The Mnet Asian Music Awards are revamping in 2021, organisers of the annual South Korea-based award show announced.
The boy band Wanna One will also be performing. They disbanded in 2018 after Mnet’s highly contentious Produce 101 series was proved to have rigged the final line-ups of several K-pop teams that came out of it, including Wanna One.This year’s MAMA event will take the award show in a new direction as Mnet aims to solidify its claim the show is “the World’s No 1 K-pop music awards ceremony”.
While music sales and streams will still be taken into account, and fan voting will determine some categories, 2021 sees MAMA shifting towards an expert panel: three of the top awards will be determined based on metrics and the votes of industry experts invited to participate: artist of the year, song of the year, and album of the year.