2024 Billboard Music Awards Announces Finalists + 8 K-Pop Artists Nominated

The 2024 Billboard Music Awards has officially announced this year’s nominees!

On November 25 local time, the Billboard Music Awards revealed its finalists for the upcoming award ceremony, including the nominees for the four new K-pop categories that were added last year.

The Billboard Music Awards determines its winners by performance metrics on the year-end Billboard charts, and the tracking period for this year’s awards ran from October 28, 2023 through October 19, 2024.

Here are the nominees for the four new K-pop awards:

Top Global K-Pop Artist

• ENHYPEN
• Jimin
• Jungkook
• Stray Kids
• TXT

Top K-Pop Album

• ATEEZ – “THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL”
• Jungkook – “GOLDEN”
• Stray Kids – “ROCK-STAR”
• Stray Kids – “ATE”
• TXT – “The Name Chapter: FREEFALL”

Top Global K-Pop Song

• ILLIT – “Magnetic”
• Jimin – “Who”
• Jungkook – “Standing Next to You”
• Jungkook – “3D (feat. Jack Harlow)”
• LE SSERAFIM – “Perfect Night”

Top K-Pop Touring Artist

• ENHYPEN
• SEVENTEEN
• TXT

In addition to the K-pop specific categories, K-pop artists and songs were further nominated in additional categories such as Jungkook’s “Standing Next to You” for Top Selling Song. “Standing Next to You” is nominated alongside Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things,” Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen),” Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” and Teddy Swims’s “Lose Control.”

In the Top Song Sales Artist, Jungkook is a finalist alongside Jelly Roll, Shaboozey, Taylor Swift, and Teddy Swims.

Furthermore, Stray Kids is in the running for Top Duo/Group alongside blink-182, Coldplay, Fuerza Regida, and Linkin Park.

This year’s Billboard Music Awards will take air on December 12 at 8 p.m. ET. Stay tuned for more updates! Check out the full list of finalists here!

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