31st Seoul Music Awards

The 31st Seoul Music Awards (Korean: 31st 서울가요대상; RR: 31st Seoul Gayo Daesang) is a award ceremony held on January 23, 2022.^[1][2] It was organized by Sports Seoul and broadcast through KBS Joy, U+Idol Live, U+Mobile TV, and Hello Live. The ceremony was hosted by Kim Sung-joo, Boom, and Kim Seol-hyun.^[3]

31st Seoul Music Awards
Date	January 23, 2022 (2022-01-23)
Venue	Gocheok Sky Dome
Country	South Korea
Hosted by	Kim Sung-joo Boom Kim Seol-hyun
Website	seoulmusicawards.com
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Criteria

All songs and albums that are eligible to be nominated must be released from January to December 2021.^[4]

Category	Online voting	Panelist	Music sales	Album sales
Main Prize (Bonsang)	30%	40%	30%
Rookie of the Year
Popularity Award	100% (Korea Only)	—
K-wave Popularity Award	100% (Overseas Only)
Trot Award	30%	40%	30%
Ballad Award
OST Award
R&B Hiphop Award
Best Performance	—	100%	—
Band Award
Discovery of the Year
Special Judge Award

Winners and nominees

Lim Young-woong won four awards, including the Main Award (Bonsang), Popularity Award, Trot Award, and OST Award.

BTS won three awards, including the Main Award (Bonsang), World Best Artist Award, and U+Idol Live Best Artist Award.

NCT 127 won two awards, including the Grand Prize Award (Daesang), and the Main Award (Bonsang).

Winners and nominees are listed in alphabetical order. Winners will be listed first and emphasized in bold.^[5]

The list of nominees for:

• U+Idol Live Best Artist Award were announced on December 6, 2021, through the Idol Live TV website.^[6]
• remaining categories were announced on December 4, 2021, through the official website.^[7]

The voting for:

• U+ Live Best Artist Award opened on Idol Live TV website on December 6, 2021, and closed on December 26, 2021.^[6]
• remaining categories opened on Seoul Music Awards mobile application on December 6, 2021, and closed on January 16, 2022.^[2]

Main awards

Grand Award (Daesang)	Main Award (Bonsang)
NCT 127 Aespa Ateez Brave Girls BTS Enhypen Heize IU Kang Daniel Lim Young-woong Oh My Girl Seventeen The Boyz	Aespa Ateez Brave Girls BTS Enhypen Heize IU Kang Daniel Lim Young-woong NCT 127 Oh My Girl Seventeen The Boyz List of nominated artists (G)I-dle AB6IX AKMU Astro Baekhyun Big Mama Cravity D.O Davichi Epik High Exo Golden Child Itzy Jang Beom-june Jeon Keon-ho & GyeongseoYeji Jeon Somi Joy Jung Dong-ha Lee Mu-jin Lisa MeloMance Monsta X MSG Wannabe NCT Dream NU'EST ONF Red Velvet Rosé Seventeen Shinee STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior Taeyeon Tomorrow X Together Treasure Twice
Best Song Award	Best Album Award
IU – "Lilac"	NCT Dream – Hot Sauce
Rookie of the Year	Best Performance
Epex Lee Mu-jin Omega X Ive Jo Yu-ri Kwon Eun-bi Lightsum Mirae Purple Kiss T1419 Tri.be	Enhypen STAYC
Popularity Award	K-wave Popularity Award
Lim Young-woong List of nominated artists (G)I-dle AB6IX AKMU Aespa Astro Ateez Baekhyun Big Mama Brave Girls BTS Cravity D.O Davichi Enhypen Epex Epik High Exo Golden Child Heize Itzy IU Ive Jang Beom-june Jeon Keon-ho & GyeongseoYeji Jeon Somi Jo Yu-ri Joy Jung Dong-ha Kang Daniel Kassy Kwon Eun-bi Lee Mu-jin Lightsum Lisa MeloMance Mirae Monsta X MSG Wannabe NCT 127 NCT Dream NU'EST Oh My Girl Omega X ONF Purple Kiss Red Velvet Rosé Seventeen Shinee STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior T1419 Taeyeon The Boyz Tomorrow X Together Treasure Tri.be Twice	Exo List of nominated artists (G)I-dle AB6IX AKMU Aespa Astro Ateez Baekhyun Big Mama Brave Girls BTS Cravity D.O Davichi Enhypen Epex Epik High Golden Child Heize Itzy IU Ive Jang Beom-june Jeon Keon-ho & GyeongseoYeji Jeon Somi Jo Yu-ri Joy Jung Dong-ha Kang Daniel Kassy Kwon Eun-bi Lee Mu-jin Lightsum Lim Young-woong Lisa MeloMance Mirae Monsta X MSG Wannabe NCT 127 NCT Dream NU'EST Oh My Girl Omega X ONF Purple Kiss Red Velvet Rosé Seventeen Shinee STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior T1419 Taeyeon The Boyz Tomorrow X Together Treasure Tri.be Twice

