The voting for the 1st D Awards Popularity Award, the ‘Real Popularity Award chosen by my own hands’, is heating up.

The voting for the ▲Best Solo Popularity Award (Male and Female) ▲Best Group Popularity Award (Male and Female) ▲UPick Global Choice (Male and Female) is currently underway on the official D Awards voting app ‘UPick’, with each category showing a ‘very close battle’. The positions of the top 3 are showing extreme fluctuations as voting draws to a close.

The winners of the trophies for THE AWARDS U-PICK Popularity Awards, where the winners are decided 100% by fan voting, will be decided in sequential order: Best Solo Popularity Award (Male and Female) on the 7th, U-PICK Global Choice (Male and Female) on the 11th, and Best Group Popularity Award (Male and Female) on the 13th.

As of 6 PM on the 6th, the Best Male Solo Popularity Award is nearing its deadline, showing signs of a fierce battle between Kim Jae-joong and Lee Seung-yoon, with every second counting. Singer-songwriter Lee Seung-yoon‘s great leap forward is encouraging, and attention is being paid to who will win when the final round closes on the 7th.

The Best Female Solo Popularity Award is showing signs of a three-way battle between IU, Twice member Tzuyu, and Red Velvet’s Wendy. As of 6 PM on the 6th, IU is holding on to first place, with Red Velvet‘s Wendy chasing her by just tens of thousands of points.

The U-Pick Global Choice Male category is a three-way battle between Enhypen member Niki, Zerobase One’s Kim Ji Woong, and Zhang Hao. The U-Pick Global Choice Female category is also fiercely contested. With Twice‘s Chaeyoung in first place, Baby Monster’s Parita Odd Youth Summer and Eunice member Jelly Danka are in hot pursuit.

The U-Pick Best Male Group Popularity Award goes to BTS, Enhypen, EXO, and Zerobase One, all sprinting towards the finish line. The difference in votes between these four teams is just tens of thousands of points, so if they get a little more firepower, there could be a change in position at any time before the final deadline on the 13th.

In the meantime, the Best Female Group Popularity Award is fiercely contested between Twice, Triple S, Seraphim, and Eunice, who have surpassed 35 million voting points.

The 1st D Awards with upick, hosted by Sports Donga and organized by upick and WSM, will be held at 6 PM on February 22nd at the Hwajeong Gymnasium of Korea University in Seoul.


Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com

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