Aespa, Rosé and Bruno Mars Among Winners At 2024 MAMA Awards
The 2024 MAMA Awards, with ceremonies in both Los Angeles and Osaka, have concluded with aespa and SEVENTEEN emerging as the biggest winners.
This year, the MAMA Awards held two separate ceremonies in the US and Japan, with the first day’s festivities held at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on November 21. It then picked up with a two-night ceremony at Osaka’s Kyocera Dome on November 22 and 23. The winners for most categories were decided through judge panel evaluations, download and stream numbers as well as physical album sales.
A handful of the ceremony’s most prestigious Grand awards included Artist of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year. Other trophies awarded across the three-day international affair included Best Male and Female Groups, Best New Artists, Best Dance Performance in both the solo and group categories, and more.
aespa emerged from this year’s MAMA Awards as the biggest winners with a total of six trophies won out of eight nominations: Fans’ Choice Top 10 Female, Song of the Year for Supernova, Best Choreography for Supernova, Best Music Video for Armageddon, Best Dance Performance (Female Group) for Supernova as well as Best Female Group.
Following closely behind were SEVENTEEN with five awards taken home: Fans’ Choice Top 10 Male, Best Male Group, Visa Super Stage, as well as two out of four Grand prizes for Artist of the Year and Album of the Year, the latter for Seventeenth Heaven.
Other notable winners also include BTS‘ Jungkook for Best Male Artist and Best Dance Performance (Male Solo) for Standing Next To You, while BLACKPINK’s Jennie took home four awards, two of which were shared with Zico for their collaboration single SPOT!. IU was also awarded Female Artist of the Year.
Notably, both BLACKPINK’s Rosé and Bruno Mars were given the Global Sensation award this year for their viral collaboration APT., marking Mars’ first-ever MAMAs trophy. Visit the event’s official website for a full list of winners.