2025 MAMA AWARDS Announces Nominees + Fans' Choice Voting Begins

2025 MAMA AWARDS Announces Nominees + Fans' Choice Voting Begins

Oct 16, 2025

It’s that time of year again!

On October 16, the nominations were announced for the 2025 MAMA AWARDS.

This year’s ceremony will take place at the Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong on November 28 and 29.

The criteria for the final winners are as follows:

Artist of the Year and Artist Category Awards – 40% judging evaluation, 30% streaming/downloads (20% Korea + 10% global), 30% physical album sales
Song of the Year and Genre Category Awards – 40% judging evaluation, 60% streaming/downloads (40% Korea + 20% global)
Album of the Year – 40% judging evaluation, 60% physical album sales (of albums that sold at least 1 million copies)
Best Music Video and Best Choreography – 100% judging evaluation
Fans’ Choice Male/Female
- Round 1: 90% Mnet Plus votes, 10% X votes
- Round 2: 90% Mnet Plus votes, 10% X votes
Fans’ Choice of the Year
- 90% Mnet Plus votes, 10% X votes
- additional 10% realtime Mnet Plus votes

The first round of voting for the Fans’ Choice nominees will take place through October 26 at 11:59 p.m. KST. The 20 artists selected each from the pre-vote for each of the Fans’ Choice Male and Fans’ Choice Female categories will move onto the second round of voting, which will take place from October 30 at 6 p.m. KST through November 10 at 11:59 p.m. KST.

In order to be eligible, the music must have been released between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025.

The nominees for the 2025 MAMA AWARDS are as follows:

Best New Artist

AHOF
ALLDAY PROJECT
Baby DONT Cry
CLOSE YOUR EYES
CORTIS
Hearts2Hearts
IDID
izna
KickFlip
KiiiKiii

Best Male Artist

Best Female Artist

Jennie
Jisoo
Rosé
Taeyeon
Yuqi

Best Male Group

Best Female Group

aespa
BABYMONSTER
i-dle
IVE
LE SSERAFIM
TWICE

Best Dance Performance Male Solo

G-Dragon – “TOO BAD (feat. Anderson .Paak)”
j-hope – “MONA LISA”
Kai – “Wait On Me”
Key – “HUNTER”
Mark – “1999”

Best Dance Performance Female Solo

Dayoung – “body”
Jennie – “like JENNIE”
Jisoo – “earthquake”
Karina – “UP”
Minnie – “HER”

Best Dance Performance Male Group

BOYNEXTDOOR – “IF I SAY, I LOVE YOU”
NCT DREAM – “WHEN I’M WITH YOU”
NCT WISH – “poppop”
PLAVE – “Dash”
RIIZE – “Fly Up”
SEVENTEEN – “THUNDER”
TWS – “Countdown”

Best Dance Performance Female Group

aespa – “Whiplash”
BABYMONSTER – “DRIP”
BLACKPINK – “JUMP”
ILLIT – “Cherish (My Love)”
IVE – “REBEL HEART”
LE SSERAFIM – “HOT”

Best Vocal Performance Solo

Doyoung – “Memory”
Lee Mu Jin – “Coming of Age Story”
Rosé – “toxic till the end”
Roy Kim – “If You Ask Me What Love Is”
Taeyeon – “Letter To Myself”

Best Vocal Performance Group

Davichi – “Stitching”
HIGHLIGHT – “Endless Ending”
MEOVV – “DROP TOP”
TREASURE – “YELLOW”
ZEROBASEONE – “Doctor! Doctor!”

Best Band Performance

CNBLUE – “A Sleepless Night”
DAY6 – “Maybe Tomorrow”
N.Flying – “Everlasting”
QWER – “Dear”
Xdinary Heroes – “Beautiful Life”

Best Rap & Hip Hop Performance

BIG Naughty – “MUSIC (feat. Lee Chanhyuk)”
Dynamic Duo and Gummy – “Take Care”
HAON – “Skrr (feat. Giselle)”
pH-1 – “Life Is A Movie (feat. Jung Zi So)”
Tablo and RM – “Stop The Rain”

Best Collaboration

G-Dragon – “TOO BAD (feat. Anderson .Paak)”
Jennie and Doechii – “ExtraL”
Mark – “Fraktsiya (feat. Lee Young Ji)”
Rosé and Bruno Mars – “APT.”
V – “Winter Ahead (with Park Hyo Shin)”

