The 2025 Asia Artist Awards is set to be a major event for music and television fans across the globe. This year marks the awards show’s tenth anniversary, and it is pulling out all the stops with a two-day spectacle in Taiwan. The event will feature a star-studded lineup of popular K-pop groups and celebrated actors. For fans worldwide, the ceremony will be available to stream live on several official platforms, ensuring you won’t miss a moment of the action.
Event Schedule and Key Details
The 10th Anniversary Asia Artist Awards will be held over two days at the Kaohsiung National Stadium in Taiwan. The first day is dedicated to the main awards ceremony, while the second day features a special music festival known as ACON or AAA Festa.
The red carpet event for the awards show will begin on December 6, 2025, at 3 PM KST. The main ceremony will follow at 5 PM KST on the same day. The ACON festival will take place the next day, December 7, starting at 6 PM KST. This two-day format offers a full weekend of entertainment for fans.
How to Watch Live Online Worldwide
The primary global platform for streaming the Asia Artist Awards and ACON online is Weverse. This service will provide a live stream of both days of the event to a worldwide audience. Weverse also offers useful features like multilingual subtitles. However, it’s important to know that the Weverse live stream will be restricted in several countries, including Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, and Thailand. Viewers in those regions will need to use local broadcasting services.
For viewers in South Korea, the event will be broadcast live on television by MTN.
If you are in a country where Weverse is restricted, here is a list of alternative platforms for watching the events live or on delay:
- Taiwan: Delayed TV airing on Sanli SET TV. Live access is available on LINE TODAY, LINE VOOM, and LINE TV.
- Japan: The event will stream on U NEXT.
- Singapore: Viewers can watch on MeWatch.
- Vietnam: The broadcast will be available on MyTV.
- Thailand: Tune in via TrueVisions Now.
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Hosts and Performers Lineup
The awards night on December 6 will be hosted by Lee Jun-ho and Jang Won-young from the group IVE. The event will see appearances from a long list of popular actors, including Park Bo-gum, Kim Yoo-jung, IU, and Im Yoon-ah.
The musical performances will be a major highlight, led by a powerful lineup of K-pop acts. Global sensations like Stray Kids, ATEEZ, and MONSTA X are confirmed to perform. They will be joined by top charting groups such as IVE, LE SSERAFIM, RIIZE, and NEXZ. The lineup also includes soloists like Yena and WOODZ, as well as rising stars TWS and xikers.
The ACON festival on December 7 has its own set of hosts: actor-singer Lee Jun-young, Shuhua from (G)I-DLE, Allen from CRAVITY, and Sui of KiiiKiii. The performers for ACON include ATEEZ, CRAVITY, xikers, KISS OF LIFE, Yena, and QWER.
Nominees for Popularity Awards
The Asia Artist Awards keeps the nominee lists for most of its major jury-selected prizes private. However, it publicly discloses the nominees for its Popularity Awards, which are decided entirely by fan voting. The final voting pool was confirmed on November 5, 2025.
The Popularity Awards are divided into six categories. The nominees for each category are:
- Male Solo Artist: Lim Young-woong, Doyoung, Taehyung, Jimin, G-Dragon, and others.
- Female Solo Artist: IU, Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa, Rosรฉ, Tzuyu, and Choi Ye-na.
- Male Group: Stray Kids, SB19, RIIZE, BTS, PLAVE, ATEEZ, and MONSTA X.
- Female Group: NiziU, LE SSERAFIM, KEP1ER, Cosmic Girls, IVE, BLACKPINK, and NewJeans.
- Male Actor: Lee Jun-ho, Byeon Woo-seok, Cha Eun-woo, Kim Soo-hyun, and Park Bo-gum.
- Female Actor: Kim Hye-yoon, Hyeri, Yoona, IU, Kim Ji-won, and Kim Yoo-jung.
The winners in other key sections, such as Best Artist, Song of the Year, and Best Actor, are chosen by the awards committee and will be revealed during the ceremony.
Background of the Asia Artist Awards
The Asia Artist Awards was first launched in 2016 by Money Today’s StarNews and MTN. It was introduced as Korea’s first combined awards show for both K-pop and K-drama artists. The inaugural ceremony took place at Kyunghee University in Seoul. Since then, the event has been held annually and has expanded its reach, with later editions hosted in other Asian countries like Vietnam, Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand. The 2025 ceremony in Kaohsiung continues this tradition of being a pan-Asian entertainment event.
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