# 32nd Golden Disc Awards

The 32nd Golden Disc Awards ceremony was held on January 10–11, 2018. The JTBC network broadcast the show from the Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX) in Ilsan. It is the second consecutive year that the show was hosted at the venue. Lee Seung-gi and Lee Sung-kyung served as hosts on the first day, with Kang So-ra and Sung Si-kyung on the second.

## Background

Organized by All Access Productions and HM Entertainment in cooperation with Lumos E&M and broadcasting company JTBC, the 32nd Golden Disc Awards was scheduled to take place at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila on January 10 and 11, 2018. It would have marked the Philippines' first opportunity to host the show, as well as the ceremony's fourth to be held in a foreign country. Ticket sales began on November 26, but JTBC announced that "[a]ll kinds of promotions or ticket sales that are currently in progress are not in anyway related to Golden Disc Awards" due to the ceremony's location remaining unconfirmed. The event was ultimately pulled from the country. All Access Productions cited its domestic financier's "failure to comply with their responsibility to the owner of the original Golden Disc Awards Ceremony" as the reason for cancellation.
The show was sponsored by Penta Global Advisers Fund and Genie Music, and was held at the Korea International Exhibition Center in the town of Ilsan in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province for a second consecutive year. The first day of the ceremony, which highlighted digital album sales, was hosted by Lee Seung-gi and Lee Sung-kyung. Kang So-ra and Sung Si-kyung served as hosts, for the second year in a row, on the following day which bestowed physical sales awards.

## Criteria

Albums and songs released between December 1, 2016, and November 30, 2017, were eligible to be nominated for the 32nd Golden Disc Awards. The awards committee decided to eliminate online voting from the criteria of the Grand Prize Golden Disc, Best Artist, and Rookie Artist of the Year awards; winners were determined by music sales (80%) and a panel of 30 selected music experts (20%). The Popularity Award was calculated entirely from online votes.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first in alphabetical order and emphasized in bold.
Nominee lists adapted from Ilgan Sports. Winners adapted from Maeil Business Newspaper.
| Digital Daesang (Song of the Year) | Disc Daesang (Album of the Year) |
| IU – "Through the Night" AKMU – "Last Goodbye" Big Bang – "Fxxk It" Blackpink – "As If It's Your Last" Bolbbalgan4 – "Tell Me You Love Me" BTS – "Spring Day" Heize – "You, Clouds, Rain" (featuring Shin Yong-jae) Red Velvet – "Red Flavor" Twice – "Knock Knock" Winner – "Really Really" Yoon Jong-shin – "Like It" | BTS – Love Yourself: Her Exo – The War Girls' Generation – Holiday Night Got7 – Flight Log: Arrival Hwang Chi-yeul – Be Ordinary Monsta X – The Code NU'EST W – W, Here Seventeen – Teen, Age Taeyeon – My Voice Twice – Twicetagram |
| Digital Song Bonsang | Album Bonsang |
| AKMU – "Last Goodbye" Big Bang – "Fxxk It" Blackpink – "As If It's Your Last" Bolbbalgan4 – "Tell Me You Love Me" BTS – "Spring Day" Heize – "You, Clouds, Rain" (featuring Shin Yong-jae) IU – "Through the Night" Red Velvet – "Red Flavor" Twice – "Knock Knock" Winner – "Really Really" Yoon Jong-shin – "Like It" Block B – "Yesterday" G-Dragon – "Untitled, 2014" Han Dong-geun – "Crazy" Highlight – "Plz Don't Be Sad" Hwang Chi-yeul – "A Daily Song" Hyolyn, Changmo – "Blue Moon" (produced by GroovyRoom) Hyukoh – "Tomboy" Jung Key – "Anymore" (featuring Wheein of Mamamoo) Mad Clown – "Lost Without You" (featuring Bolbbalgan4) Mamamoo – "Yes I Am" MeloMance – "Gift" Psy – "New Face" Sunmi – "Gashina" Suran – "Wine" (featuring Changmo; produced by Suga) Taeyeon – "Fine" Wanna One – "Energetic" Woo Won-jae – "We Are" (featuring Loco and Gray) Zico – "Artist" Zion.T – "The Song" | BTS – Love Yourself: Her Exo – The War Girls' Generation – Holiday Night Got7 – Flight Log: Arrival Hwang Chi-yeul – Be Ordinary Monsta X – The Code NU'EST W – W, Here Seventeen – Teen, Age Taeyeon – My Voice Twice – Twicetagram Apink – Pink Up Astro – Dream Part.01 B1A4 – Rollin' BtoB – Brother Act. CNBLUE – 7°CN GFriend – The Awakening IU – Palette JJ Project – Verse 2 Jung Yong-hwa – Do Disturb Lovelyz – R U Ready? NCT 127 – Cherry Bomb Red Velvet – Perfect Velvet Sechs Kies – Another Light Shinhwa – Unchanging Touch Taemin – Move Taeyang – White Night Teen Top – High Five Up10tion – Star:dom Weki Meki – Weme |
| Rookie Artist of the Year | Global Popular Artist |
| Wanna One Chungha JBJ Jeong Se-woon Longguo & Shihyun MXM Pristin Samuel Weki Meki Woo Won-jae | Exo List of nominees AKMU Apink Astro B1A4 Big Bang Blackpink Block B Bolbbalgan4 BtoB BTS Chungha CNBLUE G-Dragon GFriend Girls' Generation Got7 Han Dong-geun Heize Highlight Hwang Chi-yeul Hyolyn and Changmo Hyukoh IU JBJ Jeong Se-woon JJ Project Jung Key Jung Yong-hwa Longguo & Shihyun Lovelyz Mad Clown Mamamoo MeloMance Monsta X MXM NCT 127 NU'EST W Pristin Psy Red Velvet Samuel Sechs Kies Seventeen Shinhwa Sunmi Super Junior Suran Taemin Taeyang Taeyeon Teen Top Twice Up10tion Wanna One Weki Meki Winner Woo Won-jae Yoon Jong-shin Zico Zion.T |

### Genre and other awards

| Award | Winner |
| Best Rock Band Award | Hyukoh |
| Best R&B/Soul Award | Suran |
| Best OST Award | Ailee |
| Best Male Group Award | BtoB |
| Best Female Group Award | GFriend |
| Ceci Asia Icon Award | Exo |
| Ceci Asia Icon Award | Twice |
| Genie Music Popularity Award | Exo |

## Multiple nominations

Record company YG Entertainment received the most nominations among any label with ten. Big Bang, AKMU, Zion.T, Hyukoh, Blackpink, G-Dragon, Psy, and Winner received digital song nominations, while Taeyang and Sechs Kies received album nominations. Including double nominees in multiple categories, it was followed by S.M. Entertainment with nine. Red Velvet, Girls' Generation, Super Junior, Taemin, Taeyeon, Exo, and NCT 127 all received album nominations; Red Velvet and Taeyeon were concurrently digital song nominees. JYP Entertainment garnered four nominations: Got7, JJ Project, and Twice were nominated in the albums category, with the lattermost receiving an additional nomination in the digital song category. Starship Entertainment, along with its sub-label Starship X, received three nominations (Mad Clown, Monsta X, and Jeong Se-woon).

## Gallery

* Award ceremony gallery
* IU after winning Digital Daesang
* BTS
* Twice
* Blackpink after winning Digital Bonsang
* Red Velvet
* Winner
* AKMU's Lee Su-hyun
* Seventeen's Mingyu
* Lee Seung-gi
* Lee Sung-kyung