Big News For K-Pop Fans, MAMA 2022 Release Date Revealed By The Team! -

According to Billboard, the biggest K-pop awards show is rebranding as part of its continued efforts to establish itself as a recognized event around the world. The awards program, once known as the Mnet Asian Music Awards but now called the MAMA Awards, is hosted by Korean entertainment juggernaut CJ ENM and honours the best Asian artists and K-pop artists of the year. " The redesign conveys the award shows the desire to grow from its existing influence in Asia to cover global K-pop fans, portraying itself as the world’s No. 1 K-pop award," according to a news release from CJNM. After staging MAMA in several Asian countries, the firm declared its intention to someday produce the celebration in the United States last year.

MAMA 2022 Release Date

On August 24, CJ ENM said, We will be rebranding; Mnet Asian Music Awards; MAMA Awards in keeping with changes in the global music market, K-influence pop is growing from Asia to the world. We will display stages and acts with the famous MAMA Awards settings while developing a distinct character as an awards show. To formally expose the genuine value of K-pop to the globe, we will further develop and diverge from MAMA, which has been known to inform the world regarding K-pop. The 2022 MAMA Awards; will take place at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan, on November 29 and 30, it was further disclosed. Fans of K-pop both domestically and internationally are familiar with the Kyocera Dome Osaka, an indoor sports venue with a capacity of around 40,000 people, it has several K-pop singers have performed there multiple times.

The first program to air shall be the MAMA Awards hold the awards presentation across two days in the Kyocera Dome, and it will be live-streamed throughout the globe on YouTube and other critical international digital platforms. Head of CJ ENM Music Content Division Kim Hyun Soo said, Up to this point, MAMA has continued to explore new possibilities outside the confines of Asia, and in the way, we are convinced that it has acted as an outpost for several K-pop singers to advance to the international arena. We will demonstrate this year that the MAMA Awards is the world’s top K-pop awards show that offers distinctive values and experiences of K-pop around the world through the traditional performances of an awards ceremony that embodies K-pop and shows that can only be seen in 2022 MAMA. Numerous well-known K-pop acts, including girl groups Espa, Brave Girls, ITZY, and Kep1er, boy groups TOMORROW X TOGETHER, Stray Kids, ATEEZ, ENHYPEN, JO1, and INI, and two subgroups of NCT, NCT Hope, and NCT. One hundred twenty-seven participated as performers the previous year. Ed Sheeran, an English singer-songwriter and international superstar, also appeared on stage, setting the standard for the award ceremonies.

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MAMA Award History

This November, the K-pop-focused MAMA Awards will come back with a two-day celebration in Japan. On November 29 and 30, the awards presentation will take place at the Kyocera Dome Osaka. The music awards event produced by South Korean entertainment company CJ ENM, formerly known as the Mnet Asian Music Awards, or MAMA for short, officially changed its name this year to the MAMA Awards. The MAMA Awards, which are presented by the South Korean TV network Mnet, were first known as the Mnet KM Music Festival in 1999.

BTS, a boy band, is the most honoured act at the MAMA Awards. Since its creation in 2013, they have won 17 major awards, including artist of the year and song of the year. While the awards show focuses primarily on South Korean music, it acknowledges musical talent and music industry creatives and executives throughout Asia. It has held events in various Asian cities, including Hong Kong. The MAMA Awards of this year will be televised globally. They will be viewable in multiple areas on YouTube. 5 K-pop anthems from BTS to Girls Generation for individuals standing up for a cause. The announcement comes after KCON LA 2022, another CJ ENM-produced pop culture event that just ended in Los Angeles, California. Over 90,000 people attended the convention and several shows for three days, and over seven million individuals watched the events digitally.

The Mnet Music Video Festival, a music video award show based on the MTV Video Music Awards was established in 1999. It was titled the Mnet KM Music Video Festival in 2004 after merging with the KMTV Korean Music Awards. Due to the popularity of Hallyu towards the middle of the 2000s, the awards show gained considerable international attention, and in 2008 it was broadcast in China and Japan. The Mnet Asian Music Awards were given their current moniker in 2009 to reflect its expansion beyond South Korea. MAMA was first held outside of South Korea in Macau in 2010. MAMA was held in Singapore the following year, in 2011, and from 2012 through 2017, it was held in Hong Kong. The awards ceremony was extended to four nights in 2017, and in addition to Hong Kong, elements of the event were also held in Vietnam and Japan. The MAMA had three parts. In 2018 it took place in three different nations; South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong shared hosting duties for the MAMA for the first time in nine years. Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, MAMA was only conducted online in South Korea in 2020. Ilgan Sports stated on July 20, 2021, that plans were being made for the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards to take place in Hong Kong despite the current pandemic and travel restrictions. The announcement comes after KCON LA 2022, another CJ ENM-produced pop culture event that just ended in Los Angeles, California. Over three days, over 90,000 people attended the convention and several shows, and over seven million individuals watched the events digitally.

