The full list of nominations for the 2024 MAMA Awards (Mnet Asian Music Awards) was announced on October 14, attracting considerable attention.
However, fans of some artists have since voiced their complaints, feeling that their favorites had been “robbed” of legitimate nominations in certain categories. Among the most vocal are fans of YG girl group BABYMONSTER and BLACKPINK’s Lisa.
In particular, these people pointed out that MAMA suddenly changed its criteria for Best Music Video, resulting in BABYMONSTER and Lisa, who had previously been predicted among the likely winners, not getting any nominations in this category.
Meanwhile, ATEEZ was not nominated for any categories aside from Worldwide Fan’s Choice and Album of the Year, shocking fans of the group as 2024 was a breakout year for the boy group, who also appeared at Coachella.
It’s crazy that it took Ateez performing at Coachella, Mawazine and their song going mega mega viral for mom to JUST give Ateez a good nomination…
— 🐇 (@NotBonkyP) October 14, 2024
Additionally, despite its excellent chart performance, LE SSERAFIM’s “Perfect Night” was not nominated for song of the year, and the girl group’s next song, “Crazy”, received a nomination instead.
Perfect Night is not nominated for SOTY when it is the song with the most points and nominated for CRAZY when it was released 1 month ago and has almost no points.
We expected them to be ripped off by the judges but they have been ripped off before.
— gabrii⚡ (@mythssera) October 14, 2024
Since “Crazy” was released much later and ranked lower on the Korean charts, many fans suspected that MAMA named this song instead of “Perfect Night” to snub LE SSERAFIM of victory.
Besides that, groups like DAY6 and QWER, who have been topping Korean charts for months, are also missing from the nomination list, infuriating fans and netizens.
Source: X, Krb
