12th Circle Chart Music Awards

12th Gaon Chart Music Chart Awards
12th Gaon Chart Music Chart Awards
Date	February 18, 2023
Location	KSPO Dome, Seoul
Hosted by	Doyoung; Miyeon;

The 12th Circle Chart Music Awards ceremony will be held at KSPO Dome in Seoul on February 18, 2023, to recognise the best artists and recordings, primarily based on Circle Music Chart of the year from December 1, 2021, to November 30, 2022.^[1] The ceremony will be hosted by Doyoung and Miyeon.^[2]

On July 7, 2022, it was announced the Gaon Chart Music Awards would be renamed to the Circle Chart Music Awards.^[3]

Winners and nominees

Nominees^[4]^[5]^[6]

Main awards

Artist of the Year – Global Digital Music
December 2021	January 2022
Ive – "Eleven" Aespa – "Dreams Come True" Be'O – "Counting Stars" (featuring Beenzino) BTS – "Butter (Holiday Remix)" IU – "Winter Sleep"	Kep1er – "Wa Da Da" Enhypen – "Polaroid Love" Got the Beat – "Step Back" Choi Ye-na – "Smiley" (featuring (Bibi) Taeyeon – "Can't Control Myself"
February 2022	March 2022
Taeyeon – "INVU" Nmixx – "O.O" STAYC – "Run2U" Treasure – "Jikjin" Treasure – "Darari"	(G)I-dle – "Tomboy" NCT Dream – "Glitch Mode" Stray Kids – "Maniac" Red Velvet – "Feel My Rhythm" Jay Park – "Ganadara" (featuring IU)
April 2022	May 2022
Ive – "Love Dive" Big Bang – "Still Life" Seventeen – "Darl+ing" Psy – "That That" (featuring Suga) Jessi – "Zoom"	Le Sserafim – "Fearless" NCT Dream – "Beatbox" Seventeen – "Hot" Tomorrow X Together – "Opening Sequence" Tomorrow X Together – "Good Boy Gone Bad"
June 2022	July 2022
Nayeon – "Pop!" BTS – "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" BTS – "Run BTS" BTS – "For Youth" BTS – "Born Singer"	Aespa – "Girls" Itzy – "Sneakers" J-Hope – "More" J-Hope – "Arson" Seventeen – "_World"
August 2022	September 2022
Blackpink – "Pink Venom" Ive – "After Like" NewJeans – "Attention" NewJeans – "Hype Boy" Twice – "Talk That Talk"	Blackpink – "Shut Down" Blackpink – "Typa Girl" Blackpink – "Hard to Love" Blackpink – "The Happiest Girl" Crush – "Rush Hour" (featuring J-Hope)
October 2022	November 2022
(G)I-dle – "Nxde" Le Sserafim – "Antifragile" Stray Kids – "Case 143" Seulgi – "28 Reasons" Jin – "The Astronaut"	Itzy – "Cheshire" Red Velvet – "Birthday" Red Velvet – "Bye Bye" Bibi – "Bibi Vengeance" Kara – "When I Move"
Artist of the Year – Physical Album
1st Quarter (December 2021 – February 2022)	2nd Quarter (March – May 2022)
Enhypen – Dimension: Answer NCT – Universe Nmixx – Ad Mare SM Town – 2021 Winter SM Town: SMCU Express Treasure – The Second Step: Chapter One	NCT Dream – Glitch Mode NCT Dream – Beatbox Stray Kids – Oddinary Seventeen – Face the Sun Tomorrow X Together – Minisode 2: Thursday's Child
3rd Quarter (June – August 2022)	4th Quarter (September – November 2022)
Aespa – Girls Enhypen – Manifesto: Day 1 Ive – After Like BTS – Proof Seventeen – Sector 17	Blackpink – Born Pink Itzy – Cheshire NCT 127 – 2 Baddies Stray Kids – Maxident Jin – The Astronaut
New Artist of the Year
Digital Music	Physical Album
Ive – "Eleven" Kep1er – "Wa Da Da" Le Sserafim – "Fearless" NewJeans – "Attention" Nmixx – "O.O"	Ive – After Like Kep1er – Doublast Le Sserafim – Antifragile NewJeans – New Jeans Nmixx – Entwurf

