In a fierce competition where every second counted, the first honors of the 1st ‘D Awards’ went to Red Velvet member Wendy and singer Lee Seung Yoon. The ‘D Awards Upick Popularity Award’ Best Male and Female Solo categories, which the two will receive, are all the more meaningful in that they were selected 100% through fan voting on Upick, the official voting platform for The Awards.

Red Velvet‘s Wendy and singer Lee Seung Yoon were each selected as the winners of the ‘D Awards Upick Popularity Award’ Best Male and Female Solo categories. According to the official voting app for THE AWARDS, U-PIC, in the U-PIC Popularity Award Best Solo Male and Female categories, which closed on the afternoon of the 7th, Wendy received 42,809,496 votes, and Lee Seung Yoon received 30,316,280 votes, becoming the first winner of the ‘The Awards U-PIC Popularity Award’, whose fate is determined solely by fans’ hearts.

The U-PIC Popularity Award has been accepting votes in six categories, including the Best Solo Male and Female categories, which have already been confirmed for Wendy and Lee Seung Yoon, as well as the U-PIC Global Choice Male and Female categories, and Best Male and Female Group categories. Voting for the U-PIC Global Choice Male and Female categories closes at 3 PM on the 11th, and for the Best Male and Female Group categories, voting closes at 3 PM on the 13th.

Wendy released her second solo album ‘Wish You Hell’ last year, and has received great love from her fandom ‘Luvies’ for her outstanding abilities as a solo artist. He is also the DJ for SBS PowerFM‘s ‘Wendy’s Young Street’.

Lee Seung-yoon, the first winner of ‘Singer Gain - Unknown Singer Competition’, released his third full-length album ‘Reverse’ in October of last year, establishing himself as a representative MZ singer-songwriter of K-pop. The album also proved that Lee Seung Yoon has captured not only his outstanding musicality but also his popularity with the public by selling over 100,000 copies in the first week after its release.

The U-Pick Popularity Award at The Awards is showing signs of a ‘ranking change’ with the U-Pick Global Choice Male and Female categories and Best Male and Female Group Popularity Awards due to close sequentially on the 11th and 13th.

The U-Pick Global Choice Male category is a three-way battle between Enhypen‘s Niki, Zerobase One’s Kim Ji Woong, and Zhang Hao, while for the Female category, Baby Monster‘s Parita and Twice’s Chaeyoung are competing. For the Best Male Group Popularity Award, BTS and Enhypen are competing, while for the Female group, Triple S, Twice, and Seraphim are competing.

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 Hwajung Gymnasium of Korea University in Seoul.


Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com

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