MTV Asian Music Awards 2008

The 2008 MTV Asia Awards will be held on August 2 and the host country will be Malaysia. I checked out their website www.mtvasiaawards.com to look at the Korean page and darn, it was all written in Korean. Well, what did I expect?

Anyway, the nominees this year for Favorite Artist-Korea are two boybands, Big Bang and Super Junior, and two girlbands, Girls Generation and Wondergirls.

Big Bang has dominated the concert scene, with impressive ticket sales and high-grossing concert tours.

Super Junior is multi-awarded, having won everything from being the best new group, then best male group,having a good song, good album, good faces, for being photogenic (thought that was onlyin pageants), for being the best pretty boy and the list goes on.

Girls Generation has sold an impressive number of singles and albums in a short time, climbing up charts fast and getting star status in less than a year after their debut.

Wondergirls has got the whole country hooked on their “Tell Me” phenomena and despite low sales they have good standing in terms of popularity and visibility.

Here are some figures summarizing their achievements:

Big Bang (Hip Hop and R&B group)

2006 (Debut)
–1st Single “The First Single Album” sold 39 655 copies
–2nd Single “Big Bang is V.I.P” sold 32 503 copies
–3rd Single ” B I G B A N G 03″ sold 29 138 copies
–First Concert, “The Real” sold 12 000 tickets
– won Cyworld: Rookie of the Month award
2007
–First album “BIGBANG VOL.1 Since 2007″ sold 48 009 by the end of February
–Concert album “1st Concert Live Album - The Real” sold 15,211 copies by the end of 2007
–First national tour concert in Korea, entitled “Want You” grossed an estimated 16 million won
–Released mini album in August, entitled “Always”
–Their single “Lie” became a hit, topping the charts of SBS’s Popular Songs, MBC’s Music Core, KBS’s Music Bank and Mnet’s Countdown.
–released mini-album “Hot Issue”
–BIGBANG is GREAT concert sold out tickets in 10 minutes
–won the following awards:

Netizen Award: Viewer’s Choice Award
Cyworld: Song of the Month: Lies (August)
Cyworld: Song of the Month: Lies (September)
2007 M.NET/KM Music Festival: Song of the Year
2007 M.NET/KM Music Festival: Best Male Group
2007 22nd Annual Golden Disk Awards: Bonsang (Dirty Cash)
SBS Inkigayo: Gold Award
No. 1 Song Of The Year
Asian MUSIC eXtreme Awards 2007: 2007 Best Asian newcomer or breakthrough for French people
Asian MUSIC eXtreme Awards 2007: 2007 Best Asian Hip-Hop album 2007 (Always)
Cyworld: Song Of The Month: Last Farewell (December)

2008
–first Japanese album, “For the World” was released, debuting at #14 on the Oricon World chart and eventually crawling its way to #10
–won the following awards:

17th Seoul Music Awards: Digital Music Award
17th Seoul Music Awards: Top Artist Award
17th Seoul Music Awards: Artist Of The Year

Super Junior

2005 (Debut)
–debut album SuperJunior05 (TWINS)sold 28,536 copies in the first month of release and debuted at #3 in the monthly chart of December 2005, selling over 94 000 copies by 2008
–collaboration with DBSK “Show Me Your Love” became the highest selling album of December 2005.
–Second single “Miracle” peaked at #1 on different music charts of South Korea as well as international charts from overseas countries, such as Thailand
2006
–release of single “U” marked success at it had over 400,000 downloads within five hours of release and ultimately exceeded 1.7 million downloads, crashing the server
–CD Single “U” sold 83 000 units and enjoyed number-one spots for five consecutive weeks on two of Korea’s top music programs
–won the following awards:

The 13th Korean Television Arts Festival, South Korea (October 31)

Group Award, won
The 7th Korean Visual Arts Festival, South Korea (November )

Photogenic Award, won
2006 M.NET/KM Music Festival, South Korea (November 25)

Best New Group – “U”,

The 16th MTV Seoul Gayo Daesang Awards, South Korea (December 1)

Best New Group
Mobile Popularity Award
2006 M.NET Golden Disk Awards, South Korea (December 14)

Newface, won
PAVV Most Popular Music Video, won
Jukeon Digital Music Awards, South Korea (December 22)

