It has come that time of the year where the biggest kpop award show is just around the corner, the MAMA awards. Of course like usual, it has already stirred up controversy regarding the criteria changes, some fandoms being upset their faves did ‘t get nominated, and most notably regarding the best new artist award. Recently mnet decided to combine both the best new female and male artist category into one, which ofc means that between 10 groups only one will be given the rookie of the year award. This caused huge controversy around the kpop space since many found it quiet unfair, and instantly started claiming that allday project was the reason behind this.
Now we all know who allday project is by now, since they are a coed group they wouldn’t had for the criteria for any so due to their mass success mnet most likely decided to combine both. Ofc many were upset, claiming that it was obvious favoritism and that they clearly only did this so they can have a huge benefit over all the other groups(which csn be the case its mnet). While I do find it strange, I want to point out that this isn’t really the first time mnet has done this. Back in 2014 due to akmu’s huge sucess, they decided to combine it aswell yet winner still won best new artist that year. In mnet’s defense, they probably thought that due to allday project massive success they couldn’t just leave them out of the nominations, like it or not they were probably the most successful rookies in charts since 2022. Ofc I have my own thoughts and I don’t know mnet’s true intentions, and I understand why many fandoms are upset by this I am aswell.
Now besides all that, here are the 10 nominees for best new artist: AHOF, Allday Project, Baby don’t cry, Close your eyes, Close your eyes, Cortis, Hearts2hearts, idid, izna, kickflip, and Kiikii. Out of all this groups, who do you think will be the winner? Plus what are your opinions regarding the criteria change for best new artist? Please try to be the least biased you can, I know some of you might not like the nominees(allday project, which same).
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