The 2025 Asian Pop Music Awards (APMA 2025) winners were officially announced on December 30. Even ahead of D-Day, K-pop superstar Jennie stood tall after logging in the most number of nominations with nine nods. G-Dragon and Lay Zhang followed suit with eight nominations each, while GOT7 member Jackson Wang remained on their tail with seven.

With Tuesday’s big announcement, BLACKPINK’s Jennie consolidated her footing as a soloist even further after bagging the most awards at the APMA 2025, thereby beating top contenders like BTS‘ Jin. Her victory streak included the following titles: Best Female Artist, Best Dance Performance, Top 20 Albums of the Year, Top 20 Songs of the Year and People’s Choice Award.

BIGBANG’s G-Dragon and EXO’s Lay Zhang slipped in next with four wins each. At the same time, Jackson Wang secured three trophies, sharing one with Indian singer Diljit Dosanjh for the collaboration on the track “Buck.”

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Other big winners of the day with multiple victories under their belts were BLACKPINK’s Rose, BTS’ Jin, SEVENTEEN and TWICE.

Here are all the winners of the APMA 2025.

2025 Asian Pop Music Awards winners list

Best Album of the Year: “Übermensch” by G-Dragon

Record of the Year: “Don’t Say You Love Me” BTS’ Jin

Song of the Year: “Deadman” by KUN

Best Collaboration: “BUCK” ft Diljit Dosanjh by Jackson Wang

Best Music Video: “Pleasure” by JOLIN

Best OST: “Midnight Walk” by IU from When Life Gives You Tangerines

Best Dance Performance: “like JENNIE” by BLACKPINK’s Jennie

Best male Artist: LAY ZHANG / NAO TIAN GONG (Rock the Heavenly Palace)

Best Female Artist: Jennie for “Ruby”

Best Group: SEVENTEEN for “Happy Burstday” and TWICE for “This is For”

Best New Artist: CORTIS for “Colour Outside the Lines”

Best Lyricist: FRANCIS LEE / From Dust to Dust (WEI CHEN) / DAVID TAO

Best Composer: JJ LIN / Turn Of A Page / JJ LIN

Best Producer: G-Dragon with his production team for “Übermensch”

Best Arranger: Cody Tarpley, Ben Samama and Ryan Jhun for aespa’s “Rich Man”

Global Artist Award: Lady Gaga for “Mayhem”

Asian Pop Music Awards: Top 20 Albums of the Year

  • “Alter Ego” by BLACKPINK’s Lisa
  • “Anew” by RADWIMPS
  • “DESIRE: UNLEASH” by ENHYPEN
  • “Essence of Reverie” by EXO’s Baekhyun
  • “Go Back to the Future” by NCT DREAM
  • “Happy Burstday” by SEVENTEEN
  • “Karma” by Stray Kids
  • “Magicman 2” by Jackson Wang
  • “NAO TIAN GONG (Rock the Heavenly Palace)” Lay Zhang (of EXO)
  • “Never Say Never” by ZEROBASEONE
  • “Odyssey” by RIIZE
  • “Pleasure” by JOLIN
  • “rosie” by BLACKPINK’s Rose
  • “Ruby” by BLACKPINK’s Jennie
  • “Stupid Pop Songs” by David Tao
  • “The Firstfruit” by NCT’s Mark
  • “The Star Chapter: TOGETHER” By TOMORROW X TOGETHER
  • “This is for” by TWICE
  • “Übermensch” by G-Dragon
  • “Upside Down” by EXO’s Chanyeol
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APMA 2025: Top 20 Songs of the Year

  • “Air” by ITZY’s Yeji
  • “Deadman” by KUN
  • “Don’t Say You Love Me” by BTS’ Jin
  • “Drama” by G-Dragon
  • “earthquake” by BLACKPINK’s Jisoo
  • “Gala” by XG
  • “Her” by i-dle’s Minnie
  • “Hot: by LE SSERAFIM
  • “I Am Not Here” by Wang Yibo
  • “Iris Out” by Kenshi Yonezu
  • “Jump” by BLACKPINK
  • “Kai Tian” by Lay Zhang
  • “like JENNIE” by BLACKPINK’s Jennie
  • “M.O.” by i-dle’s Yuqi
  • “number one girl” by BLACKPINK’s Rose
  • “Rich Man” by aespa
  • “Turn of a Page” by JJ LIN
  • “We Go Up” by BABYMONSTER
  • “XOXZ” by IVE
  • “Yellow” by TREASURE

APMA 2025: People’s Choice Awards

  • Zi Yu for “Too Deep”
  • Tian Xuning for “Guang Yan”
  • aespa for “Rich Man”
  • Jackson Yee for “Xie Shi”
  • Jackson Wang for “Magicman 2”
  • EXO’s Baekhyun for “Essence of Reverie”
  • BLACKPINK’s Rose for “rosie”
  • BLACKPINK for “Jump”
  • BLACKPINK’s Jennie for “Ruby”
  • Lay Zhang for “NAO TIAN GONG (Rock the Heavenly Palace)”