21st Korean Music Awards

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Album of the Year}}

• Beenzino – Nowitzki{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Lee Jin-ah – Hearts of the City
• NewJeans – Get Up
• Silica Gel – Machine Boy
• Yeoyu and Solbin – Comedy

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Song of the Year}}

• NewJeans – "Ditto"{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Beenzino – "Travel Again" (featuring Cautious Clay)
• H1-Key – "Rose Blossom"
• Jungkook – "Seven" (feat Latto)
• Silica Gel – "Tik Tak Tok" (featuring So!YoON!)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Rookie of the Year}}

• Kiss of Life{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Dongyi
• H1-Key
• Hanel
• Mihyang Moon
• NO.LINK

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best K-Pop Song}}

• NewJeans – "Ditto"{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Fifty Fifty – "Cupid"
• H1-Key – "Rose Blossom"
• Ive – "I Am"
• Jungkook – "Seven" (feat Latto)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Pop Song}}

• AKMU – "Love Lee"{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Dean – "Die 4 You"
• Parc Jae-jung – "Let's Say Goodbye"
• Yoon Ji-young – "In My Garden"
• Yoon Seok-cheol & Sejin – "Cocktail Paradise"

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Rock Song}}

• Seoul Electronic Band – Ghost Writers{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Gate Flowers – "All In"
• Ohchill – "Something's Wrong"
• OVerdrive Philosophy – "Soju & Soul"
• Zeonpasangsa – "I'm Blues Man"

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Modern Rock Song}}

• Silica Gel – "Tik Tak Tok" (featuring So!YoON!)
• Cho Yong-pil – "Feeling of You"
• Dabda – "Flower Tail"
• Jungwoo – "Cloud Cuckoo Land"
• Verycoybunny – "Now or Never"

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Electronic Song}}

• Cifika – "Hush"{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Guinneissik – "Farewell Two Shell"
• Hypnosis Therapy – "JONGNO"
• Kirara – "Numbers"
• Mount XLR – "Acid Wasp"

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Rap & Hip-Hop Song}}

• E Sens – "What the Hell"{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Beenzino – "Travel Again" (featuring Cautious Clay)
• Lobonabeat! – "Young Boy" (feat. Oygli)
• Kid Milli – "25" (feat. Yang Hong-won)
• Skyminhyuk – "14-23"

| style="vertical-align:top" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best R&B & Soul Song}}

• Youra – "Motif"{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Jerd – "Closed" (feat. Jjangyou)
• Soul Delivery – "Whiskey" (with Sole and Thama)
• Sumin – "Closet" (feat. Uhm Jung-hwa)
• Thama – "Bump It Up"

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Folk Song}}

• Yeoyu and Seolbin – "Like the Stars in the Night Sky"{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Hwang Pu-ha – "Fire"
• Hwang Pu-ha – "Inept"
• Jeong Mil-ah – "Describe"
• Lee Min-hwi – "Hometown to Come"

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Jazz Vocal Album}}

• Kim Yu-jin – Extraordinary{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Carina Nebula – Good Match
• Moon Mi-hyang – I Wished On the Moon
• Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian & Ben Monder – Liminal Silence
• Vardan Ovsepian and Song Yi-jeon – Lawless Heart

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Global Contemporary Album}}

• Dongyi – a method for capsaicinoid analysis{{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Ensemble Sinawi – Cosmos
• Hanel – Vals del Sí
• Iseul Kim's Two Voices – Evolving