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[스포츠서울 | 정하은기자] Who will be the artist who will receive the rookie of the year honor like a gateway to a star?
The ’31st High1 Seoul Music Awards’ awards ceremony (hosted by Sports Seoul, organized by the Seoul Music Awards Organizing Committee) will be held at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 23rd. The musicians who received a lot of love from fans throughout the year through the High1 Seoul Music Awards gather in one place and compete fiercely for the main award, the newcomer award, and the special award for each genre. As the awards ceremony is two days away, attention is also focused on the protagonist of the Rookie of the Year award, the gateway to stars.
The Rookie of the Year award given to newcomers who have just taken their first steps into the music industry has a special meaning. In the meantime, the numerous recipients of the once-in-a-lifetime Rookie of the Year award through the Seoul Music Awards have grown into stars representing the music industry, and many stars have won the grand prize. Representatively, BTS, which debuted in 2013 and won the Rookie of the Year award at the 23rd Seoul Music Awards, won the grand prize for four consecutive years until last year, standing tall as the best group representing the Korean music industry.
As such, by looking at the winners of the Rookie of the Year award at the High1 Seoul Music Awards, you can predict the trend of the Korean music industry over the past 30 years and the future of the music industry. At the Seoul Music Awards, a total of 82 teams were honored with the Rookie of the Year award, starting with the first late Shin Hae-cheol in 1990, followed by the 30th Treasure, N-Hyphen, and Espa.
In the early 1990s, male soloists such as Hae-Chul Shin and Min-Woo Kim in Episode 1, Seung-Hoon Shin and Mind and Body in Episode 2, Deok-Jin Lee in Episode 3, Bon-Seung Koo in Episode 5, and Jin-Woo Seong in Episode 6 were strong. From the late 1990s to the mid-2000s, there were male solos such as Jo Seong-mo, Seong Si-kyung, Wheesung, Bi, and Seven, as well as female solos such as Onion, Kim Hyun-jung, Lee Jung-hyun, and Park Hwa-yobi, as well as various groups such as NRG, Brown Eyes, Big Mama, Koyote, Shop, and Plum. loved together From the mid-2000s, idol groups such as boy groups boasting record sales based on a clearly strong fandom and girl groups loved on music charts based on their popularity took the lead in the Rookie of the Year award.
In 2021, idol groups were also prominent in the music industry. This year too, prominent idol stars who have grown from K-pop prospects over the past year were nominated for the Seoul Music Awards Rookie of the Year Award. From boy groups such as OMEGA X, EPEX, Mirae Boy, and T1419, to girl groups such as Purple Kiss, Light Some, Tribee, IVE, and solo artists Moojin Lee, Yuri Jo, and Eunbi Kwon. It is attracting attention as to who will be the gateway to the Seoul Music Awards and who will receive the glory of the Rookie of the Year award, such as the gateway to stars.
Meanwhile, the 31st Seoul Music Awards will be hosted by Kim Seong-joo, Boom, and Seolhyun at Gocheok Sky Dome on Sunday, the 23rd, and will be broadcast live online and mobile exclusively in Korea through the ‘U+Idol Live app, U+Idol Live app in IPTV, and U+Mobile TV’. do. The TV channel is broadcast live through ‘KBS Joy’. The red carpet starts at 4 pm and the main broadcast at 6 pm.
Reporter Haeun Jeong jayee212@sportsseoul.com
photo | Sports Seoul DB
