Billboard Music Awards 2024: BTS' Jungkook leads K-pop nominations
BTS member Jungkook
Billboard Music Awards 2024:Exciting news for K-pop fans as their favourite boy band BTS member Jung Kook has emerged as a leader among other K-pop artists in the recently announced Billboard Music Awards nominations. Leading among other artists, K-pop scores big nods across categories.
The 2024 Billboard Music Awards ceremony will take place on December 12. The awards have a special section of categories for Korean pop music. The same was started last year – Top Global K-pop Artist, Top K-pop Album, Top Global K-pop Song, and Top K-pop Touring Artist.
BTS' Jung Kook led the K-pop roster with a total of six nods at the upcoming event. Stray Kids followed suit with four nominations.
Full list of nominations announced for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards:
1. Top Global K-pop Artist:
ENHYPEN, Jungkook (BTS), Jimin (BTS), TOMORROW X TOGETHER, Stray Kids
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2. Top Global K-pop Song:
“Who” by Jimin
“Standing Next to You” by Jungkook
“3D (ft Jack Harlow)” by Jungkook
“Magnetic” by ILLIT
“Perfect Night” by LE SSERAFIM
3. Top K-pop Touring Artists:
SEVENTEEN, ENHYPEN, TOMORROW X TOGETHER
4. Top K-pop Album
“GOLDEN” by Jungkook
“THE WORLD EP.FIN: WILL” by ATEEZ
“The Name Chapter: FREEFALL" by TOMORROW X TOGETHER
“ROCK-STAR” by Stray Kids
“ATE” by Stray Kids
In addition to these, BTS musician Jung Kook’s Standing Next to You is competing against Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things, Shaboozey’s A Bar Song (Tipsy), Post Malone’s I Had Some Help (ft Morgan Wallen) and Teddy Swims’ Lose Control for Top Selling Song.
The BTS singer is also nominated alongside Shaboozey, Taylor Swift, Jelly Roll and Teddy Swims in the Top Song Sales Artist category.
Meanwhile, Stray Kids is contesting against Coldplay, Linkin Park, blink-182 and Fuerza Regida for the Top Duo/Group trophy.
What to expect at this year’s Billboard Music Awards
According to the official announcement: “The BBMAs honours the year’s biggest artists, albums, songs, producers and songwriters across multiple genres, as determined by year-end performance metrics on the Billboard charts, the music industry’s ultimate authority and data-driven measure of success.”
It will be a two-hour special and will be hosted by actress and comedian Michelle Buteau. It will air on December 12.
