Soribada Best K-Music Awards

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Soribada Best K-Music Awards
Awarded forOutstanding achievements in the music industry
CountrySouth Korea
Presented by Soribada
First awarded2017
Website soribada.com
Television/radio coverage
Network SBS MTV

The Soribada Best K-Music Awards (previously abbreviated as SOKA and currently abbreviated as SOBA) is an awards ceremony presented by the digital music platform Soribada to celebrate the best and brightest of K-pop releases. [1] The first awards ceremony was held in September 2017 and awarded music released between September 2016 and August 2017.

Contents

This is the first-ever awards ceremony hosted by Soribada, established in 2000 as Korea's first digital music service. [2]

List of ceremonies

EditionDateVenueCityRef.
1stSeptember 20, 2017 Jamsil Students' Gymnasium Seoul, South Korea [3]
2ndAugust 30, 2018 Olympic Gymnastics Arena [4]
3rdAugust 22–23, 2019 [5]
4thAugust 13, 2020Online Ceremony [6]

Judging criteria

Winners are determined through Soribada's internal data, online and mobile votes from fans across the world, as well as ratings from professional adjudicators and critics. [7] [8]

Grand Prize (Daesang)

Ed.YearWinner(s)
1st2017 EXO [lower-alpha 1] Twice [lower-alpha 1]
2nd2018 BTS [lower-alpha 1]
3rd2019 BTS [lower-alpha 2] Twice [lower-alpha 2] Red Velvet [lower-alpha 2] Mamamoo [lower-alpha 2]
4th2020 BTS

Main Prize (Bonsang)

Ed.YearWinner(s)
1st2017 B.A.P BtoB EXO GFriend Hwang Chi-yeul Mamamoo Monsta X Red Velvet T-ara Twice VIXX ––
2nd2018 AOA Bolbbalgan4 BTS Mamamoo Momoland Monsta X NCT 127 NU'EST W Red Velvet Twice Wanna One ––
3rd2019 AB6IX BTS Chungha Ha Sung-woon Kim Jae-hwan Mamamoo Momoland Monsta X NCT 127 Twice Red Velvet Park Ji-hoon –
4th2020 AB6IX Astro BTS GFriend Iz*One Kang Daniel Lim Young-woong Mamamoo NCT Dream Twice Oh My Girl Red Velvet Victon

Rookie Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
GroupBandTrot
1st2017 Wanna One ——
Pentagon
2nd2018 The Boyz IZ Kangnam
Nature Seol Ha-yoon
Stray Kids
3rd2019 ITZY — Song Ga-in
Hong Ja
TXT Kim Soo Chan
Jung Mi Ae
4th2020 Cravity ——
MCND
TOO

Popularity Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
MaleFemale
1st2017 Exo —
2nd2018 Wanna One Mamamoo
3rd2019 BTS Twice
4th2020

Genre Awards

Trot Grand Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
3rd2019Jin Sung Hong Jin-young

Trot Artist Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
1st2017 Tae Jin-ah Hong Jin-young
2nd2018 Tae Jin-ah Hong Jin-young
3rd2019 Tae Jin-ah

Rising Trot Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
4th2020Kim Soo-chan Second Aunt Kim Da-vi

Hip Hop Artist Award

Ed.YearWinner
2nd2018 Mino

R&B Artist Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
2nd2018 Crush
3rd2019 Park Bom Yang Da-il

Rock Band Award

Ed.YearWinner
3rd2019 YB

Best OST Award

Ed.YearWinnerSongDrama
1st2017 Ailee "I Will Go to You Like the First Snow" Goblin
2nd2018 Jeong Se-woon "It’s You" What's Wrong with Secretary Kim
4th2020 Gaho "Start Over" Itaewon Class

Music Video Award

Ed.YearWinner
1st2017 Zanybros
2nd2018 Zanybros

Music Producer Awards

Producer Award

Ed.YearWinner
1st2017Iggy, Yongbae
2nd2018Kim Do-hoon
3rd2019Rhymer
4th2020Kim Do-hoon

Songwriter Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
4th2020Lee Han-gilTurns Out Comatose

Best Hip Hop Maker Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
3rd2019 Groovy Room dress

Special Hallyu Awards

Artist of the Year Award [lower-alpha 3]

Ed.YearWinner
4th2020 Twice

Music of the Year Award [lower-alpha 3]

Ed.YearWinner
4th2020 Red Velvet

Stage of the Year Award [lower-alpha 3]

Ed.YearWinner
4th2020 Kang Daniel

Artist Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
1st2017 BTS
2nd2018 Monsta X Red Velvet
3rd2019 WJSN Lovelyz
4th2020 TXT ITZY

Performance Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
1st2017 NCT 127 Gugudan
2nd2018 Samuel DIA
3rd2019 Ateez Loona
4th2020 The Boyz (G)I-dle

Rising Hot Star Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
1st2017 WJSN Wanna One —
2nd2018 Hyeongseop X Euiwoong YDPP—
3rd2019 N.Flying Stray Kids The Boyz
4th2020 Nature Loona GWSN

Icon Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
1st2017 Red Velvet
2nd2018 NU'EST W
3rd2019 Oh My Girl Park Ji-hoon
4th2020 Oneus WJSN

Voice Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
1st2017 Han Dong-geun
2nd2018 Wheesung GB9 (Social)Seo J (Social)
3rd2019 Jeong Se-woon Lee Chang-min Lee Woo (Social)
4th2020 Kim Jae-hwan Kim Woo-seok Ha Sung-woon

Music Star Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
1st2017 Sonamoo KNK
2nd2018 Chungha UNB
3rd2019 CLC Nature

Global Entertainer Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
2nd2018 7Senses
3rd2019Zero 9 SNH48

Social Artist Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
2nd2018 BTS
3rd2019 Hwasa NCT 127

Global Hot Trend Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
3rd2019 ASTRO
4th2020 Stray Kids Iz*One

Next Artist Award

Ed.YearWinner(s)
3rd2019 Oneus Newkidd A.C.E
4th2020 DKB AleXa —

Other Awards

EditionYearAwardWinner(s)
1st2017Photogenic Award DIA
Global Career Achievement Award Eru
2nd2018Trend Queen Award Seo In-young
People's Choice Award Exo
3rd2019New Wave Award Monsta X (G)I-dle
Art-tainer Award Nam Woo-hyun Weki Meki
4th2020New K-Wave Real Fan Award Kang Daniel
Global Artist Award Astro

Most Wins

The following artists received five or more awards:

RankArtist(s)Awards
1 Twice 10
BTS
2 Red Velvet 8
3 Mamamoo 6
4 Monsta X 5

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Two were given for the Grand Award & Digital Grand Award categories, respectively.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Four were given for the Artist of the Year, Music of the Year, Stage of the Year, and Live Performance of the Year categories, respectively.
  3. 1 2 3 Formerly a grand award category, it has been demoted off its grand award category status to a grand award final nominee consolation award category since 2020.

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