The ‘2024 Trot Champion Awards’ will select the trot stars that shone this year.
The MBC ON entertainment program ‘Trot Champion’ will broadcast the year-end summary ‘2024 Trot Champion Awards’ on the 19th at 8 PM. MBC ON ‘Trot Champion’ is set to heat up the living room with trot stars who lit up 2024 as the year comes to a close.
Before the awards, an unprecedented special stage will enhance the ‘2024 Trot Champion Awards’. Notably, this year’s ‘2024 Trot Champion Awards’ stage will feature performances by both singers and fans.
Singer Son Tae-jin will present the stage for ‘I Will Call You’, a track from his first full-length album SHINE. ‘I Will Call You’ is the first song composed by Son Tae-jin, and it is expected to attract even more attention as he decorates the stage with fan support methods.
Jang Min-ho, the MC of Trot Champion, has also prepared a stage. He will unveil a performance that has never been shown on music broadcasts before. Fans are filled with anticipation about what song he has prepared, as they might feel the pure world of childhood by taking a ‘time machine’ back to those days.
Eun Ga-eun and Park Hyun-ho, who are loved as the silver couple, will also present their first duet stage on ‘Trot Champion’. They have chosen a song by the ‘Trot Queen’ Song Ga-in, raising everyone’s expectations about how they will light up the ‘2024 Trot Champion Awards’.
‘Trot National Granddaughter’ Bin Ye-seo and ‘Original Trot Prodigy’ Yang Ji-won will also join in to engage with fans through an exciting medley.
The ‘2024 Trot Champion Awards’ will present a total of 9 categories, including ‘2024 Trot Champion TOP10’, ‘TNK Male Singer of the Year’, ‘TNK Female Singer of the Year’, ‘TNK Popularity Award’, ‘Rookie of the Year’, ‘2024 Highest Viewership’, ‘Best Performance’, ‘Best Dresser’, and ‘Fan ON Star’.
First, the ‘2024 Trot Champion TOP10’ will select candidates from singers who entered the top 30 of the monthly champion chart in 2024, and the winners will be determined by combining the pre-vote results from February to November with the scores from the judges. This award is given to the singer who shone as the ‘Trot Champion’ of the year, and there is intense interest in the results.
Next, the ‘TNK Male Singer of the Year’, ‘TNK Female Singer of the Year’, and ‘TNK Popularity Award’ are awards in collaboration with the mobile advertising platform company TNK Factory.
The ‘TNK Male Singer of the Year’ and ‘TNK Female Singer of the Year’ will select candidates from singers who entered the top 30 of the monthly champion chart in 2024, and the winners will be determined by combining 70% of the public vote and 30% of the judges' scores. The ‘TNK Popularity Award’ will be selected based on the top 10 teams with the highest accumulated votes in the 2024 Trot Champion voting, determined by 100% of the votes.
Finally, the ‘Rookie of the Year’ award is given to the rising star of the year, the ‘2024 Highest Viewership’ award is given to the singer who captured the most attention from viewers throughout the year, the ‘Best Performance’ award is given to the singer who provided enjoyment through both sight and sound, the ‘Best Dresser’ award is given to the singer who enhanced the stage's completeness with outstanding costumes, and the ‘Fan ON Star’ award is given to the singer and fans who created together.
In particular, the ‘Fan ON Star’ award is especially meaningful as it is awarded to the singer who showed the greatest upward trend among those who entered the top 30 of the monthly champion chart in 2024, along with their fans. Whether the singer and fans can share the glory of the award will be revealed on ‘Trot Champion’.
The pre-voting for the ‘2024 Trot Champion Awards’, which took place over three weeks starting from November 7, was reportedly more intense than ever, making it difficult to predict the results. Who will be the trot star that shone this year? The ‘2024 Trot Champion Awards’ will be broadcast on the 19th at 8 PM on MBC ON.
[Kim So-yeon, Star Today Reporter]
