2024 MAMA Awards

2024 MAMA Awards
2024 MAMA Awards
Date	November 21–23, 2024
Venue	Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles; Kyocera Dome Osaka, Japan;
Presented by	Visa
Website	Official website
Television/radio coverage
Network	Mnet, across CJ E&M channels, and other international networks

The 2024 MAMA Awards is an upcoming awards ceremony scheduled to be held on November 21 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California and on November 22 and 23 at the Kyocera Dome, Osaka, Japan. The event is organized by CJ ENM through Mnet. This will be the first time the United States will host the ceremony and the first time it will be happen outside East and Southeast Asia.^[1]

This year's theme is "Big Blur: What is Real?," reflecting the blurred lines between music, culture, and individual preferences.^[2]

Criteria

All songs and albums that are eligible to be nominated must be released from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024.^[3]

Criteria for 2024 MAMA Awards nominations
Category	Digital sales (Download + Streaming)	Record sales	Online voting	Judges panel evaluations
Artist of the Year	40% (25% Korea + 15% Global)	40%	N/A	20%
Categories by Artist^[A]	40% (25% Korea + 15% Global)	40%	N/A	20%
Song of the Year	60% (40% Korea + 20% Global)	N/A		40%
Categories by Genre^[B]	60% (40% Korea + 20% Global)	N/A		40%
Album of the Year	N/A	60%	N/A	40%
Best Music Video & Best Choreography	N/A			100%
Fans' Choice Categories	N/A		100% (90% Mnet Plus + 10% X/Twitter Votes)	N/A
Fans' Choice of the Year	N/A		100% (90% Mnet Plus + 10% X/Twitter Votes)	N/A
Data Sources: Circle Chart (Domestic/Global Song Streaming/Downloads, Album Sales), X (SNS Voting Data)

Round 1 voting for Fans' Choice Male & Female started on October 14, 7 PM KST until October 25, 11:59 PM KST. Round 2 voting will happen from November 1 to 15. Voting for the Fans' Choice of the Year will start after Round 2 ends and will last until show day.

Nominees

Nominees are listed in alphanumerical order. The listing for nominees were announced via livestream on October 14, 2024, voting for Fans' Choice started shortly after.^[4]^[5]

