Strays Kids won grand prize in 1st ASEA2024 at Yokohama Japan

On 10 April 2024, ASIA STAR ENTERTAINER AWARDS 2024 (ASEA 2024), an awards ceremony where Asia's top artists perform and gathering all fans around the world through music, held for the first times at K-Arena Yokohama, Japan.

Stray Kids won the Grand Prize in ASEA2024

Hosted by NEWSEN, a Korea's lead entertainment and sports media group with @STAR1, an online entertainment media that has published STAR & STYLE magazine for more 12 years, organized by the ASEA Organizing Committee and presented by ZOZOTOWN.

TREASURE performing on the stage

ASEA 2024 feature K-POP artists and Asian artists who have been active around the world from past year, gracing on the stage with spectacular performances and gathering all fans around the world through music.

All artists took photos together after the award event

The artists who performed at ASEA 2024 including Stray Kids, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, TWS, NCT WISH, The Boyz, STAYC, JO1, INI, NiziU, DAY6, Billlie, FANTASY BOYS, THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE, SHINee's TAEMIN, Creepy Nuts, ATBO and TREASURE.

2PM's Taecyeon and Girls' Generation's Yuri took the role as MC on the stage. 

2PM's Taecyeon and Girls' Generation's Yuri

2PM's Taecyeon and Girls' Generation's Yuri

Actor Song Seung-Heon and Jeon Yeo-Been announced the Daesang (Grand Prize) awards.

Song Seung-Heon and Jeon Yeo-Been

Song Seung-Heon and Jeon Yeo-Been

Stray Kids won three awards including "ASEA THE GRAND PRIZE" or the Grand Prize (Daesang), TOMORROW X TOGETHER won 4 awards, and TREASURE won 3 awards. NCT WISH started the opening performance and then each award winners attended the awards ceremony with their stunning shows.

JO1 performing on the stage in ASEA2024

Take a look at many exciting moments in awards ceremony with a list of the winners in each category.

NCT WISH 

From the opening show, NCT WISH from SM entertainment performed 5 songs, started from "Girls' Generation's Genie", "SHINee's Lucifer", "SUPER JUNIOR's Sorry, Sorry", "TVXQ's "주문" (Jumun) from album Mirotic" and "EXO's "으르렁" (Growl)". 



FANTASY BOYS 

FANTASY BOYS showed "Potential" and "FANTASY × New Tomorrow" after all 11 member faces were presented charmingly on the big screen.



TWS

K-pop heart-throbs TWS came with their hit song "plot twist" and followed by "Oh Mymy : 7s". All members dancing cheerfully at the front of stunning screens on the stage such as the school playground, basketball gym, people on the street, train station, make connection among all worldwide fans and artists like they are staying around you anywhere you are through the music.



Billlie

Billlie catched all Japanese fans by a hit song in Japanese "DOMINO - butterfly effect (Japanese version)" and "RING Ma Bell (what a wonderful world)" with the disco ambient.



Creepy Nuts

Transformed the stage to a nightclub with a DJ booth, Creepy Nuts's R-Shitei and DJ Matsunaga played "Bling-Bang-Bang-Born", a worldwide Japanese hit song ranked no. 8 on the Billboard Global 200 this year.



NCT WISH 

NCT WISH made their first awards show appearance after debuted this year February as the final sub-unit of NCT with two hit songs "Hands Up" and "WISH", captured the DREAM moments and created a starry night by many colourful stars on the stage.



ATBO

ATBO were surprisingly added as a new lineup before the event and never made all worldwide fans disappoint by performing 2 songs on the stage "Next to Me" and "BOUNCE".



INI

INI, a Japanese boy band formed through the hit reality competition show Produce 101 Japan 2 showed two songs "LEGIT" and "DROP".



TOMORROW x TOGETHER 

TOMORROW X TOGETHER gathered all K-POP fans in Japan and MOA around the world with the song "Deja Vu" and "I'll See You There Tomorrow"

Soobin, one of TXT members said "First of all, thank you for this award. Over past year, we had many opportunities to meet many MOAs around the world, and we had made many  memories there. We will start our tour in May this year. We will do our best to show you on the stage, please keep watching us. Thank you so much."



NiziU 

NiziU, a Japanese girl group formed through the reality-survival program Nizi Project (2020) showed the song "Memories (Japanese version)","HEARTRIS" and "SWEET NONFICTION (Japanese version)".



