BTS 4 years in a row record King, Queen IU sound in three years

BTS won the grand prize in the album category for 4 consecutive years with’Map of the Sol: 7’at the 35th Golden Disc Awards held at Kintex, Ilsan, Gyeonggi-do on the 9th-10th. [사진 골든디스크어워즈 사무국]

The 35th Golden Disc Awards Logo

‘Music King’ Bulletproof Boy Scouts (BTS) and ‘sources Queen IU, priests joint stage, “Trout Man imyoungung the span of JYP and rain and the’ Vocal Avengers’ d shows an enlarged K-pop face of such Poem at a glance It was a seat. This year, the 35th Golden Disc Awards moved to Kintex, Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province, and was held without spectators for two days on the 9th-10th.

Bulletproof Boy Scouts recorded 4.37 million copies with their 4th regular album’Map of the Sol: 7’released in February last year and won the grand prize in the album category for 4 consecutive years. For the first time in Golden history, he won the fifth prize in his career. After receiving the main award in the sound source category for the English single’Dynamite’ released in August, it has also won a total of 4 crowns. Those who received the main award for seven consecutive years starting with the Rookie Award in 2014, swept the grand prize in the album and sound source category last year.

BTS, the first Korean singer to dominate the American Billboard single and album charts, wrote a new history of popular music in the world. ‘Map of the Sol: 7’is the most sold real album in the United States last year (64 million copies). In Korea, it sold 9.16 million copies a year, including the mini album’BE’ (2.69 million copies) released in November. Last year’s total album sales increased 1.6 times from 24.5 million in 2019 to 4,0260,000.

Suga said, “I am honored and grateful that I love our album as the music industry and the performance industry have stagnated due to Corona 19. I hope the day to perform with this album comes soon.” Jimin regretted, saying, “I haven’t been able to show the fans directly the’On’ stage, which prepared the best choreography.” RM promised, “I will be a BTS, who believes in positivity and hope this year, and will come back with great music and performances”.

Over the past year, as millions of sellers have been pouring out, competition has been more intense. Seventeen won the main prize for 5 consecutive years with sales of 1.37 million copies with their 7th mini album’Henggarae’. Black Pink won both the album and the sound source with their first regular album’The Album’ (1,230,000 copies) and the pre-release song’How You Like That’. NCT won the 2nd regular album Pt.1 (128 million copies) and the 2nd regular NCT 127 album at the same time, and both EXO’s 6th regular album and Baekhyun’s 2nd solo mini album received the main prize.

IU a source recapture the Grand Prize in the “blooming” in three years. [사진 골든디스크어워즈 사무국]

IU won the digital music sector subject to the ‘blooming’. It has been 3 years since receiving the first grand prize for’Night Letter’ in 2018. It is the first time in the history of the Golden that a female solo singer has won the grand prize twice. IU had hit after another addition of five mini houses “Love Poem” released in November 2019 the title track songs from ‘outside of time’, bullet Sugar Boy Scouts collaborate with one single “Eight” in May last year.

IU was overwhelming at source. ‘Blooming’ recorded 1.11,215,6770 points in the Gaon Chart Comprehensive Digital Index, which was added by weighting streaming, download, and BGM sales. In the case of multiple works published by an artist,’Love Poem’ and’Eight’, which were excluded from the screening subject according to the Golden Disc criterion, which judges only the representative works with the highest sales, scored 915.47 million and 8575 million, respectively. Got it.

IU said, “I would like to thank those who ‘blooming’ those submitted in love more than a year, the composer” and “Everybody there to spend a tough time artist who with performances given make great music for a year so the music flows in place to have the musical arts officials Thank you to everyone,” he said. He said, “I am preparing a regular album,” and “I think I can hear about one song in January first.”

Winners of the 35th Golden Disc Awards

The main award in the sound source category, which a total of 10 teams won, was strong by girl groups such as Black Pink, ITZY, Red Velvet, Mamamoo, and Oh My Girl. Mamamoo was’Hip’ and Hwasa was’Maria’, and both the team and the soloists won the awards. Glow, who debuted in 2002, enjoyed the joy of winning her first main prize for’Late Night in the alley in front of your house’.

The Rookie of the Year award was jointly won by boy group Nhyphen, Treasure, and’Tvarotti’ Kim Ho-joong. The Rookie of the Year award in the music category went to the boy group The Boyz and the girl group Girl of the Month.

The skillful breath of the MC Corps also stood out. Following last year, singer and actor Lee Seung-gi and actor Park So-dam were on the 9th, and singer Seong Si-kyung and actor Lee Da-hee on the 10th. Seong Si-kyung and Lee Seung-ki were in charge of the 5 and 3 consecutive years respectively. The awards ceremony, which was held with Curaprox, was broadcast live through JTBC and JTBC2 and JTBC4.

We thoroughly followed the rules of preventing Corona 19, including pre-recording by dividing the time zone for each artist. For the albums and sound sources released from November 2019 to November last year, 50 experts including PDs, reporters, and critics were in charge of the screening.

Reporter Yoo Seong-woon and Min Kyung-won [email protected]