Place your bets for Best Female And Male Group at MAMA

Quote from leavessick

My bet is NCT (yes the whole) Best Male Group and for Female Group Brave Girls.

Red Velvet won BFG in 2017 despite having less physical and digital sales than TWICE, so in 2021 MAMA might give it to Brave Girls due to their big impact. TWICE is also a big contender.

If MAMA consider NCT 127 and NCT DREAM as solely NCT for the award they might snatch it, also Mnet and SM are in good terms so the chances are higher. SEVENTEEN is a big contender as well.

Brave Girls for sure.

Quote from leavessick

Red Velvet won BFG in 2017 despite having less physical and digital sales than TWICE, so in 2021 MAMA might give it to Brave Girls due to their big impact. TWICE is also a big contender.

Wouldn't aespa be a contender too?

Depends... last year MAMA gave out two awards essentially for male group and female group

they had

Favorite Male Group and Female Group and Best Male and Female Group

Favorite Male and Female Group was completely non-votable and they don't give a criteria for it so essentially MAMA gives it to whoever they want-- that went to NCT and IZ*ONE last year

Best Male and Female Group has the same criteria as Artist of the Year which is 30% Voting, 30% judges, 20% music sales (digital), 20% record sales (physicals).

BTS and Blackpink got it last year

aespa's performance at award shows this year's depends on whether CJ or Kakao are getting LSM's shares imo. They have ROTY in the bag but for SOTY I think that's certainly a factor

to add on from my thing. I personally think they'll do the same as last year and have 2. BTSs digitals for Butter alone are more than both nct units combined, physical wise NCT combined would only be slightly ahead cause of well pretty much 4 times the amount of releases being counted (2xdream, 2xNCT127 vs 1 CD for BTS).

so lets say NCT gets 20% of the physicals... BTS won't get much less while the gap between NCT and BTS digitally is much bigger than that combined physical gap (this is all assuming NCT is combined). voting wise, BTS will likely be ahead with a decent margin. I essentially think the digital gap and voting gap between the two will give BTS the advantage towards the award. So it may just be a repeat of last year with

NCT - Fav male group

BTS - Best male group

GG wise i'm honestly not sure

they should give it to aespa, otherwise it is rigged.

SHINee for best boys

OMG for best girls

Best Male Group: BTS

Best Female Group: Aespa, but if not them, then Brave Girls.

Best female group: IU

Is NCT nominated as a whole or as sub-units?

BTS will win Best Group.

Aespa Vs Brave girls tbh. Aespa might get it with album sales.

Stayc and TXT

aespa should win for girls, but since they will be winning rookie mama will probably try to divide awards (honstley tho they deserve Soty, best gg and top rookie awards if we`re honest)

Even tho i would love nct winning they would get so much hate so i`m not sure :shyy: bts will probably win Aoty so hopefully nct doesn`t get hate if they win best male group award, again mama will try to divide awards anyways.. or it might be 17

Quote from omnimorphism

Best female group: IU

Well Celebrity had IU and was it Jidong.

Coin had IU and MC G Silver.

So why not?

NCT? I don't think so. No one beats ARMYs in voting, and BTS has the most digitals and physicals for any group this year.

Female Group should go to aespa or Brave Girls, two of the biggest success stories of the year.