2021 MAMA Recently Reveals Their Nominees! Did Your Favorite Artist/s Make The Cut?
As of writing this article, today on the 3rd of November, the 2021 MAMA announced the nominations for their upcoming award ceremony. The 2021 MAMA is slated to occur on the 11th of December 11 at 6 p.m. KST!
The nominees for the 2021 MAMA are the following:
Best New Female Artist
STAYC
aespa
Jo Yu Ri
Kwon Eun Bi
LIGHTSUM
Best New Male Artist
P1Harmony
DRIPPIN
ENHYPEN
EPEX
MIRAE
Best Female Artist
Girls' Generation's Taeyeon
Heize
IU
BLACKPINK's Lisa
BLACKPINK's Rosé
Best Male Artist
Lee Mujin
EXO's Baekhyun
EXO's D.O.
EXO's Kai
Kang Daniel
Best Female Group
TWICE
(G)I-DLE
Brave Girls
ITZY
Oh My Girl
Red Velvet
Best Male Group
TXT
BTS
NCT 127
NCT DREAM
SEVENTEEN
Stray Kids
Best Dance Performance Female Group
TWICE with "Alcohol-Free"
aespa with "Next Level"
ITZY with "In the morning"
Oh My Girl with "Dun Dun Dance"
Red Velvet with "Queendom"
STAYC with "ASAP"
Best Dance Performance Male Group
Stray Kids with "Thunderous"
BTS with "Butter"
NCT 127 with "Sticker"
NCT DREAM with "Hot Sauce"
SEVENTEEN with "Ready to love"
SHINee with "Don't Call Me"
Best Dance Performance Solo
Girls' Generation's Taeyeon with "Weekend"
EXO's Baekhyun with "Bambi"
HyunA with "I'm Not Cool"
BLACKPINK's Lisa with "LALISA"
BLACKPINK's Rosé with "On The Ground"
Jeon Somi with "DUMB DUMB"
Best Vocal Performance
Lee Mujin with "Traffic light"
AKMU with "NAKKA" with IU
Davichi with "Just Hug Me"
Heize with "HAPPEN"
IU with "Celebrity"
Best Band Performance
N.Flying with "Moonshot"
10cm with "Sleepless in Seoul" (feat. AKMU's Lee Suhyun)
CNBLUE with "Then, Now and Forever"
DAY6 with "You Make Me"
Jannabi with "A thought on an autumn night"
Best Collaboration
Rain with "Switch to Me" (duet with Park Jin Young)
AKMU with "NAKKA" (with IU)
Coldplay & BTS with "My Universe"
Gaeko & Kwon Jin Ah with "I feel like"
Hyolyn & Dasom with "Summer or Summer"
Best Hip Hop & Urban Music
YUMDDA with "9ucci" (feat. DOGE)
ASH ISLAND with "MELODY"
CHANGMO with "GJD"
Jessi with "What Type of X"
WINNER's Song Mino with "Run away"
Best OST
Highlight's Yang Yoseob and Apink's Jung Eun Ji with "Love Day" ("Romance 101")
10cm with "Borrow Your Night" ("Romance 101")
Jo Jung Suk with "I Like You" ("Hospital Playlist 2")
Choi Yu Ree with "Wish" ("Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha")
Lee Mujin with "Rain and You" ("Hospital Playlist 2")
Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10
Weeekly
(G)I-DLE
aespa
AKMU
ASH ISLAND
ASTRO
ATEEZ
Brave Girls
BTS
Chungha
CL
Davichi
ENHYPEN
EXO
fromis_9
Heize
HyunA
iKON
ITZY
IU
Jannabi
Jessi
Kang Daniel
Lee Mujin
Lee Seung Gi
BLACKPINK's Lisa
LOONA
MAMAMOO
WINNER's Song Mino
MONSTA X
NCT 127
NCT DREAM
NU'EST
Oh My Girl
Rain
Red Velvet
BLACKPINK's Rosé
SEVENTEEN
SF9
SHINee
Jeon Somi
STAYC
Stray Kids
Sunmi
Super Junior
Girls' Generation's Taeyeon
THE BOYZ
TXT
TREASURE
TWICE
Furthermore, the criteria for the overall winners for this year's MAMA are the following:
Artist of the Year and Artist Category Awards: 40% judges' evaluations, 20% digital performance, 20% physical album sales, 10% music video, 10% global music platform
Song of the Year and Song Genre Category Awards: 40% judges' evaluations, 30% digital performance, 10% physical album sales, 10% music video, 10% global music platform
Album of the Year: 40% judges' evaluations, 10% digital performance, 40% physical album sales, 10% global music platform
Worldwide Icon of the Year Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10: 100% official votes
Voting will happen online from the 4th of November at 6 p.m. KST until the 22nd of November at 4:59 p.m. KST!
