K-pop superstars BTS and Taeyeon win big at the Seoul Music Awards 2020
From this year, the Seoul Music Awards will have two grand prizewinners: one for best album and another for best digital music
At an awards ceremony at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on Thursday night, the seven-strong band received the highest accolade for “Map of the Soul: Persona”, which was released in April 2019. The band did not attend the event.
The group topped the Billboard 200 main albums chart for the first edition of the “Map of the Soul” series in 2019, with its album sales reaching a record 3.7 million copies in South Korea.
Starting this year, the Seoul Music Awards now has two grand prizewinners: one for best album and another for best digital music.
Meanwhile, Taeyeon, a member of K-pop girl group Girls’ Generation, was awarded the grand prize for digital music for her single Four Seasons, which was released in May 2019.
It is the second time that the singer has taken the top prize at the Seoul Music Awards since 2011, when Girls’ Generation was named atop for two straight years.