Awards season has started. The 2026 MAMA AWARDS announced its nominees on October 12 and opened fan voting. This year’s ceremony is at Kyocera Dome Osaka on November 20 and 21.
Voting
Fans’ Choice voting happens in two rounds. Round one closes on October 22 at 11:59 PM KST. The top 20 acts in each of Fans’ Choice Male and Fans’ Choice Female then move to round two, which runs from October 28 at 6 PM KST to November 18 at 11:59 PM KST.
To qualify, music had to come out between October 1, 2025 and September 30, 2026. Album of the Year is limited to albums that sold more than one million copies.
The lineup so far
MAMA has shared two rounds of performers.
- CHAPTER 1 (Nov 20): ALPHA DRIVE ONE, BABYMONSTER, ENHYPEN, ILLIT, INI, NCT WISH, RESCENE, plus ALLDAY PROJECT, CL, Hearts2Hearts, LNGSHOT, MODYSSEY, TREASURE, and the cast of “Street World Fighter: Directors’ War”.
- CHAPTER 2 (Nov 21): CORTIS, KiiiKiii, LE SSERAFIM, TWICE’s Nayeon, ZEROBASEONE, plus BIGBANG, IVE, izna, KO1KEYZ, MAMAMOO’s Hwasa, WOODZ, and &TEAM.
More names could still be added before the show.