33rd Hanteo Music Awards

33rd Hanteo Music Awards
Official poster
Date	February 15, 2026
Venue	KSPO Dome, Seoul
Country	South Korea
Website	awards.hanteo.com
Television/radio coverage
Network	MBN
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The 33rd installment of the Hanteo Music Awards, presented by Hanteo Global, is an award show to be held at KSPO Dome in Seoul on February 15, 2026. ^[1] It recognized the best artists and recordings, primarily based on Hanteo Chart data gathered from January to December 2025. ^[2]

Criteria

All songs and albums that are eligible to be nominated must be released from January 1 to December 31, 2025. ^[3]

Category	Hanteo Global score [A]	Global voting score	Judging score
Grand Prize [a]	50%	20%	30%
Categories by Artist [b]	40%	30%	30%
Special Genre Award [c]	30%	40%	30%
Global Artist Award	50%	50%	—N/a
WhosFandom Award	—N/a	100%	—N/a

Winners and nominees

Grand Prize

Best Artist (Daesang)	Best Album (Daesang)
TBA	TBA
Best Song (Daesang)	Best Performance (Daesang)
TBA	TBA

Main & Special Awards

The list of main categories and genre nominees was announced in January 2026, through Hanteo Music Awards social media posts. Voting opened on the WhosFan, Fancast, and Mubeat apps from January 16, and will run until February 4. ^[4]

Hanteo Top 10 (Bonsang) [5]	Rookie of the Year [6]
List of nominees &Team Aespa Ateez Babymonster Baekhyun Boynextdoor Cortis Day6 Enhypen Fromis 9 G-Dragon Hearts2hearts I-dle Illit Itzy IU Ive J-hope Jennie Jin KickFlip Lee Chan-won Le Sserafim Mark Monsta X Nmixx NCT Dream NCT Wish Plave Riize Rosé Seventeen Stray Kids Super Junior The Boyz Tomorrow X Together Treasure Tws Twice Zerobaseone	AHOF AllDay Project AxMxP Close Your Eyes Cosmosy Cortis Hearts2Hearts Hebi. Hitgs Idid Ifeye In a Minute KickFlip Kiiikiii Newbeat Nouera UAU Uspeer Xlov XngHan&Xoul
Post Generation Award [7]	Emerging Artist [8]
Epex Fifty Fifty H1-Key Isegye Idol Kep1er Park Ji-hyeon P1Harmony STAYC Tempest Viviz WEi Xdinary Heroes Xikers Yena Younite	Ampers&One Artms Evnne Izna Kiss of Life Meovv Nexz Nowz N.SSign QWER Rescene Say My Name TripleS Unis
Special Award – Ballad [9]	Special Award – Band [10]
Brown Eyed Soul Car, the Garden Davichi Hwang Ga-ram Jung Seung-hwan Lee Mu-jin Paul Kim Roy Kim Woody Yerin Baek	CNBLUE Day6 Lee Seung-yoon Lucy N.Flying Onewe QWER Xdinary Heroes
Special Award – Independent [11]	Special Award – R&B or Hip-hop [12]
Choi Yu-ree George Hanroro Heo Hoy-kyung Lee Seung-yoon Nerd Connection O3ohn Touched Woo Ye-rin YdBB	Ash Island Changmo Crush Dynamic Duo Heize J-Hope Lee Young-ji Woodz Zion.T Zico
Special Award – Trot [13]	Special Award – Virtual [14]
Ahn Sung-hoon Daesung Jang Min-ho Kim Hee-jae Kim Yong-bin Lee Chan-won Lim Young-woong Park Ji-hyun Park Seo-jin Song Ga-in Young Tak	Hebi. Iiterniti Isegye Idol Naevis Plave Re:Revolution Skinz
Special Award – OST [15]
D.O. – "Forever" (from Resident Playbook ) Doyoung – "I Find You" (from Bon Appétit, Your Majesty ) Huntrix: Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami – "Golden" (from KPop Demon Hunters ) Kenshi Yonezu – "Iris Out" (from Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc ) Kenshi Yonezu and Hikaru Utada – "Jane Doe" (from Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc ) Lim Young-woong – "Heavenly Ever After" (from Heavenly Ever After ) Paul Kim – "Always Be With You" (from Love Scout ) Rosé – "Messy" (from F1 ) Tomorrow X Together – "When the Day Comes" (from Resident Playbook ) Yang Ji-eun – "You're Enough for Me" (from Marie and Her Three Daddies ) Young Tak – "Unknown Life" (from For Eagle Brothers )

