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MKMF is now MAMA

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Parkmeister in Concerts / Events | 23 Oct 2009 - 07:38 AM

 
MKMF is now MAMA

The year 2009 was like a gust of wind that has brought along tons of new girls groups, but whose hand will MAMA (no pun intended but that's the acronym) hold now?

Major Korean music channel Mnet has announced that their Mnet Korean Music Festival (MKMF) will now be renamed as Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA)!

Mnet announced on October 23 that the live broadcast will change its concept and the way they will handle how people may vote for which artist wins the award.

Mnet also announced that Park Ji Yoon, SG Wannabe's Kim Yong Jun and Lee Seok Hoon will become the new MC's of the event.

MAMA Mcs

Mnet is planning on handing out the "Rookie Female Group Award," to the following nominees: 2NE1, 4minute, After School, f(x), and last but not least, T-ara.

Rookie Female Group nominees

Having seen the five groups show up suddenly and made a comet-like impact upon the K-Pop world, many are extremely curious as to who will MAMA choose to be the rookie female group of the year.

The live broadcast of the 2009 MAMA will take place on November 21 at Seoul's Jamsil Stadium. People that live outside of Korea, don't give your hopes up yet, because there's a reason why MAMA is titled MAMA! Via Channel V International, the event will be broadcasted in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and Thailand.

The special main event will be the "Global Artist Award." In addition, another major change is that the Trot genre will be added on along with the other Pop music awards.

There will be a total of 7 categories of artists, 7 categories of genres, and 2 categories of music video nominations during the event. In addition, there will be a total of 30 awards for each nominated song.

People may start voting on October 23, 2009 through the Mnet homepage.

Full nominee's list

Criteria: Album sales and chart standings from October 15th, 2008 through October 22nd 2009.

Best Male Newcomer
• BEAST
• Supreme Team
• MBLAQ
• Chung Lim
• Taegoon


Best Female Newcomer
• 2NE1
• After School
• T-ara
• 4minute
• f(x)


Best Male Singer
• Drunken Tiger
• Rain
• Lee Seung Chul
• G-Dragon
• MC Mong


Best Female Singer
• Bada
• Baek Ji Young
• Son Dambi
• Younha
• Chae Yeon


Best Male Group
• 2PM
• Big Bang
• Super Junior
• SG Wannabe
• SS501


Best Female Group
• Davichi
• Brown Eyed Girls
• SNSD
• Jewelry
• KARA


Best Mixed Group
• Roo’Ra
• 8eight
• Koyote
• Cool
• Clazziquai


Best Rock Music Award
• Buhwal (I remember 생각이나)
• Seo Taiji (Juliet)
• Jang Giha and the Faces (Living with nothing special)
• Cherry Filter (Pianissimo)
• FT Island (I Hope)


Best Hip-Hop Group Award
• Dynamic Duo (Dead Guy)
• Drunken Tiger (Monster)
• LeeSsang (The Girl Who Can't Break Up, The Boy Who Can't Leave)
• Outsider (Alone)
• Epik High (Wannabe)


Best Ballad/R&B Music Award
• Kim Jong Kook (Today More Than Yesterday)
• Kim TaeWoo (Love Rain)
• Bobby Kim (Love, the guy)
• Park Hyo Shin (After Love)
• Baek Ji Young (Like being hit by a bullet)


Best Dance Music Award
• 2NE1 (I Don’t Care)
• 2PM (Again & Again)
• SNSD (Gee)
• Super Junior (Sorry)
• KARA (Honey)


Best House & Electronic Music Award
• Brown Eyed Girls (Abracadabra)
• Son Dambi (Saturday Night)
• Clazziquai (Love Again)
• 4minute (Muzik)
• G-Dragon (Heartbreaker)


Best Trot Music Award
• Gyeon Miri (Happy Woman)
• Park Hyun Bin (Brilliant Life)
• Seong JinYoo (딱이야)
• Joo HyunMi and Seohyun (JjaRaJaJjan)
• Hong JinYeong (Love’s Battery)


