[Oh!SEN Focus] “10 Crowns” for YG… The unsurpassable class (Gaon Chart’s K-Pop Awards)

  
[OSEN=선미경 기자] From CEO YANG HYUN SUK to BIGBANG, again to iKON and WINNER’s SONG MINHO. The musicians who represent YG Entertainment received honorable awards at the same time in one music award. With BIGBANG who got five awards and iKON who took the “best rookie of this year” award, YG Entertainment’s unrivalled potential has been proven once again.
“The 5th Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards” was hosted on the 17 this month at 7pm at Olympic Hall of Olympic Park in Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul. Despite the presence of many popular singers and music industry insiders, BIGBANG stood under the biggest spotlight. BIGBANG has showed off their “unsurpassable class” in the music market during the year 2015.
In the awards, BIGBANG swept the best singer of this year awards for the on-line music section for May to August of the year 2015. Plus, BIGBANG also received the “Yinyuetai Asia best influence award”, to receive total five awards. Every time BIGBANG came upon the stage, they expressed their gratitude for fans and YG staff.
BIGBANG said, “We carried out the ‘MADE’ series during last year, and we’re really grateful that many people loved our songs for which we worked on for a long time. We really thank you. Our deepest thanks go to TEDDY who did his best for us, as well as president YANG”. SEUNGRI added, “I really thank fans, too. I also want to thank myself. It is really hard to live as BIGBANG in this tough world”.
DAESUNG honored fans by saying, “It is not easy to live as a musician, so I thank fans who made that possible”. G-DRAGON said, “We’re really honored to receive these awards as the musician who represents each month. We came back last year after three years of absence and we released new songs every month. That was a big challenge and mission for us as well. Thank you”.
It was a touching moment when world-famous singer PSY received the award. PSY received the best singer of the year award for December of 2015, for “DADDY”. PSY said, “It always feels so good to receive an award. Thank you. I wasn’t a good student, so I received no prize when I went to school, but I received all these awards as a singer. I personally feel so good that I raised the average age of awardees today. I’ll see you again soon”.
iKON also received two awards: the best singer of this year award for September of 2015 for “MY TYPE”, as well as the rookie of the year award. That proved iKON’s exceptional success as a rookie group. iKON expressed their gratitude by saying, “We really thank you for giving this great award. We want to be someone who is the best for the people who love us and whom those people can take pride from. We’ll keep working like crazy, to become the best without fail”.
Following BIGBANG and WINNER, SONG MINHO received an award as a solo artist, not as a member of WINNER. SONG MINHO received the best discovery of this year award for the hip-hop segment. SONG expressed his gratitude by saying, “I thank you for giving me this great award. Last year, I was here with the other WINNER members and now I’m here alone. I feel new and fresh. I thank president YANG HYUN SUK”.
Finally, YG’s president YANG HYUN SUK received the best producer of this year award, culminating the celebration of YG’s great achievements for the year 2015. YANG did not come upon the stage, but all YG artists who were present there gave their congratulations to YANG on the stage. BIGBANG’s SEUNGRI and G-DRAGON drew attention by giving words of gratitude on behalf of YANG, saying, “First of all, this award is like the final goal for any musician after they work hard and reach a certain stage in their career. I always want to follow the example of president YANG, as he always leads us and cares about us with such a strong leadership. I want to express big gratitude to him on behalf of all YG artists”.
BIGBANG dominated the music scene last year by releasing new songs every month from May to August. Then, iKON followed BIGBANG to record a big success. SONG MINHO established his firm status as a talented rapper by successfully competing in cable channel Mnet’s “Show Me the Money 4”. World-class star PSY’s comeback was also the hottest topic for the music scene last year. Such big success of YG for the last year was possible because of hard-work of president YANG HYUN SUK and all YG artists. The hard-work of all YG family members was rewarded by the 10 awards given to them.
“The 5th Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards” was attended by top K-pop stars including PSY, BIGBANG, Super Junior, TaeYeon, EXO, ZICO, BTS, iKON, VIXX, SONG MINHO, miss A, AOA, Red Velvet, Baek A-yeon, etc.
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Source: YG Life