BTS, Golden Disc 4th consecutive album grand prize… The first ever ‘5 Grand Prizes’

This year, including the music sector, 4 crowns… “I will go forward with confidence and hope”

BTS won the'Golden Disc' Album Grand Prize
BTS won the’Golden Disc’ Album Grand Prize

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Hyo-jeong = Group BTS (BTS) won the grand prize in the album category for four consecutive years at the’Golden Disc Awards’.

On the 10th, BTS held the grand prize trophy with their 4th regular album’Map of the Sol: 7’at the album category awards ceremony for the ’35th Golden Disc Awards with Curaprox’ broadcasted through JTBC on the 10th.

They received the Golden Disc Album Award for the fourth consecutive year following the 32·33·34 awards ceremony. At the 34th awards ceremony, he also received the grand prize in the digital sound source category and achieved 5 crowns for the first time in the awards ceremony.

Bulletproof Boy Scouts on the stage of'Golden Disc'
Bulletproof Boy Scouts on the stage of’Golden Disc’

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Leader RM said in his awards speech, “Because a lot of things are changing, we will also believe in affirmation and hope and become a BTS.” Jimin said to fans, “I always convey my heart to you with a better voice without forgetting that you are there. I will try to become a good singer that I can.”

Suga joined the awards ceremony for a while after having had a shoulder surgery, and said, “I hope the day when I can show you a performance with the album’Map of the Sol: 7’comes as soon as possible.”

‘Map of the Sol: 7′, released in February of last year, sold more than 4.36 million copies based on Gaon Chart, and was the first to be certified as’Quadruple Million’ since the chart was counted.

Bulletproof Boy Scouts on the stage of'Golden Disc'
Bulletproof Boy Scouts on the stage of’Golden Disc’

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Bulletproof Boy Scouts also received the Curaprox Golden Disc Popularity Award, which is given by the main prize and fan vote. He also received the main award at the digital music awards ceremony held the day before.

The Golden Disc Awards selected 10 teams from each of the digital music and album divisions, reflecting 60% of the quantitative evaluation of sales volume and 40% of the qualitative evaluation through expert screening, and selected one team from them. Sounds and albums released from November 2019 to November 2020 are subject to judging.

In the album category, NCT and its unit, NCT 127, both received the main award, and EXO and member Baek Hyun-do became the main characters with a group and a solo album, respectively. In addition, Black Pink, GOT7, Seventeen, Twice, and Tomorrow by Together were selected as the main prize winners.

NCT 127 won the’Cosmopolitan Artist Award’, and EXO won the’QQ Music Fans’ Choice K-Pop Artist Award’ selected through voting by Chinese K-pop fans.

NCT 127 unfolds on the'Golden Disc' stage
NCT 127 unfolds on the’Golden Disc’ stage

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(G)Idle and Stray Kids received the Best Performance Award, and Jo Jung-seok received the Best OST Award.

The rookie award went to Nhyphen, Treasure, and Kim Ho-jung. Kim Ho-joong sold nearly 540,000 copies with his first full album last year, and became an unusual rookie as a trot singer.

He, who is working as a social service worker, said in his video presentation, “It is a difficult time, but I want to say that I am grateful and proud to all the soldiers of the Armed Forces who are working for our country.”

“The empty concert hall was really unfamiliar and difficult, but the best way we could do it in it was music” (NCT), “It was a year that I thought a lot about how to support me in a bad situation” (Seventeen) There were also comments on the award that sincerely revealed the feelings in the pandemic.

Various stages were also unfolded at the awards ceremony that day. BTS presented’Life Go’s On’ stage with Suga,’Black Swan’ and’Dynamite’, and the stages of Park Jin-young-B Duo, GOT7, NCT, Twice, Seventeen, (Female) Idle were followed.

To prevent the spread of Corona 19, this year’s awards ceremony was held non-face-to-face and the stage was also pre-recorded.

GOT7's'Golden Disc' stage
GOT7’s’Golden Disc’ stage

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