After fierce voting by fandoms in 174 countries around the world, the winners of the 1st D Awards U-Pick Popularity Award ‘U-Pick Global Choice Male/Female’ categories have been selected. They are TWICE member Chaeyoung and Zerobase One‘s Zhang Hao.

The winners of the 2nd round of the 1st D Awards U-Pick Popularity Award ‘U-Pick Global Choice Male/Female’ categories, which are being held across 6 categories, have been confirmed to be TWICE’s Chaeyoung and Zerobase One‘s Zhang Hao. The awards’ Upick Popularity Award Upick Global Choice Male and Female categories, which the two will be holding in their arms, are even more meaningful in that they were selected 100% through fan voting on Upick, the official voting platform for The Awards.

According to Upick, the official voting app for The Awards, in the Upick Popularity Award ‘Upick Global Choice’ male and female categories, which closed at 3 PM on the 11th, TWICE‘s Chaeyoung received 68,865,623 votes, and Zerobaseone member Zhang Hao received 691,416,070 votes, winning the honor of the ‘The Awards Upick Popularity Award’, which is determined solely by fan sentiment.

Chaeyoung is now the main rapper and sub vocalist of TWICE, which has gone beyond just a girl group to become a ‘symbol of K-pop.’ Together with TWICE, Chaeyoung released mini-albums ‘With YOU-th’ and ‘Strategy’ twice in the first and second halves of last year, and set a record of #1 on one of Billboard’s two main charts, the ‘Billboard 200’ (With YOU-th) and entering the top 10 for six consecutive times (Strategy), the most for a K-pop girl group.

Zhang Hao, as a member of Zero Base One, is showing off the group‘s status as a global top-tier group by making simultaneous comebacks in Korea and Japan at the beginning of the new year. For example, with their first mini-album ‘PREZENT released in Japan in January, they topped both the Oricon Weekly Album Ranking and the Weekly Combined Album Ranking, which are considered representative local charts. Zerobaseone is scheduled to return to domestic activities on the 24th.

The D Awards Upick Popularity Award announced Red Velvet’s Wendy and singer Lee Seung Yoon as the winners of the ‘Best Solo Male and Female Category’ on the 7th, ahead of Chaeyoung and Zhang Hao who were selected for the ‘Upick Global Choice’. The final winners of the Best Male and Female Group Category, which will decorate the finale of the D Awards Popularity Award, will be decided on the official voting app ‘Upick’ on the 13th at 3 PM.

The ‘1st D Awards with Upick’, hosted by Sports Donga and co-hosted by ‘Upick’ and WSM, will be held on February 22nd at 6 PM at the Hwajeong Gymnasium at Korea University in Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul.


Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com

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