For those of you who have seen the 2024 MAMA Awards nominations, you may have noticed a major snub in the nominees for Song Of The Year: Perfect Night by LE SSERAFIM.
Perfect Night was released in late October last year, so it is within this year’s awards eligibility range. The song reached a peak of no. 1 on the Circle Digital Chart and was there for 6 weeks, plus it topped other countries’ charts and is LE SSERAFIM’s highest charting single on the Billboard Global 200. Perfect Night was a commercial success in Korea and was expected to be a frontrunner in the fight for SOTY in this year’s award shows.
Yet it is nowhere to be found in the nominees for Song Of The Year. Why? Because MAMA snubbed Perfect Night on a technicality. A technicality that MAMA could have easily removed or altered, and yet, here we are.
The Soompi article announcing the nominees notes that “Nominees for the song genre categories are automatically nominated” for the SOTY category. This is where the technicality comes into play.
Only two songs per artist are allowed to be nominated for SOTY. Eight different artists have two songs nominated, but no one has more than that.
Since LE SSERAFIM’s Crazy was nominated for Best Choreography and Easy was nominated for Best Dance Performance Female Group, those two songs automatically take up the two allotted spots for SOTY for LSF. Hence why Perfect Night got snubbed.
In the future, it would behoove MAMA to change their eligibility criteria so that snubs like this don’t happen. Why not simply take away the weird rule that songs nominated for other categories are automatically in the running for SOTY? Why is that a rule in the first place? Surely this isn’t the only instance where a deserving song or artist ends up snubbed just because they had other songs nominated for other awards. At best, it shows poor foresight from the award planners at MAMA. At worst, it feels like an undeserved snub. I know that MAMA can never make all fans happy with their rules, but this truly feels like a mistake that I hope they rectify for future award shows.
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