Do you think BLACKPINK was neglected at the 2020 APAN Music Awards?
Before starting, let’s take a look at what are APAN Star Awards? This is a TV festival held in the wide area city of Daejeon , South Korea. Its first award ceremony is called "K-Drama Star Awards". It has been renamed "APAN Star Awards" since the second. It is an annual award ceremony held by Daejeon Cultural Industry Organization and awarded to Korean TV series . The first one was held in 2012.
And the 2020 APAN Music Awards are released. Some people are happy and some are worried. There is no way. There are only a few awards, and it is impossible to get them all. Many people are destined to be lost, but there are also indignant people. Among them, there are BLACKPINK fans who are resentful about this. Why? Because BLACKPINK did not win the award this time.
It can be said that this has unexpectedly gone to many people. After all, as a trendy girl group, it is one of the best in the world, but it cannot win such an award in South Korea. How strange it is, no wonder fans are quite dissatisfied with it.
BLACKPINK's Lost
On November 26, the results of the 2020 APAN Music Awards were finally released. They announced the winners of the Top Ten Artist Awards, and BLACKPINK failed to be shortlisted. Such a thing makes BLINKs feel a little uneasy. As a well-known group in the world, it is reasonable to not even win a small award?
2020 The APAN Music Award was originally scheduled to be held at the Grand Peace Palace of Kyung Hee University on November 28, but the award ceremony was postponed due to the recent re-popularity of COVID-19.
This time the winners were selected based on physical album sales, digital rankings, popularity voting and judges' scores. The awards ceremony praised them (winners) as “the greatest singer to make K-pop shine in 2020.”
is arranged in alphabetical order of Korean characters. The top 10 artists are Kang Daniel, the Boyz, MONSTA X, BTS, SEVENTEEN, IZ*ONE, Im Young Woong, GOT7, NCT 127, and TWICE.
It is worth noting that this year's most popular girl group BLACKPINK was not on the list, and they returned this year with their highly anticipated first full album "the album", but the result was very surprising.
BLACKPINK's album pre-sales exceed 1 million copies, making it the only group among Korean pop girl groups. They sold more than 590,000 albums on the first day of their release, setting a record for the same period.
And digitally speaking, BLACKPINK's "Lovesick Girls" is still ranked in the top five on MelOn Charts nearly two months after its release. In addition, "Lovesick Girls" continues to dominate other digital music rankings in South Korea.
In addition, BLACKPINK ranks first in the musician rankings of well-known media and analysis company Bloomberg and was rated as "the world's largest pop band" by Bloomberg.
Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw: "In addition to the boy group BTS, BLACKPINK's popularity has reached an unprecedented level in music history."
Their popularity can also be seen from the number of clicks on their music videos on YouTube, all of which have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. "DDU-DU" alone has more than 1.4 billion views.
Considering the millions of albums they sold, as well as their high rankings so far and well-recognized popularity, BLINKs quickly questioned the decision to exclude them from the 2020 APAN Music Awards.
They claimed the girl’s award was stolen and said it was a “manipulated award show”
The situation of excluding BLACKPINK in the top 10 was not satisfactory. On November 27, “APAN RIGGED AWARD SHOW” and “#ApanRobbedBLACKPINK” became popular topics on Twitter.
fans point out that BLACKPINK is far ahead in albums and digital music sales and various recognitions.And posted their opinions on Twitter !
"I don't know how they will continue to destroy BP (BLACKPINK) because everyone knows the huge impact they have. APAN RIGGED AWARD SHOW (APAN manipulated the award show)"
"I can't believe they can't see what BLACKPINK did this year. The whole world has witnessed it, except for the award ceremony held in their own country. Our girls deserve better! It's a rigged award ceremony"
"For the APAN Music Awards, we need an explanation, we want transparency and justice. Give @blackpink the rewards that deserve! APAN manipulated the award ceremony."
" APAN's statement clearly states that their standards are physical sales and digital sales and judgment scores. Now, BLACKPINK is the only K-pop girl group that has achieved millions of sales online and physically, why don't they include blackpink now? "
The APAN Music Awards ceremony is hosted by the Korean Entertainment Management Association (KEMA). Now fans are waiting for KEMA's view on this issue.
Summary
Actually, I can’t figure it out. It’s such a well-known group in the world, but I can’t even win a small award in Korea. Don’t say that fans don’t believe this result, even bystanders are a little unbelievable. I don’t know how the reference data for this award is obtained. BLACKPINK’s sales are there. Can’t they see it?
Of course, for the melon-eating crowd, such things are no longer surprising. Such things have happened in South Korea many times. There is really no need to guess too much about their behavior. We just need to wait quietly for the results.
So do you think that the APAN Music Award should be awarded to BLACKPINK? Welcome to leave a message to discuss
