Chart musik Korea, Gaon untuk pertama kalinya menggelar ajang penghargaan Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards, bertempat di Blue Square Hall, di Seoul,
Gaon sendiri adalah chart nasional di Korea Selatan, dan bertujuan untuk bisa setara dengan Oricon Chart Jepang serta Billboard di Amerika.
Ajang penghargaan ini tidak hanya memberi penghargaan bagi para idola, namun juga stylists, koreografer, produser, komposer dan profesional lain yang bergerak di bidang musik.
Sementara untuk penyelenggaraan perdana ini, Taeyeon SNSD dan komposer Joo Young Hoon dipilih sebagai host, dan dihadiri bintang-bintang macam IU, Super Junior, B2ST dan masih banyak lagi. Yuk simak para pemenangnya:
- Rookie Artists:
[Solo]
– Male: Huh Gak
– Female: Kim Bo Kyung
[Group]
– Male: B1A4
– Female: A Pink - Newly Discovered/Rising Artist Awards:
– Noel
– Girl’s Day
– The Koxx - Singers of the Year Award:
– SECRET [Januari]
– IU [February]
– K.Will [Maret]
– Big Bang [April]
– 2NE1 [Mei]
– SECRET [Juni]
– T-ara [Juli]
– Leessang [Agustus]
– Davichi [September]
– Lee Seung Gi [Oktober]
– Wonder Girls [November]
– IU [Desember] - Album of The Year Awards:
– TVXQ, Keep Your Head Down [Quarter 1]
– B2ST, Fiction and Fact [Quarter 2]
– Super Junior, Mr. Simple [Quarter 3]
– SNSD, The Boys [Quarter 4] - Oricon Special Award:
– Girls’ Generation - Lyricist of the Year Award:
– Kim Eana (Sixth Sense Brown Eyed Girls, You and I IU) - Style Awards:
– Prepix [Choreography] (Fiction B2ST, Know Your Name Jay Park)
– Seo Soo Kyung [Stylist] - Technical Award:
– Ko Seung Wook - Producer of the Year Award:
– Kim Kwang Soo [Core Contents Media] - K-Pop Contribution Award:
– Lee Soo Man [SM Entertainment] - Foreign Music Award:
– Maroon 5 - New Media Platform Award:
– YouTube
– Daum
