MUSIC
BTS wins 6th consecutive album grand prize
The '37th Golden Disc Awards with TikTok', which was broadcast live on JTBC2 and JTBC4 on the 7th, was held at Rajamangala Stadium, the largest in Bangkok, Thailand. About 35,000 audiences gathered at this year's Golden Disc Awards, which encouraged artists who promoted K-pop around the world for a year and provided music fans with spectacular entertainment. The audience who filled the concert hall showed their love and interest in K-pop by cheering enthusiastically for about four hours.
The grand prize of honor went to BTS and Ive. BTS, which recorded sales of more than 3.3 million copies with 'Proof' released last year, continued its streak of winning the grand prize in the Golden Disc Album category for 6 consecutive years from the 32nd to the 37th. Including the music source, there are a total of 7 grand prize trophies. On this day, BTS won three awards including the Bonsang Award, TikTok Popularity Award, and the Grand Prize, and J-Hope also received the Thai Fans Support with Baoji Award.
Ive is the first person in the 37-year history of the Golden Disk Awards to win both the Rookie of the Year Award and the Grand Prize at the same time. Ive, who debuted with 'ELEVEN' in December 2021, recorded three consecutive mega hits including 'LOVE DIVE' and 'After Like'. Thanks to its popularity, it was able to decorate a new page of history.
The main prize for each category went to 8 teams each. The digital music category was occupied by (G)I-DLE, Kim Min-seok, New Jeans, Jay Park, Big Bang, PSY, Ive, and Lim Young-woong, and the album category was occupied by ENHYPEN, BTS, Blackpink, Seventeen, Stray Kids, NCT, NCT 127, and NCT DREAM. did. Rookies, those with more than 10 years of experience, and various genres are all mixed together, resulting in a view of the music industry in 2022 at a glance.
There were three teams that won this year's Rookie of the Year Award, who turned the year around so that they didn't seem particularly rookies. The main characters are New Jeans, Le Seraphim, and Ive. This is a result on which there can be no disagreement. New Jeans, Rookie of the Year and Main Sang, Le Seraphim, who is evaluated as having no performance idol that can match her even though she debuted less than a year ago, and Ive, who wrote the 'legendary record' of Rookie of the Year, Main Sang and Daesang, all left records that deserve applause.
Artist of the Year went to Psy, and the most popular singer awards went to (G)I-DLE and Stray Kids. Seventeen won three awards, including the Album Award, Best Performance, and Thai K-Pop Artist Award. Treasure went to Best Group, and Best Solo Artist went to ‘icons of comebacks’ Younha and Bio. Best R&B Hip Hop went to Big Nati, Thai Fans Support with Baoji went to J-Hope, and the TikTok Golden Disk Popularity Award went to BTS.
The MCs on this day were Lee Da-hee, Sung Si-kyung, Park So-dam, and Nichkhun. The award presenters were popular actors Song Joong-ki and Lee Jun-ho. As soon as it appeared, it received an explosive response, proving its popularity in Thailand.
The winners of the 37th Golden Disc Awards Rookie Award, Main Award, and Grand Prize are based on the evaluation (40%) of an expert judging panel consisting of Golden Disk executive committee members, music reporters, music program PDs, pop music critics, and domestic distribution company officials, as well as the use of Circle Chart sound sources and It was selected by adding up album sales (60%). The subject of the review counted the sales of music and albums released from early November 2021 to mid-November 2022 until the end of November 2022.
Reporter Junho Yoon, Ten Asia delo410@tenasia.co.kr
