Lack of Enhypen nominations is really disheartening especially for an amazing album like Dark Blood, also Bite Me did incredible and is still doing so not even performance even though they did something different, surprised not even Artist of the Year considering how many people are nominated.
so proud of chaeyeon for the noms 🥹
Newjeans needs to win a daesang be it Artist or Song of the Year.
My thoughts Artist of the Year seems to be down to Seventeen vs NewJeans. The eligibility period puts Seventeenth Heaven out of their resume for this year which could be big. Ditto by NewJeans seems to be a lock now for SOTY FML by Seventeen seems to be a lock for AlOTY 3 BTS solos all up for Best Male Solo. I hope they go at least together because last year j-hope by himself looked so sad. Jihyo and Lee Chaeyeon are up for Best Female Solo 🥲. J. Cole hyung is up for a MAMA lmao People pt 2 ft IU wasn't my main thought of a Yoongi song to be nominated for Best Rap. I would've went with AMYGDALA but I'll take it. IU being in the rap category is based af lmao.
Enhypen you were so robbed this year seriously also… NO BOUNCY NOMINATIONS?????
Some thoughts: So disappointed they seemed to have removed Best Band Performance. Especially last year's ROTY bg is literally a band... Noms for the main categories seem expected. I'm good with these. Would've swapped one of Male Performances for SHINee's HARD. Surprised no Ateez and Enhypen this year considering they're MAMA favs before. As tradition, ROTY kinda alternates with genre on which category is stacked. Last year was a strong gg ROTY group, now it's a hella stacked bg ROTY. I'm still expecting ZB1 to win this even with an SM group like RIIZE but all nominees have been doing very well so anything can happen. This year is the quietest slate for ROTY gg since 2020 maybe when Weeekly won. But it's cool seeing not-as-mainstream names here like Limelight and Kiss of Life. Winner is a toss-up between El7z Up or tripleS. Damn from EXO vs EXO in 2021 to BTS vs BTS this year lmao I was worried Lee Chaeyeon's Knock might get snubbed but I think its digital success helped it get the nom in the end. Inspired choice imo. I feel like Idle and NewJeans(?) might have the advantages in the gg lineup. Will NewJeans finally win a major MAMA award? Or will ADOR's beef with Mnet keep the girls from winning? EXO, SVT, and Dream holding down 3rd gen fort among the 4th gen bgs in Best Male Group, while TWICE is the lone 3rd gen gg for Best Female Group. Goddamn JYP's entire 4th gen slate almost got snubbed from the main categories. No Itzy, XH, nor NMIXX. Only Stray Kids is left. I know there's a thing about gg fandom moving on quickly but it's surreal having the supermassive ROTY gg slate last year (to the point there was a collab stage!) and then half those groups are absolutely shut out already the year after. Wonder what the surprise Favorite awards will be this year lmao
It's repeated every year, but people still get confused so I'll say it again: The criteria for the Genre Category Awards (vocal and dance) is 80% song downloads/streaming (50% Korea + 30% global) + 20% judges. It has nothing to do with who is the best singer or which choreo is better. The award categories are awkwardly worded, but they have always meant most popular song within the dance/vocal genre.
I'm so happy for tripleS!!! They are the frontrunner for ROTY gg. Understandably they look weak numbers-wise compared to 2022 roty candidates but they have so much potential! I really hope this exposure allows more people discover them and their great music.
The whole point of MAMA is to entice the groups into performing on Mnet. Since FiFi can't perform until the court case is resolved, Mnet were never going to allow them to participate.
I wonder if Fifty Fifty didn't get nominated for roty because mnet decided to exclude them or attrakt didn't approve of it (not sure how this works). The judges probably wouldn't have voted for them anyway but it's pretty sad to see them being completely ignored nevertheless