U.S. iHeart Radio Music Awards establishes new K-pop category… BTS, ATEEZ, New Jeans candidates

[Herald Economy = Reporter Ko Seung-hee] K-pop groups including BTS members, New Jeans, Ateez, P1 Harmony, and Cykers were named as candidates for the U.S. ‘2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards (iHeartRadio Music Awards 2024)’.

According to this year’s award candidate list announced by the ‘iHeartRadio Music Awards 2024’ on the 18th (local time), BTS J-Hope, V, and Jungkook won ‘Best Music Video’., was named in ‘Favorite On Screen’ and ‘Favorite Debut Album’.

J-Hope’s first official solo album, ‘Jack In The Box’ He was nominated for the ‘On Screen’ award. In the ‘Favorite on Screen’ category this year, Beyoncé’s world tour documentary film ‘Renaissance: A FILM by Beyoncé’ and Taylor Swift’s live performance film ‘Taylor Swift: The Era Tour’ Eras Tour)’ and other prominent works are competing.

V and Jungkook were nominated for ‘Favorite Debut Album’ for their first solo albums ‘Layover’ and ‘GOLDEN’, respectively.

In particular, 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 is the only one to have more than two songs nominated in this category this year, has won a Billboard nod for songs such as Doja Cat’s ‘Paint The Town Red’ and Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Vampire’ It competes with songs that ranked first on the main song chart ‘Hot 100′.

BTS’ fandom Army and ATEEZ’s official fandom ‘ATINY’ were nominated in the ‘Best Fan Army’ category. This is the 7th year that BTS has been nominated in this category.

A new K-pop category was created at this year’s ‘iHeartRadio Music Awards’. Seventeen, New Jeans, Jungkook, Ateez, and Cykers were listed in the newly established K-pop category.

The ‘iHeartRadio Music Awards’ is a music awards ceremony hosted by American online radio broadcaster 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.

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