The 2022 Mama Awards recently announced the line-up of artists performing for their two-day event which will be held from November 29th-30th at the Kyocera Dome Osaka, Japan.
2022 MAMA AWARDS 1st Line Up:
— Kpop Charts (@kchartsmaster) October 25, 2022
Stray Kids
ITZY
TXT
JO1
TREASURE
ENHYPEN
IVE
Kep1er
2022 MAMA AWARDS 2nd Line Up:
— Kpop Charts (@kchartsmaster) November 8, 2022
Hyolyn
BIBI
Forestella
NMIXX
LE SSERAFIM
Street Man Fighter
ZICO
Lim Young Woong
(G)I-DLE
NiziU
INI
NewJeans
Despite the impressive line up of artists, Korean netizens couldn't help but notice the absence of SM Entertainment artists from the list. Their absence instantly became a topic of discussion and earned mixed reactions from netizens:
- They won't go because they won't be getting an award.
- Because they lost control?
- Maybe there's still an additional line up
- It's been years since an SM Artist won a grand prize
- It feels like NCT 127 is busy preparing for a repackage album
- MAMA has nothing to give SM. aespa is losing to IVE, and Red Velvet is behind (G)I-DLE now. No award is left for them.
- Does SM have a beef with MAMA?
- SM has finale disease
- SM is busy preparing for comebacks. Honestly, their artists' comeback cycle this year is worse than last year.
- They won't go because besides not getting awards, they also won't get an ending stage... If they want awards, they should put out good songs and promote properly. And even if they won't get awards, they should still attend to congratulate the winners. I guess they really want authority when they attend awards.
- What are you talking about? Mama's lineup hasn't been released yet?
- Just wait. An SM Entertainment will show up.
- The line-up announcement is not over. They're just trying to suprise us.
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