Group BTS (hereinafter referred to as BTS) won a total of 6 awards at the "2019 MGMA," including the "Grand Prize," "Top Artist Award,"

"Male Group Award," "Video Award," "Male Performing Artist Award," "Global Popularity Award," and "Genie Popularity Award." TWICE also won the "Best Selling Award" and "Female Group Award," achieving 2 wins.

At 7 PM on the 1st, at the KSPO DOME in Olympic Park, Seoul, the No. 1 digital music platform "GENIE MUSIC" and

the NO.1 K-POP digital channel "M2" jointly held the "2019 M2×GENIE MUSIC AWARDS (hereinafter referred to as 2019MGMA)."

At the "2019MGMA," awards were presented in a total of 4 categories: "Top Artist Award," "Top Music Award," "Top Video Award," and "Best Selling Award."

First, the Top Artist Award, selected through judging period and public voting, was awarded to BTS.

The "Top Music Award," for the No. 1 song based on cumulative streaming and downloads, was awarded to Paul Kim,

and the "Top Video Award," for the most loved content on M2, was awarded to BTS. The "Best Selling Award," for the artist who charted the most songs at high rankings, went to TWICE.

The "Rookie Artist Award," which can only be won once in a lifetime, was awarded to TOMORROW X TOGETHER (TXT) and ITZY.

TXT said, "It is an honor to receive the Rookie Award, which we never dreamed of. We are grateful to our fans. We also thank our BigHit family and PD Bang Si-hyuk. We feel we have received a very big award despite our many shortcomings. Please watch our future growth." They said this while shedding tears.

The "Genie Music Popularity Award" and "Global Popularity Award," selected by fan voting, were awarded to BTS.

Through a video message, BTS stated, "ARMY are a great gift to us wherever we are. Thank you for enabling us to move towards a better future. We dream of an even bigger and better future with ARMY."

In addition, the "Performing Artist Award" went to BTS and IZ*ONE, the "Group Award" to BTS and TWICE,

the "Solo Artist Award" to Paul Kim and CHUNG HA, the "Vocal Artist Award" to MAMAMOO,

the "Performance Creator Award" to Lia Kim, the "Hot Star Award" to WJSN and PENTAGON,

and the "Band Award" to DAY6.

TWICE, who performed with only eight members today, said after receiving the "Female Group Award," "We performed with eight members today, but Mina will return, and we will appear as a more beautiful and wonderful TWICE, so please wait for us."


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