Dokyeom “I want to thank producer Woozi.”
Source: Broadcast screenshot
[The Fact | Intern reporter Soobin Choi] Group Seventeen won the 'Album of the Year Award' and proved their status as 'music gods'.
Group Seventeen won the grand prize, 'Album of the Year Award', at the '2023 Asia Artist Awards IN THE PHILIPPINES (2023 Asia Artist Awards in the Philippines, hereinafter referred to as '2023 AAA')' held in Philippine Arena on the afternoon of the 14th.
'2023 AAA' is an awards ceremony that aims to select winners by combining K-pop, K-drama and K-movies that have captivated Asia and Korea throughout the past year. Seventeen received the honor of 'Album of the Year', one of the major awards of '2023 AAA'.
'Album of the Year' is an award given to the artist with the best performance on album charts around the world and presents the best album to global fans.
SEVENTEEN recorded sales of 5.09 million copies in one week with their 11th mini album 'SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN' and entered the Hall of Fame as the 'artist to sell 5 million copies in the first week' in history Korean pop. In addition, the four albums released this year all achieved remarkable achievements by selling more than 10 million copies.
At today's awards ceremony, not all Seventeen members but only the small group Boo Seok-soon (Hoshi, Seungkwan and Dokyeom) attended. Dokyeom said: "I would not have been able to receive this award without Carat (Seventeen's fandom name). I love the Seventeen members very much and also want to thank producer Woozi, who worked hard and to make the album".
Seungkwan added: "Jeonghan must have been very worried, but I will recover well and return next year with good activities worthy of the AAA grand prize."
In addition, on this day, Buseok-soon also won the 'Performance of the Year Award', one of the major awards. Boo Seok-soon recorded sales of 610,000 copies with his first single album 'SECOND WIND', ranking first among K-pop subgroups of all time.
Hoshi began by saying, “I never thought about receiving a major award as Buseok-sun, but I'm really grateful.” Dokyeom said, "I have had a lot of good memories while working and there are a lot of moments I'm grateful for. We'll be back as Buseoksoon next year, so please give us a lot of love." Please".
Seungkwan said, "The comeback is just a matter of seconds" and added, "We will show through the performance of a group that is funny but not funny. Next year, Hive and Bu Seok-soon will meet together and plan something exciting with 'Hello Bu Seok-soon.'” He raised fans' expectations. That aroused.
Meanwhile, '2023 AAA' is hosted by Ive's Jang Won-young, Zero Base One's Seong Han-bin and singer Kang Daniel. A total of 56 artist teams, including 34 singers and 22 actors active in Korea and across Asia, attended.