2025 MAMA AWARDS Announces Nominees + Fans’ Choice Voting Begins

https://www.soompi.com/article/1790875wpp/2025-mama-awards-announces-nominees-fans-choice-voting-begins It's that time of year again! On October 16, the nominations were announced for the 2025 MAMA AWARDS. This year's ceremony will take place at the Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong on November 28 and 29. The criteria for the final winners are as follows: Artist of the Year and Artist Category Awards – 40% judging evaluation, 30% streaming/downloads (20% Korea + 10% global), 30% physical album sales Song of the Year and Genre Category Awards - 40% judging evaluation, 60% streaming/downloads (40% Korea + 20% global) Album of the Year - 40% judging evaluation, 60% physical album sales (of albums that sold at least 1 million copies) Best Music Video and Best Choreography - 100% judging evaluation Fans' Choice Male/Female Round 1: 90% Mnet Plus votes, 10% X votes Round 2: 90% Mnet Plus votes, 10% X votes Fans' Choice of the Year 90% Mnet Plus votes, 10% X votes additional 10% realtime Mnet Plus votes The first round of voting for the Fans' Choice nominees will take place through October 26 at 11:59 p.m. KST. The 20 artists selected each from the pre-vote for each of the Fans' Choice Male and Fans' Choice Female categories will move onto the second round of voting, which will take place from October 30 at 6 p.m. KST through November 10 at 11:59 p.m. KST. In order to be eligible, the music must have been released between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. The nominees for the 2025 MAMA AWARDS are as follows: Best New Artist AHOF ALLDAY PROJECT Baby DONT Cry CLOSE YOUR EYES CORTIS Hearts2Hearts IDID izna KickFlip KiiiKiii Best Male Artist Baekhyun G-Dragon j-hope Jin Mark Best Female Artist Jennie Jisoo Rosé Taeyeon Yuqi Best Male Group BOYNEXTDOOR ENHYPEN RIIZE SEVENTEEN Stray Kids TXT ZEROBASEONE Best Female Group aespa BABYMONSTER i-dle IVE LE SSERAFIM TWICE Best Dance Performance Male Solo G-Dragon - TOO BAD (feat. Anderson .Paak) j-hope - MONA LISA Kai - Wait On Me Key - HUNTER Mark - 1999 Best Dance Performance Female Solo Dayoung - body Jennie - like JENNIE Jisoo - earthquake Karina - UP Minnie - HER Best Dance Performance Male Group BOYNEXTDOOR - IF I SAY, I LOVE YOU NCT DREAM - WHEN I'M WITH YOU NCT WISH - poppop PLAVE - Dash RIIZE - Fly Up SEVENTEEN - THUNDER TWS - Countdown Best Dance Performance Female Group aespa - Whiplash BABYMONSTER - DRIP BLACKPINK - JUMP ILLIT - Cherish (My Love) IVE - REBEL HEART LE SSERAFIM - HOT Best Vocal Performance Solo  Doyoung - Memory Lee Mu Jin - Coming of Age Story Rosé - toxic till the end Roy Kim - If You Ask Me What Love Is Taeyeon - Letter To Myself Best Vocal Performance Group Davichi - Stitching HIGHLIGHT - Endless Ending MEOVV - DROP TOP TREASURE - YELLOW ZEROBASEONE - Doctor! Doctor! Best Band Performance CNBLUE - A Sleepless Night DAY6 - Maybe Tomorrow N.Flying - Everlasting QWER - Dear Xdinary Heroes - Beautiful Life Best Rap & Hip Hop Performance BIG Naughty - MUSIC (feat. Lee Chanhyuk) Dynamic Duo and Gummy - Take Care HAON - Skrr (feat. Giselle) pH-1 - Life Is A Movie (feat. Jung Zi So) Tablo and RM - Stop The Rain Best Collaboration G-Dragon - TOO BAD (feat. Anderson .Paak) Jennie and Doechii - ExtraL Mark - Fraktsiya (feat. Lee Young Ji) Rosé and Bruno Mars - APT. V - Winter Ahead (with Park Hyo Shin) Best OST BOYNEXTDOOR - Never Loved This Way Before (Odd Girl Out OST) HUNTR/X - GOLDEN (K-Pop Demon Hunters OST) Park Hyo Shin - HERO (Firefighters OST) Saja Boys - Soda Pop (K-Pop Demon Hunters OST) TXT - When the Day Comes (Resident Playbook OST) Best Music Video aespa - Dirty Work...