Pada tanggal 22 Februari, Gaon menyelenggarakan acara penghargaan pertama mereka ‘Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards‘ di Blue Square Hannam-dong, Seoul. Gaon adalah Chart nasional Korea Selatan dan dimaksudkan untuk menjadi setara dengan Oricon di Jepang dan Billboard di Amerika Serikat.
Penghargaan tersebut bukan hanya untuk penyanyi dan idola, tetapi juga seseorang yang membantu membuat keberhasilan mereka , seperti penulis lagu, produser, penata, koreografer.
Tahun ini, acara dibawakan oleh MC SNSD Taeyeon dan komposer JooHoon Young, dengan penampilan oleh B2ST, IU, Super Junior, dan banyak lagi.
Berikut daftar para pemenang :
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→ Rookie Artists:
- Male [Solo]: Huh Gak
- Female [Solo]: Kim Bo Kyung
- Male [Group]: B1A4
- Female [Group]: A Pink
→ Newly Discovered/Rising Artist Awards:
- Girl’s Day
- The Koxx
→ Singers of the Year Award:
- SECRET [January]
- IU [February]
- K.Will [March]
- Big Bang [April]
- 2NE1 [May]
- SECRET [June]
- T-ara [July]
- Leessang [August]
- Davichi [September]
- Lee Seung Gi [October]
- Wonder Girls [November]
- IU [December]
→ Album of The Year Awards:
- TVXQ, ‘Keep Your Head Down’ [1st Quarter]
- B2ST, ‘Fiction and Fact’ [2nd Quarter]
- Super Junior, ‘Mr. Simple’ [3rd Quarter]
- Girls’ Generation, ‘The Boys’ [4th Quarter]
→ Oricon Special Award:
- Girls’ Generation
→ Lyricist of the Year Award:
- Kim Eana (Brown Eyed Girls’ “Sixth Sense”, IU’s “You and I”, and more)
→ Style Awards:
- Prepix [Choreography] (B2ST’s “Fiction”, Jay Park’s “Know Your Name”)
- 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
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Source : Allkpop
