39th Golden Disc Awards

The 39th Golden Disc Awards (Korean: 제39회 골든디스크어워즈; RR: 39th Goldeun diseuk eueowojeu) is an award ceremony held on January 4–5, 2025, at the Mizuho PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, Japan. It honored the best in South Korean music released between early-November 2023 and early-November 2024. The event was hosted by Sung Si-kyung, Cha Eun-woo, and Moon Ga-young.^[1]

39th Golden Disc Awards
Title card
Date	January 4–5, 2025 (Ceremony) January 6–7, 2025 (Broadcast)
Location	Mizuho PayPay Dome, Fukuoka, Japan
Country	South Korea
Hosted by	Sung Si-kyung Cha Eun-woo Moon Ga-young
Most awards	Aespa Enhypen Ive (3)
Television/radio coverage
Network	JTBC
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In the aftermath of the crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216, the live broadcast of the ceremony was postponed.^[2] The in-person ceremony proceeded as scheduled and will be recorded for broadcast on January 6–7, 2025, while the red carpet photo event has been canceled entirely.^[3]

Criteria

Category	Online voting	Panelist[A]	Sales
Digital Daesang (Song of the Year)	N/A	40%	60%
Disc Daesang (Album of the Year)
Digital Song Bonsang
Album Bonsang
Rookie Artist of the Year[B]
Most Popular Artist	100%	N/A
Data Sources: Circle Chart (Digital chart, Album chart); FandomChart, Mubeat, and My1P1ck (Voting Data)

Performers

The first line-up of performers were announced on December 3.^[5] The second line-up were announced on December 9.^[6]

Day 1 (January 4)

Performances for Day 1

Artist(s)	Song(s) Performed
Kiss of Life	"Intro" "Sticky" (Corpse Bride version)
Close Your Eyes	"Time After Time"
Illit	"Intro" "Cherish (My Love)" (Moonlight remix) "Magnetic"
TWS	"Last Festival" "If I'm S, Can You Be My N?" "Plot Twist"
NewJeans	"Intro" "Supernatural" (Attention mix) "How Sweet"
Bibi	"Bam Yang Gang" "Sugar Rush"
Crush	"Love You with All My Heart" "Rush Hour"
Le Sserafim	"Intro" "Pierrot" "Crazy" (EBM remix)
Aespa	"Intro" "Set the Tone" "Supernova"
(G)I-dle	"Intro" "Super Lady" "Fate
Day6	"Monster" "Happy" "Welcome to the Show"

Day 2 (January 5)

Performances for Day 2

Artist(s)	Song(s) Performed
NCT Wish	"Wish" "Steady"
Izna	"Intro" "Izna"
Nowadays	"OoWee"
Zerobaseone	"Intro" "Good So Bad" "Feel the Pop"
Yuqi	"Intro" "Freak" "Radio (Dum Dum)"
Ive	"Intro" "Heya" "All Night" (Rock version)
Enhypen	"Intro" "XO (Only If You Say Yes)" "No Doubt" "Moonstruck"
GFriend	"Intro" "Rough" "Time for the Moon Night" "Season of Memories"
Tomorrow X Together	"Intro" "Over the Moon" "I’ll See You There Tomorrow"
Seventeen	"Water" (Hip-hop unit only) "Rain" (Performance unit only) "Cheers to Youth" (Vocal unit only) "Love, Money, Fame" "Very Nice"

Presenters

The line-up of presenters were announced on December 6.^[7]

Day 1 (January 4)

• Park Eun-bin – presented Digital Song of the Year (Daesang)

Day 2 (January 5)

• Dae-ho Lee – presented Global K-pop Artist
• Dae-ho Lee and Park Bo-gum – presented Album of the Year (Daesang)

Winners and nominees

Winners and nominees are listed in alphabetical order. Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Main awards

Nominations for Digital Song Bonsang, Album Bonsang, and Rookie of the Year were announced on December 2, 2024.^{[12][13][14][15]}