Best OST

BOYNEXTDOOR – “Never Loved This Way Before” (“Odd Girl Out” OST)
HUNTR/X – “GOLDEN” (“K-Pop Demon Hunters” OST)
Park Hyo Shin – “HERO” (“Firefighters” OST)
Saja Boys – “Soda Pop” (“K-Pop Demon Hunters” OST)
TXT – “When the Day Comes” (“Resident Playbook” OST)

Best Music Video

aespa – “Dirty Work”
ALLDAY PROJECT – “FAMOUS”
BLACKPINK – “JUMP”
Jennie – “ZEN”
Lee Chanhyuk – “Vivid LaLa Love”

Best Choreography

aespa – “Whiplash”
ALLDAY PROJECT – “WICKED”
CORTIS – “GO!”
G-Dragon – “TOO BAD (feat. Anderson .Paak)”
Jennie – “like JENNIE”

Artist of the Year

(Nominees for the artist categories are automatically nominated)

Song of the Year

(Nominees for the song genre categories are automatically nominated)

aespa – “Dirty Work”
aespa – “Whiplash”
ALLDAY PROJECT – “FAMOUS”
ALLDAY PROJECT – “WICKED”
BABYMONSTER – “DRIP”
BIG Naughty – “MUSIC (feat. Lee Chanhyuk)”
BLACKPINK – “JUMP”
BOYNEXTDOOR – “IF I SAY, I LOVE YOU”
BOYNEXTDOOR – “Never Loved This Way Before”
CNBLUE – “A Sleepless Night”
CORTIS – “GO!”
Davichi – “Stitching”
DAY6 – “Maybe Tomorrow”
Dayoung – “body”
Doyoung – “Memory”
Dynamic Duo and Gummy – “Take Care”
G-Dragon – “TOO BAD (feat. Anderson .Paak)”
HAON – “Skrr (feat. Giselle)”
HIGHLIGHT – “Endless Ending”
HUNTR/X – “GOLDEN”
ILLIT – “Cherish (My Love)”
IVE – “REBEL HEART”
j-hope – “MONA LISA”
Jennie – “like JENNIE”
Jennie – “ZEN”
Jennie and Doechii – “ExtraL”
Jisoo – “earthquake”
Kai – “Wait On Me”
Karina – “UP”
Key – “HUNTER”
LE SSERAFIM – “HOT”
Lee Chanhyuk – “Vivid LaLa Love”
Lee Mu Jin – “Coming of Age Story”
Mark – “1999”
Mark – “Fraktsiya (feat. Lee Young Ji)”
MEOVV – “DROP TOP”
Minnie – “HER”
N.Flying – “Everlasting”
NCT DREAM – “WHEN I’M WITH YOU”
NCT WISH – “poppop”
Park Hyo Shin – “HERO”
pH-1 – “Life Is A Movie (feat. Jung Zi So)”
PLAVE – “Dash”
QWER – “Dear”
RIIZE – “Fly Up”
Rosé – “toxic till the end”
Rosé and Bruno Mars – “APT.”
Roy Kim – “If You Ask Me What Love Is”
Saja Boys – “Soda Pop”
SEVENTEEN – “THUNDER”
Tablo and RM – “Stop The Rain”
Taeyeon – “Letter To Myself”
TREASURE – “YELLOW”
TWS – “Countdown”
TXT – “When the Day Comes”
V – “Winter Ahead (with Park Hyo Shin)”
Xdinary Heroes – “Beautiful Life”
ZEROBASEONE – “Doctor! Doctor!”

Album of the Year

(Only albums that sold over 1 million copies are eligible)

aespa – “Whiplash”
ATEEZ – “GOLDEN HOUR : Part.2”
BABYMONSTER – “DRIP”
Baekhyun – “Essence of Reverie”
BOYNEXTDOOR – “No Genre”
ENHYPEN – “DESIRE : UNLEASH”
G-Dragon – “Übermensch”
i-dle – “We are”
IVE – “IVE EMPATHY”
Jin – “Happy”
NCT DREAM – “DREAMSCAPE”
NCT WISH – “COLOR”
PLAVE – “Caligo Pt.1”
RIIZE – “ODYSSEY”
SEVENTEEN – “SPILL THE FEELS”
Stray Kids – “KARMA”
TXT – “The Star Chapter: TOGETHER”
ZEROBASEONE – “NEVER SAY NEVER”

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Fans’ Choice Female

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