Kcrush America K-Pop Music Awards 2020: The Winners

Twenty-one categories and 23 days to vote: The winners of Kcrush America’s K-Pop Music Awards 2020 have been decided!

For the fourth year, Kcrush America has allowed our readers to vote for their favorites in each of the available awards categories. For 2020, we included additional categories (Best Online Concert, for example) as well some changes to some categories (Best OST now addresses a drama’s full discography instead of individual songs).

While a bot attack took down voting for a short span, once the issue was fixed, close to 2000 votes rolled in to decide this year’s winners! While these numbers are not MAMA-level voting, it’s exciting all the same.

With so many votes cast, we expected each category to have runaway wins. While there were clear runaway winners in a few categories, namely Best Rock or Band and Male Group of the Year, many categories came down to the wire due to close votes and even ties! Best Vocal Performance, for example, was tied during the entire voting period before ending up with one vote a piece separating first from second and second from third!

We at Kcrush are thankful for our voters from across the globe. In addition to the United States and South Korea, votes from Switzerland, Nigeria, Canada, Australia, Chile, Argentina, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Russia, India, and Brazil also voted en masse. We appreciate the support!

 

Without further ado, here are your winners!

 

Best OST

• Crash Landing on You (WINNER) – 27%
• It’s Okay to Not Be Okay – 21%
• Tale of the Nine-Tailed – 15%
• Do You Like Brahms? – 13%
• Hospital Playlist – 12%
• Forest – 5%
• Record of Youth – 3%
• Itaewon Class – 2%
• Mystic Pop-up Bar – 2%

 

Best Online Concert

• Dreamcatcher Dystopia: Seven Spirits (WINNER) – 58%
• BTS Map of the Soul ON:E – 14%
• Oh My Girl The Lost Memory – 13%
• GFRIEND C:ON – 5%
• Super Junior 15^th Anniversary Special Event – 5%
• Stray Kids Unlock: GO LIVE IN LIFE – 3%
• Pentagon #We_Live – 2%
• KAMP x Momoland – 0%

 

Best Crossover Song

• Chungha with R3HAB: “Dream of You” (WINNER) – 24%
• Jackson Wang: “100 Ways” – 17%
• DAY6: “Zombie (English Version)” – 11%
• Chungha, Christopher: “Bad Boy” – 10%
• Dua Lipa ft. Hwasa: “Physical” – 8%
• Young K (duet with Song Heejin): “Alone in the World” – 6%
• Lady Gaga, BLACKPINK: “Sour Candy” – 6%
• James Lee x Amber Liu: “Alright” – 5%
• BLACKPINK & Selena Gomez: “Ice Cream” – 5%
• Ha:tfelt: “Life Sucks” – 3%
• Max ft. Suga: “Blueberry Eyes” – 2%
• SuperM: “One (Monster & Infinity)” – 1%
• DeVita: “All About You” – 1%
• Kyla Massie: “Watch Me Glow” – 1%

 

Best Collaboration

• IU ft. Suga: “Eight” (WINNER) – 33%
• J.Y Park (Duet with Sunmi): “When We Disco” – 22%
• Younha ft. RM: “Winter Flower” – 15%
• Zico ft. Rain: “Summer Hate” – 11%
• Chungha ft. Changmo: “Play” – 10%
• Jamie ft. Jay Park: “Apollo 11” – 5%
• Hyo ft. Loopy, Soyeon: “Dessert” – 3%
• X Lovers ft. Young K: “Love” – 1%

 

Best Hip-Hop, Rap, R&B, Electronic & Urban

• Jessi: “Nunu Nana” (WINNER) – 30%
• Lim Kim: “Mong” – 21%
• Agust D: “Daechwita” – 10%
• CL: “+H₩A+” – 9%
• Crush ft. Lee Hi: “Tip Toe” – 9%
• Changmo: “Swoosh Flow” – 9%
• BIBI: “Kazino” – 5%
• “BewhY x Son Simba: “Hymn” – 4%
• MiSo: “Blessed” – 2%
• Joohoney: “Smoky” – 1%
• Truedy ft. Arii: “Lonely” – 1%
• DeVita: “Evita” – 0%

 

Best Rock or Band

• DAY6 (WINNER) – 35%
• LUCY – 29%
• South Club – 12%
• N.Flying – 10%
• Dreamcatcher – 6%
• Lacuna – 3%
• Onewe – 2%
• 2Z – 2%
• High Tension – 1%
• LØREN – 0%

 

Best Vocal Performance

• Younha: “Dark Cloud” (WINNER) – 23%
• AKMU: “Happening” – 22%
• Hedy: “You Were Really Not Good” – 21%
• Ailee: “When We Were in Love” – 8%
• Stella Jang: “Villain” – 8%
• KEEMBO: “Thank You Anyway” – 8%
• Noel: “Still Around You” – 6%
• Gavy NJ: “X-Girlfriend” – 2%
• So Hee Song: “Moon Halo” – 2%
• GB9: “Milky Way” – 0%

