The 35th installment of the Seoul Music Awards is an award ceremony held on June 20, 2026, in Inspire Arena, South Korea. Organized by Seoul Music Awards Organizing Committee and Sports Seoul. The show is hosted by Leeteuk, Leesol, and Park Gun-wook.
Criteria Criteria based on Seoul Music Awards' official website. Category Online voting Panelist Music sales(Album/ Digital sales) Grand Prize (Daesang) rowspan="2" 100% rowspan="2" Best Music & Album Main Prize (Bonsang) 30% 40% 30% Rookie Award Genre Awards Popularity Awards 100% colspan="2" Special Awards 100%
Performers The final line up of performers were announced on June 4, 2026. + Artist(s) Song(s) performed AHOF "Pinocchio""Sugar High" Alpha Drive One "Freak Alarm""OMG!" Ateez "Say My Name""Adrenaline" BoyNextDoor "Viral""Hollywood Action" Close Your Eyes "Pose""X""Overdose""We Are the Future" Dayoung "What's a Girl to Do""Body" Dragon Pony "To You""Oh Perfect!" Hanroro "Let Me Love My Youth""0+0""Goldfish" Hearts2Hearts "Rude!""Focus" Idid "Attent!on""Fly""Fake Love" Idntt "Pretty Boy Swag""ISTJ" Izna "Mamma Mia""Metronome""Diva" KiiiKiii "Underdogs""404 (New Era)" Kwon Eun-bi "Door""Hello Stranger" Le Sserafim "Spaghetti""Boompala" Lee Chan-won "First Love""Rock and Roll Life""Maybe Today" Modyssey "Hook" Roo'raIznaSay My NameXikers "3!4!" Say My Name "UFO (Attention)""Bad Girl Good Girl" Sung Han-bin "You Are Spring" Xikers "Okay""Fantastic Baby"
Presenters The list of presenters were announced in June 2026. Go Youn-jung Kim Do-hoon Park Ji-hwan Song Joong-ki Shim Eun-kyung Lee Yu-bi Jo Yu-ri Ha Yoon-kyung Heo Nam-jun
Winners and nominees Winners and nominees were listed in alphabetical order. (Note: Click on each subheading to view nominees.) Winners were listed first and emphasized in bold.
Main awards Grand Prize(Daesang) Ateez Main Prize(Bonsang) Rookie of the Year Ateez Alpha Drive One BoyNextDoor Dayoung Hearts2Hearts KiiiKiii Kwon Eun-bi Le Sserafim Lee Chan-won Zerobaseone AHOF Alpha Drive One Close Your Eyes Idid AllDay Project AtHeart AxMxP Baby Dont Cry Cortis Idntt Latency Lngshot OX:N Xlov Best Song Award Best Album Award Le Sserafim – "Spaghetti" BoyNextDoor Zerobaseone Rock / Ballad Award R&B / Hip-hop Award Hanroro 10cm 2am AKMU Car, the Garden Davichi Damons Year F.T. Island Hwasa Hwang Ka-ram Jannabi Jung Seung-hwan Keon Ho-jeon Kim Min-seok Lee Mu-jin Lim Jae-hyun Maktub Parc Jae-jung Park Da-hye Roy Kim Soonsoonhee Woody Zo Zazz BoyNextDoor AB6IX Babymonster Blackpink G-Dragon Lee Young-ji Meovv Ovan Stray Kids Treasure TNX Woodz OST Award Trot Award Sung Han-bin – "You Are Spring" Crush – "Love You with All My Heart" DK – "It's You" Eclipse – "Sudden Shower" Fromis 9 – "Touch Down" Ha Sung-woon – "Loving You" Haechan – "The Reason I Like You" Han – "Updraft" Huntrix – "Golden" Jang Minho – "I Will Let Go" Jongho – "Just Like the First Time" Lee Chang-sub – "Heavenly Fate" Lee Jun-ho – "Did You See the Rainbow?" Lim Young-woong – "Love Always Runs Away" Lia – "One Day" MeloMance – "Love, Maybe" Minnie – "Devil's Angel" Nerd Connection – "If I Have You Only" Paul Kim – "Every Day, Every Moment" Plave – "Borrow Your Night" Saja Boys – "Soda Pop" Sohee – "Love on the Canvas" Sung Si-kyung – "Every Moment of You" Yoon San-ha & Arin – "Lovey Dovey" Young K – "Love Will Find A Way" Lee Chan-won Bin Ye-seo Choi Soo-ho Choi Woo-jin Dong Geun-ha Enoch Eun Ga-eun Hwang Min-woo Jang Minho JD1 Jeon Yu-jin Kang Moon-kyung Kim Jung-yeon Kim Soo-chan Kim Yong-pil Lim Young-woong Mai Jin Min Jun-song Park Hyun-ho Park Ji-hyeon Park Seo-jin Park Sung-on Seongri Son Taejin Young Tak Yang Ji-won
Popularity awards Popularity Award K-Wave Special Award Lee Chan-won BTS K-pop World Choice – Group K-pop World Choice – Solo Super Junior Yeonjun Golden Revival New Icon Exo – "The First Snow" D.O. Best Artist Lee Chan-won
Special awards Best Group Award Best Performance Award Zerobaseone Izna Xikers Best Solo Award Band Award Dayoung Dragon Pony Global Rookie SMA Legend Award Idntt Modyssey Say My Name Roo'ra World Best Artist BoyNextDoor Le Sserafim
Multiple awards The following artist(s) received two or more awards: Count Artist(s) 4 BoyNextDoor Lee Chan-won 3 Le Sserafim Zerobaseone 2 Alpha Drive One Ateez Dayoung
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