The 34th Seoul Music Awards () is an award ceremony held on June 21, 2025, in Inspire Arena, South Korea. Organized by Y Global Music and Sports Seoul. The show is hosted by Kang Seung-yoon, Miyeon, and Soobin.
Criteria Only songs and albums released from January 2024 to March 2025 were eligible to be nominated. Category Online voting Panelist Music sales(Album/ Digital sales) Main Prize (Bonsang) 30% 40% 30% Rookie Award Genre Awards Popularity Awards 100% colspan="2" Special Awards 100%
Performers The first list of performers was announced on May 16. The second list of performers was announced on May 21. The third list of performers was announced on May 26. + Artist(s) Song(s) performed Doyoung "Little Light""Flying Duck""Memory" Say My Name "ShaLaLa" VVUP "4 Life""Giddy Boy" QWER "Dear""T.B.H" Fifty Fifty "SOS""Pookie" KiiiKiii "I Do Me" Hwang Karam "If the World Turns Against You""I'm Firefly" Wave to Earth "Annie." Hearts2Hearts "The Chase" KickFlip "Mama Said""Freeze" Chanelle MoonHana "Y (Please Tell Me Why)" Hitomi HondaKannyDohee "My Lips... Warm Like Coffee" AllenWonjinTaeyoung "Officially Missing You" Cravity "Love or Die""Now or Never" Illit "Magnetic""Do the Dance" NCT Wish "Wish""Steady" P1Harmony "Duh!""Sad Song" Seo Eun-kwangDonghyeonMinnie "Reflection of You in Your Smile" "Sad Fate" "Violet Fragrance" "To Lady" Young Tak "Unpredictable Life""SuperSuper" Zerobaseone "Devil Game""Blue" BtoB "Love Today""Missing You" Tomorrow X Together "Deja Vu""Danger""Love Language" I-dle "Good Thing""Fate"
Presenters The first list of presenters was announced on May 6. The second list of presenters was announced on May 30. Jang Gyu-ri and Ong Seong-wu – presented Rising Star Award, Discovery of the Year, and Rookie of the Year Kang You-seok and Shin Si-ah – presented Main Prize (Bonsang) Chang Ryul and Park Ju-hyun – presented Best Performance Award, Band Award, Ballad Award, R&B/ Hip-hop Award, OST Award, and Trot Award Soobin – presented Popularity Award and K-Wave Special Award Kim Sung-cheol and Nam Gyu-ri – presented Best Group, Best Solo Award, and K-pop Special Award Kang Seung-yoon – presented K-pop World Choice – Group and K-pop World Choice – Solo Jung Eun-chae – presented World Best Artist, Best Album Award, and Best Song Award Byeon Woo-seok – presented Grand Prize (Daesang)
Winners and nominees Winners and nominees were listed in alphabetical order. Winners were listed first and emphasized in bold.
