The '2019 Soribada K-Best Music Awards,' hosted by South Korea's representative music platform 'Soribada,' is approaching its event.

The competition for the male and female popularity awards is fierce.

'2019 Soribada K-Best Music Awards (hereinafter referred to as SOBA),' to be held for two days from August 22nd to 23rd,

has been conducting online voting through the Soribada mobile app since July 8th to determine the winners of the male and female popularity awards.

According to the current situation on the 2019 SOBA voting site, for the 'Male Popularity Award,' Park Ji-hoon, a former member of the group WANNA ONE who is enjoying top popularity domestically and internationally and leading the Hallyu wave,

is in the running. BTS, who are writing a new history of K-pop on the global stage, are also contenders, followed by Ha Sung-woon, EXO, Kim Jae-hwan, AB6IX,

and other famous artists are ranked, drawing significant attention.

Following that, for the 'Female Popularity Award,' the representative group TWICE and MAMAMOO, who are gaining support with their unique charms and outstanding musicality in four colors,

are ranked and competing for first and second place. Girl groups with a rich variety of colors, such as Red Velvet, BLACKPINK, WJSN, and IZ*ONE,

are continuing to follow.

This year's '2019 SOBA' selected candidates based on albums and music released from September of the previous year to July of this year.

The awards ceremony is scheduled to proceed by reflecting online voting results along with Soribada music scores, organizing committee scores, and expert committee scores.

It is anticipated which artists will be honored with the awards.

These are English translations of articles from our GTTOUR Japanese website.