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K-pop’s MAMA 2021 show: Ed Sheeran guesting, Lee Hyori presenting, the reappearance of Wanna One, and plans for an awards event in US
- K-pop’s biggest annual awards show has been revamped and has big ambitions, including plans for a US event
- UK musician Ed Sheeran, who collaborated with BTS, will make an appearance at the awards show, and Wanna One are re-forming for the event
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The Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs) are revamping in 2021, organisers of the annual South Korea-based award show announced.
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The 2021 MAMAS, which are hosted by South Korean media conglomerate CJ ENM and aired on Mnet, will be broadcast globally on December 11, at 5PM in Hong Kong. Singer Lee Hyori will host the event.
Along with many of the biggest names of K-pop set to perform, Ed Sheeran will be a special guest thanks to the success of his hit song Bad Habits, which is especially popular in South Korea, and his co-writing on BTS’ hit Permission to Dance.
The boy band Wanna One will also be performing. They disbanded in 2018 after Mnet’s highly contentious Produce 101 series was proved to have rigged the final line-ups of several K-pop teams that came out of it, including Wanna One.
Contestants from the popular Street Woman Fighter dance show will also appear.
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This year’s MAMA event will take the award show in a new direction as Mnet aims to solidify its claim the show is “the World’s No 1 K-pop music awards ceremony”.
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