Jungkook (BTS), IVE, Seventeen are the names that “broke” the nomination categories of Circle Chart Music Awards 2023 thanks to their good achievements during the year.

Jungkook has brilliant solo achievements. Photo: Big Hit

Circle Chart Music Awards, formerly Gaon Chart Music Awards, is a prestigious music award held annually in Korea. The winner of the award will be determined based on the achievements of the songs on the Circle chart, from December of the previous year to November of the following year.

With its prestige and scale growing each year, Circle Chart Music Awards receives the attention of fans around the globe.

Because it is based on music chart results instead of giving decision-making power to a professional council, Circle Chart Music Awards is likened to Korea’s Billboard chart. Circle is currently a chart that collects data on the Korean music “industry” worldwide, in cooperation with platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok and YouTube.

This is the key factor that creates objectivity and credibility for this prestigious music award. There is no division of Daesang (Grand Prize) categories like other awards ceremonies, but Circle Chart’s division of categories is consistent with the criteria and spirit of the award.

Unlike previous years, the Artist of the Year award is divided into two segments: online music revenue and album sales revenue. This year, for the first time, the Artist of the Year award will be awarded in 4 categories: Album sales, Digital music, Streaming or Unique Listeners (number of online listeners) and Global Streaming (number of global streams). ).

Jungkook is an outstanding solo artist in 2023. Photo: Big Hit

Jungkook (BTS), SEVENTEEN and IVE are the “dominating” names in all 4 Artist of the Year nomination categories. 2023 is the year of brilliant victory for Jungkook (BTS).

BTS’s “golden maknae” is the first Kpop solo artist to have three songs in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100: Seven, 3D and Standing Next to You. The single paved the way for Seven to reach the 1 billion stream mark, the fastest in Spotify history, debuting at the “throne” of the Hot 100. Album Golden’s first week sales reached 200,000 units in the US. V

Not to be outdone, IVE also attracted the attention of the media when winning both rookie awards and important awards at many Kpop music awards ceremonies.

Meanwhile, according to Circle Chart’s 2023 album sales report, SEVENTEEN is the Kpop artist who won the top spot in album sales this year, with an impressive number of 16 million copies – the highest ever. nay for an artist in a year.

In addition to the nomination list for the Artist of the Year award, the 2023 Organizing Committee Circle Chart Music Awards has also finalized the nomination list for the Rookie of the Year award. BOYNEXTDOOR, RIIZE and ZEROBASEONE are the three names that are dominating in all categories.

This year’s awards ceremony stage will be led by 3 MCs: Leeteuk (Super Junior), Si Eun (STAYC) and Seok Matthew (ZEROBASEONE).

The list of artists performing at the awards ceremony has also been announced with prominent names such as NCT DREAM, RIIZE, Tomorrow X Together, ZEROBASEONE, KISS OF LIFE, STAYC, NiziU, AKMU and solo artists such as Kyung Seo , Parc Jae Jung, Lee Chan Won and Hwasa (MAMAMOO).

The Circle Chart Music Awards 2023 ceremony will be live on all FPT Play platforms from 5:00 p.m. on January 10.

Set of 3 MCs at this year’s awards ceremony. Photo: Organizing Committee