The list of nominees was announced on March 24, 2025, through the official website. Voting opened on March 24, 2025, and closed on May 10, 2025. Main awards Grand Prize(Daesang) I-dle Main Prize(Bonsang) Rookie of the Year Aespa Doyoung Enhypen G-Dragon I-dle Illit Ive NCT Dream NCT Wish P1Harmony Plave QWER Rosé Seventeen Stray Kids Tomorrow X Together Young Tak Zerobaseone Hearts2Hearts KickFlip KiiiKiii 3Piece ARrC Blingone Dignity Izna Loveone Madein Meovv Newbeat Nouera Odd Youth Say My Name Best Song Award Best Album Award Tomorrow X Together – "Deja Vu" Tomorrow X Together – Minisode 3: Tomorrow Zerobaseone – Blue Paradise Ballad Award R&B/ Hip-hop Award Hwang Karam 10cm Bibi Crush Heize Huh Gak, Kim Hee-jae, Lee Jin-sung, Lee Mu-jin, Onestar & #Annyeong Hwagok-dong Green Frog IU Jennie Kiss of Life Lee Chang-sub Lee Mu-jin Lim Young-woong Plave Rosé Roy Kim Seventeen Yoo Hwe-seung RM B.I Be'O Bibi Bobby Daniel Jikal G-Dragon Heize Hoony I.M Jay Park J-Hope Lee Hi Lee Young-ji Zico OST Award Trot Award Young Tak – "Unpredictable Life" #Annyeong – "So Sick" 10cm – "Spring Snow" 90TAN – "A-Yo" An Yu-jin – "Dreaming" Baek A – "Our Days" Byun Hee-sang – "Eternity Reprise" Crush – "Love You with All My Heart" DK – "Eternity" Eclipse – "Sudden Shower" Elaine "Stand by Me" – F.T. Island – "The Rose of Verasilles" Ha Sung-woon – "In Love with You" Haewon – "Maru is A Puppy" Jin – "Close to You" Jo Yu-ri – "Spring Day Pass" Jongho – "A Day" Jung Seung-hwan – "Ask Out" Kang Seung-yoon – "She Woke Me Up" Kim Feel – "All Our Days" Lee Chang-sub – "Heavenly Fate" Lee Hi – "Our Timeless Moments" Lee Jean – "Like that Time When I Sent You with Smile" Lee Mu-jin – "In Our Lives" MeloMance – "Tomorrow" Minnie – "Like A Dream" Mr. Choi from Yanbian – "Like the Wind Didn't Blow" N.Flying – "Star" Onaye – "Such a Day" Paul Kim – "Always Be With You" Plave – "We Don't Stop" Roy Kim – "Whenever Wherever" Sam Kim – "Playing Pretend" Seok Matthew & Park Gun-wook – "Back Packer" Seungmin – "My Destiny" Sohyang – "One Day" Son Tae-jin – "I'll Take You in My Arms" Tomorrow X Together – "Can't Stop" Winter – "The First Moment" Yoo Hwe-seung – "I Think I Did" Yoo Yeon-seok – "Say My Name" Young Tak Ahn Sung-hoon Bae A-hyun Cheon Lok-dam Choi Jae-myung Choi Soo-ho Chun-gil Enoch Eun Ga-eun Hong Ja Hong Ji-yun Hong Jin-young Hyukjin Jang Minho JD1 Jeon Yu-jin Jin Hye-sung Jin Sung Jinuk Jung Mi-ae Jung Min-ko Jung Seo-joo Kang Hye-yeon Kang Jin Kang Moon-kyung Kim Da-hyun Kim Hee-jae Kim Jun-su Kim Soo-chan Kim So-yeon Kim Tae-yeon Kim Yang Kim Yong-bin Kim Yong-im Kim Yon-ja Lee Chan-won Lim Young-woong Ma Ij-in Maria Min Soo-hyun Miss Kim Na Tae-koo Na Ye-ong Nam Jin Nam Seung-min Oh Yu-jin Park Hye-sin Park Ji-hyeon Park Min-su Park Seo-jin Shin Se-ong Shin Seung-tae Shin Yu Son Bin-ah Son Tae-jin Song Ga-in Tae Jin-ah Yang Ji-eun Yoyomi Rising Star Award VVUP 82Major Evnne Fantasy Boys Lun8 One Pact Pow Tempest TNX Younite
Popularity awards Popularity Award K-Wave Special Award Lee Chan-won Jimin K-pop World Choice – Group K-pop World Choice – Solo Babymonster Young Tak
Special awards Best Group Award Best Performance Award Illit NCT Wish Cravity Fifty Fifty Best Solo Award Band Award Doyoung Wave to Earth K-pop Special Award Discovery of the Year BtoB Say My Name World Best Artist Aespa Rosé
Multiple awards The following artist(s) received two or more awards:
Count Artist(s) 4 Young Tak 3 Tomorrow X Together 2 Aespa Doyoung I-dle Illit NCT Wish Rosé Zerobaseone
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