Dubbed as the Korean Grammy Awards, the annual Golden Disk Awards has announced the list of the artists with outstanding achievements in the music industry this year. Compiled from the sales performance and ratings, GDA released the nominees for the Album, Digital Album and Most Popular Artist Awards.

The 26th Golden Disk Awards will be held in Osaka, Japan on January 11th and 12, 2012 at the Kyocera Dome.

List of categories and nominees below:

Album Award

2PM - “Hands Up”
4Minute - “4MINUTES LEFT”
Lee SSang - “Asura Balbalta”
Jay Park - “Take a Deeper Look”
Brown Eyed Girls - “Sixth Sense”
Sung Si Kyung - “The First”
Super Junior - “Mr. Simple”
SNSD - “The Boys”
Wonder Girls - “Wonder World”
After School - “Virgin”
Lee Seung Ki - “Tonight”
Jang Ki Ha and the Faces - “Jang Ki Ha and the Faces”
BEAST - “Fiction and Fact”
CN Blue - “First Step”
FT Island - “Return”
f(x) - “Pinocchio”
INFINITE - “Over the Top”
KARA - “Step”
MBLAQ - “BLAQ Style”
miss A - “A Class”

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Digital Album Award

2NE1 - “Lonely”
2PM - “Hands Up”
4men - “Live at Least Once”
4Minute - “Mirror Mirror”
Jay Park - “Don’t Cry”
SNSD - “The Boys”
IU - “The Story I Didn’t Know”
Wonder Girls - “Be My Baby”
Lee Seung Ki - “Time for Love”
Wheesung - “Heart-aching Story”
BEAST - “On Rainy Days”
CN Blue - “Intuition”
FT Island - “Hello Hello”
f(x) - “Pinocchio (Danger)”
G.NA - “Black and White”
K.Will - “My Heart Is Beating”
MBLAQ - “Mona Lisa”
miss A - “Good-Bye Baby”
SECRET - “Starlight Moonlight”
SISTAR - “How Dare You”

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Most Popular Artist Award

2NE1
2PM
4men
4Minute
Lee SSang
Jay Park
Brown Eyed Girls
Sung Si Kyung
Super Junior
SNSD
IU
Wonder Girls
After School
Lee Seung Ki
Jang Ki Ha and the Faces
Wheesung
BEAST
CN Blue
FT Island
f(x)
G.NA
INFINITE
Kara
K.Will
MBLAQ
miss A
Secret
SISTAR

Source: GDA
Written by: jhezwafu @dkpopnews.net