 

Best Dance Performance – Solo

• Taemin: “Criminal” (WINNER) – 21%
• Chungha: “Stay Tonight” – 20%
• Zico: “Any Song” – 16%
• Jessi: “Nunu Nana” – 13%
• Kai: “Mmmh” – 9%
• Lee Suhyun: “Alien” – 9%
• Kang Daniel: “Who U Are” – 5%
• Nada: “My Body” – 4%
• Soyou: “Gotta Go” – 2%
• BiPa: “I Don’t Care” – 1%

 

Best Dance Performance – Female Group

• Gfriend: “Mago” (WINNER) – 16%
• 3YE: “On Air” – 14%
• (G)I-dle: “DumDi DumDi” – 13%
• APINK: “Dumhdurum” – 12%
• Oh My Girl: “Nonstop” – 10%
• TWICE: “I Can’t Stop Me” – 8%
• Pink Fantasy Shadow: “Shadow Play” – 6%
• XUM: “Ddalala” – 5%
• Weki Meki: “Cool” – 4%
• Everglow: “La Di Da” – 3%
• NiziU: “Make You Happy” – 3%
• Nature: “Girls” – 2%
• Favorite: “Lie” – 2%
• BLACKPINK: “How You Like That” – 1%
• BVNDIT: “Jungle” – 1%

 

Best Dance Performance – Male Group

• Ab6ix: “Salute” (WINNER) – 17%
• Monsta X: “Love Killa” – 16%
• BTS: “Dynamite” – 13%
• Pentagon: “Daisy” – 5%
• Stray Kids: “God’s Menu” – 4%
• ATEEZ: “Inception” – 4%
• Nu’est: “I’m in Trouble” – 4%
• GOT7: “Not By the Moon” – 4%
• N.O.M: “I’m Not But” – 3%
• The Boyz: “The Stealer” – 3%
• Oneus: “To Be or Not to Be” – 2%
• Up10tion: “Light” – 2%
• Treasure: “I Love You” – 2%
• Golden Child: “Pump It Up” – 2%
• UNVS: “Give You Up” – 0%

 

Best New Male Artist

• Wonho (WINNER) – 43%
• Moon Jongup – 19%
• Kim Woo-seok – 15%
• Han Seung-woo – 11%
• LØREN – 9%
• Yook Sung-jae – 2%
• Yoon Du-jun – 1%

 

Best New Female Artist

• YooA (WINNER) – 34%
• Huh Chanmi – 24%
• Natty – 13%
• Ryu Su-jeong – 11%
• Jeon Yeol – 9%
• Serri – 5%
• Solar – 4%

 

Best New Male Group

• LUCY (WINNER) – 53%
• Treasure – 11%
• Enhypen – 7%
• Cravity – 6%
• WEi – 5%
• B.O.Y – 3%
• TOO – 3%
• Drippin’ – 3%
• 2Z – 2%
• DKB – 2%
• UNVS – 2%
• MCND – 1%
• Ghost9 – 1%
• E’Last – 1%

 

Best Male Solo

• Eric Nam: “Paradise” (WINNER) – 28%
• Zico: “Any Song” – 27%
• Taemin: “Criminal” – 15%
• Zelo: “Mi Amor” – 7%
• Kang Daniel: “Who U Are” – 6%
• Roy Kim: “Linger On”- 3%
• Kai: “Mmmh” – 3%
• Baekhyun: “Candy” – 2%
• 20 Years of Age: “7942” – 2%
• Wonho: “Open Mind” – 2%
• Xia: “Pit a Pat” – 2%
• Suho: “Let’s Love” – 1%
• Ji Jin-seok: “Here” – 1%
• Paul Kim: “Hangover” – 1%

 

Best New Female Group

• Secret Number (WINNER) – 25%
• XUM – 17%
• Weeekly – 15%
• Woo!Ah! – 11%
• AESPA – 7%
• Purple Kiss – 6%
• Cignature – 5%
• STAYC – 4%
• Lunarsolar – 3%
• Maka Maka – 3%
• Botopass – 2%
• BLACKSWAN – 1%
• BLING BLING – 1%

 

Best Female Solo

• Yezi: “Home” (WINNER) – 23%
• Chungha: “Stay Tonight” – 22%
• Lee Suhyun: “Alien” – 13%
• Hwasa: “Maria” – 10%
• Lee Hi: “Holo” – 5%
• Stella Jang: “Villain” – 5%
• AleXa: “Villain” – 4%
• YooA: “Bon Voyage” – 4%
• Ben: “Bad” – 3%
• Somi: “What You Waiting For” – 3%
• Solar: “Spit It Out” – 2%
• Sunmi: “Pporappippam” – 2%
• Siyeon: “Paradise” – 2%
• Kim Namjoo: “Bird” – 1%
• Yukika: “Soul Lady” – 1%

