Group Tours and NCT Wish won the BLACK LABEL ‘Rookie of the Year’ at the 1st ‘The Awards’.

The ‘The Awards with Upick’, held at the Hwajeong Gymnasium of Korea University in Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul at 6 p.m. on the 22nd, is a K-pop awards ceremony hosted by Sports Donga and organized by ‘Upick’ and WSM, and was hosted by actors Go Min-si and Lee Jong-won.

Tours went up on stage during the two-part awards ceremony and shared their acceptance speech, saying, “It‘s an honor to receive an award like this that you can only receive once in your life. I’m so happy.“

Tours made their debut with the mega hit song ‘First Meeting Didn‘t Go as Planned’.

NCT Wish, who won ‘Rookie of the Year’, said, “We are honored and happy to receive the Rookie of the Year award again” and “I am so grateful to the SM Entertainment family. We are preparing a really great song this year too. Please look forward to it”.



Meanwhile, the ‘The Awards’ only awards a total of eight categories, including the ‘Black Label’Grand Prize’, the ‘The Awards Iconic’, which is awarded to an organization or member who has made meaningful contributions to the growth and revival of K-pop.

The seven grand prizes ‘Title of the Year’ are Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Performance of the Year, Trend of the Year, and Newcomer of the Year.

‘Blue Label’ is awarded to the BEST category, a sub-award category, starting with ‘D AWARDS DELIGHTS’, which is the ‘central’ main prize of the awards ceremony.



Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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