Genre-based awards

Trot Award	Ballad Award
Lim Young-woong Jang Min-ho Jeong Dong-wan Jin Hae-sung Kang Hye-yeon Kim Hee-jae Lee Chan-won MJ Second Aunt Kim Da-vi Yang Ji-eun Young Tak	Wendy 2AM Baek Ye-rin Car the Garden Heize Hwang Chi-yeul Jeon Keon-ho & GyeongseoYeji Jung Dong-ha Lee So-jung MeloMance Paul Kim Sin Ye-young
OST Award	R&B Hiphop Award
Lim Young-woong – "Love Always Run Away" 10cm – "Borrow Your Night" Heize – "On Rainy Days" Huh Gak – "Confession" Jang Beom-june – "I Like You" K.Will – "Back in Time" Lee Hae-ri – "Love is Always Thirsty" Lee Hi – "That One Word" Lee Mu-jin – "Rain and You" Sandeul – "The Image of You (Remains in My Memory)" Yang Yo-seob & Jung Eun-ji – "Love Day" Younha – "Thirty Nights"	Hyuna Ash Island BE'O Bewhy Epik High Giriboy Homies Jessi Jossiq Mommy Son Ovan

Other awards

World Best Artist Award	Special Judge Award
BTS	Jung Dong-ha
Discovery of the Year	U+Idol Live Best Artist Award
Lang Lee	BTS List of nominated artists AB6IX Aespa Apink April Astro Ateez Brave Girls Btob CL Cravity Day6 Dreamcatcher Enhypen Exo Golden Child Got7 Ha Sung-woon Itzy IU Jeong Se-woon Kang Daniel Kim Hee-jae Kim Jae-hwan Kwon Eun-bi Lim Young-woong Loona Lovelyz Mamamoo Monsta X NCT 127 NCT Dream NU'EST Oh My Girl Oneus ONF Park Ji-hoon Red Velvet Seventeen SF9 STAYC Stray Kids Super Junior Taeyeon Treasure The Boyz Tomorrow X Together Twice Victon Weki Meki WJSN

Multiple awards

The following artist(s) received three or more awards:

Awards	Artist(s)
4	Lim Young-woong
3	BTS

Presenters

The list of presenters was announced on January 18, 2022.^[8]

Order of the presentation, name of the artist(s), and award(s) they presented

Order	Artist(s)	Presented
1	Kang Hoon, and Han Ji-hyun	Rookie of the Year
2	Lim Hyung-guk, and Park Seon-joo	Trot Award + Ballad Award + OST Award
3	Park Ji-hyun	Main Award (Bonsang)
4	Kim Ho-young, and Moon Ye-won	Discovery of the Year + Best Performance
5	Chae Jong-hyeop	Main Award (Bonsang)
6	Rozy AI
7	Danny Ahn
8	Kang Baek-ho, Kang A-rang, and Kim Hye-seong	Popularity Award + K-wave Popularity Award + U+Idol Live Best Artist Award
9	Rozy AI	Main Award (Bonsang)
10	High1 Resort's Lee Sam-kul, and Won Jin-ah	Best Song Award + Best Album Award + World Best Artist Award
11	Sports CEO's Lee Jang-hyuk, and Seoul Music Awards chairman's Kim Soo-chul	Grand Award (Daesang)

Performers

Order of the performance, name of the artist(s), and song(s) they performed

Order	Artist(s)	Song performed	Ref.
1	Omega X	"What's goin' on"
2	Lee Mu-jin	"The Assignment Song" + "Traffic Light"
3	Lang Lee	"There is A Wolf"
4	STAYC	"So Bad" (Tak Remix) + "ASAP"
5	Jung Dong-ha	"I Still Love You"
6	Enhypen	"Blessed-Cursed" + "Tamed-Dashed"
7	Hyuna	"I'm Not Cool"
8	Brave Girls	"Fever" (Remix) + "Chi Mat Ba Ram"
9	Kang Daniel	"Antidote" (Acoustic) + "Paranoia"
10	Wendy	"Like Water"
11	Hyuna & Dawn	"Ping Pong"
12	The Boyz	"Russian Roulette" + "Maverick"
13	Oh My Girl's Seunghee and Jiho	"Dear You"
14	Oh My Girl's Mimi, YooA, and Arin	"The Fifth Season"
15	Oh My Girl's Yubin and Hyojung	"Bungee"
16	Oh My Girl	"Dun Dun Dance"
17	Lim Young-woong	"Love Always Run Away"
18	NCT Dream	"Hello Future" + "Hot Sauce"
19	NCT 127	"Favorite (Vampire)" + "Lemonade" + "Sticker"

Broadcast

Region	Network/Platform	Ref.
South Korea	KBS Joy U+Idol Live U+ Mobile TV	[9]
Various	Hello Live	[10]