Daftar Nominasi Lengkap Korean Music Awards 2026

Korean Music Awards General-Category Award

Album of the Year

Kwonnamu, Scent of Life
Effie, pullup to busan 4 more hypEr summEr it's gonna be a fuckin movie
Woo Hee-jun, The heart pumping is torture
Lee Chanhyuk, EROS
Jennie, Ruby
Chuda Hye-chajis, Minority

Song of the Year

Lee Chanhyuk, Endangered Love
Jennie, Like JENNIE
Woo Hee-jun, Spacious house
NMIXX, Blue Valentine
Chuda Hye-chajis, Huh?

Musician of the Year

Hanroro
Lee Chanhyuk
Jennie
Effie
NMIXX

Rookie of the Year

Woo Hee-jun
ALLDAY PROJECT
Peach Truck Hijackers
park
RAKUNELAMA

Korean Music Awards Genre-Category Award

Best Pop Album

Lee Chanhyuk, EROS
Lim Hyeon-jeong, Extraordinary
Joo Hye-rin, stereo
Song So-hee, Re:5
Yerin Baek, Flash and Core

Best Pop Song

Hwasa, Good Goodbye
Yerin Baek, MIRROR
Lee Chanhyuk, Endangered Love
Lim Hyeon-jeong, The road to me is beautiful.
Jo-wol, With Your Love as an Excuse feat. Haepa

Best K-Pop Album

NMIXX, Blue Valentine
NMIXX, Fe3O4: FORWARD
Chaeyoung TWICE, LIL FANTASY vol.1
MARK, The Firstfruit - The 1st Album
Jennie, Ruby

Best K-Pop Song

LE SSERAFIM, SPAGHETTI feat. j-hope BTS
ALLDAY PROJECT, FAMOUS
NMIXX, Blue Valentine
Jennie, Like JENNIE
Hearts2Hearts, FOCUS

Best Electronic Album

KIRARA, KIRARA
Yetsuby, 4EVA
NECTA, Seoul Bizarre
bojvck, UnderNationWide
Effie, E

Best Electronic Song

Naojusung, Eternal Light feat. Kim Tteutdol
NECTA, Lady Love
MELKI, BODY BREAK
Effie, open your eyes
KIRARA, Music With Sunwoo Jung-a

Best Alternative Rock Album

Woo Hee-jun, The heart pumping is torture
Hanroro, Grapefruit Apricot Club
New human race, Shining Strike
Archaeology (Gogohawk), VOL.07
Say Sue Me, Time is Not Yours

Best Alternative Rock Song

Playbook, Truthbuster
New human race, Head-on attack
Woo Hee-jun, Spacious house
Jeongwoo, Life of Iron
Hanroro, Running Through Time

Best Rock Album

Wah Wah Wah & a play book, UBUBU
Peach Truck Hijackers, Peach Truck Hijackers
Green Flame Boys, GREENROOF
YB (Yoon Do-hyun Band), Odyssey

Best Rock Song

Green Flame Boys, sincerity
Bae Cheol-soo, Eoeodo (Blue Island)
Wah Wah Wah & a play book, Uncertainty
simian, Apocalypse
Lee Seung-yoon, PunKanon

Best Metal & Hardcore Album

baan, neumann
Loss of infection, 罰錢
Chain Reaction, A LOVE SUPREME
METHKAMEL, Circle
DULOM, AXIOM ZERO

Best Rap & Hip-Hop Album

Sik-K & Lil Moshpit, K-FLIP+
Effie, pullup to busan 4 more hypEr summEr it's gonna be a fuckin movie
B-Free, Free The Mane 3 Free The Mane VS B-Free
Salt, Living Alive 4
viceversa, ANIMAL FKRY

Best Rap & Hip-Hop Song

B-Free, Nergal
Sik-K & Lil Moshpit, LOV3 feat. Bryan Chase, Okasian
C JAMM, Layered
Effie, CAN I SIP Cigarettes
Salt, IE Runny

Best R&B & Soul Album

jeebanoff, Misery
shinjihang, NONG
BIBI, EVE: ROMANCE
Yoon Da-hye, King of Ants
Chuda Hye-chajis, Minority

Best R&B & Soul Song

RAKUNELAMA, B
A.TRAIN, POVIDONE feat. Danpyunseon
Yoon Da-hye, She's a finger goldfish
Joo Hye-rin, Busy Boy
Chuda Hye-chajis, Huh?

Best Folk Album

Kwonnamu, Scent of Life
distracted gaze, Distracted Gaze 2
Jeong Tae-chun & Park Eun-ok, Between heavy rains
Kim Hwal-seong, The Remaining Forest
Lucid Fall, Another place

Best Folk Song

Kim Chang-wan, day
Kim Hwal-seong, The Remaining Forest
distracted gaze, Heart of a Dog
Kwonnamu, Like that, without me knowing
Jeong Tae-chun & Park Eun-ok, Between heavy rains

Best Jazz Vocal Album

In words, MALO LIVE AT MUDDY
Maria Kim, Love Letters
Kang Yun-mi & John Stowell, A Timeless Place
Oldie but goodie, Oldie but goodie
Ha Kyung, BREATHING IN

Best Jazz Performance Album

Mijung Lim, Impromptu
Sumin Jung, wreck
Yonglee & the DOLTANG, Invisible Worker
Shin Aram, Bium Project II: After BIUM
Hong Seon-mi, Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest

Best Global Contemporary Album

Gray by Silver, Time of Tree
Park Jiha, All Living Things
Jeong Eun-hye, Cadejo & Kim Ye-chan, NAMDO CALLING
Jeong Ji-su & Baroque in Blue, Baroque in Blue
Jeon Jin-hee, After the rain uuhu