Winners of the 2026 23rd Korean Music Awards (KMA)

Best Pop Song Nominees:

Yerin Baek - MIRROR

Lee Chanhyuk - Endangered Love

Lim Hyunjung - The Road to Me Is Beautiful

Jowall - Your Love as My Pretext (feat. Haepa)

HWASA - Good Goodbye

Winner: Lee Chanhyuk - Endangered Love

Best Pop Album

Nominees:

Yerin Baek - Flash and Core

Song Sohee - Re:5

Lee Chanhyuk - EROS

Lim Hyunjung - Extraordinary

Hyelyn Joo - stereo

Winner: Lee Chanhyuk - EROS

Best K-Pop Song

Nominees:

Le Sserafim - Spaghetti (feat. j-hope of BTS)

ALLDAY PROJECT - FAMOUS

NMIXX - Blue Valentine

JENNIE - like JENNIE

Hearts2Hearts - FOCUS

Winner: JENNIE - like JENNIE

Best K-Pop Album

Nominees:

MARK - The Firstfruit - The 1st Album

NMIXX - Blue Valentine

NMIXX - Fe304: FORWARD

JENNIE - Ruby

Chaeyoung (TWICE) - LIL FANTASY vol.1

Winner: JENNIE - Ruby

Rookie of the Year

Nominees:

Gongwon

RAKUNELAMA

ALLDAY PROJECT

Woo Huijun

Peach Truck Hijackers

Winner: Woo Huijiun

Artist of the Year

Nominees:

Effie

NMIXX

Lee Chanhyuk

JENNIE

HANRORO

Winner: HANRORO

Song of the Year

Nominees:

NMIXX - Blue Valentine

Woo Huijin - spacious house

Lee Chanhyuk - Endangered Love

JENNIE - like JENNIE

CHUDAHYE CHAGIS - Heosse!

Winner: Lee Chanhyuk - Endangered Love

Album of the Year:

Nominees:

Kwon Tree - The Fragrance of Life

Effie - pullup to busan 4 morE hypER summEr it's gonna bEa fuckin moviE

Woo Huijin - pumping of heart is torturing

Lee Chanhyuk - EROS

JENNIE - Ruby

CHUDAHYE CHAGIS - SOSUMINJOK

Winner: CHUDAHYE CHAGIS - SOSUMINJOK

Source (and more winners if interested):

https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%A0%9C23%ED%9A%8C%20%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EB%8C%80%EC%A4%91%EC%9D%8C%EC%95%85%EC%83%81

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