Global Artist & Popularity Awards

The list of nominees for the Global Artist Award was announced in January 2026. ^[16] The voting began on January 5 and continued until February 7, 2026. ^[17] The list of nominees for WhosFandom Award was announced through Whosfan official Twitter account in December 2025, and voting for Top 40 started through the platform from December 29, 2025, to January 1, 2026. while the final voting for Top 2 commenced on the Whosfan app from January 24 to January 25, 2026. ^[18]

Global Artist – Africa	Global Artist – Asia
List of nominees &Team Aespa AHOF AllDay Project Ateez Babymonster Baekhyun BoyNextDoor BSS BTS Close Your Eyes Cortis Cravity CxM Day6 Enhypen Fromis 9 G-Dragon Haechan Hebi. Hearts2Hearts HxW Hwasa I-dle Idid Illit Isegye Idol Itzy IU Ive Izna J-Hope Jennie Jin Jisoo KPop Demon Hunters Cast KickFlip KiiiKiii Kiss of Life Lee Chan-won Lee Chang-sub Le Sserafim Lim Young-woong Lisa Mark Minnie Monsta X N.Flying NCT Dream NCT Wish Nexz Nmixx Nouera P1Harmony Park Ji-hyeon Plave QWER Rescene Riize Rosé Secret Number Seventeen Shinee STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior Tempest The Boyz Treasure TripleS Twice TWS Unis Viviz Woodz Yeonjun Young Tak Yuqi Zerobaseone	List of nominees &Team Aespa AHOF AllDay Project Ateez Babymonster Baekhyun BoyNextDoor BSS BTS Close Your Eyes Cortis Cravity CxM Day6 Enhypen Fromis 9 G-Dragon Haechan Hebi. Hearts2Hearts HxW Hwasa I-dle Idid Illit Isegye Idol Itzy IU Ive Izna J-Hope Jennie Jin Jisoo KPop Demon Hunters Cast KickFlip KiiiKiii Kiss of Life Lee Chan-won Lee Chang-sub Le Sserafim Lim Young-woong Lisa Mark Minnie Monsta X N.Flying NCT Dream NCT Wish Nexz Nmixx Nouera P1Harmony Park Ji-hyeon Plave QWER Rescene Riize Rosé Secret Number Seventeen Shinee STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior Tempest The Boyz Treasure TripleS Twice TWS Unis Viviz Woodz Yeonjun Young Tak Yuqi Zerobaseone
Global Artist – Europe	Global Artist – North America
List of nominees &Team Aespa AHOF AllDay Project Ateez Babymonster Baekhyun BoyNextDoor BSS BTS Close Your Eyes Cortis Cravity CxM Day6 Enhypen Fromis 9 G-Dragon Haechan Hebi. Hearts2Hearts HxW Hwasa I-dle Idid Illit Isegye Idol Itzy IU Ive Izna J-Hope Jennie Jin Jisoo KPop Demon Hunters Cast KickFlip KiiiKiii Kiss of Life Lee Chan-won Lee Chang-sub Le Sserafim Lim Young-woong Lisa Mark Minnie Monsta X N.Flying NCT Dream NCT Wish Nexz Nmixx Nouera P1Harmony Park Ji-hyeon Plave QWER Rescene Riize Rosé Secret Number Seventeen Shinee STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior Tempest The Boyz Treasure TripleS Twice TWS Unis Viviz Woodz Yeonjun Young Tak Yuqi Zerobaseone	List of nominees &Team Aespa AHOF AllDay Project Ateez Babymonster Baekhyun BoyNextDoor BSS BTS Close Your Eyes Cortis Cravity CxM Day6 Enhypen Fromis 9 G-Dragon Haechan Hebi. Hearts2Hearts HxW Hwasa I-dle Idid Illit Isegye Idol Itzy IU Ive Izna J-Hope Jennie Jin Jisoo KPop Demon Hunters Cast KickFlip KiiiKiii Kiss of Life Lee Chan-won Lee Chang-sub Le Sserafim Lim Young-woong Lisa Mark Minnie Monsta X N.Flying NCT Dream NCT Wish Nexz Nmixx Nouera P1Harmony Park Ji-hyeon Plave QWER Rescene Riize Rosé Secret Number Seventeen Shinee STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior Tempest The Boyz Treasure TripleS Twice TWS Unis Viviz Woodz Yeonjun Young Tak Yuqi Zerobaseone
Global Artist – Oceania	Global Artist – South America
