Big Bang won @ 2012 Soompi Gayo Awards

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment you have been waiting for: the results of the 2012 Soompi Gayo Awards! This is already our eighth year hosting this event to recognize the top performers and songs in K-Pop this past year. Note that the complete results of the gayo awards will be broadcasted by our partner MYX TV in January. We will have the details on the air date soon.

Thanks to PSY’s “Gangnam Style,” K-Pop music was able to jump into the next level of worldwide popularity. As PSY has previously mentioned, there are so many hard working artists in K-Pop that he is glad to ride along this “hallyu” wave which grows bigger each day. 2012 was certainly an unforgettable year for K-Pop.

All the artists that were nominated for this year’s awards have achieved great successes throughout various charts in 2012. Since there are so many talented artists, many popular names are still left out in the end.

Let’s get right to the awards.

Top 10 Artists Of 2012:

This award is scored based on 50% from our weekly music chart and 50% from our fan voting took place from December 19 to 27. The ten artists with the highest combined scores are named “2012 Top 10 Artists.” Here they are in alphabetical order:

2NE1
Beast
Big Bang
K.Will
miss A
PSY
Sistar
Super Junior
T-Ara
TaeTiSeo

Note that one of these 10 artists who has the highest combined chart and voting scores will be crowned “2012 Artist Of The Year”. We’ll save the announcement of this big award until the end.

TOP 50 SONGS OF 2012:

 

10. Big Bang – Fantastic Baby

Score: 5144
Genre: R&B
Music: Teddy, G Dragon / Lyrics: G Dragon
Album: Big Bang Mini Album Vol. 5
Watch: MV

13. G-Dragon - Crayon (Score: 4921)

Top Male Singer:

Gold: K.Will (11380 points)
Silver: Psy (11302 points)
Bronze: G-Dragon (6124 points)

Top Male Group:
Gold: Big Bang (15550 points)
Silver: Teen Top (8911 points)
Bronze: FT Island (7625 points)

Netizen Awards: G-Dragon (Male Singer)

Mini-Album Of The Year: 

Big Bang 5th mini-album - Alive

There are six songs on this mini-album and YG Entertainment made a smart choice naming each as a promoted title song. All six songs were simultaneously on our chart for several weeks, making this an easy choice for mini-album of the year.

Chart Champion:

Big Bang

With a total chart score of 15550, Big Bang is the king of our chart in 2012. They won this award over T-Ara’s 14902 points, a pretty close battle.

Artist Of The Year:

Big Bang

Big Bang was first place on chart score and third place on voting score. This gave them a score of 955 points out of 1000 to take home the grand prize: the 2012 Artist Of The Year Award. What a year for Big Bang as they won the top male group, top mini-album, chart champion, and artist of the year awards. Congratulations!

Here are the complete breakdown on the artist of the year scores among the top 10 artists:

Artist: Big Bang
Chart: 500
Vote: 455
Total: 955

source: soompi