[NEWS] Nominees for the 26th Annual Golden Disk Awards revealed

The 26th Annual Golden Disk Awards have announced their nominees for this year’s event. There will be 6 categories: grand prize, main album award, new artist award, most popular artist award, rock of the year award, and special award. Amongst the grand prize and main album awards, artists can win for either their physical album statistics or for digital album statistics.

The “Golden Disk Album Award” will be awarded to the most popular artist based on album sales figures from the end of the year and ratings from the judges. The nominees for the “Golden Disk Album Award” are: 2PM (“Hands Up”), 4minute (“4Minutes Left”), Leessang (“AsuRa BalBalTa”), Jay Park (“Take a Deeper Look”), Brown Eyed Girls (“Sixth Sense”), Sung Sikyung (“The First”), Super Junior (“Mr. Simple”), Girls’ Generation (“The Boys”), Wonder Girls (“Wonder World”), After School (“Virgin”), Lee Seunggi (“Tonight”), Jang Kiha and the Faces (“Jang Kiha and the Faces”), BEAST (“Fiction and Fact”), CNBLUE (“First Step”), FT Island (“Return”), f(x) (“Pinocchio (Danger)”), Infinite (“Over the Top”), KARA (“Step”), MBLAQ (“BLAQ Style”) and miss A (“A Class”).

The “Golden Disk Digital Album Award” will be presented to the most popular artist based on downloads and mobile ringtone sales. The nominees for the “Golden Disk Digital Album Award” are: 2NE1 (“Lonely”), 2PM (“Hands Up”), 4Men (“To Live at Least Once”), 4minute (“Mirror Mirror”), Park Bom (“Don’t Cry”), Girls’ Generation (“The Boys”), IU (“The Story Only I Didn’t Know”), Wonder Girls (“Be My Baby”), Lee Seunggi (“Love Time”), Wheesung (“Heartsore Story”), BEAST (“On Rainy Days”), CNBLUE (“Intuition”), FT Island (“Hello Hello”), f(x) (“Pinocchio (Danger)”), G.NA (“Black & White”), K.Will (“My Heart is Beating”), MBLAQ (“Mona Lisa”), miss A (“Good Bye Baby”), Secret (“Starlight Moonlight”) and SISTAR (“How Dare You”).

The “Most Popular Artist Award” will be awarded to the artist and song that was most popular based on popularity votes from the public and ratings from judges. Polling for this award is scheduled to open on November 28th. Nominees for this category include: 2NE1 (“Lonely”), 2PM (“Hands Up”), 4Men (“To Live at Least Once”), 4minute (“Mirror Mirror”), Leessang (“The Answer to Me is You”), Park Bom (“Don’t Cry”), Brown Eyed Girls (“Sixth Sense”), Sung Sikyung (“I Like It”), Super Junior (“Mr. Simple”), Girls’ Generation (“The Boys”), IU (“The Story Only I Didn’t Know”), Wonder Girls (“Be My Baby”), After School (“Virgin”), Lee Seunggi (“Love Time”), Jang Kiha and the Faces (“Just Another Relationship”), Wheesung (“Heartsore Story”), BEAST (“Fiction”), CNBLUE (“Intuition”), FT Island (“Hello Hello”), f(x) (“Pinocchio (Danger)”), G.NA (“Black & White”), Infinite (“Be Mine”), KARA (“Step”), K.Will (“My Heart is Beating”), MBLAQ (“Stay”), miss A (“Good Bye Baby”), Secret (“Starlight Moonlight”) and SISTAR (“How Dare You”).

This year, the 26th Annual Golden Disk Awards will be held in Osaka, Japan, making it the first time that the awards ceremony has been held abroad. The festivities will span two nights. January 11th, 2012 will be the ceremony for physical album awards while January 12th, 2012 will be the ceremony for the digital album awards. Tentatively, the artists scheduled to appear on the 11th include Super Junior, KARA, CNBLUE, BEAST, Infinite, f(x), MBLAQ, A Pink, Dal Shabet, B1A4, and Rainbow. The artists scheduled to appear on the 12th include Girls’ Generation, miss A, 4minute, G.NA, SISTAR, Secret, K.Will, CNBLUE, Huh Gak, Boy Friend, FT Island, and Supernova. 

Source: Gold Disk Awards + koreaboo

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