 

Female Group of the Year

• Dreamcatcher (WINNER) – 20%
• Mamamoo – 18%
• ITZY – 9%
• TWICE – 8%
• Oh My Girl – 8%
• Everglow – 8%
• Refund Sisters – 5%
• APINK – 4%
• IZ*ONE – 3%
• (G)I-dle – 3%
• Weki Meki – 3%
• GFRIEND – 3%
• LOONA – 2%
• Red Velvet – 1%
• BLACKPINK – 1%
• GWSN – 1%
• Momoland – 1%
• NATURE – 1%
• BVNDIT – 1%

 

Male Group of the Year

• BTS (WINNER) – 51%
• DAY6 – 16%
• NCT – 7%
• Seventeen – 6%
• Super Junior – 4%
• BtoB 4U – 3%
• SuperM – 3%
• B1A4 – 3%
• Stray Kids – 2%
• ATEEZ – 2%
• GOT7 – 2%
• ASTRO – 1%
• EXO-SC – 0%
• Pentagon – 0%

 

Music Video of the Year

• “Eight” IU ft. Suga (WINNER) – 23%
• “Alien” Lee Suhyun – 13%
• “On” BTS – 12%
• “Any Song” Zico – 7%
• “Happening” AKMU – 5%
• “Like a Movie” B1A4 – 5%
• “Bon Voyage” YooA – 5%
• “Zombie” DAY6 – 4%
• “I Can’t Stop Me” TWICE – 4%
• “When We Disco” J.Y, Park (duet with Sunmi) – 4%
• “Mago” GFRIEND – 4%
• “Holo” Lee Hi – 3%
• “Play” Chungha ft. Changmo – 3%
• “Villain” Stella Jang – 3%
• “Winter Flower” Younha ft. RM – 2%
• “Girls” Nature – 2%
• “Mong” Lim Kim – 1%
• “Monster” Irene & Seulgi – 0%

 

Album of the Year

• Unstable Mindset: Younha (WINNER) – 16%
• Dystopia: The Tree of Language: Dreamcatcher – 14%
• BE: BTS – 8%
• Nonstop: Oh My Girl – 6%
• Zero: Fever Part 1: ATEEZ – 5%
• Map the Soul 7: BTS – 4%
• #: LOONA – 4%
• Never Gonna Dance Again: Act 1: Taemin – 4%
• BLOOM*IZ: IZ*ONE – 4%
• The Album: BLACKPINK – 4%
• Cyan: Kang Daniel – 3%
• IT’Z ME: ITZY – 3%
• The Nocturne: NU’EST – 3%
• MORE & MORE: TWICE – 3%
• LABYRINTH: GFRIEND – 3%
• Bon Voyage: YooA – 3%
• Delight: Baekhyun – 3%
• DYE: GOT7 – 2%
• 1 Billion Views: EXO-SC – 2%
• Origine: B1A4 – 2%
• Timeless: Super Junior -1%
• Heng:garae: Seventeen – 1%
• The Dream Chapter: Eternity: TXT – 1%
• NEOZONE: NCT-127 – 1%
• Fantasia X: Monsta X – 1%
• Monster: Irene & Seulgi – 1%
• Light Up: Up10tion – 1%
• Go Live: Stray Kids – 0%
• Self-Portrait: Suho – 0%
• Oneiric Diary: IZ*ONE – 0%
• Reload: NCT-Dream – 0%
• Super One: SuperM – 0%

 

Song of the Year

• Everglow: “La Di Da” (WINNER) – 16%
• Zico: “Any Song” – 12%
• BTS: “Dynamite” – 9%
• (G)I-dle: “Oh My God” – 8%
• Lee Hi: “Holo” – 6%
• Refund Sisters: “Don’t Touch Me” – 5%
• IU ft. Suga: “Eight” – 5%
• YooA: “Bon Voyage” – 5%
• Younha ft. RM: “Winter Flower” – 4%
• TWICE: “I Can’t Stop Me” – 3%
• Taemin: “Criminal” – 3%
• BTS: “Black Swan” – 3%
• Dreamcatcher: “Scream” – 3%
• SuperM: “100” – 3%
• (G)I-dle: “DumDi DumDi” – 2%
• Fromis_9: “Feel Good” – 2%
• J.Y. Park (duet with Sunmi): “When We Disco” – 2%
• Sunmi: “Pporappippam”- 2%
• GFRIEND: “Mago” – 2%
• Chungha: “Stay Tonight” – 2%
• BLACKPINK: “Lovesick Girls” – 1%
• Stray Kids: “God’s Menu” – 1%
• LOONA: “Why Not?” – 1%
• GOT7: “Not By the Moon” – 1%
• Dreamcatcher: “Boca” – 0%
• Irene & Seulgi: “Monster” – 0%
• Hwasa: “Maria” – 0%

 

—-Olivia Murray