Circle Chart Music Awards announces star-studded performer lineup

The Circle Chart Music Awards 2023 (CCMA 2023) will have 13 artists performing at the awards ceremony, ranging from hot and trending K-pop groups NCT Dream and ZeroBaseOne to Japanese singer-songwriter imase.

The Circle Music Awards 2023 (CCMA 2023) will have 13 artists performing at the awards ceremony, ranging from hot and trending K-pop groups NCT Dream and ZeroBaseOne to Japanese singer-songwriter imase. [CIRCLE CHART MUSIC AWARDS]

The Circle Chart Music Awards 2023 (CCMA 2023) will have 13 artists performing at the awards ceremony, ranging from hot and trending K-pop groups NCT Dream and ZeroBaseOne to Japanese singer-songwriter imase.

The CCMA will be held at Bexco, or Busan Exhibition and Convention Center, in Busan on Jan. 10.

The 13 performing artists, announced Friday, feature boy bands NCT Dream, Riize, Tomorrow X Together and ZeroBaseOne, girl groups Kiss of Life, STAYC and NiziU, K-pop duo AKMU and solo artists imase, Kyungseo, Parc Jae-jung, Lee Chan-won and Hwasa.

The upcoming awards see aespa, Enhypen, IVE, NCT Dream, Stray Kids, V, ZeroBaseOne, Seventeen, Jungkook, Tomorrow X Together and more nominated for Artist of the Year.

Super Junior's Leeteuk will host the ceremony, along with STAYC's Sieun and ZeroBaseOne's Seok Matthew.

Tickets to the awards ceremony will open Wednesday on Melon Tickets.

The awards, which began in 2011 as the Gaon Chart Music Awards, compile album sales, streaming and other data from the Circle Music Chart to select award recipients.

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BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]