The first winners of THE AWARDS‘ signature trophy, ‘D Cube’ have been confirmed. They are group DAY6, QWER, TWS, and ILLIT.

DAY6 and QWER, synonymous with ‘K Band’, and ‘super newcomers’ TWS and ILLIT were selected as the winners of THE AWARDS’ BEST main categories, Best Band and Best CHOREOGRAPHY (choreography), on the 17th. Considering the ‘speed up’ of the main awards ceremony to be held on the 22nd, THE AWARDS will hold a ‘pre-award ceremony’ for the BEST and DISCOVERY categories five times until the 21st, the night before the awards ceremony.

DAY6 and QWER played a decisive role in establishing ‘K band’ as a genre by producing numerous mega hit songs last year.

An honor given only to ‘masterpieces’, the representative runner of the ‘reverse myth’, DAY6, successfully rose to become a ‘permanent star’ whose response is exploding in real time by releasing two albums, ‘FOUREVER’ and ‘BAND AID’, in the first and second half of last year, respectively.

Girl band QWER had three consecutive hits, including ‘Addiction to Worries’, ‘Fake Idol’, and ‘My Name is Clear’, making their group name itself recognized as a ‘password to popular songs’. QWER‘s popularity, which has spread to syndrome level, has also greatly contributed to broadening the musical horizons of girl groups with band music.

‘Choreography’ is one of the key elements that drives K-pop’s global popularity. Considering the influence of ‘K Choreography’, represented by SNS challenges, THE AWARDS, which established the ‘Best Choreography’, chose the groups Tours and Eyelit as the first winners. Tours, whose debut song ‘If I‘m S, You Be My N’ became a mega hit, made the core choreography that decorated the chorus a virtual ‘national gymnastics’ that is recognized by people of all ages.

The same goes for Eyelit’s so-called ‘finger dance’, which is automatically associated with their debut song ‘Magnetic’. Their finger dance using 10 fingers was so powerful that it was named ‘The 2nd international patent created by K-pop‘s delicate Ok-soo’ after ‘Korean Finger Heart’.

The ‘The Awards Best’, which corresponds to the detailed award categories of The Awards, a ‘New Festival of K-pop Stars’, will be announced sequentially in 7 categories: Best Band, Best Choreography, Best OST, Best Video, Best Tour, Best Stage, and Best Group, in addition to the Best OST and Video winners whose fates were decided on this day. Specifically, the outlines of the winners for Best OST and Video will be revealed on the 19th, Best Tour on the 20th, and Best Stage and Group on the 21st.

The Awards also presents the ‘The Awards Discovery Award,’ to artists who have become strong driving forces for the growth of K-pop with their notable performances from last year to early this year. The winners of the first The Awards Discovery honor will be revealed on the afternoon of the 18th.

The Awards will sequentially reveal the acceptance speech videos of the top artists who have won the pre-award ‘Best category and Discovery’ on the official The Awards SNS (instagram.com/@dawards_official) and official YouTube (youtube.com/@sportsdonga12).

The first The Awards, hosted by Sports Donga and co-hosted by ‘Yupick’ and WSM, will be held at 6 PM on February 22nd at the Hwajung Gymnasium of Korea University in Seoul. It will be broadcast exclusively on Channel A from 10:30 PM on the same day.



Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com

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