Full List of Winners At The 25th Seoul Music Awards
On January 14th, stars, idol groups, and musicians gathered at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul for the ’25th Seoul Music Awards’.
The 25th Seoul Music Awards kicked off at 7 p.m. on Jauary 14th at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena, and awards were handed out to artists and personalities as varied as EXO (Grand Prize) and BOA (The Record Of The Year). According to the award standard of the annual ceremony, the ‘Bonsang award’ winners are chosen through mobile voting (30%), digital/album sales (40%), and panel judgement (30%). One artist is then chosen from the group of Bonsang winners for the prestigious ‘Daesang’. The awards show first began in 1990 and is held annually by Sports Seoul to recognize outstanding achievements in the Korean music industry. It is one of the big four music award ceremonies in Korea, alongside the ‘Mnet Asian Music Awards’, ‘Golden Disk Awards’, and ‘Melon Music Awards’. 
From a top idol group who scored the trophy for Daesang to a superb soloist who was chose as the best female artist of 2015, here is the complete list of winners at the 2016 Seoul Music Awards.
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▲ Daesang (Grand Prize): EXO
▲ Record of the Year: B.O.A ‘Kiss My Lips’
▲ Digital Record of the Year: BIGBANG ‘Bang Bang Bang’
▲ Bonsang (Main Prize): EXID, Red Velvet, Taeyeon, VIXX, Zion.T, Yoon Mirae, BTS, EXO, APINK, SISTAR, SHINee, BIGBANG
▲ High1/Mobile Popularity: XIA Junsu
▲ Best New Artist: SEVENTEEN, iKON, GFRIEND
▲ Hallyu Special Award: EXO
▲ Dance Performance Award: Ailee, MonstaX
▲ Performance Culture Award: HyukO
▲ R&B/Hip Hop Award: SanE
▲ Best OST Award: Jang Jae In
▲ Ballad Award: BTOB
▲ Trot Award: Hong Jin Young
Current Ranking Of The 25th High1 Seoul Music Awards
Online voting is currently opened on the official “SMA” site.
There’s a lot of competition in an upcoming awards ceremony. Because many K-Pop idol groups have been nominated in the categories for the “25th Seoul Music Awards”. The nominees proved to be a huge success, winning several awards on music shows. Several artists’ album were able to rank on the US iTunes album chart and second on the US iTunes pop album chart, both setting a record for the highest ranking by Korean artists. Naturally, many K-pop fans flocked to the SMA category lists to see where their favorite idols were nominated — and to vote for them.
Must Read : Nominations For The 25th Seoul Music Awards
Here is the current ranking of Seoul Music Awards (as of Jan 8)
Voting Period: November 27, 2015 to January 12,2016
Bonsang: votes count for 30%
BTS’s “I Need U” is currently the top bet for the Bonsang with 19.71 percent. They are closely followed by VIXX and BTOB, respectively.
Rookie of the year: votes count for 30%
Pledis Ent’s 13 membered boy group, SEVENTEEN lead the New Artist category, bagging 45.47 percent. One of the female contender groups, TWICE trail SEVENTEEN by a whopping 40 percent already.
High1 Popularity Award: votes count for 100%
XIA is currently topping domestic Popularity Awarads with 45.67 percent. SHINee is closely following with 33.98 percent.
Hallyu Special Award: votes count for 100%
A famous hallyu singer/actor Lee Seung Gi is the front-runner for Global Fan’s Choice with 24 percent, greatly ahead of GOT7’s “If You Do,” VIXX’s “Chained Up,” and INFINITE’s “BAD.”
Get voting for your favorite K-artists and songs for 2015. It can be done everyday; registration and log-in are required to vote. Do you agree with the current ranking?
The 25th Seoul Music Awards will be held on January 14, 2016 at 7pm KST. The awards will be held at Seoul Olympic Gymnastics Arena.
Hani Falls In Love With XIA : New Year Couple 2016
Xia Junsu, of JYJ, and Hani, of EXID, admitted they are dating through their agencies’ official announcement.
On the new year day of 2016, a shocking but lovely news came to wake the K-pop fans up. One press reported Xia Junsu and Hani are in a romantic relationship and released some proof photos of those two. Then, XIA’s agency, C-Jes Entertainment, released their official announcement to admit XIA had been dating out with Hani. According to the announcement, the two stars started their romantic relationship recently. At first, as a senior and junior musician, they leaned on and supported each other, and, then, they have gradually been attracted by one another. Since they are hot stars, so many fans would give tremendous attention on them, but please understand we cannot provide detail stories about their relationship because it is their privacy. The agency ended their announcement with their sincere promise for XIA’s brilliant upcoming activities and thanks.
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Photo Evidences
The press had watched the new couple for more than a month. They caught Xia-Hani’s date at Han River on Dec 1th 2015. The couple enjoyed a car date while looking at Han River of night. The press reported that those two had dated out for 6 months and they had kept their secret meeting. Because of Hani’s tough schedule, XIA tuned his time for Hani. To date, he drove to her place for pick-up and got her back to her place. The dates mostly have been made on the days when no TV schedules.
The adorable couple was together on the Christmas Eve. Hani got in the XIA’s manager’s car with holding a big Christmas gift for XIA. How did they begin? XIA fell in love with Hani first. He was attracted by her everything, external and internal Hani. She has been famous for her cool personality, not only attractive appearance. Also, for Hani, XIA has been her bias since she was very young when XIA was a member of TVSQ.
Hopefully, this couple keeps their love for a long time so that we can hear their romantic stories in the end of this year too; of course, the next year, a year next and more as well. Congratulations the new year couple of 2016!