Digital Daesang (Song of the Year)	Album Daesang (Album of the Year)
Aespa – "Supernova" (G)I-dle – "Fate" Bibi – "Bam Yang Gang" Day6 – "Welcome to the Show" Illit – "Magnetic" IU – "Love Wins All" Ive – "Heya" NewJeans – "How Sweet" Taeyeon – "To. X" TWS – "Plot Twist"	Seventeen – Spill the Feels (G)I-dle – 2 Aespa – Armageddon Ateez – The World EP.Fin: Will Enhypen – Romance: Untold Ive – Ive Switch NCT Dream – Dream()scape Stray Kids – Ate Tomorrow X Together – The Star Chapter: Sanctuary Zerobaseone – You Had Me at Hello
Digital Song Bonsang	Album Bonsang
(G)I-dle – "Fate" Aespa – "Supernova" Bibi – "Bam Yang Gang" Day6 – "Welcome to the Show" Illit – "Magnetic" IU – "Love Wins All" Ive – "Heya" NewJeans – "How Sweet" Taeyeon – "To. X" TWS – "Plot Twist" Babymonster – "Sheesh" Kiss of Life – "Sticky" Le Sserafim – "Easy" Lee Mu-jin – "Episode" Lee Young-ji – "Small Girl" (feat. D.O.) Lim Jae-hyun – "Rhapsody of Sadness" QWER – "T.B.H" Riize – "Love 119" Viviz – "Maniac" Zico – "Spot!" (feat. Jennie)	(G)I-dle – 2 Aespa – Armageddon Ateez – The World EP.Fin: Will Enhypen – Romance: Untold Ive – Ive Switch NCT Dream – Dream()scape Seventeen – Spill the Feels Stray Kids – Ate Tomorrow X Together – The Star Chapter: Sanctuary Zerobaseone – You Had Me at Hello Babymonster – Drip Baekhyun – Hello, World BoyNextDoor – 19.99 NCT 127 – Walk NCT Wish – Steady Nmixx – Fe3O4: Break Plave – Asterum: 134-1 Riize – Riizing Twice – With You-th Yuqi – Yuq1
Rookie Artist of the Year
BabyMonster Illit NCT Wish TWS All(H)Ours Ampers&One Nexz Nowadays One Pact Unis

Popularity awards

The categories for the popularity awards were announced on December 5, and voting began on the same day, running until December 30. Voting is being conducted through three apps: FandomChart, Mubeat, and My1P1ck.^[16]

Most Popular Artist – Female	Most Popular Artist – Male
Le Sserafim (G)I-dle Aespa Babymonster Bibi Illit IU Ive Kiss of Life NewJeans Nmixx Lee Young-ji QWER Taeyeon Twice Unis Yuqi Viviz	Plave All(H)Ours Ampers&One Ateez Baekhyun BoyNextDoor Day6 Enhypen Lee Mu-jin Lim Jae-hyun NCT 127 NCT Dream NCT Wish Nexz Nowadays One Pact Riize Seventeen Stray Kids Tomorrow X Together TWS Zerobaseone Zico

Special awards

List of winners for the special awards

Best Band	Best Group
Day6	Le Sserafim
Best OST	Best Producer
Crush – "Love You with All My Heart" (from Queen of Tears)	Han Sung-soo (Pledis Entertainment)
Best Solo	Cosmopolitan Artist of the Year
Yuqi	NewJeans
Fans' Choice with Nongshim Shin Ramyun	Global K-pop Artist
Enhypen	Enhypen Ive
Golden Honorable Choice	Next Generation
Shin Hae-chul (posthumous award)	Kiss of Life

Multiple awards

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

Count	Artist(s)
3	Aespa
	Enhypen
	Ive
2	(G)I-dle
	Day6
	Illit
	Le Sserafim
	NewJeans
	Seventeen
	TWS

Notes

1. Panelist consisted of professionals such as industry officials, K-pop reporters, music program producers, pop culture critics, major distribution officials, and Golden Disc Awards evaluation committee.^[4]
2. Applies to all digital singles, extended plays/single albums with 6 or less songs, and studio albums.