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GFRIEND, aespa and NewJeans are among the artists set to perform at the 39th Golden Disc Awards in January.
South Korea’s Golden Disc Awards has announced the complete line-up for its upcoming 39th ceremony, which will take place over January 4 and 5 at the Mizuho PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, Japan. The awards ceremony shared its line-up in two waves on December 3 and 9, comprising a total of 21 acts over the two days.
Day one of the 39th Golden Disc Awards will include performances by popular K-pop girl groups like aespa, NewJeans and (G)I-DLE, along with singer-songwriters like BIBI and Crush. Rookie boy band TWS and the contestants of JTBC’s idol survival programme Project 7 will also take the stage, among others.
The second night will feature a special appearance from former girl group GFRIEND, who are preparing to reunite for their tenth anniversary in January. They will be joined by acts like ZEROBASEONE, ENHYPEN, IVE, as well as rookie groups izna, Nowadays and more.
Day one (January 4)
(G)I-DLE
aespa
BIBI
Crush
Day6
ILLIT
KISS OF LIFE
LE SSERAFIM
NewJeans
Project 7
TWS
Day two (January 5)
ENHYPEN
GFRIEND
IVE
izna
NCT Wish
Nowadays
SEVENTEEN
Tomorrow X Together
(G)I-DLE’s Yuqi
ZEROBASEONE
Day one of the awards ceremony will be hosted by actress Park Eun-bin, who is best known for her lead role in 2023’s Extraordinary Attorney Woo. Meanwhile, the second day will be hosted by baseball player Lee Dae-ho and actor Park Bo-gum.
NewJeans have recently been embroiled in a legal conflict with their former label ADOR. Last week (December 6), the group addressed a lawsuit filed by ADOR in regards to their contracts, saying that “ADOR failed to properly assert that there were no breaches of the exclusive contracts”. Follow the full timeline of events here.
Madonna revealed that she saw her late mother "on the other side" while she was in a medically induced coma in 2023.
In a conversation on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast on Monday, the Queen of Pop explained that she was treated in intensive care and remained in a coma for two days after doctors discovered a "serious bacterial infection" that developed after a mild fever.
Thinking back to the health scare, Madonna shared that she experienced a vision of her mother, also named Madonna Ciccone, who lost her life to breast cancer in December 1963.
"I was almost there on the other side, and I had a conscious moment," she said. "My mother appeared to me, and she said, 'Do you want to come with me?' And I said, 'No.'"
She added that her assistant was present in the room and heard her say the word, "No."
"And then, when I did eventually wake up, I realised that the 'no' was about me needing to forgive and make good with people that I still held grudges against," the 67-year-old explained.
One of the long-standing conflicts she chose to release was her troubled relationship with her brother Christopher Ciccone.
The artist passed away from pancreatic cancer at 63 in October 2024.
"For my brother, I didn't speak to him for, you know, for years, years, and years. And it was him being ill (and) reaching out to me and saying, 'I need your help.' And me having that moment like, 'Am I going to help my enemy?' You know, that's how it felt. And I just did," the Ray of Light singer said. "And I ended up (helping) and I felt so relieved. And it was such a load off my back, such a weight that was removed, baggage that I could put down to finally be able to be in a room with him and holding his hand, even if he was dying and saying, 'I love you and I forgive you.' That was really important."
