BTS wins top honours at Mnet Asia Music Awards 2021

BTS proved its dominance in the music world once again as the band scooped nine awards at the Mnet Asia Music Awards (MAMA), the annual celebration of K-pop, held on Saturday, December 11.

BTS swept all four grand prizes for the third year in a row: Song of the Year (Butter), Album of the Year (BE), Artist of the Year, and Worldwide Icon of the Year. In total, BTS walked away with nine trophies at 2021 MAMA. The band members were not in attendance at the glitzy ceremony. The theme of this year’s award ceremony was ‘Make Some Noise’.

Mnet Asia Music Awards was hosted by Lee Hyori. This was the first time that a female artist has hosted the annual awards show. The event took place at the new CJ Studio Center at the city of Paju, an hour away from Seoul.

Though the BTS crew were in quarantine, the boys did not miss the opportunity to thank their ARMY of die-hard fans. They dedicated awards to them in their acceptance speeches.

Here are the names of the remaining winners:

KTO (Korean Tourism Organization) Breakout Artist: Brave Girls

Best Band Performance: JANNABI ('A thought on an autumn night')

Best Hip Hop & Urban Music: ASH ISLAND ('Melody')

Best OST: Jo Jung Suk ('I Like You' from 'Hospital Playlist 2')

TikTok Favorite Moment: BTS

Choreographer of the Year: Leejung Lee

Best Engineer of the Year: Gu Jong Pil, Kwon Nam Woo

Best Video Director of the Year: Lumpens

Best Art Director of the Year: MU:E

Best Composer of the Year: Yoo Young Jin

Best Producer of the Year: Teddy

Best Executive Producer of the Year: Bang Si Hyuk

Best New Asian Artist (Vietnam): Hoang Duyen

Best New Asian Artist (Indonesia): Lyodra

Best New Asian Artist (Thailand): SPRITE X GUYGEEGEE

Best New Asian Artist (Mandarin): Anson Lo

Best New Asian Artist (Japan): Ado

Best Asian Artist (Vietnam): Quan A.P.

Best Asian Artist (Indonesia): Anneth

Best Asian Artist (Thailand): Tilly Birds

Best Asian Artist (Mandarin): ACCUSEFIVE

Best Asian Artist (Japan): JO1

Favorite Asian Artist: INI

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