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MAMA Award winners

  • Bruno MarsBruno Mars was five years old when he wet himself on a Honolulu stage in the middle of Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love." His parents wondered whether they were making a mistake by putting him in front of crowds. He never…
  • BlackpinkBlackpink became the first artist in the world to pass 100 million subscribers on YouTube, reaching that mark on the 20th of February 2026. The platform marked the occasion with a custom Red Diamond Creator Award. The group behind that…
  • NSYNCNSYNC, an American pop vocal group from Orlando, Florida, sold more than one million copies of a single album in one day in the year 2000. By the end of that week the total reached 2.4 million, a record that stood for more than fifteen…
  • BTSBTS debuted in 2013 from a small label outside K-pop's three dominant agencies. They practiced up to 15 hours a day.
  • Stray KidsStray Kids, the South Korean boy band, holds a record that no other act in history has matched. Every one of its first eight charted releases entered the American Billboard 200 at number one. In 2025, the global industry body IFPI ranked…
  • Rosé (singer)Rosé, born Roseanne Park, did not take her father's idea seriously at first. He suggested she audition for a South Korean record label, and she assumed he was joking. The distance was enormous, and becoming a singer overseas looked close…
  • Jennie (singer)Jennie opened her own YouTube channel on the 16th of January 2021, her 25th birthday, and it passed one million subscribers in under seven hours. Within a day it held more than 1.75 million. Only the Brazilian singer Marília Mendonça had…
  • JisooKim Ji-soo, known simply as Jisoo, is a South Korean singer, songwriter and actress whose name is stitched into a lip balm. Dior sells its Addict Lip Glow in ten shades. One of them, number 025, is called Seoul Scarlet, and the house says…
  • Lisa (rapper)Lisa, the Thai rapper, singer, dancer and actress, was the only person to qualify out of 4,000 applicants at a single audition held in Thailand. The audition was for YG Entertainment, a record label based in South Korea. She was still a…
  • TwiceTwice is a South Korean girl group of nine members, and its name began as a promise about hearts. J. Y. Park, the founder of JYP Entertainment, chose it because the group would touch people twice: once through the ears, and once again…

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