
  • A.TRAIN – “SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL” (feat. Meaningful Stone, Simun, Seo Bo Kyung)
  • Slom – “ANIRAGO” (feat. Zion.T)
  • Soul delivery – “NUGS” (with THAMA)

Best Rap and Hip Hop Album

  • Qim Isle – “some hearts are for two”
  • Nucksal, CADEJO – “Sincerely Yours”
  • Lee Hyun Jun – “Lost In Translation”
  • Paloalto – “Dirt”
  • C JAMM – “Ghenn”

Best Rap and Hip Hop Song

  • Nucksal, CADEJO – “Good Morning Seoul”
  • Lee Hyun Jun – “White Lighter”
  • Zico – “New Thing” (prod. by Zico, feat. Homies)
  • Paloalto – “PRICELESS” (feat. toigo)
  • lobonabeat! – “Birthday” (feat. BILL STAX)

Best Electronic Album

  • Two Tone Shape – “Every Minute”
  • 250 – “PPONG”
  • Glen Check – “Bleach”
  • Pierre Blanche – “Ego”
  • Salamanda – “ashbalkum”

Best Electronic Song

  • 250 – “Bang Bus”
  • Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon – “INVU” (Moon Kyoo Remix)
  • Glen Check – “4ever”
  • KIRARA – “Stargaze”
  • Pierre Blanche – “Infinite Circle” (feat. Rondo Mo)

Best Folk Album

  • Kim Mok In – “Stored Images”
  • Lucid Fall – “Voice beside Guitar”
  • Bae Young Gyoung – “you my blue”
  • Summer of Thoughts – “Hands”
  • Line and Circle – “Night and Day”

Best Folk Song

  • Kim Mok In – “Walking in the City” (feat. Dajung)
  • Lucid Fall – “A Small Handful of Songs”
  • Bae Young Gyoung – “I love you” (feat. Sunnie)
  • Summer of Thoughts – “Rambler” (with Park Hyeli)
  • Line and Circle – “Night and Day”

Best Metal & Hardcore Album

  • Seaweed Mustache – “Bombora”
  • Visceral Explosion – “Human Meat Distribution Process”
  • Dog Last Page – “Drunken Dream”
  • Madmans Esprit – “I See Myself Through You Who See Us Through Me”
  • Nuclear Idiots – “NCLRIDTS”

Best Jazz Vocal Album

  • Kim Ju Hwan – “Candy: Memories of Nat King Cole Trio”
  • Youn Sun Nah – “WAKING WORLD”
  • Maria Kim – “Stellive Vol. 16 Two for the Road”
  • Song Yi Jeon & Vinicius Gomes – “Home”
  • Kim Yujin – “A Piece and the Whole”

Best Jazz Music Album

  • Hoo Kim Big Band – “Common Heritage of Humankind”
  • Kim Jung Sik – “Hangul, Improvisation”
  • Mandong – “Big Sun”
  • Song Young Joo – “Atmosphere”
  • Yu Tae Sung – “Michelangelo”

Best Global Contemporary Album

  • Park Jiha – “The Gleam”
  • BAUM SAE – “COMMUNICATION”
  • Jung Jae Il – “psalms”
  • Ji Park, BlankFor.ms, VRI String Quartet – “Syntropy”
  • Hwang Gina – “Short film”
  • SINNOI – “ILLUMINATION”

 

Source: Soompi

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