2024 Summer Music Awards – Nominations

By deforestedmusic on 24 Aug 2024

Starting 2021, we will acknowledge what shaped the summer of every Korean music fan worldwide. This is the mission of the Summer Music Awards. We are back this year for more, and this time around it is going to be hot as you've never seen before.

We would like to present the nominees of this year's Summer Music Awards. This year, the Summer Music Awards eligibility period is from May 27, 2024 - August 16, 2024. The award will be based on the votes of music critics from various blogs around the world specializing in Korean or East Asian music.

General Field (Daesang)

Hot Summer Artist

aespa
ATEEZ
ENHYPEN
Kep1er
NAYEON
NewJeans
Red Velvet
RIIZE
Stray kids
TWS

Hot Summer Album

(Dall) [ARTMS]
ATE (Stray Kids)
COSMIC (Red Velvet)
Golden Hour: Part. 1 (ATEEZ)
Kep1going On (Kep1er)
LOOP (Yves)
NA (NAYEON)
ROMANCE: UNTOLD (ENHYPEN)
SUMMER BEAT! (TWS)

Hot Summer Song

abcd (NAYEON)
Boom Boom Bass (RIIZE)
Cosmic (Red Velvet)
hey! hey! (TWS)
Koegawari (&TEAM)
L (The Volunteers)
ROCKSTAR (LISA)
SHOCK [ALL(H)OURS]
Shooting Star (Kep1er)
XO (ENHYPEN)

Hot Summer Debut

ALL(H)OURS
ARTMS
B.D.U
BIG OCEAN
DIGNITY
EVNNE
RIIZE
TWS
UNIS
Waterfire

Genre Field

Hot Summer Alternative

Dummy (ARrC)
Forever (BABYMONSTER)
Gold River (Parannoul)
Lullaby for a Memory (Fax Gang & Parannoul)
ROCKSTAR (LISA)

Hot Summer Pop

BLOW (BIG OCEAN)
Boom Boom Bass (RIIZE)
Cool Down (DIGNITY)
Cosmic (Red Velvet)
If I'm S, Can You Be My N? (TWS)
Shooting Star (Kep1er)
Supernatural (NewJeans)

Hot Summer Dance

Jealousy (Rocky)
LOOP (Yves)
SABOTAGE (Kwon Eunbi)
SHOCK [ALL(H)OURS]
Virtual Angel (ARTMS)

Hot Summer Rap

Double Take (TWS)
Dummy (ARrC)
ROCKSTAR (LISA)
Walk (NCT 127)
Work (ATEEZ)

Hot Summer R&B

abcd (NAYEON)
Koegawari (&TEAM)
Sticky (KISS OF LIFE)
Stoplight (SUMIN & Slom)
XO (ENHYPEN)

Hot Summer Rock

Gold River (Parannoul)
hey! hey! (TWS)
Justice (DREAMCATCHER)
L (The Volunteers)
LOVE and FEAR (Xdinary Heroes)
Lullaby for a Memory (Fax Gang & Parannoul)
Waterfall (Lee Seungyoon)

Technical Field

Hot Summer Video

Armageddon (aespa)
Chk Chk Boom (Stray Kids)
Cosmic (Red Velvet)
If I'm S, Can You Be My N? (TWS)
ROCKSTAR (LISA)
SHOCK (ALL(H)OURS)

Hot Summer Style

&TEAM
aespa
ARTMS
Parannoul
TWS

Hot Summer Performance

abcd (NAYEON)
Armageddon (aespa)
Boom Boom Bass (RIIZE)
hey! hey! (TWS)
SHOCK [ALL(H)OURS]

Hot Summer Producer

3RACHA
EL CAPITXN
Parannoul
Pdogg
T-SK

Hot Summer Writer

3RACHA
Ben Samama
Gabriel Brandes
KENZIE
Kim Jaejoong

The winners of the 2024 Summer Music Awards will be announced here on deforestedmusic on August 31, 2024. Thank you for participating and see you around the summer wave!