BIGBANG received grand prize for digital songs’ segment of Golden Disc Awards… Triple crowns including a main award [30th Golden Disc]

  
[OSEN=정준화 기자] The hero of the 30th Golden Disc Awards was BIGBANG as expected. BIGBANG showed off their formidable power by taking triple crowns in the digital songs’ segment of the Golden Disc Awards, including the grand prize, a main award, and Aichii artist award which is a popularity award. 
The “30th Golden Disc Awards” was held on the 20 at Kyunghee University’s Peace Hall. The hero for the awards for the digital songs’ segment was BIGBANG. BIGBANG proved their status as the best boy group in Korea by taking total three prizes. 
First, 10 teams to get the main prize were selected and one out of them was selected as the awardee of the grand prize. The 10 teams who took the main award were EXID, Red Velvet, AOA, Zion.T, JY Park, SISTAR, Kyuhyun, Taeyeon, BIGBANG, and Girls’ Generation. Among them, BIGBANG was the one to get the grand prize.
The rookie of the year award, the award that any artist can received only once in their lifetime, went to group iKON and GFRIEND. Actor Jo Jeong-seok came upon the stage as the presenter. GFRIEND who received the rookie award said, “I really thank the president of my company and fans. We’ll do our best so we can reward everyone’s support. Thank you.” iKON said, “I feel so flattered every time iKON receives this award. iKON will do our best to give back to everyone’s support. I really thank president YANG HYUN SUK, our family members, and iKONICs”.

The Next-Generation Award is given to a team who showed the biggest potential in the Asian pop music market. The award went to rookie idol group MONSTA X. Rock Band Award was given to band Hyuk Oh and the Best R&B Award was given to San-E. 
Aichii Artist Award which is the popularity award was given to BIGBANG and Taeyeon, according to the result of popularity voting hosted on the website of Aichii in advance.
BIGBANG received the grand prize of the digital songs segment. BIGBANG’s T.O.P said, “I thank vip fans who always support us. I think we have one more year to stand before you as team BIGBANG. We’ll work harder to give you even better performances”.
G-DRAGON also expressed his gratitude by saying, “I don’t know what to say, as we received many awards today. We’ll keep creating good songs along with the other artists here with us now. Please continue to support us, happy new year, thank you”.
TAEYANG received grand prize in this year’s Golden Disc Awards following the award he got last year. He said, “I’m really grateful that we could receive the prize with the other BIGBANG members. I recently felt that the love you’ve sent to us is not an ordinary one. I’ll live every day of my life, cherishing the special love you’ve shown for us. President YANG, TEDDY, all the staff members of YG, managers, I always thank you. The ones for which I’m the most grateful are of course vips.”
The 30th Golden Disc Awards are held on the 20 and 21 this month. It is a renowned music awards that has been held for the past 30 years, and this year’s awards gives all the fancier spectacles and entertainment. It is live-broadcasted on NAVER V-APP, with performances of K-pop stars who drew big popularity throughout Asia during last year.
Fancy performances of awardees caught the eyes of the audience and viewers. Since all the musicians who enjoyed the biggest popularity during the last year perform at the awards, the atmosphere was so heated up. Awardees including EXID, Red Velvet, iKON, GFRIEND, MONSTA X, Hyuk Oh, San-E, AOA, Zion.T, Taeyeon, Kyhyun, SISTAR, and BIGBANG gave fancy performances in this year’s awards.
Not only the musicians but also award presenters are famous stars. Popular actors and actresses including Hwang Jeong-eum, Jo Jeong-seok, Kang Sora, and Park Hae-jin, as well as fashionistas such as Han Chae-young, Jang Yoon-joo, Sohn Taeyeong, and Chae Jeong-ahn attended this year’s Golden Disc Awards.
Golden Disc Music Awards are a music festival where K-pop songs that enjoyed the biggest popularity during a year are awarded with the grand prize for the best songs and albums segments, main prizes, rookie awards, popularity awards, and special awards. This year’s Golden Disc Awards held on the 20 and 21 are live-broadcasted on NAVER V-APP, QTV, and Jiangsu Satellite TV.
The artists in the list below are the awardees of the “30th Golden Disc Awards”. 
▲Grand Prize: BIGBANG
▲Main Prize: EXID, Red Velvet, AOA, Zion.T, SISTAR, JY Park, Kyuhyun, Taeyeon, BIGBANG, Girls’ Generation
▲Rookie Award: iKON, GFIREND
▲Aichii Artist Award: BIGBANG, Taeyeon
▲Next-Generation Award: MONSTA X
▲Best Rock Band Award: Hyuk Oh
▲Best R&B Hip-Hop Award: San-E
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Source: YG Life