BTS J-Hope, V, Jungkook aim for the US ‘iHeartRadio Awards’

The members of the group BTS showed off their continued popularity even while serving in the military.

The agency Hive announced the list of candidates for this year’s awards announced by the ‘iHeartRadio Music Awards’ on the 19th. J-Hope, V, and Jungkook won ‘Best Music Video’, ‘Favorite On Screen’, ‘Favorite Debut Album’, and ‘K-Pop Artist of the Year’. (Kpop Artist Of The Year)’, ‘Kpop Song Of The Year’, etc.

The ‘iHeartRadio Music Awards’ is an American online radio broadcaster. This is a music awards ceremony hosted by iHeartRadio since 2014, and awards are given to the artists and songs most played on iHeartRadio stations and applications during the year. This year’s awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles, USA on April 1.

J-Hope was nominated for the ‘Favorite On Screen’ award for Hive’s original documentary ‘j-hope IN THE BOX’, which covers the album production process and various activities of his first official solo album ‘Jack In The Box’. In this year’s ‘Favorite on Screen’ category, prominent works such as Beyonce’s world tour documentary film ‘Renaissance: A FILM by Beyoncé’ and Taylor Swift’s live performance film ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ are competing.< a i=1>V and Jungkook were nominated for ‘Favorite Debut Album’ for their first solo albums ‘Layover’ and ‘GOLDEN’, respectively. ‘Layover’ and ‘GOLDEN’ entered the Billboard main album chart ‘Billboard 200′ side by side in second place. This is the same score as the highest score for a K-pop solo singer set by Jimin ‘FACE’ and Suga ‘D-DAY’. In particular, ‘GOLDEN’ charted on the ‘Billboard 200′ for 10 consecutive weeks, making it the album that stayed on this chart the longest among K-pop solo singer albums.

Jungkook was nominated for awards in a total of four categories, including ‘Best Music Video’, ‘K-Pop Artist of the Year’, and ‘K-Pop Song of the Year’, setting a new record for the most nominations by a K-Pop solo singer. In the ‘Best Music Video’ category, Jungkook’s solo singles ‘Seven (feat. Latto)’ and ‘3D (feat. Jack Harlow)’ were nominated for the award. Jungkook, who was the only one nominated for more than two songs in this category this year, topped Billboard’s main song chart ‘Hot 100’, including Doja Cat’s ‘Paint The Town Red’ and Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Vampire’. It competes with the songs that won.

At this year’s ‘iHeartRadio Music Awards’, a new K-pop category was established, demonstrating the heightened status of K-pop around the world. Jungkook was the only solo singer nominated for ‘K-Pop Artist of the Year’, and ‘Seven’ was nominated for ‘K-Pop Song of the Year’. ‘Seven’ went straight to No. 1 on Billboard’s ‘Hot 100’ and stayed on the chart for a total of 15 weeks, and is a ‘global mega album’ that has left an amazing record, including achieving 1 billion streams in the world’s shortest period of time (108 days) based on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform. It’s a hit song.

Meanwhile, BTS showed off their continued popularity as a group by being nominated in the ‘Best Fan Army’ category. They have been nominated in this category for 7 consecutive years from 2018 to this year. Attention is being paid to whether BTS, which won the award all six times in the past, will become the winner of ‘Best Fan Army’ this year as well.

Online Reporter Lee Yu-min dldbals5252@kyunghyang.com