Special awards

Other Categories^[7]	Winner
Record Production of the Year
Discovery of the Year – Hiphop	Be'O
Discovery of the Year – Rock & Metal	Younha
Composer of the Year
Lyricist of the Year
Performer of the Year – Musical Instrument	Choi In-sung
Performer of the Year – Chorus	Sophia Pae
Style of the Year – Performance Director
Style of the Year – Visual Director
Female Solo Artist of the Year	Nayeon
Male Solo Artist of the Year	Lim Young-woong
Female Group of the Year
Male Group of the Year
New Icon of the Year	Nmixx
New Icon of the Year	Choi Ye-na
Hot Performance of the Year	Enhypen
Song of the Year in International Pop
International Rising Star of the Year
Music Steady Seller of the Year
World K-POP Rookie	STAYC
Retail Album of the Year	BTS – Proof
Best KIT-Album of the Year	NCT – Universe
Social Hot Star of the Year	BTS
MuBeat Global Choice (Female)	Blackpink
MuBeat Global Choice (Male)	Lim Young-woong
idolplus Global Artist	BTS
idolplus New Star	Tempest

Performers

Order of the performance, name of the artist(s), and song(s) they performed
Order	Artist(s)	Song performed
1	WeDemBoyz
2	Nmixx	"O.O" + "Dice"
3	Kep1er	"Wa Da Da" + "We Fresh"
4	Pengsoo & Jung Ji-so	"This is Pengsoo"
5	Tempest	"Dragon" + "Bad News"
6	Choi Ye-na	"Love War" + "Smiley"

Presenters

Order of the presentation, name of the artist(s), and award(s) they presented
Order	Artist(s)	Presented
1	Moon Sang-min & Oh Ye-ju	New Icon of the Year
2	Lee Jin-ho & Hwang Jae-song	Artist of the Year – Digital Music (December, January, February)
3	Shin Seung-ho & Kim Da-som	Artist of the Year – Digital Music (March, April, May)
4	Pengsoo & Jung Ji-so	World K-POP Star
5	Kim Ho-young	idolplus Global Artist & idolplus New Star
6	Enhypen's Sunghoon	Performer of the Year – Musical Instrument, Chorus
7	Vata & Ingyoo	Discovery of the Year – Hiphop, Rock & Metal
8	Lee Yi-kyung & Lee Mi-joo	Hot Performance of the Year

References

^ "Circle (Gaon) Chart Music Awards Announces 1st Set Of Nominees". Soompi. December 18, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
^ Mun Wan-sik (January 30, 2023). "NCT 도영·(여자)아이들 미연, 써클차트 뮤직 어워즈 2022 MC 확정" [NCT Doyoung and (G)I-DLE Miyeon confirmed as the 2022 MC of the Circle Chart Music Awards] (in Korean). Star News. Retrieved January 30, 2023 – via Daum.
^ Lee, Tae-soo (July 7, 2022). 가온차트, 써클차트로 개편…국내·해외 판매량 구분해 공개 [Gaon chart reorganized into Circle Chart...Domestic and overseas sales disclosed separately] (in Korean). Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
^ "올해의 가수상 앨범부분 Nominees". Circle Chart Music Awards. Archived from the original on December 17, 2022. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
^ "올해의 가수상 음원부분 Nominees". Circle Chart Music Awards. Archived from the original on December 17, 2022. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
^ "The Rookie of the Year". Circle Chart Music Awards. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
^ "써클차트뮤직어워즈". www.circlemusicawards.co.kr. Retrieved 2023-02-18.

[1] "Circle (Gaon) Chart Music Awards Announces 1st Set Of Nominees". Soompi. December 18, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2022.

[host-2] Mun Wan-sik (January 30, 2023). "NCT 도영·(여자)아이들 미연, 써클차트 뮤직 어워즈 2022 MC 확정" [NCT Doyoung and (G)I-DLE Miyeon confirmed as the 2022 MC of the Circle Chart Music Awards] (in Korean). Star News. Retrieved January 30, 2023 – via Daum.

[3] Lee, Tae-soo (July 7, 2022). 가온차트, 써클차트로 개편…국내·해외 판매량 구분해 공개 [Gaon chart reorganized into Circle Chart...Domestic and overseas sales disclosed separately] (in Korean). Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved July 7, 2022.

[4] "올해의 가수상 앨범부분 Nominees". Circle Chart Music Awards. Archived from the original on December 17, 2022. Retrieved December 18, 2022.

[5] "올해의 가수상 음원부분 Nominees". Circle Chart Music Awards. Archived from the original on December 17, 2022. Retrieved December 18, 2022.

[6] "The Rookie of the Year". Circle Chart Music Awards. Retrieved January 8, 2023.

[7] "써클차트뮤직어워즈". www.circlemusicawards.co.kr. Retrieved 2023-02-18.

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