Best New Group
SBS Gayo Daejun Awards, South Korea (December 29)

Male Newface

2007
–After three months of release, Don’t Don sold 164,058 copies, making it Super Junior’s best selling album. It was also the second best-selling album of 2007

–won the following awards:

The 2nd Asia SEED Awards, Thailand (January 31)

Best New Asian Artist, won
2007 M.NET Summer Break 20’s Choice Awards, South Korea (August 21)

Best New Asian Artist, won
Best Group, won
Best Performance, won
Best Pretty Boy – Heechul, won
Best Bad Boy – Kang-In, won
Best Dresser on Blue Carpet, won
2007 Asia Song Festival, South Korea (September 22)

Appreciation Award, won
The 14th Annual Korean Performing Arts Awards, South Korea (October 6)

Best Male Dance Artists, won
The 5th Annual South Eastern Explosive Music Chart Awards, China (November 10)
2007 M.NET/KM Music Festival, South Korea (November 17)[1]

Artist of the Year (Daesang) – “Don’t Don”, won
Auction Netizen Popularity Award, won
Netizen and Mobile Popularity Award, won
The 24th Korea Best Dresser Swan Award, South Korea (December 10)

Best Dressed Singer, won
The 15th Annual Korean Popular Entertainment Awards, South Korea (December 11)[2]

New Generation Artist of the Year (Daesang), won
Top Artists (Bonsang), won
2007 M.NET Golden Disk Awards, South Korea (December 14)

Top Artists (Bonsang), won
Talk, Play, Love Anycall Popularity Award (Inkisang), won
2007 Tencent Stars Mangnificent Ceremony, China (December 17)[3]

Asia’s Artist of the Year, won
2007 Asia Model Award Ceremony, South Korea (January 18)

Entertainment: Asia Special Award, won
The 17th Seoul Music Awards, South Korea (January 31)[4][5]

Top Artists (Bonsang), won
Mobile Popularity Award (Inkisang), won
2008 March GoNews Netizen Entertainment Awards, South Korea (March 18)

Best Group, won
2008 MTV Asia Awards, Malaysia (August 2)

Favorite Artist Korea, nominated

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The 5th Annual Music King Awards, Macau (May 25)

Asia’s Most Popular New Group Award, won

Girls Generation
2007
–First single - Into the new world sold 31 369 copies
–First album - Girls’ Generation sold 111 093 copies
–Awards:
Song of the Month for the month of August from Cyworld
14th Annual Korean Performing Arts Ceremony: Best New Female Group
SBS Inkigayo Mutizen Award for November 25th, 2007
SBS Inkigayo Mutizen Award for on December 2nd, 2007
2007 M.NET Golden Disk Awards: Anycall Popularity Award
2007 M.NET Golden Disk Awards: Anycall Newbie Award

2008
–Kissing You and Baby Baby released, included in the album Girls’ Generation
–Awards
17th Seoul Music Awards: High1 Music Award
17th Seoul Music Awards: Best New Artist Award
SBS Inkigayo Mutizen Award for on February 3rd, 2008
SBS Inkigayo Mutizen Award for on February 17th, 2008

Wondergirls (debuted in Feb 2007)
2007
–Released the single “Irony” contained in the mini-album “The Wonder Begins” and became a minor hit, selling 11,454 copies in 2007
–Full length album “The Wonder Years” was released on September 13, 2007 with the hit “Tell Me.”
selling 66 409 copies

–Awards:
2007 M.NET/KM Music Festival: Best New Female Group (Irony)
2007 Golden Disk Awards: Digital Bonsang
2007 Golden Disk Awards: Anycall Popularity Award
Music Bank 2007 Song of the Year Award
Cyworld Digital Music Awards: Tell Me (11.23.07)
Korean Music Arts Festival: Female Photogenic Award
KBS Music Bank: Rank 1st in “2007 Song Best 50″ for “Tell Me,”
KBS Music Bank: Best Special Stage
KBS Music Bank: Best New Singer
2008
–new single, “So Hot”, was released on May 22, 2008; the song topped online charts in the next few days and sold 14 026 copies
–Awards:
17th Seoul Music Awards: Rookie of the Year (Tell Me)

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