List of nominees &Team Aespa AHOF AllDay Project Ateez Babymonster Baekhyun BoyNextDoor BSS BTS Close Your Eyes Cortis Cravity CxM Day6 Enhypen Fromis 9 G-Dragon Haechan Hebi. Hearts2Hearts HxW Hwasa I-dle Idid Illit Isegye Idol Itzy IU Ive Izna J-Hope Jennie Jin Jisoo KPop Demon Hunters Cast KickFlip KiiiKiii Kiss of Life Lee Chan-won Lee Chang-sub Le Sserafim Lim Young-woong Lisa Mark Minnie Monsta X N.Flying NCT Dream NCT Wish Nexz Nmixx Nouera P1Harmony Park Ji-hyeon Plave QWER Rescene Riize Rosé Secret Number Seventeen Shinee STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior Tempest The Boyz Treasure TripleS Twice TWS Unis Viviz Woodz Yeonjun Young Tak Yuqi Zerobaseone	List of nominees &Team Aespa AHOF AllDay Project Ateez Babymonster Baekhyun BoyNextDoor BSS BTS Close Your Eyes Cortis Cravity CxM Day6 Enhypen Fromis 9 G-Dragon Haechan Hebi. Hearts2Hearts HxW Hwasa I-dle Idid Illit Isegye Idol Itzy IU Ive Izna J-Hope Jennie Jin Jisoo KPop Demon Hunters Cast KickFlip KiiiKiii Kiss of Life Lee Chan-won Lee Chang-sub Le Sserafim Lim Young-woong Lisa Mark Minnie Monsta X N.Flying NCT Dream NCT Wish Nexz Nmixx Nouera P1Harmony Park Ji-hyeon Plave QWER Rescene Riize Rosé Secret Number Seventeen Shinee STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior Tempest The Boyz Treasure TripleS Twice TWS Unis Viviz Woodz Yeonjun Young Tak Yuqi Zerobaseone
WhosFandom Award [19]	Best Popular Artist
List of nominees &Team – Luné Aespa – My Ateez – Atiny Babymonster – Monstiez Bigbang – Vip Blackpink – Blink BoyNextDoor – Onedoor BTS – Army Close Your Eyes – Closer Cortis – Coer Day6 – My Day Enhypen – Engene Exo – Exo-l Fromis 9 – Flover Hearts2Hearts – S2u I-dle – Neverland Illit – Gllit Isegye Idol – Ifari Itzy – Midzy IU – Uaena Ive – Dive Izna – Naya KickFlip – Weflip Le Sserafim – Fearnot Lee Chan-won – Chan's Lim Young-woong – Hero Generation NCT – Nctzen Nmixx – Nswer Plave – Plli Riize – Briize Seventeen – Carat Stray Kids – Stay The Boyz – The B Tomorrow X Together – Moa Treasure – Treasure Maker TripleS – Wav TWS – 42 Twice – Once Verivery – Verrer Zerobaseone – Zerose	Lim Young-woong – Hero Generation List of nominees &Team Aespa AHOF AllDay Project Ateez Babymonster Baekhyun BoyNextDoor BSS BTS Close Your Eyes Cortis Cravity CxM Day6 Enhypen Fromis 9 G-Dragon Haechan Hebi. Hearts2Hearts HxW Hwasa I-dle Idid Illit Isegye Idol Itzy IU Ive Izna J-Hope Jennie Jin Jisoo KPop Demon Hunters Cast KickFlip KiiiKiii Kiss of Life Lee Chan-won Lee Chang-sub Le Sserafim Lim Young-woong Lisa Mark Minnie Monsta X N.Flying NCT Dream NCT Wish Nexz Nmixx Nouera P1Harmony Park Ji-hyeon Plave QWER Rescene Riize Rosé Secret Number Seventeen Shinee STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior Tempest The Boyz Treasure TripleS Twice TWS Unis Viviz Woodz Yeonjun Young Tak Yuqi Zerobaseone

Notes

1. Hanteo Global score reflects a comprehensive analysis based on the vast amount of big data of albums/records, digital music, social media, portals, broadcasting & media, and end users collected through Hanteo Chart and Whosfan Big Data Lab. ^[3]

1. Consists of Best Artist, Best Album, Best Song, and Best Performance
2. Consists of Artist of the Year, Post Generation, Emerging Artist, and Rookie of the Year
3. Consists of Special Award – Ballad, Special Award – Band, Special Award – Hip-hop, and Special Award – Trot

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External links

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