The 32nd Seoul Music Awards () is an award ceremony held on January 19, 2023. It was organized by Sports Seoul and broadcast through KBS Joy and U+Idol Live. The ceremony was hosted by Choi Min-ho, Mijoo, and Kim Il-joong.
Criteria All songs and albums that are eligible to be nominated must be released from January to December 2022.
Category Online voting Panelist Music sales Album sales Main Prize (Bonsang) 30% 40% 30% Rookie Award Popularity Award 100% (Korea Only) rowspan="2" colspan="3" Hallyu Special 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 Jury 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 were announced on December 6, 2022, through the official website. Voting opened on Seoul Music Awards mobile application on December 6, 2022, and closed on January 15, 2023.
Main awards Grand Award(Daesang) Main Award(Bonsang) NCT Dream (G)I-dle Aespa Blackpink BTS Got the Beat Ive Kang Daniel Kim Ho-joong Lim Young-woong Psy Red Velvet Seventeen Stray Kids Taeyeon Zico (G)I-dle Aespa Blackpink BTS Got the Beat Ive Kang Daniel Kim Ho-joong Lim Young-woong NCT Dream Psy Red Velvet Seventeen Stray Kids Taeyeon Zico Best Song Award Best Album Award Ive – "Love Dive" BTS – Proof Rookie Award Best Performance Le Sserafim NewJeans TNX ATBO Billlie Classy CSR H1-Key Kep1er Lapillus Nine.i Nmixx TAN Tempest Trendz Viviz Younite (G)I-dle Popularity Award Hallyu Special Award Lim Young-woong Suho
Genre-based awards Trot Award Ballad Award Young Tak Jang Min-ho Jang Yoon-jeong Jeong Dong-won Kim Hee-jae Kim Tae-yeon Lim Young-woong Na Huna Song Ga-in Younha Ben Davichi Han Dong-geun Juho Kassy KyoungSeo Lim Jae-hyun Kang Min-kyung & Jannabi Monday Kiz Noel Paul Kim Tei Tophyun V.O.S OST Award R&B Hiphop Award MeloMance 10cm Bibi Davichi Heize Jimin & Ha Sung-woon Lee Seok-hoon Lee Seung-yoon Lee Sun-hee Lim Young-woong Sam Kim Sunwoo Jung-a Taeil Tiger JK Wheein Wonstein Be'O Big Naughty Coogie Epik High Jessi Joosiq Leellamarz & Toil Punch Woo & Meenoi
Other awards New Wave Star World Best Artist Kep1er Lapillus TAN Psy Discovery of the Year Band Award Lee Seung-yoon Jannabi K-pop Special Award Legend Artist Kara BoA idol+ New Star Award idol+ Best Star Award Tempest BTS
Multiple awards The following artist(s) received three or more awards: Awards Artist(s) 3 BTS
Presenters The list of presenters was announced on January 9, 2023.
+ Order of the presentation, name of the artist(s), and award(s) they presented Order Artist(s) Presented 1 Bae Da-bin and Yoo Seon-ho New Wave Star + Trot Award 2 Moon Sang-min and Jung Eun-hye OST Award 3 Park Yong-taik World Best Artist Award 4 Kim Ji-min and Park Byung-eun Discovery of the Year + Ballad Award 5 Hwang In-youp Band Award 6 Chae Jong-hyeop and Park Se-wan Rookie of the Year 7 Roh Jeong-eui and Byun Woo-seok Main Award (Bonsang) 8 Aiki R&B Hiphop Award 9 Kim Jae-young and Kim So-won Main Award (Bonsang) 10 Kim Ye-won and Seo In-guk K-pop Special Award 11 Gong Seung-yeon and Kim Bum Main Award (Bonsang) 12 Rihey idol+ New Star Award + idol+ Best Star Award 13 Im Soo-hyang and High1 Resort's CEO Lee Sam-geol Best Performance + Popularity Award + Hallyu Special Award 14 Hwang Bo-ra and Sung Joon Main Award (Bonsang) 15 Lee Sun-bin and Busan World Expo 2030 Secretary General's Yoon Sang-jik Legend Artist 15 Ahn Bo-hyun Best Song Award + Best Album Award 16 Choi Ji-woo and Seoul Music Awards' Chairman 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 CocaNButter "I Know" + "The Angel Who Lost Wings" + "Kung Ddari Sha Bah Rah" + "No. 1" + "10 Minutes" + "Growl" + "Boy with Luv" TNX "Mr. Simple" + "Gangnam Style" 2 Young Tak "Why are you coming out from there" + "Jjiniya" + "Mmm" 3 MeloMance "Invitation" + "Love, Maybe" 4 Younha "Event Horizon" 5 TNX "Move" 6 Psy "That That" 7 Jannabi "Grippin'TheGreen" + "For Lovers Who Hesitate" 8 Lee Seung-yoon "Open Your Textbook" 9 Big Naughty "New Era (Prod. BMTJ)" 10 Be'O "Love Me" 11 Kim Ho-joong "Phantasmagoria" + "Il mare calmo della sera" 12 (G)I-dle "My Bag" + "Tomboy" 13 Zico "Freak" + "New Thing (Feat. Homies)" 14 Kara "Lupin" + "Step" + "Pandora" + "Damaged Lady" + "Mamma Mia!" + "Mister" + "When I Move" 15 Kang Daniel "Upside Down" + "Nirvana" 16 Ive "Love Dive" + "After Like" 17 NCT Dream "Candy" + "Beatbox" + "Glitch Mode" 18 Got the Beat "Stamp on It"
Broadcast Region Network/Platform South Korea Various
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