NewJeans is nominated for a BBMA award just one year after its debut, becoming the most nominated group.

HYBE Labels artists, including BTS's Sugar, Jimin, Jungkook, Tomorrow by Together, and NewJeans, were listed on the list of candidates for this year's Billboard Awards.

The '2023 Billboard Music Awards' (hereinafter 'BBMA') announced the list of award candidates on the 26th (local time). The BBMA selects award nominees based on Billboard chart performance over the past 12 months, including album and digital song sales, radio airplay, streaming, tours and social engagement. In particular, the K-Pop category was newly established this year, and with the influence of K-Pop expanding globally, Hive Labels artists showed an overwhelming presence by accounting for the majority of award candidates in this category.

BTS, who won a total of 12 trophies at the 'BBMA' for 6 consecutive years from 2017 to last year, is nominated in various categories this year as a solo artist and is aiming to win awards.

Suga is named 'Top K-Pop Touring Artist', while Jungkook and Jimin were named 'Top K-Pop Touring Artist' with 'Seven (feat. Latto)' and 'Like Crazy', respectively, which topped Billboard's main song chart 'Hot 100'. It was selected as a candidate for the ‘Top Global K-Pop Song’ award.

In addition to this, Jimin also won ‘Top Selling Song/Like Crazy’, ‘Top K-Pop Album/FACE’, and ‘Top Global K-Pop Artist’. He was nominated in four categories including Pop Artist, making him the most nominated K-pop solo artist. In particular, Jimin is the first K-pop solo artist to be nominated in the 'Top Selling Song' category. In this category, BTS won the award for two consecutive years in 2021 (Butter) and 2022 (Dynamite). Attention is being paid to whether Jimin will follow suit.

Tomorrow X Together is nominated for 'Top Global K-Pop Artist' and 'Top K-Pop Album' for their 5th mini album 'The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION', which topped Billboard's main album chart 'Billboard 200' last February. . 'The Chapter of the Name: TEMPTATION' entered the 'Billboard 200' at number one and stayed on the chart for 19 consecutive weeks, setting a new record as the longest-charting K-pop album this year. Recently, their 3rd full-length album ‘The Name Chapter: FREEFALL’ entered this chart at 3rd place.

NewJeans was nominated for the 'BBMA' award just one year after its debut and achieved the feat of being the most nominated K-pop artist. These are ‘Top Billboard Global (Excl. US) Artist’, ‘Top Global K-Pop Artist’, ‘Top K-Pop Album’ (Get Up), ‘Top K-Pop Song ' (Ditto, OMG) and were nominated for a total of 5 nominations in 4 categories. NewJeans entered the 'Hot 100' within half a year of their debut with 'Ditto' and 'OMG', and released their 2nd mini album ' in July. As they quickly showed off their global status and influence by taking first place on the 'Billboard 200' with 'Get Up', attention is being paid to whether they will be able to write a new history at this year's 'BBMA'.

The '2023 BBMA', which is considered one of the three major awards ceremonies in American pop music along with the 'Grammy Awards' and 'American Music Awards', will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, USA on November 19.

Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr