The twenty-eighth "Golden Disk Awards" and third annual "Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards" are all going to be held at home this year. First event that will initiate in South Korea will be on January 16 (Thursday) at Kwanghee University for the "Golden Disk Awards." Then once February 12 (Friday) rolls in, the "Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards" will kick off. The first two months, Seoul, South Korea will be busy due to these two events.

Judging Criteria For Both Awards

Since these two events are held in South Korea this year, there is not going to be too much international exposure when it comes to the voting as well selecting of the winner for each category. Can we say this is unfair and that this will go based off popularity rather than numbers? The "Golden Disk Awards" is judged on each "industry" regarding "sales" plus performance. Numbers are then tallied up to determine the winner for each category. "Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards" on the other hand is an annual event (January - December) of the year; so stars win through their music as well albums; which is based on how many were sold during that year. Music is if people paid attention like downloading on iTunes if you were to describe the similarity on how this judging criteria works.

Past Venues For The "Golden Disk Awards"

Listed below are the previous venues in which this award was held:

- December 10, 2009; Olympic Park; Seoul South Korea which the hosts were Kim Seong Joo and Park Ji Yoon.

- December 9, 2010; Hwajeong Gym; Seoul, South Korea. Hosts for that night were Tak Jae Hoon and Choi Song Hyun.

- January 21 - 22, 2012 was a two day event held at Osaka Dome; Osaka Japan which the hosts were Leeteuk, Gyuri, Hongki, and Suzy.

- January 15 - 16, 2013 was at Sepang International Circuit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hosts were Nicole, Jung Yong Hwa, Dasom, and Hongki.

Past Winners From The "Golden Disk Awards"

While there are numerous winners for each category during the previous years in which the award was held, top winners that has won the most is male group Super Junior by having a total of sixteen awards. Behind the guys are SG Wannabe and Shin Seung Hun, Girls' Generation, Shinhwa, F.T. Island, and CNBLUE. Can we expect to see Super Junior win again? Probably EXO might come out as the winner since they did win at the 2013 "Mnet Asian Music Awards."

Past Held Venues For The "GAON Chart K-Pop Awards"

The previous locations for the "GAON Chart K-Pop Award" were all based in Seoul, South Korea and has never been hosted in another country.

February 22, 2012 was held at the Blue Square Samsung Card Hall which your hosts were Taeyeon and Joo Young Hoon; February 13, 2013 was at Olympic Hall in Seoul's Olympic Park which the hosts were Son Ga In and Joo Young Hoon.

Previous Winners For The "Gaon Chart K-Pop Award"

The winners for each of the awards held during the previous years are listed on the categories below.

"Song of the Year"

- December 2011: IU

- December 2012: Lee Seung Gi

"Album of the Year"

- First quarter (2011) TVXQ, BEAST, Super Junior, and Girls' Generation.

- Second quarter (2012) Big Bang, Girls' Generation: TTS, Super Junior, and TVXQ.

- Third quarter (2013) Girls' Generation, Cho Yong Pil, and EXO.

"New Artist of the Year"

- (2011): Male Group: B1A4; Female Group: A Pink; Male Solo: Huh Gak; Female Solo: Kim Bo Kyung.

- (2012): Male Group: B.A.P; Female Group: Hello Venus; Male Solo: John Park; Female Solo: Ailee.

"Discovery of the Year"

- 2012: Girl's Day

"Hot Trend Award"

- 2012: A Pink

"Hip Hop Award"

- 2012: Double K

"Special Awards"

- 2011: "Oricon Special Award" - Girls' Generation

- 2012: "Hallyu Special Award" - CNBLUE

Nominees For This Year

Here is the category list of all the nominees for this years "Golden Disk Awards."

"Disk Album":

• 2AM - "One Spring Day"
• 2PM - "Grown"
• A Pink - "Secret Garden"
• B1A4 - "What's Going On?"
• B.A.P - "Badman"
• BEAST - "Hard To Love, How To Love"
• Block B - "Very Good"
• Busker Busker - "Autumn Night"
• Cho Yong Pil - "Hello"
• CNBLUE - "RE:Blue"
• EXO - "XOXO"
• F.T. Island - "Thanks To"
• f(x) - "Pink Tape"
• G-Dragon - "Coup D'etat"
• Girls' Generation - "I Got A Boy"
• Henry - "Trap"
• INFINITE - "Destiny"
• IU - "Modern Times"
• Kim Hyun Joong - "Round 3"
• KARA - "Full Bloom"
• Lee Seung Chul - "My Love"
• MBLAQ - "Love Beat"
• MyName - "First Mini Album (aka Baby I'm Sorry)"
• Seungri - "Let's Talk About Love"
• SHINee - "The Misconceptions of You (aka Dream Girl)"
• Shinhwa - "The Classic"
• T-ara - "Again"
• Teen Top - "Class"
• VIXX - "Jekyll"
• ZE:A - "Illusion"

"Digital Music":

• 2NE1 - "Missing You"
• 4men - "Proposal Song"
• 4Minute - "What's Your Name?"
• Ailee - "U&I"
• A Pink - "NoNoNo"
• Baechigi - "Shower of Tears"
• Cho Yong Pil - "Bounce"
• CNBLUE - "I'm Sorry"
• Crayon Pop - "Bar Bar Bar"
• Davichi - "Turtle"
• Dynamic Duo - "BAAAM"
• EXO - "Growl"
• G-Dragon - "Crooked"
• Girl's Day - "Expectation"
• Girls' Generation - "I Got A Boy"
• Geeks - "How Are You"
• Huh Gak ft. Yoo Seung Woo - "Monodrama"
• IU - "The Red Shoes"
• K.Will - "Love Blossom"
• Lee Hi - "Rose"
• Lee Hyori - "Miss Korea"
• Lee Seung Chul - "My Love"
• Lyn - "Tonight"
• Miss A - "Hush"
• PSY - "Gentleman"
• Roy Kim - "Spring Spring Spring"
• Secret - "Yoohoo"
• SISTAR - "Give It To Me"
• SISTAR19 - "Gone Not Around Any Longer"
• Trouble Maker - "Now"

"New Rising Star (Disk)":

• Bangtan Boys - "2 Cool 4 Skool"
• Boys' Republic - "Party Rock"
• HISTORY - "Dreamer"
• Jung Joon Young - "Spotless Mind"
• Roy Kim - "Love Love Love"

"New Rising Star (Digital)":

• 2EYES - "Don't Mess With Me"
• Crayon Pop - "Bar Bar Bar"
• Kim Yerim (Lim Kim) - "All Right"
• Ladies' Code - "Pretty Pretty"
• Yoo Seung Woo - "Hello"

Good luck to all the nominees for both events!

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