Best O.S.T Award
• Baek Ji Young (Don’t Forget - IRIS)
• Lee Seung Chul (No more love like this - Blue Love Story)
• T-Max (Paradise - Boys Over Flowers)
• Tiffany (I’m Alone - JaMyungGo)
• SS501 (Because I’m Stupid - Boys Over Flowers)


Best MV Award
• 2NE1 (Fire)
• LeeSsang (The Girl Who Can't Break Up, The Boy Who Can't Leave)
• Bada (Mad)
• Seo Taiji (Juliet)
• D.N.G (Step 2 Me)


Best MV Director Award
• Seo Hyun Seung
• Jang Jae Hyuk
• Jo Soo Hyun
• Joo Hee Seon
• Hong Won Ki



  
 

Tags: mnet, mkmf, mama

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Comments

thatonekoreanmusicfan's avatar

FIRST!

and i knew it! they wouldnt cancel stuff like this haha

 
x.chinopandaa~'s avatar

lol ,,the name xD

 
Summer Time!'s avatar

I like what it stands for and I hope everything is fair~

 
Rawrfia's avatar

I lold when I saw the title.
So glad its not cancelled <3

 
bebesandee04's avatar

2ne1!!  fighting!!!!

 
Lee Hanna ;)'s avatar

i like it
2NE1<3

 
a9nguy2's avatar

I won’t be watching this event, because SNSD won’t be there. would Mnet get over their grudge against SM and SM artists.

 
no avatar

i really hope tat they can come to malaysia just 1 .... cause really less korean event in malaysia

 
Fayoochun's avatar

IT TOTALLY SUCKS.  but i want 2NE1 or f(x) won the Rookie Female Group Award…

 
tikaaaa's avatar

hahah mama!!

 
GMH's avatar

2ne1 will rock the MAMA!~ smile)

nolja!

 
xkewlx's avatar

Rookie Female Group Award = 2NE1

 
no avatar

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........i knew it!............so excited with this…...looking forward what’s in store for the rookies!.......Mnet will never leave us broken….lols….after knowing that there will be no MKMF for this year…it was really…aaaaahhhh….well never mind…..coz MAMA is here!....kekekekekeke…....

 
no avatar

I will wait to see SM ARTISTS on the stage…
and YAYYYYYY! CHANNEL [V] Thailand i will watch it live! ^^

but why not Bang channel in Thailand? This channel is much better !!!

 
Fayoochun's avatar

@a9nguy2 yeah. MAMA boooo.

 
no avatar

21th!yeah its back!!!2ne1!!!!

 
allNice's avatar

LOL MAMA!!!

 
jedskie's avatar

wahahaha!! MAMA?! WHAT THE?! HEHE…
go 2ne1!!! AJA! FIGHTING! ♥♥♥

 
no avatar

oooh this is interesting!!

2NE1 will take rookie award for sure!!!

I have channel V china…. i wonder if i can still watch…

 
Maki...'s avatar

MKMF sounded so much better than this “MAMA”
But anyway I’m sure the rookie award would go to 2ne1

 
Katana's avatar

Tiara for Rookie of the Year Award.

 
HanchulForever's avatar

i love MAMA.. f(x)

 
joongielove's avatar

cool. how i wish i can understand hangul and vote. raspberry

 
2pmthai's avatar

There are many awards 18 right?
could you translate one by one for us please!

 
AprilShowers's avatar

YES! It will be on Channel V! I can watch it without all the waiting for loading and lagging. HECK YES!!! THANK YOU MNET

 
Daikirai's avatar

I thought they didn’t have enough funds for MKMF.. why are they popping up with the same thing, yet just named differently?  o: Maybe it was just a surprised..?

can’t wait~

 
no avatar

can we vote??how???!!i wan to vote for 2ne1!!!i wan them to win~~~

 
aianehae's avatar

dang! can’t w8

definitely 2NE1 will bag the ROOKIE of the year award!

blackjacks! get ready to flaunt our hot pink support for the girls!!!

 
camia's avatar

MAMA?!  :O

 
tikaaaa's avatar

2ne1 will sweep all the awards.. since SM is banned,, ckck how can adults be so immature like that? m biggest question.  what will happen to 2PM?????? their pic is in the head banner, though..

 
kachei's avatar

MAMA? kinda interesting. but i miss MKMF T T are there any changes in the Daesang awards?