Main awards

Artist of the Year (Daesang)	Song of the Year (Daesang)
(G)I-dle 82Major Aespa All(H)Ours Ampers&One Babymonster Baekhyun Day6 Enhypen Illit IU Ive Jennie Jimin Jungkook Le Sserafim Lim Young-woong Nayeon NCT Dream NCT Wish NewJeans Nowadays Meovv QWER Seventeen Stray Kids Taemin Taeyeon Tomorrow X Together Twice TWS Unis Young Posse Yuqi Zerobaseone	(G)I-dle – "Fate" (G)I-dle – "Super Lady" AKMU – "Hero" Aespa – "Armageddon" Aespa – "Supernova" Bibi – "Bam Yang Gang" Crush – "Love You With All My Heart" Davichi – "A Very Personal Story" Day6 – "Welcome to the Show" Dean – "Die 4 You" Eclipse^[a] – "Sudden Shower" Enhypen – "Sweet Venom" GroovyRoom – "Yes or No" (feat. Huh Yun-jin & Crush) Hwasa – "Na" Hyukoh & Sunset Rollercoaster – "Young Man" IU – "Love Wins All" Illit – "Magnetic" Ive – "Baddie" Ive – "Heya" Jay Park – "Taxi Blurr" (feat. Natty) Jennie – "You & Me" Jimin – "Who" Jungkook – "Standing Next to You" K.Will – "No Sad Song for My Broken Heart" Key – "Pleasure Shop" Le Sserafim – "Crazy" Le Sserafim – "Easy" Lee Chang-sub – "Heavenly Fate" Lee Mu-jin – "Episode" Lee Young-ji – "Small Girl" (feat. Do Kyung-soo) Leellamarz – "Boys Like Girls" (feat. Gist & Jayci Yucca) Lim Young-woong – "Warmth" Lucy – "The Knight Who Can't Die and the Silk Cradle" N.Flying – "Into You" Nayeon – "ABCD" NCT 127 – "Fact Check" NewJeans – "How Sweet" NewJeans – "Supernatural" Plave – "Way 4 Luv" QWER – "T.B.H" Red Velvet – "Cosmic" Riize – "Impossible" Riize – "Love 119" RM – "Lost!" Roy Kim – "Whenever, Wherever" Seventeen – "God of Music" Seventeen – "Maestro" Stray Kids – "Lalalala" Sung Si-kyung & Naul – "Even for a moment" Sunmi – "Balloon in Love" Taemin – "Guilty" Taeyeon – "Dream" Taeyeon – "To. X" Taeyong – "Tap" TWS – "Plot Twist" Yuqi – "Freak" Zico – "Spot!" (feat. Jennie)
Album of the Year (Daesang)	Fans' Choice of the Year (Daesang)
(G)I-dle – 2 Aespa – Armageddon Ateez – The World EP.Fin: Will Baekhyun – Hello, World Enhypen – Romance: Untold Ive – I've Mine Jungkook – Golden Le Sserafim – Easy NCT 127 – Fact Check NCT Dream – Dream()scape Seventeen – Seventeenth Heaven Stray Kids – Rock-Star Riize – Riizing Tomorrow X Together – The Name Chapter: Freefall Twice – With You-th Zerobaseone – Melting Point
Best Male Group	Best Female Group
Enhypen NCT Dream Seventeen Stray Kids Tomorrow X Together Zerobaseone	(G)I-dle Aespa Ive Le Sserafim NewJeans Twice
Best Male Artist	Best Female Artist
Baekhyun Lim Young-woong Jimin Jungkook Taemin	IU Jennie Nayeon Taeyeon Yuqi
Best Dance Performance – Male Group	Best Dance Performance – Female Group
Enhypen – "Sweet Venom" NCT 127 – "Fact Check" Riize – "Love 119" Seventeen – "God of Music" Stray Kids – "Lalalala" TWS – "Plot Twist"	(G)I-dle – "Super Lady" Aespa – "Supernova" Illit – "Magnetic" Ive – "Baddie" Le Sserafim – "Easy" NewJeans – "How Sweet"
Best Vocal Performance – Solo	Best Vocal Performance – Group
Bibi – "Bam Yang Gang" IU – "Love Wins All" Lee Mu-jin – "Episode" Lim Young-woong – "Warmth" Taeyeon – "To. X"	(G)I-dle – "Fate" AKMU – "Hero" Davichi – "A Very Personal Story" Plave – "Way 4 Luv" Red Velvet – "Cosmic"
Best Dance Performance – Male Solo	Best Dance Performance – Female Solo
Jimin – "Who" Jungkook – "Standing Next to You" Key – "Pleasure Shop" Taemin – "Guilty" Taeyong – "Tap"	Hwasa – "Na" Jennie – "You & Me" Nayeon – "ABCD" Sunmi – "Balloon in Love" Yuqi – "Freak"
Best New Male Artist	Best New Female Artist
82Major Ampers&One ALL(H)OURS NCT Wish Nowadays TWS	BabyMonster Illit Meovv QWER Unis Young Posse
Best OST	Best Band Performance
Crush – "Love You With All My Heart" (from Queen of Tears) Eclipse^[a] – "Sudden Shower" (from Lovely Runner) Lee Chang-sub – "Heavenly Fate" (from A Not So Fairytale) Roy Kim – "Whenever, Wherever" (from My Demon) Taeyeon – "Dream" (from Welcome to Samdal-ri)	Day6 – "Welcome to the Show" Hyukoh & Sunset Rollercoaster – "Young Man" Lucy – "The Knight Who Can't Die and the Silk Cradle" N.Flying – "Into You" QWER – "T.B.H"
Best Rap & HipHop Performance	Best Collaboration
Dean – "Die 4 You" Lee Young-ji – "Small Girl" (feat. Do Kyung-soo) Leellamarz – "Boys Like Girls" (feat. Gist & Jayci Yucca) RM – "Lost!" Zico – "Spot!" (feat. Jennie)	GroovyRoom – "Yes or No" (feat. Huh Yun-jin & Crush) Jay Park – "Taxi Blurr" (feat. Natty) Lee Young-ji – "Small Girl" (feat. Do Kyung-soo) Sung Si-kyung & Naul – "Even for a moment Zico – "Spot!" (feat. Jennie)
Best Music Video	Best Choreography
Aespa – "Armageddon" IU – "Love Wins All" Ive – "Heya" K.Will – "No Sad Song for My Broken Heart" Seventeen – "Maestro"	Aespa – "Supernova" ILLIT – "Magnetic" Le Sserafim – "Crazy" NewJeans – "Supernatural" Riize – "Impossible" Taemin – "Guilty"

