In about a month or so, the winners of the 6th annual Korean Music Awards will be announced. I dropped by the site today to have a look at the nominations. Here are the nominees in the main categories:
Album of the year
Galaxy Express: Noise On Fire
Kim Dong Ryul: Monologue
Youn Sun Nah: Voyage
Verbal Jint: 누명
Sister’s Barbershop: 가장보통의존재
W&Whale: Hardboiled
Song of the year
Sister’s Barbershop: 아름다운 것
Wonder Girls: Nobody
Jang Ki Ha: 싸구려 커피
Toy: 뜨거운 안녕
W&Whale: R.P.G Shine
Musician of the year
Kim Dong Ryul
Galaxy Express
Verbal Jint
Sister’s Barbershop
Toy
Newcommer of the year
Goonamguayeoridingstella
Loro’s
Vidulgi OoyoO
Serengeti
Zitten
Personally I find the newcommers category more interesting – save for Jang Ki Ha I haven’t actually gotten around to listen to anything from the other categories… At first I was surprised to find Goonamguayeoridingstella among the newcommers, but soon realized that their album debut 우리는 깨끗하다 was released too late in 2007 to be included in last year’s selection. And that also explains why The Black Skirts (while very much deserving the price) isn’t on the list. And it sorta surprised me to see both Zitten and Loro’s on the list despite both releasing stuff a couple or more years ago, but so I realized that Zitten’s debut EP was self released and TuneTable probably not big enough for Loro’s debut single to really make an impact. Still happy to see them both nominated though and I sorta hope for one of them to win.
I might return with the genre and netizen nominations later if I can get a bit more time on my hands. If not you’ll find them all in the 수상후보 section at kmusicawards.com.