 
Soulhead's avatar

I hope that 2pm will be in at least nomination !

Can’t waiiiiiiit for this big,big,big show *_____*

 
dcracela's avatar

GO!!! F(X)!!!
hwaaiting!!

 
no avatar

MNET is a frkn jackass. Banning SM just because SM won’t give in and let them publish and distribute their cds like YG. Rofl, we all know SM wants to keep in their money and hey can’t blame them. It’s their right and decision. MNET is just lame. All they ended up doing was changing the name. And really now, MAMA? Rofl.


Another lame thing. Shinee isn’t up for Male Group. WTF. I might be a Big Bang fan, but they weren’t even active as a group this year. How the hell did they get nominated for that. And SG Wannabe? You gotta be kidding me. Shinee got jipped.


Overall, unless SM and MNET reaches an agreement. SM and their artists will get jipped majorly. WIll they even attend is the question. Ooh, gotta love that Kpop drama -__-

 
Adrie's avatar

Everybody nows that 2NE1 is going to win the rookie :(
sad tough… i expected AS with a big hit :(
but 4 minute is pretty close.

 
boOgwaK!'s avatar

Heya MAMA!!! *sings Spice Girls’ song* ♫ Mama, I love you.. Mama, I care..♫ Bwahahaha

P.S. No doubt, 2NE1 will win the Rookie award. Just a rookie yet I can already see Fire being played on Channel V twice yesterday and once today. LOL

 
marikit's avatar

Even if SM isn’t banned, 2NE1 would most likely bag that ‘rookie’ award…followed by 4minute [if only AS kept on promoting, sigh]. No long discussions there. It’s just unfair for other SM artists, like snsd for example. Mnet could have done better if they fixed their rift with SM.

 
damyoungji's avatar

2NE1 is definitely going to grab the rookie of the year award (: If they don’t, the voting is flawed! Other groups are good, but without a doubt, they have the most love and popularity.

 
SUPERvivien's avatar

2NE1s gonna get it
its soooooooooooooooooooooooo obvious xD

 
no avatar

@36 SM being banned got nothing to do with them not winning or being nominated (unless they do something fishy like the Mnet 20s Choice Awards)
It won’t be the same without any SM artists performing there but I’m hoping that f(x) can win the rookie award (maybe SM town can get together and help each if they aren’t nominated against each other raspberry )
I think that 2PM will also be nominated and they should be, they worked really hard in the first half of the year and will suck if they don’t get nominated (and if they did I hope that HOTTEST will also not boycott this, an Award is something given to an artist for their hard work)

Can’t wait to see it smile

 
no avatar

so foreigners can vote for this? and what are the criteria in choosing the winners? is it based solely on votes?

 
no avatar

i just LOL-ed so hard at the name.. YAY AT LEAST ITS ON <3 somehow i want 4minute 2 beat 2NE1 but thats pmost likely impossible D:

 
cydhcydh's avatar

-Super Junior!!<3
SOrry sorry!!

 
no avatar

@46
2pm are nominated don’t worry. Male Group, Dance Song, and also Song and Artist of the year which I think every artist that is nominated for at least one award are eligible. Honestly, if 2pm don’t bag the Male Group Award, I’mma rage! They were the hottest boyband this year, no doubt. I mean seriously compare what 2pm did this year to what SG Wannabe, ss501 (or Triple S I should say rather) and Big Bang did this year. I’m still sitting here wondering how on earth Big Bang got nominated when they weren’t even active as a group. Of course, it’s MNET. Why should I be surprised T_T


I’ve now calmed down. Seriously, screw MNET. I’ll be waiting for the Golden Disk Awards (LEGIT) in December :D

 


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