Favorite awards

Fans' Choice of the Year

Fans' Choice Male	Fans' Choice Female

Favorite New Artist	Favorite Asian Male Group

Favorite International Artist	Favourite Asian Female Group

Favorite Dance Performance – Male Group	Favorite Dance Performance – Female Group

Favorite Global Performer – Male Group	Favourite Global Performer – Female Group

Performers

November 21 (USA)

November 22 (Japan)

November 23 (Japan)

Broadcast

Region	Network
Worldwide^[C]	YouTube (Mnet K-Pop, Mnet TV, M2 and KCON Official)
South Korea	Mnet and TVING
Japan	Mnet Japan and Mnet Smart+
Malaysia	tvN Asia
Singapore
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Maldives
Myanmar
Philippines
Taiwan

Notes

^ Consists of Best New Male, Best New Female Artist, Best Male Artist, Best Female Artist, Best Male Group, and Best Female Group
^ Consists of Best Dance Performance – Solo, Best Dance Performance – Male Group, Best Dance Performance – Female Group, Best Vocal Performance – Solo, Best Dance Performance – Group, Best Rap & Hip Hop Music, Best Collaboration, and Best OST
^ Except regions specified in the table and countries where YouTube is censored

^ ^a ^b Eclipse is fictional band from the series Lovely Runner. The song is performed by Byeon Woo-seok as vocalist, Lee Seung-hyub as guitarist, Yang Hyuk as bassist, and Moon Yong-suk as drummer.

References

^ Frater, Patrick (July 17, 2024). "K-Pop's MAMA Awards to Straddle Los Angeles and Japan". Variety. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
^ "MAMA Awards to make its U.S. debut this year at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre". Korea JoongAng Daily. July 18, 2024. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
^ "[2024MAMA] 'FANS' CHOICE Male/Female Category' Voting Notice". X (formerly Twitter). October 14, 2024.
^ @MnetMAMA (October 12, 2024). "[2024MAMA] 📢Nomination Notice" (Tweet) (in Korean and English). Retrieved October 15, 2024 – via Twitter.
^ Singh, Surej (October 14, 2024). "MAMA Awards 2024: Seventeen, Le Sserafim, Jennie and more lead nominations". NME. Retrieved October 15, 2024.

External links

Official website

[4] Consists of Best New Male, Best New Female Artist, Best Male Artist, Best Female Artist, Best Male Group, and Best Female Group

[5] Consists of Best Dance Performance – Solo, Best Dance Performance – Male Group, Best Dance Performance – Female Group, Best Vocal Performance – Solo, Best Dance Performance – Group, Best Rap & Hip Hop Music, Best Collaboration, and Best OST

[9] Except regions specified in the table and countries where YouTube is censored

[singer-8] Eclipse is fictional band from the series Lovely Runner. The song is performed by Byeon Woo-seok as vocalist, Lee Seung-hyub as guitarist, Yang Hyuk as bassist, and Moon Yong-suk as drummer.

[1] Frater, Patrick (July 17, 2024). "K-Pop's MAMA Awards to Straddle Los Angeles and Japan". Variety. Retrieved July 31, 2024.

[2] "MAMA Awards to make its U.S. debut this year at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre". Korea JoongAng Daily. July 18, 2024. Retrieved August 1, 2024.

[3] "[2024MAMA] 'FANS' CHOICE Male/Female Category' Voting Notice". X (formerly Twitter). October 14, 2024.

[6] @MnetMAMA (October 12, 2024). "[2024MAMA] 📢Nomination Notice" (Tweet) (in Korean and English). Retrieved October 15, 2024 – via Twitter.

[7] Singh, Surej (October 14, 2024). "MAMA Awards 2024: Seventeen, Le Sserafim, Jennie and more lead nominations". NME. Retrieved October 15, 2024.

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