BTS’s Jungkook emerged as a maverick leader among the K-pop artists nominated for this year’s Billboard Music Awards. With less than a month left until the show, the official revelation shone a bright light on South Korean contributions to the international music industry.
The 2024 Billboard Music Awards ceremony, taking place on December 12, will continue the new tradition established last year with the introduction of four new K-pop-specific categories: Top Global K-pop Artist, Top K-pop Album, Top Global K-pop Song, and top K-pop touring artists. BTS’s Jungkook leads the K-pop roster at the upcoming event with a total of six nominations, including two mentions in the international categories. Stray Kids also received four nominations.
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Here are all the K-pop nominees finalized for the 2024 BBMAs.
2024 Billboard Music Awards: K-pop nominees
1. Top Global K-pop Artists: Enhypen, Jungkook (BTS), Jimin (BTS), Tomorrow X Together, Stray Kids
2. Top Global K-pop Songs:
- “Who” by Jimin.
- “Standing Next to You” by Jungkook.
- “3D (ft. Jack Harlow)” by Jungkook.
- “Magnetic” by ILLIT.
- “Perfect Night” by LE SSERAFIM.
3. Top K-pop Touring Artists: seventeen, enhypen, tomorrow x together
4. Top K-pop Albums
- “Golden” by Jungkook.
- “The World EP.fin:Will” by Ateez.
- “The Name Chapter: Freefall” by Tomorrow X Together
- “Rock-Star” by Stray Kids.
- “ATE” by Stray Kids.
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Jungkook and Stray Kids nominated in international categories
Additionally, Jungkook’s “Standing Next to You” features Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things”, Shaboozie’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy), Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help (ft. Morgan Wallen)” and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control”. Is against. Selling songs. The BTS singer is also nominated in the Top Song Sales Artist category along with Shaboozie, Taylor Swift, Jelly Roll and Teddy Swims. Meanwhile, Stray Kids are competing against Coldplay, Linkin Park, Blink-182 and Fuerza Resida for the Top Duo/Group trophy.
According to the official release on November 25, “The BBMAs honor the year’s biggest artists, albums, songs, producers and songwriters across multiple genres, as determined by year-end performance metrics.” board The charts are the music industry’s ultimate authority and data-driven measure of success.”
The two-hour special, hosted by actress and comedian Michelle Buteau, will air Thursday, December 12 at 8 p.m. ET. Fans can listen to one of the musical’s most anticipated nights on Fox, Paramount+ and Amazon’s Fire TV channels in a “first-of-its-kind multi-distribution broadcast.”