The Fact Music Awards

The Fact Music Awards
The Fact Music Awards
	Official poster for the 2023 award ceremony
Awarded for	Contributions to the Hallyu wave
Country	South Korea
Presented by	The Fact and Fan N Star
First awarded	April 24, 2019; 5 years ago
Website	TMA

The Fact Music Awards (Korean: 더팩트 뮤직 어워즈; abbreviated as TMA) is an awards ceremony hosted by The Fact and organized by Fan N Star that recognizes major contributors to the Hallyu wave.^[1] Established in 2019, The Fact Music Awards determines its winners through objective data from Circle Chart (formerly Gaon Music Charts), a panel of judges, and the support and participation scores of fans at home and abroad.^[2]

The awards ceremony broadcasts across Asia through multiple channels including both V Live and ABS-CBN.^[3]

The December 2020 ceremony was replaced by an online ceremony for awards in all categories in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent further spread of the virus and to ensure the safety of both fans and artists.^[4]

Ceremonies

Edition	Date	Venue	City	Host(s)	Ref.
1st	April 24, 2019	Namdong Gymnasium in Incheon	Incheon, South Korea	Jun Hyun-moo and Seohyun	^[5]^[6]
2nd	March 16, 2020	Online Announcement			^[7]^[8]
3rd	December 12, 2020	Online Ceremony (On-tact)		Jun Hyun-moo and Seohyun	^[9]^[10]
4th	October 2, 2021	Online Ceremony (On-tact)		Seohyun, Shin Dong-yup, and Boom	^[11]^[12]
5th	October 8, 2022	KSPO Dome	Seoul, South Korea	Jun Hyun-moo and Seohyun	^[13]^[14]
6th	October 10, 2023	Namdong Gymnasium in Incheon	Incheon, South Korea		^[15]^[16]
7th	September 7–8, 2024	Kyocera Dome Osaka	Osaka, Japan		^[17]

Grand Prize (Daesang)

Edition	Year	Winner
1st	2018	BTS
2nd	2019
3rd	2020
4th	2021
5th	2022
6th	2023	Seventeen
7th	2024	aespa

Artist of the Year (Bonsang)

Edition	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2018	BTS	NU'EST	Mamamoo	Monsta X	Twice	Red Velvet	Chungha	iKon	GFriend	Momoland	—	—	—
2nd	2019	BTS	NU'EST	Mamamoo	Monsta X	Twice	Red Velvet	Chungha	Super Junior	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	2020	BTS	NU'EST	Mamamoo	Monsta X	Twice	Seventeen	Kang Daniel	Super Junior	Iz*One	Hwasa	Got7	—	—
4th	2021	BTS	Stray Kids	Ateez	Itzy	Brave Girls	Seventeen	Kang Daniel	Super Junior	Oh My Girl	The Boyz	TXT	Astro	Enhypen
5th	2022	BTS	Stray Kids	Ateez	Itzy	Lim Young-woong	Psy	Kang Daniel	Treasure	Ive	The Boyz	TXT	NCT Dream	(G)I-dle
6th	2023	NewJeans	Stray Kids	Ateez	Itzy	Lim Young-woong	Seventeen	aespa	Treasure	Ive	Nmixx	—	—	—
7th	2024	NewJeans	NiziU	TWS	Itzy	Kim Jae Joong	JO1	aespa	—	—	—	—	—	—

Best Performer Award

Edition	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2018	Mamamoo	Monsta X	—
2nd	2019	(G)I-dle	Stray Kids	The Boyz
3rd	2020	Itzy	Jessi	TXT
4th	2021	Seventeen	—	—
5th	2022	Ateez	NCT Dream	—
6th	2023	Kwon Eun-bi	IVE	Jannabi
7th	2024	Itzy	NewJeans	—

Next Leader Award

Edition	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2018	(G)I-dle	Stray Kids	The Boyz
2nd	2019	Itzy	TXT	—
3rd	2020	Cravity	Enhypen	Weeekly^[18]
4th	2021	STAYC	—	—
5th	2022	Ive	Le Sserafim	NewJeans
6th	2023	Zerobaseone	Riize	—
7th	2024	TWS	NCT Wish	—

Worldwide Icon Award

Edition	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2018	Red Velvet	Twice
2nd	2019	Super Junior	—
3rd	2020	BTS	Seventeen
4th	2021	Super Junior	—
5th	2022	NCT Dream	—
6th	2023	aespa	—
7th	2024	NewJeans	—

Popularity Award

Edition	Year	Winner
1st	2018	BTS
2nd	2019	BTS
3rd	2020	Super Junior
4th	2021	BTS
5th	2022	BTS
6th	2023	Jimin
7th	2024	JO1

Listener's Choice Award

Edition	Year	Winner
2nd	2019	BTS
3rd	2020
4th	2021
5th	2022	NCT Dream
6th	2023	NewJeans
7th	2024	aespa

Global Hot-Trend Award

Edition	Year	Winner(s)
3rd	2020	Ateez	(G)I-dle	Stray Kids	The Boyz
4th	2021	Cravity	Weeekly	—	—
5th	2022	TNX	Kep1er	—	—
6th	2023	BoyNextDoor	Xikers	—	—
7th	2024	EVNNE	Xikers	n.SSign	Kiss of Life

Best Music

Edition	Year	Spring	Summer	Fall	Winter
6th	2023	Lee Chan-won	BTS	V	Lim Young-woong
7th	2024	V	Lim Young-woong	—	Lim Young-woong

