Voting for the 32nd Seoul Music Awards (SMA) is now underway!
On December 6, the Seoul Music Awards officially announced the nominations for this year’s ceremony, which will be held on January 19, 2023 at the KSPO Dome in Seoul.
This year, there will be mobile voting for the following awards: Grand Prize (Bonsang), Rookie of the Year, Popularity Award, K-Wave Award, OST Award, Trot Award, Ballad Award and R&B/Hip Hop Award.
Voting will take place in two phases of 20 days: Phase 1 will run from December 6 to 11:59 p.m. KST on December 25, while Phase 2 will begin on December 27 at noon KST and end on January 15 at 11:59 p.m. KST. Each phase will count for 50 percent of the total number of nominees’ votes.
The Popularity Award will be awarded solely based on votes located in Korea, while the K-Wave Award will be based entirely on votes outside of Korea. All nominees for the Grand Prize (Bonsang) and Rookie of the Year are automatically nominated for the Popularity and K-Wave Awards.
Winners of the Main (Bonsang), Rookie, OST, Trot, Ballad and R&B/Hip Hop Awards will be determined 40 percent based on judges’ ratings, 30 percent from album and song sales in 2022 (according to Hanteo Chart data), and 30 percent from mobile voices.
Nominees for awards not included in mobile voting have not yet been revealed.
Check out the nominees in the voting categories below!
Main Award (Bonsang)
- 10cm – “5.3”
- aespa – “Girls”
- ASTRO – “Drive to the Starry Road”
- ATEEZ – “THE WORLD EP.1 : MOVEMENT”
- BIGBANG – “Still Life”
- BLACKPINK – “BORN PINK”
- BOL4 – “Seoul”
- THE BOYZ – “BE AWARE”
- BTOB – “Be Together”
- BTS – “Proof”
- Choi Ye Na – “SMiLEY”
- CRAVITY – “NEW WAVE”
- Crush – “Rush Hour”
- DKZ – “CHASE EPISODE 2. MAUM”
- ENHYPEN – “MANIFESTO : DAY 1”
- fromis_9 – “from our Memento Box”
- (G)I-DLE – “I NEVER DIE”
- Girls’ Generation – “FOREVER 1”
- GOT the beat – “Step Back”
- GOT7 – “GOT7”
- ITZY – “CHECKMATE”
- IVE – “LOVE DIVE”
- Jay Park – “GANADARA”
- J-Hope (BTS) – “Jack In The Box”
- Jin (BTS) – “The Astronaut”
- Kang Daniel – “The Story”
- Kihyun (MONSTA X) – “VOYAGER”
- Kim Ho Joong – “PANORAMA”
- Lim Young Woong – “IM HERO”
- MONSTA X – “SHAPE of LOVE”
- Nayeon (TWICE) – “IM NAYEON”
- NCT 127 – “2 Baddies”
- NCT DREAM – “Glitch Mode”
- ONEUS – “MALUS”
- P1Harmony – “HARMONY : ZERO IN”
- PSY – “PSY 9th”
- Red Velvet – “The ReVe Festival 2022 – Feel My Rhythm”
- Seulgi (Red Velvet) – “28 Reasons”
- SEVENTEEN – “Face The Sun”
- STAYC – “YOUNG-LUV.COM”
- Stray Kids – “MAXIDENT”
- Suho (EXO) – “Grey Suit”
- Super Junior – “The Road : Winter for Spring”
- Taeyeon (Girls’ Generation) – “INVU”
- TREASURE – “THE SECOND STEP : CHAPTER ONE”
- TWICE – “BETWEEN 1&2”
- TXT – “minisode 2: Thursday’s Child”
- WEi – “Love Pt.2 : Passion”
- WINNER – “HOLIDAY”
- Zico (Block B) – “New thing”
Rookie of the Year
- ATBO – “The Beginning : 開花”
- Billlie – “the Billage of perception: chapter two”
- CLASS:y – “CLASS IS OVER”
- CSR – “Sequence : 7272”
- H1-KEY – “Athletic Girl”
- Kep1er – “FIRST IMPACT”
- Lapillus – “HIT YA!”
- LE SSERAFIM – “FEARLESS”
- NewJeans – “New Jeans”
- NINE.i – “NEW WORLD”
- NMIXX – “AD MARE”
- TAN – “1TAN”
- TEMPEST – “It’s ME, It’s WE”
- TNX – “WAY UP”
- TRENDZ – “BLUE SET Chapter 1. TRACKS”
- VIVIZ – “Beam Of Prism”
- YOUNITE – “YOUNI-BIRTH”
OST Award
- 10cm – “Spring to Love” (“Our Blues”)
- BIBI – “Very, Slowly” (“Twenty Five, Twenty One”)
- Davichi – “Remember me” (“Our Blues”)
- Heize – “The Last” (“Our Blues”)
- Jimin (BTS) and Ha Sung Woon – “With you” (“Our Blues”)
- Lee Seok Hoon – “Dear. My Fool” (“Discovery of Love”)
- Lee Seung Yoon – “The Giving Tree” (“Our Beloved Summer”)
- Lee Sun Hee – “I’ll Leave You” (“The Red Sleeve“)
- Lim Young Woong – “Our Blues” (“Our Blues”)
- MeloMance – “Love, Maybe” (“A Business Proposal”)
- Sam Kim – “Summer Rain” (“Our Beloved Summer”)
- Sunwoojunga – “Beyond My Dreams” (“Extraordinary Attorney Woo”)
- Taeil (NCT) – “Starlight” (“Twenty Five, Twenty One”)
- Tiger JK – “WADADADA” (“One Dollar Lawyer”)
- Wheein (MAMAMOO) – “You, You” (“Nth Romance”)
- Wonstein – “Your Existence” (“Twenty Five, Twenty One”)
Trot Award
- Jang Min Ho – “Essay ep.1”
- Jang Yoon Jung – “estrena”
- Jeong Dong Won – “Handwritten Letter”
- Kim Hee Jae – “Heejae”
- Kim Tae Yeon – “Cheer up!”
- Lim Young Woong – “IM HERO”
- Na Hoon-a – “Seven-Colored Scent”
- Song Ga In – “THE SONG OF LOVE”
- Young Tak – “MMM”
Ballad Award
- BEN – “Spring Days”
- Davichi – “Season Note”
- Han Dong Geun – “It’s love”
- JuHo – “without me”
- Kang Min Kyung (Davichi) and Jannabi – “Because we loved”
- Kassy – “Always love you”
- KyoungSeo – “Dear my X”
- Lim Jae Hyun – “Drunken confession at night”
- Monday Kiz – “It has to be you”
- Noel – “How Can I Forget You”
- Paul Kim – “Like Yesterday”
- Tei – “Monologue”
- Tophyun – “Horang Suwolga”
- Younha – “END THEORY : Final Edition”
- V.O.S – “talks about pain”
R&B/Hip Hop
- BE’O – “LOVE me”
- BIG Naughty – “Beyond Love”
- Coogie – “RE:UP”
- Epik High – “Epik High Is Here”
- Jessi – “ZOOM”
- Joosiq – “Baby I Need You”
- Leellamarz and TOIL – “TOYSTORY3”
- Punch – “The Love”
- Woo (Woo Won Jae) and meenoi – “Ghosting”
Which artists are you rooting for this year?