MAMA 2021 Event

The most significant annual K-pop awards ceremony, the MAMA show, will feature a reunion of Want a One? The Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs), based in South Korea, will be redesigned in 2021, according to the event organizers. On December 11, at 5 PM in Hong Kong, the 2021 MAMAS, which is hosted by South Korean media giant CJ ENM and telecast on Mnet, will be broadcast globally. The event’s host will be singer Lee Hyori. Because of the popularity of his pop hit Bad Habits, which is particularly well-liked in South Korea, and his co-writing on BTS; smash hit Permission to Dance, Ed Sheeran will be a special guest in addition to several of the biggest names in K-pop who are scheduled to play. Additionally, the boy group Wanna One will play. They broke up in 2018 after it was discovered that Mnets highly polarising Produce 101 series had rigged the final lineups of several K-pop teams that emerged from it, including Wanna One. There will also be competitors from the well-known Street Woman Fighter dancing competition.

The MAMA event this year will change the format of the awards show as Mnet works to bolster its claim that it is; the Worlds No. 1 K-pop music awards celebration, MAMA is anticipated to stop being a regional event and instead expand to become a global one. While the MAMAs will take place in Seoul this year, and the show has previously been held in many places throughout Asia, Mnet also plans to host the occasion in The United States in the future. The award ceremony has also updated its metrics for awards, shifting away from being primarily fan vote-driven and metric-based award events and pivoting to including expert and industry judges for its principal categories. While fan voting, music earnings, and streaming will still be considered, the MAMA will move toward an expert panel in 2021. Three of the highest awards—artist of the year, song of the year, and album of the year—will be decided by metrics and the views of selected industry experts. Major prizes like the global fans choice of top 10 awards and the international symbol of the year will be selected solely by fan voting. The switch to panel judging is ostensibly an effort to increase openness and creative validation and comes after a history of Mnet programs being charged with ignoring fan voting choices.

MAMA Award Controversies

One hour before the awards ceremony started in 2007, Lee Min-woo and Shin Hye-sung from the group Shinhwa decided not to attend the event. Later, according to Shin, they fled because they didn’t believe the contest would reasonably choose the victors. The event organizer, SM Production boycotted the 2009 awards ceremony, and none of its performers attended. Both companies claimed that worries about the impartiality of the voting process were the driving force behind their boycott. According to SM Entertainment, Girls. A generation had consistently held the top spot on music charts for nine weeks, yet the group had never won Mnets weekly M Countdown music competition. The company was also against a smartphone survey that required money from respondents.

MAMA Award Broadcasting

13 Asian nations receive live broadcasts of the program. It is shown in South Korea on Mnet and several CJ E& M networks. In addition to these, the telecast is also broadcast on JOOX.com., Mnet Japan, Mnet Smart, and au Smart Pass, Viu TVsix, ViuTV, as well as via.tv, Friday Video & Friday Music, MeWATCH, Indosiar & video.

MAMA Award Event

Video Music Awards on Mnet (1999)
Music Video Festival on Mnet (2000–2003)
KM Music Video Festival on Mnet (2004–2005)
KM Music Festival on Mnet (2006–2008)
Asian Music Awards on Mnet (2009–2021)
MAMA Honors (2022–present)
MAMA Current Award Categories
Years Best Artist (2005–present)
Years Best Album (2006–present)
Sing-Off winner (2006–gift)
Male Soloist of the Year (1999–2001, 2003–present)
Female soloist of the year (1999–present)
Excellent Male Group (1999–2011)
Favourite female group (2000–2005, 2007–gift)
Newest Male Best (2011–present)
Most unknown Female Best (2011–present)
Favourite female group (2000–2005, 2007–present)
Most unknown Male Best (2011–present)
Newest Female Best (2011–present)
Best Solo Musical Performance (2010–present)
Best Male Dance Group Presentation (2010–present)
Best female dance group performance (2010–present)
Best Solo Vocal Performance (2010–present)
The best vocal ensemble (2010–present)
A band most excellent performance (2010–present)
Favourite rap or hip-hop performance (1999–present)
Top OST (2004, 2008–2009, 2011–present)
Excellent music video (2006–present)
Asia’s hottest artists (2011–present)
Best Up-and-Coming Asian Soloist (2011–present)
Favorite Group of Asian Artists (2011–present)
Asia’s Top Artist (2011–present)
Fashion in Music (2011–present)

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