These 60+ K-Pop Nominations for Brazil’s Dabeme Music Awards 2021 Show Just How Popular The Genre Is In South America

The Dabeme Music Awards is an award show put on by Dabeme TV, which is one of the biggest television networks in Brazil. Through fan votes, the winners for 11 different categories will be chosen from over 25 different artists, and this year, an overwhelming majority of the nominees are K-Pop artists and K-Pop music!

As long as you’re following @DabemePOP on Twitter, you can vote for your favorites on the company’s website as many times as you’d like until February 27. The following are all the categories (minus one on TikTok) and their nominees, written in descending order from most to least voted as of the time of this writing!

Fandom of the Year

Only one nominee on this list, CNCOwners, isn’t in the K-Pop genre!

1. ARMYs (BTS)

2. STAYs (Stray Kids)

3. Orbits (LOONA)

4. EXO-Ls (EXO)

5. BLINKs (BLACKPINK)

6. NCTzens (NCT)

7. ONCEs (TWICE)

8. CNCOwners (CNCO)

9. Ahgases (GOT7)

10. Buddys (GFRIEND)

11. E.L.Fs (Super Junior)

12. ReVeluvs (Red Velvet)

Album of the Year

All seven of the nominees for this list are K-Pop albums!

1. [12:00] by LOONA

2. Map of the Soul: 7 by BTS

3. Go Live by Stray Kids

4. The Album by BLACKPINK

5. Neo Zone by NCT 127

6. Eyes Wide Open by TWICE

7. Breath of Love: Last Piece by GOT7

Favorite Male Artist

EXO/SuperM’s Baekhyun

Five of the ten artists nominated for this category are K-Pop acts!

1. Baekhyun

2. Taemin

3. Harry Styles

4. J.Y. Park

5. Zico

6. Kang Daniel

7. Justin Bieber

8. Shawn Mendes

9. The Weeknd

10. Post Malone

Favorite Female Artist

IU

Out of the ten nominees for this category, five of them are K-Pop artists as well.

1. IU

2. Taeyeon

3. Hwasa

4. Ariana Grande

5. Billie Eilish

6. Taylor Swift

7. Chungha

8. Dua Lipa

9. Sunmi

10. Lady Gaga

Collaboration of the Year

Three of the seven collaborations on this list include K-Pop artists, and they’re in the top three places currently!

1. “Eight” by IU ft. Suga

2. “Ice Cream” by BLACKPINK & Selena Gomez

3. “Monster” by Red Velvet’s Irene & Seulgi

4. “Honey Boo” by CNCO & Natti Natasha

5. “Rain On Me” by Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande

6. “Monster” by Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber

7. “WAP” by Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion

Artist of the Year

In this category, five of the eight nominees are K-Pop artists, and they are all dominating the vote!

1. TWICE

2. BTS

3. BLACKPINK

4. Baekhyun

5. GOT7

6. CNCO

7. Ariana Grande

8. Taylor Swift

New Artist of the Year

Weeekly

Six of the eight nominees on this list are rookie K-Pop artists that have recently debuted!

1. Weeekly

2. TREASURE

3. Secret Number

4. MCND

5. WEi

6. CRAVITY

7. Doja Cat

8. Megan Thee Stallion

Favorite Male Group

Stray Kids

Only one of the male artists nominated for this category isn’t a K-Pop boy group!

1. Stray Kids

2. BTS

3. EXO

4. NCT 127

5. ATEEZ

6. SEVENTEEN

7. CNCO

8. GOT7

Favorite Female Group

LOONA

As with the boys, only one artist nominated on this list isn’t a K-Pop group!

1. LOONA

2. BLACKPINK

3. Little Mix

4. TWICE

5. GFRIEND

6. Red Velvet

7. IZ*ONE

8. ITZY

Song of the Year

And finally, only one of the songs nominated for this category isn’t a K-Pop single!

1. “Star” by LOONA

2. “Dynamite” by BTS

3. “How You Like That” by BLACKPINK

4. “I Can’t Stop Me” by TWICE

5. “WANNABE” by ITZY

6. “Beso” by CNCO