Hosted by The Fact, Apollon Studio, and Fan N Star, the '2024 The Fact Music Awards' (TMA) took place on September 7 and 8, 2024, at Kyocera Dome Osaka. The two-day award celebration honored Korean musicians and K-pop artists for their 2023 and 2024 releases.
Day one of The Fact Music Awards (TMA), which was hosted by Jun Hyun-Moo and Girls' Generation's Seohyun, came to a spectacular finish with TWS and Lim Young-Woong taking home the most prizes.
Meanwhile, SM Entertainment's popular girl group, aespa, won the Grand Prize (Daesang) on the second day of the celebration. HYBE's rookie girl group, NewJeans (under ADOR subsidiary) won multiple awards such as the MUSINSA Popularity Award and the Worldwide Icon Award.
Spectacularly, the 2024 The Fact Music Awards Artist Of The Year (Bonsang) was taken home by three girl groups: NewJeans, aespa, and ITZY.
Winners who bagged the Day-2 trophies at the 2024 The Fact Music Awards
2024 The Fact Music Awards (TMA), widely regarded as one of K-pop's most anticipated award presentations, recognizes the year's top K-pop tracks, albums, and performers.
Day 2 witnessed K-pop groups like TWS, UNIS, hikers, NewJeans, and the PLAVE (South Korean virtual boy band formed by Vlast) bag some of the biggest awards.
Here's the entire list of winners from the 2024 The Fact Music Awards Day 2:
Grand Prize (Daesang) — aespa
Artist Of The Year (Bonsang) — NewJeans, aespa, and ITZY
Next Leader Award — NCT WISH
Global Hot-Trend Award — xikers and KISS OF LIFE
TMA Hottest Award — UNIS
MUSINSA Popularity Award — NewJeans
TMA Popularity Award — JO1
World Best Performers — NewJeans and ITZY
Today’s Choice Award — UNIS
Worldwide Icon — NewJeans
Listener’s Choice Award — aespa for Supernova and Armageddon
2024 The Fact Music Awards Day 1: Complete winners list
On September 7, 2024, the award show kicked off its first night at the Kyocera Dome Osaka in Japan. BTS Kim Taehyung aka V was honored with the Best Music (Spring) Award while South Korean singer, Lim Young-Woong won both the Best Music (Summer) and the Best Music (Winter) awards.
A look back to the entire list of winners from Day 1 of the 2024 The Fact Music Awards Day:
Best Music (Spring) — BTS Kim Taehyung aka V for FRI(END)S
Artist Of The Year (Bonsang) — Kim Jae-Joong, NiziU, TWS
NEXT Leader Award — TWS
Hot-Potential Award — WOOAH and YOUNG POSSE
ANGEL N STAR Award — Lim Young-Woong
Global Generation Award — Kep1er
FOUR STAR Award — Stray Kids
TMA Hottest Award — NEXZ
Global Hot-Trend Award — EVNNE and nSSign
Today’s Choice Award — TWS
Hot Stage of the Year Award — Kim Jae-Joong
Best Music (Summer) — Lim Young-Woong for Home
Best Music (Winter) — Lim Young-Woong for Do or Die
FAN N STAR Choice Award (Solo) — Lim Young-Woong
FAN N STAR Choice Award (Group) — PLAVE
The Fact Music Awards ceremony was established in 2019 to honor and celebrate the key figures in the Korean entertainment (Hallyu) trend. A panel of judges, fan votes, and objective statistics from Gaon are used to choose the winners.