Hanteo Music Awards 2025 Nominations List, Voting Schedule & More

Hanteo Music Awards 2025 is scheduled to take place at the KSPO Dome in Seoul, South Korea, on February 15, 2026. At the prestigious award ceremony, K-pop legends present awards to the next generation of artists to continue the legacy of South Korean Music.

The Hanteo Music Awards 2025, one of the most prestigious award ceremonies, is set to take place at the KSPO Dome in Seoul, South Korea, on February 15, 2026.

The award ceremony was held to celebrate the excellence in the next generation of artists by K-pop legends to continue the legacy of South Korean Music.

The event’s voting period started a day before, on January 5, 2026. However, the nominees for the award ceremony and their categories are yet to be announced as it nominations were dependent on the fans’ voting.

The two major categories based on the fan votes of the 2025 Hanteo Music Awards have been revealed.

Those two categories are: WhosFandom Award Top 16 and the Best Popular Artist Award.

To know more about the Hanteo Music Awards 2025 ceremony. Read this article and know everything you need to.

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• Hanteo Music Awards 2025 Nominations List
• Voting Schedule
• Live Streaming Broadcast Details

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Hanteo Music Awards 2025 Voting Schedule

The voting for the Hanteo Music Awards 2025 will start at 3 PM KST, where three rounds of voting will be organized for both categories.

Fans can cast their votes for their favourite artists on three popular apps.

The applications are Whosfan, Mubeat, and Fancast.

Both Whosfan and Mubeat are voting tickers, while Fancast uses two kinds of hearts emojis, blue and yellow.

According to reports, most of the fans were also expected to prioritize the Global Popular Artist and Best Popular Artist categories since the votes were most likely to contribute to the Global voting score of other award categories.

Below is the complete voting schedule for both fan-voted award categories of the Hanteo Music Awards 2025.

Whosfandom Top 16

• Round 1: January 5, 11 AM – January 6, 11:59 PM (KST)
• Round 2: January 8, 11 AM – January 9, 11:59 PM (KST)
• Round 3: January 11, 11 AM – January 12, 11:59 PM (KST)

Best Popular Artist

• Round 1: January 5, 11 AM – January 14, 11:59 PM (KST)
• Round 2: January 16, 11 AM – January 25, 11:59 PM (KST)
• Round 3: January 27, 11 AM – February 7, 11:59 PM (KST)

Hanteo Music Awards 2025 Nominations List

Whosfandom Awards Top 16 is the first fan-voted nomination category, which aims to calculate the most supportive and leading fandom based on the votes received by fans under the category.

Among the 16 artist fandoms listed below, the fandom with the most votes will grab the trophy at the awards ceremony.

Here are all the 16 artist fandoms nominated for the Hanteo Music Awards 2025, Whos Fandom Awards Top 16:

• BTS – ARMY
• ENHYPEN – ENGENE
• SEVENTEEN- CARAT
• BIGBANG – VIP
• TXT – MOA
• Lim Young-woong – Hero Generation
• Hearts2Hearts – S2U
• EXO – EXO-L
• PLAVE – PLLI
• aespa – MY
• LE SSERAFIM – FEARNOT
• THE BOYZ – THE B
• Stray Kids – STAY
• TREASURE – TREASURE MAKER
• RIIZE – BRIIZE
• CORTIS – COER

Here are all the nominees who got nominated for the Best Popular Artist Award for the Hanteo Music Awards 2025:

• Hwasa
• SEVENTEEN’s HxW
• NCT’s Haechan
• Hearts2Hearts
• P1Harmony
• PLAVE
• fromis_9
• TWICE
• tripleS
• TREASURE
• TWS
• TXT
• TEMPTEST
• KickFlip
• KiiiKiii
• KISS OF LIFE
• CLOSE YOUR EYES
• CRAVITY
• QWER
• CORTIS
• K-pop Demon Hunters
• BTS’s Jin
• BLACKPINK’s Jisoo
• G-Dragon
• BTS’s j-hope
• ZEROBASEONE
• BLACKPINK’s Jennie
• ITZY
• Lim Young-woong
• Lee Chang-sub
• Lee Chan-won
• izna
• ISEGYE IDOL
• UNIS
• WOODZ
• YUQI
• ALLDAY PROJECT
• YOUNGTAK
• TXT’s Yeonjun
• ENHYPEN
• N.Flying
• NCT WISH
• NCT DREAM
• NMIXX
• ATEEZ
• aespa
• SEVENTEEN’s CxM
• &TEAM
• AHOF
• ILLIT
• IU
• IVE
• IDID
• i-dle
• SECRET NUMBER
• Stray Kids
• STAYC
• SUPER JUNIOR
• SEVENTEEN
• SHINee
• VIVIZ
• SEVENTEEN’s BSS
• BOYNEXTDOOR
• BABYMONSTER
• EXO’s Baekhyun
• BTS
• Park Ji-hyeon
• MINNIE
• MONSTA X
• NCT’s Mark
• RESCENE
• BLACKPINK’s Lisa
• LE SSERAFIM
• BLACKPINK’s Rosé
• RIIZE
• DAY6
• THE BOYZ
• NouerA
• NEXZ

Where to Watch Live Streaming of Hanteo Music Awards 2025 Ceremony?

Fans can watch live streaming of the Hanteo Music Awards 2025 (HMA 2025) on KBS’s YouTube channel, along with other streaming on the Whosfan app/BigC app and Hanteo News, as it takes place on February 15, 2026.

Last Line

Hanteo Music Awards (HMA) 2025 will consider albums and digital releases between January to December 2025. The Winners will be selected based on data accumulated through the Hanteo chart.

To get other guidelines of the Hanteo Music Awards, visit the official Hanteo Music Awards website and social media platforms.