One of the most anticipated nights of the year, the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards or 2021 MAMA, which boasts of being the world’s number 1 K-Pop music award, has been scheduled to be held on December 11, 2021, at 6 PM KST. Nominees for various categories of the 2021 MAMA have also been revealed, creating quite a buzz in the K-Pop community. In addition, the criteria for deciding the winners of the Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year categories will not include fan votes anymore. However, digital performance, physical album sales, music video performance, and global music platform performance, or in other words, streaming numbers will have a considerable weightage in the same and as such, will be important deciding factors. Categories that will determine winners based entirely on voting are Worldwide Icon of the Year and Worldwide Fans’ Choice Top 10. Voting lines will be open from November 4, 2021 (6PM KST). You can read more about it below! Here are all the nominees of the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards! CJ ENM Announces New Voting And Judging Criteria For 2021 MAMA, To Reflect Global K-Pop Trends NEWS|Nov 2, 2021
Best Male Group
BTS NCT 127 NCT DREAM SEVENTEEN Stray Kids TXT
Best Female Group
(G)I-DLE Brave Girls ITZY OH MY GIRL Red Velvet TWICE
Best New Male Artist
DRIPPIN ENHYPEN EPEX MIRAE P1Harmony
Best New Female Artist
aespa Jo YuRi Kwon EunBi LIGHTSUM STAYC
Best Male Artist
EXO’s BaekHyun EXO’s D.O EXO’s Kai Kang Daniel Lee MuJin
Best Female Artist
Heize IU BLACKPINK’s Lisa BLACKPINK’s Rosé Girls Generation’s TaeYeon
Best Dance Performance (Male Group)
BTS - ‘Butter’ NCT 127 - ‘Sticker’ NCT DREAM - ‘Hot Sauce’ SEVENTEEN - ‘Ready to love’ SHINee - ‘Don’t Call Me’ Stray Kids - ‘Thunderous’
Best Dance Performance (Female Group)
aespa - ‘Next Level’ ITZY - ‘In the morning’ OH MY GIRL - ‘Dun Dun Dance’ Red Velvet - ‘Queendom’ STAYC - ‘ASAP’ TWICE - ‘Alcohol-Free’
Best Dance Performance (Solo)
EXO’s BaekHyun - ‘Bambi’ HyunA - ‘I’m Not Cool’ BLACKPINK’s Lisa - ‘LALISA’ BLACKPINK’s Rosé - ‘On The Ground’ Jeon SoMi - ‘DUMB DUMB’ Girls Generation’s TaeYeon - ‘Weekend’
Best Vocal Performance
AKMU - ‘NAKKA’ ft. IU Davichi - ‘Just Hug Me’ Heize - ‘Happen’ IU - ‘Celebrity’ Lee MuJin - ‘Traffic light’
Best Band Performance
10cm - ‘Sleepless in Seoul’ ft. AKMU’s Lee SuHyun CNBLUE - ‘Then, Now and Forever’ DAY6 - ‘You Make Me’ Jannabi - ‘A Thought On An Autumn Night’ N.Flying - ‘Moonshot’
Best Hip Hop & Urban Music
Ash Island - ‘MELODY’ CHANGMO - ‘GJD’ Jessi - ‘What Type of X’ WINNER’s MINO - ‘Run away’ YUMDDA - ‘9ucci’ ft. DOGE
Best OST
10cm - ‘Borrow Your Night’ from “Romance 101” Cho JungSeok - ‘I Like You’ from “Hospital Playlist 2” Choi YuRee - ‘Wish’ from “Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha” Lee MuJin - ‘Rain and You’ from “Hospital Playlist 2” Highlight’s Yang YoSeob and APINK’s Jung EunJi - ‘Love Day’ from “Romance 101”
Best Collaboration
AKMU and IU - ‘NAKKA’ Coldplay and BTS - ‘My Universe’ Gaeko and Kwon JinAh - ‘Feel Like’ Hyolyn & Kim DaSom - ‘Summer or Summer’ Rain and Park JinYoung - ‘Switch to Me’
Worldwide Fans’ Choice Top 10
(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 SeungGi BLACKPINK’s Lisa LOONA MAMAMOO WINNER’s 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 Weeekly Who will you be rooting for? Share your thoughts with Kpopmap in the comments section down below! The Fact Music Awards 2021 Fan:Tact (TMA): Winners And Results KPOP STORIES|Oct 4, 2021
