Girls aespa took home three trophies, including the grand prize, ‘Song of the Year, at the first ‘The Awards’, becoming a triple crown winner.

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, was 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.

On that day, aespa took home three trophies, including the grand prize, ‘Song of the Year, the main prize, ‘The Awards Delight Blue Label’, and ‘Best Video’.

On their US tour, Espa, who unfortunately could not attend the awards ceremony due to COVID-19, said through a video, “Last year, we received a lot of love from ‘Supernova’ to ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Whiplash’. ”Thank you so much for all the love,“ he said in his acceptance speech.

Meanwhile, the ‘D AWARDS’ only awards a total of eight categories, including the ‘Black Label’s seven Titles of the Year, which correspond to the grand prize, and the ‘D AWARDS ICONIC’, which is awarded to groups or members who have made meaningful contributions to the growth and revival of K-pop.

The seven grand prizes, ‘Title of the Year’, consist of 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 Rookie of the Year.

‘D AWARDS DELIGHTS’, which corresponds to the ‘backbone’ main prize of the awards ceremony, is awarded in the BEST category, which is a sub-award category.


Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com

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