A new year has begun and so the time has come for another Korean Music Awards. I came across the full nominees lists at omonatheydidnt, but decided to only post the nominees in the main categories myself, like last year:
Album of the Year
The Black Skirts – 201
Broccoli, you too? – 보편적인 노래
Seoul Electric Band – Life is Strange
Swallow – IT
Lee Sora – (7th Album)
Song of the Year
3rd Line Butterfly – A Heavy Night Fog
The Black Skirts – 좋아해줘
Brown Eyed Girls – Abracadabra
Broccoli, you too? – 보편적인 노래
Girls’ Generation – Gee
Lee Sora – (Track 8)
Musician of the Year
Drunken Tiger
Seoul Electric Band
Yoon Sang
Lee Sora
Jang Kiha & The Faces
Newcommer of the Year
2NE1
The Black Skirts
Guckkasten
Park Joo Won
Apollo 18
Seoulbeats too has a post on the KMA with some interesting opinions in the comments: Korean Music Awards: Snubbing Idols or Saving Music?
I think it’s kind of funny that last year’s winner of Hello Rookie and this year’s winner of Hello Rookie are both in the list for best Rookies o_o
could have more of my bias, but list is good~
oh, may I ask, why are some names bolded and others not?
I enjoyed seeing The Black Skirts nominated as rookies, seeing as I had expected them to be nominated last year already (before figuring out when a year starts and ends for awards conciderations, that is).
A fair question! I like to keep artist names in bold the first time I mention them to make them easier to spot for someone just glancing over the new posts in search of something interesting. Although it does make things look strange on lists like these…
oh, I was talking about Guckkasten? they’ve won the 2008 EBS Hello Rookie of the Year award, I think
btw, Black Skirt leader’s name is ‘Hyu Il'(holiday, rest day) because he was born on sunday, I just read o_o interesting, huh? *random*
aaah~ that makes sense of course and seems to be a good tactic :)
knowing that, it doesn’t look strange at all.
I want everyone to win.
;_;
Go Apollo 18!!! The Plastic Day should have been nominated for “Newcomer of the Year” too.