The 31st Seoul Music Awards () is an award ceremony held on January 23, 2022. It was organized by Sports Seoul and broadcast through KBS Joy, U+Idol Live, U+Mobile TV, and Hello Live. The ceremony was hosted by Kim Sung-joo, Boom, and Kim Seol-hyun.
Criteria All songs and albums that are eligible to be nominated must be released from January to December 2021.
Category Online voting Panelist Music sales Album sales Main Prize (Bonsang) 30% 40% 30% Rookie of the Year Popularity Award 100% (Korea Only) rowspan="2" colspan="3" K-wave Popularity Award 100% (Overseas Only) Trot Award 30% 40% 30% Ballad Award OST Award R&B Hiphop Award Best Performance rowspan="4" 100% rowspan="4" colspan="2" Band Award Discovery of the Year Special Judge Award
Winners and nominees
Winners and nominees are listed in alphabetical order. Winners will be listed first and emphasized in bold.
The list of nominees for: U+Idol Live Best Artist Award were announced on December 6, 2021, through the Idol Live TV website. remaining categories were announced on December 4, 2021, through the official website.
The voting for: U+ Live Best Artist Award opened on Idol Live TV website on December 6, 2021, and closed on December 26, 2021. remaining categories opened on Seoul Music Awards mobile application on December 6, 2021, and closed on January 16, 2022.
Main awards Grand Award(Daesang) Main Award(Bonsang) NCT 127 Aespa Ateez Brave Girls BTS Enhypen Heize IU Kang Daniel Lim Young-woong Oh My Girl Seventeen The Boyz Aespa Ateez Brave Girls BTS Enhypen Heize IU Kang Daniel Lim Young-woong NCT 127 Oh My Girl Seventeen The Boyz Best Song Award Best Album Award IU – "Lilac" NCT Dream – Hot Sauce Rookie of the Year Best Performance Epex Lee Mu-jin Omega X Ive Jo Yu-ri Kwon Eun-bi Lightsum Mirae Purple Kiss T1419 Tri.be Enhypen STAYC Popularity Award K-wave Popularity Award Lim Young-woong Exo
Genre-based awards Trot Award Ballad Award Lim Young-woong Jang Min-ho Jeong Dong-wan Jin Hae-sung Kang Hye-yeon Kim Hee-jae Lee Chan-won MJ Second Aunt Kim Da-vi Yang Ji-eun Young Tak Wendy 2AM Baek Ye-rin Car the Garden Heize Hwang Chi-yeul Jeon Keon-ho & GyeongseoYeji Jung Dong-ha Lee So-jung MeloMance Paul Kim Sin Ye-young OST Award R&B Hiphop Award Lim Young-woong – "Love Always Run Away" 10cm – "Borrow Your Night" Heize – "On Rainy Days" Huh Gak – "Confession" Jang Beom-june – "I Like You" K.Will – "Back in Time" Lee Hae-ri – "Love is Always Thirsty" Lee Hi – "That One Word" Lee Mu-jin – "Rain and You" Sandeul – "The Image of You (Remains in My Memory)" Yang Yo-seob & Jung Eun-ji – "Love Day" Younha – "Thirty Nights" Hyuna Ash Island BE'O Bewhy Epik High Giriboy Homies Jessi Jossiq Mommy Son Ovan
Other awards World Best Artist Award Special Judge Award BTS Jung Dong-ha Discovery of the Year U+Idol Live Best Artist Award Lang Lee BTS
Multiple awards The following artist(s) received three or more awards: Awards Artist(s) 4 Lim Young-woong 3 BTS
Presenters The list of presenters was announced on January 18, 2022.
+ Order of the presentation, name of the artist(s), and award(s) they presented Order Artist(s) Presented 1 Kang Hoon, and Han Ji-hyun Rookie of the Year 2 Lim Hyung-guk, and Park Seon-joo Trot Award + Ballad Award + OST Award 3 Park Ji-hyun Main Award (Bonsang) 4 Kim Ho-young, and Moon Ye-won Discovery of the Year + Best Performance 5 Chae Jong-hyeop Main Award (Bonsang) 6 Rozy AI 7 Danny Ahn 8 Kang Baek-ho, Kang A-rang, and Kim Hye-seong Popularity Award + K-wave Popularity Award + U+Idol Live Best Artist Award 9 Rozy AI Main Award (Bonsang) 10 High1 Resort's Lee Sam-kul, and Won Jin-ah Best Song Award + Best Album Award + World Best Artist Award 11 Sports CEO's Lee Jang-hyuk, and Seoul Music Awards chairman's Kim Soo-chul Grand Award (Daesang)
Performers + Order of the performance, name of the artist(s), and song(s) they performed Order Artist(s) Song performed 1 Omega X "What's goin' on" 2 Lee Mu-jin "The Assignment Song" + "Traffic Light" 3 Lang Lee "There is A Wolf" 4 STAYC "So Bad" (Tak Remix) + "ASAP" 5 Jung Dong-ha "I Still Love You" 6 Enhypen "Blessed-Cursed" + "Tamed-Dashed" 7 Hyuna "I'm Not Cool" 8 Brave Girls "Fever" (Remix) + "Chi Mat Ba Ram" 9 Kang Daniel "Antidote" (Acoustic) + "Paranoia" 10 Wendy "Like Water" 11 Hyuna & Dawn "Ping Pong" 12 The Boyz "Russian Roulette" + "Maverick" 13 Oh My Girl's Seunghee and Jiho "Dear You" 14 Oh My Girl's Mimi, YooA, and Arin "The Fifth Season" 15 Oh My Girl's Yubin and Hyojung "Bungee" 16 Oh My Girl "Dun Dun Dance" 17 Lim Young-woong "Love Always Run Away" 18 NCT Dream "Hello Future" + "Hot Sauce" 19 NCT 127 "Favorite (Vampire)" + "Lemonade" + "Sticker"
Broadcast Region Network/Platform South Korea Various Hello Live
References
External links (in English & Korean)