Hot Stage of the Year

Edition	Year	Winner(s)
5th	2022	Psy
7th	2024	Kim Jae-joong

Other Awards

Edition	Year	Award	Winner(s)
1st	2018	Best Album	BTS's Love Yourself: Answer
		Best Song	iKon's "Love Scenario"
		Fan Rising Star	A.C.E
2nd	2019	Band Performer of the Year	IZ
7th	2024	Hottest	Unis	NEXZ
		Hot Potential	Wooah	Young Posse
		Global Generation Award	Kep1er	&TEAM
		Musinsa Popularity Award	NewJeans
		Today’s Choice	TWS	Unis

Fan N Star Awards

(Determined through fan votes)

Fan N Star Angel N Star Award

Edition	Year	Winner
5th	2022	Kim Ho-joong	Lim Young-woong	Young Tak
7th	2024	Lim Young-Woong

Fan N Star Choice Award

Edition	Year	Winner
Edition	Year	Group	Individual
1st	2018	Super Junior	Kang Daniel
2nd	2019		Kang Daniel
3rd	2020		Hwang Chi-yeul
4th	2021		Hwang Chi-yeul
5th	2022	BTS	Jin
6th	2023	BTS	Lim Young-woong
7th	2024	PLAVE	Lim Young-woong

Fan N Star Four N Star Award

Edition	Year	Winner
5th	2022	Stray Kids
6th	2023
7th	2024

Fan N Star Global Award

Edition	Year	Winner
5th	2022	BTS

Fan N Star Most Votes Award

Edition	Year	Winner
Edition	Year	Group	Individual
1st	2018	Super Junior	—	Kang Daniel
2nd	2019			Kang Daniel
3rd	2020			Hwang Chi-yeul
4th	2021	BTS	Lim Young-woong
5th	2022
6th	2023			—

Fan N Star Trot Popularity Award

Edition	Year	Winner
3rd	2020	Lim Young-woong
4th	2021
5th	2022

Fan N Star Best Ads. Award

Edition	Year	Winner
3rd	2020	Lim Young-woong
4th	2021
5th	2022
6th	2023

Fan N Star Hall of Fame Award

Edition	Year	Winner(s)
Edition	Year	Group	Individual
1st	2018	Super Junior	Eunhyuk
		NU'EST	JR
		NU'EST	Aron
		—	Kang Daniel
		—	Kim Jae-joong
4th	2021	Super Junior	—

Fan N Star Special Award

Edition	Year	Winner
2nd	2019	Yang Joon-il

Most Wins

Rank	Artist(s)	Awards
1	BTS	26
2	Lim Young-woong	18
3	Super Junior	15
4	Stray Kids	9
5	Kang Daniel	8
6	NewJeans	7
6	Itzy	7
7	Seventeen	6
8	Hwang Chi-yeul	5
	The Boyz
	Ateez
	aespa

General references

April 24, 2019, Winners:^[19]
March 16, 2020, Winners:^[20]
December 12, 2020, Winners:^[21]
October 2, 2021, Winners:^[22]
October 8, 2022, Winners:^[23]
October 10, 2023, Winners:^[24]

References

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[2] "The Fact Music Awards: About Event". The Fact Music Awards. December 27, 2020. Archived from the original on September 20, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2020.

[3] "The Fact Music Awards [Fan:Tact]". The Fact Music Awards. December 27, 2020. Archived from the original on December 20, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.

[4] "몬스타엑스·세븐틴·슈퍼주니어, 올해의 아티스트상 수상[2020 더팩트뮤직어워즈]". MBN (in Korean). December 12, 2020. Archived from the original on May 4, 2021. Retrieved May 4, 2021.

[5] "전현무x서현, 더팩트 뮤직어워드 MC 확정..방탄소년단에 아이콘까지 [공식]". Osen (in Korean). April 4, 2019. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2020.

[6] "2018 U+5G The Fact Music Awards Winners". The Fact Music Awards. April 24, 2019. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.

[7] "방탄소년단, 음악 시상식 대상 추가…'더팩트 뮤직 어워즈' 4관왕". The Korea Times (in Korean). March 16, 2020. Archived from the original on January 3, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2020.

[8] "2019 The Fact Music Awards Winners". The Fact Music Awards. March 16, 2020. Archived from the original on January 18, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2020.

[9] "[TMA D-17] 전현무·서현, '2020 더팩트 뮤직 어워즈' MC 재회…온택트 시대 더 눈부실 케미". The Fact (in Korean). November 25, 2020. Archived from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved December 23, 2020.

[10] "'2020 더팩트뮤직어워즈' 방탄소년단 3년 연속 대상 수상 [종합]". TV Daily (in Korean). December 12, 2020. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2020.

[11] Jeong Byung-geun (July 26, 2021). "'2021 더팩트 뮤직 어워즈', 10월 2일 개최…"전 세계 팬과 온택트로"" ['2021 The Fact Music Awards' to be held on October 2nd... "On-tact with fans all over the world"]. The Fact (in Korean). Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved July 26, 2021.

[12] "신동엽·서현 '2021 TMA' MC 발탁…붐 스페셜MC" [Shin Dong-yup·Seohyun selected as MCs for '2021 TMA'... Boom Special MC]. MBN (in Korean). September 23, 2021. Archived from the original on September 23, 2021. Retrieved September 23, 2021.

[13] 더보이즈→아이브 등…'2022 더팩트 뮤직 어워즈(TMA)' 1차 라인업 공개 (in Korean). August 18, 2022. Archived from the original on September 5, 2022. Retrieved September 5, 2022.

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[17] Jeong, Byeong-geun (July 22, 2024). "'더팩트 뮤직 어워즈', ITZY‧에스파‧뉴진스‧투어스 등 출격" ['The Fact Music Awards' features ITZY, Aespa, New Jeans, Tws, etc.]. The Fact (in Korean). Retrieved July 22, 2024.

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