JO1

JO1, a Japanese boy band formed through the first season of Produce 101 Japan perfomed the song "SuperCali", "HAPPY UNBIRTHDAY" and "Trigger".

Leader Shō Yonashiro said "I'm truly happy to receive such a wonderful award. JO1 still has a long way to go, so we will continue to work hard!" Shosei Ohira Shosei continuely showed his gratitude in Korean. Junki Kono also sent his love to fans all over the world and said  "JAM, see you again!"




THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE

THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE, a J-pop vocal and dance group formed and managed by talent agency LDH look gorgeous in glittering silver outfits while performing two hit songs "SILVER RAIN" and "CyberHelix".



TREASURE 

TREASURE from YG Entertainment with the song "BONA BONA" and "I WANT YOUR LOVE"



STAYC

STAYC with their hit songs like "Teddy Bear" and "Bubble" which ranked top in many popular music charts in South Korea.



THE BOYZ

THE BOYZ stunningly shine with the song WATCH IT (Rock version)" and "Breaking Dawn".



DAY6

DAY6 performed three songs including "Welcome to the show", "Zombie" and "Time of Our Life"



TAEMIN

TAEMIN participated in ASEA2024 as a solo artist with two iconic songs "The Rizzness" and "Guilty". SHINee's TAEMIN also attended the awards ceremony as a solo artist. After received 2 awards, "THE BEST PERFORMANCE (Solo)" and "THE BEST CONCEPTUAL ARTIST (Solo)", He said "Thank you for giving me such a precious award. I'm very grateful that you created a place for me to perform as a solo artist at the ASEA awards ceremony. I will continue to be someone who can give you good inspiration and good energy with good performances and good works. Thank you. I love you." He also talked to his Japanese fans in Japanese, "Thank you so much, everyone. Please continue to watch over the path I'm working on. I'll continue to work hard while thinking of you all, and thank you to the SHINee members too."



Stray Kids

Stray Kids closed the event through their hit songs, started from "Super Bowl", "Social Path (Feat. LiSA) (Korean Ver.)" and "특 (S-Class)". Moreover the group made an additional performance after received the grand prize with a song "특 (S-Class)" as encore song.






List of the award winners

● ASEA THE BEST NEW ARTIST: ZEROBASEONE (ZB1), TWS, NCT WISH

● ASEA HOT ICON: FANTASY BOYS, Billlie

● ASEA HOT TREND: Creepy Nuts, ATBO

● ASEA THE BEST STAR JAPAN: THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE, NiziU

● ASEA THE BEST SOLO: Lim Young-woong, Jihyo (Twice)

● ASEA THE BEST TROT: Young Tak

● ASEA THE BEST VIRTUAL ARTIST: Plave

● ASEA FAN CHOICE ARTIST: Lim Young-woong

● ASEA FAN CHOICE ROOKIE: Jeong Dong-won (JD1)

● ASEA THE BEST ROCK BALLAD: Young K (DAY6)

● ASEA THE BEST HIP POP: TREASURE

● ASEA THE BEST BAND: DAY6

● ASEA THE BEST STAGE: 

THE BOYZ

● ASEA THE BEST STAGE JAPAN: JO1

● ASEA GLOBAL K-POP LEADER: TOMORROW X TOGETHER

● ASEA THE BEST STAR: STAYC, THE BOYZ

● ASEA THE BEST PERFORMANCE (GROUP): TOMORROW X TOGETHER

● ASEA THE BEST PERFORMANCE (SOLO): TAEMIN

● ASEA THE BEST PERFORMANCE JAPAN: INI

● ASEA THE BEST TOURING ARTIST: TREASURE

● ASEA THE BEST CONCEPTUAL ARTIST (GROUP): THE BOYZ

● ASEA THE BEST CONCEPTUAL ARTIST (SOLO): TAEMIN 

● ASEA THE BEST GROUP: Stray Kids、NiziU

● ASEA PLATINUM OF THE WORLD WIDE: TREASURE

● ASEA SONG OF THE YEAR: Jungkook's Seven

● ASEA ARTIST OF THE YEAR: 

TOMORROW X TOGETHER

● ASEA ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Stray Kids' 5-STAR

● ASEA THE PLATINUM: TOMORROW X TOGETHER

● ASEA THE GRAND PRIZE (Daesang): Stray Kids


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