[NEWS] INFINITE, IU & Verbal Jint are netizens’ choice for ’2012 KMA’!

Although the ‘2012 KMA (Korean Music Awards)‘ will be happening one week from today, the results for the Netizens’ Choice awards were released ahead of time.

The awards ceremony will be held on February 29th, recognizing various artists in a variety of categories, a few of which will be determined by netizens’ votes.

Netizens were able to vote for their favorite female and male artist, as well as their favorite group from January 18th through February 17th.

Verbal Jint clinched the #1 spot as the netizens’ choice of male artist with 1,193 votes out of the 5,228 votes cast. Meanwhile, IU was chosen as the top female artist with 2,986 votes out of the 4,527!

As for the netizens’ favorite group, a fierce battle royale between many of the industry’s top stars fought for the title, but in the end, ‘trend idols’ INFINITE came out on top with 9,311 votes out of the 24,424 cast!

For the full list of artists nominated, check out KMA’s page.

Stay tuned for the ceremony on February 29th, and find out who else will be crowned winners!

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Source + Photo: KMA homepage, Newsen

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p/s : OMO, INSPIRIT are very proud of our lovely oppa >< chukahaeyong <3 INFINITE fighting!!! ^^

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[VIDEOS] INFINITE Win 2 Categories On So love Awards!

INFINITE won 2 awards with Be Mine on So Love Awards,the boys recorded video messages to thank their European's fans for supporting them,check out their shoutout below!







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[VIDEO] INFINITE Wins Best Song On So-Loved Awards 2011!

INFINITE had a successful year for winning so many awards. Latest would be the award for Best Song in So-Loved Awards 2011 .





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[Tutorial] How to vote INFINITE in Golden Disk Awards?

As mentioned in this article, INFINITE is nominated in 26th Golden Disk Awards for Album Award and  Most Popular Artist Award category. As fans, we should help them! One of the ways to choose the winners for those awards are by popularity vote. Although this voting could not 100% help them to win, but as fans we should show our loves for the boys by this. How to vote? Let's follow this tutorial, Inspirits.

How to vote: (Tutorial by The Infinite 7)

1. Go to this page: http://kpopwave.joinsmsn.com/

2. Find & click this word –> 회원가입 <– on this upper right hand corner.

3. Another box should pop up, click 일반회원 가입하기 to register an account.

4. (enter your information in this order) 아이디 = ID | 이메일 = Email | 비밀번호 = Password | 비밀번호 확인 = Confirm Password

*Please use a REAL EMAIL as you will need to log into your email to confirm. 

5. Check the box next to K-POP Wave and then click 가입하기.

*You need to check you email, you should get a message titled kpopwave. 

6. You will receive this message:  (your username)님, 안녕하세요 아래 링크를 클릭하면 K-POP Wave 계정을 승인하게 됩니다. [확인] 승인하시면 K-POP Wave의 모든 기능을 사용할 수 있으며, 이메일 주소가 계정에 정식 등록됩니다.

—Click on what I highlighted RED—

7. Then, go to this page:http://goldendisk.kpopwave.joinsmsn.com/goldendisk_vote/star/index.html

8. Log in [ID & password] by clicking this  — 로그인 — on the upper right hand corner (next to the word in Step 2).

9. Find INFINITE !

10. Click 투표

11. This word should pop up — 투표하였습니다 —- after you voted.

You can vote once a day! If you try to vote again with the same account on the same day, this word will appear –이미 투표하였습니다 –

This tutorial is taken from The Infinite 7. Full credit goes to them ^^ 

Let's vote for them, Inspirits!

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[NEWS] Teen Top win Best Male Rookie Award at ’18th Republic of Korea Entertainment Arts Awards’

On November 19th, the ‘18th Republic of Korea Entertainment Arts Awards‘ ceremony was held at the Goyan Aram Nuri Arts Center where Teen Top won the Best Male Rookie Award!

Regarding their win, Teen Top uploaded the above photo and tweeted, “Yahoo! we won the rookie award!! We are so happy!! We will try even harder and harder from now on!”

Netizens congratulated the boys with, “Wow that’s awesome! I feel like I won the award too! I can’t wait for your Japanese concert!“, “Congratulations! Next up are the daesangs and bonsangs, fighting!!!“, and “Congratulations~~I’ll pray that you get a bigger award next time“.

In related news, the ceremony hosted a total of 87 artists and included numerous top idols.

Check out fancams of their win below!

Source + Photos: allkpop + Nate (1) (2) + Teen Top Twitter

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[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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INFINITE is nominated, and this is a great information for us to know :)

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