BTS & ROSÉ Lead a Big Night for K-Pop at 2026 Kids’ Choice Awards: Full Winners List
Categoria: Musica
Bruno Mars won favorite male artist for the second year in a row. Sombr and KATSEYE took the "breakout" awards.
Por Billboard | 15/11/2026
Kids love K-Pop. That was abundantly clear from the results at the 2026 Kids’ Choice Awards, which aired on CBS for the first time on Saturday (Nov. 14). BTS won three major awards, though they weren’t at Television City in Hollywood for the taping, nor did they accept any of their awards by video, as ROSÉ and “global girl group” KATSEYE did. BTS won favorite group for a record-extending fifth time; favorite song (“Swim”) for a second time and favorite album ( ARIRANG ) for the first time. In the favorite song category, BTS had won five years ago for “Dynamite.” The only other group or duo to win twice in the category is One Direction (back-to-back awards in 2013-14 for “What Makes You Beautiful” and “Story of My Life”). (The Kids’ Choice Awards originated in 1987.) Related Alex Warren ‘Would Be Shocked’ If 2026 Kids’ Choice Awards Doesn’t Break a Slime Record During His Hosting Debut: ‘It’s a Priority of Mine’ ROSÉ became the first K-Pop star to win favorite female artist. She beat, among others, Ariana Grande, who has won a record five times in this category; Taylor Swift, who has won three times; and Miley Cyrus, who has won twice. ROSÉ’s Blackpink colleague JENNIE shared the award for favorite music collaboration with Tame Impala for their smash “Dracula.” KPop Demon Hunters also won multiple awards. “Golden” won favorite song from a movie (beating Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” from Toy Story 5 , among others). The actors who voiced Rumi and Jinu in that movie won for favorite female and male animated voices from a movie, respectively. Alex Warren was a good-natured host of the fast-paced show, which ran just 90 minutes. In one quick bit, he was costumed like a janitor, mopping up the slime. Only a dozen of the many awards were presented on the show. The producers program the show with the winners who were willing and able to appear. If you watched the show, you would have had no idea that BTS had a big night. Nor would you have known that Bruno Mars won favorite male artist for the second year in a row; that Sombr won favorite new male artist; or that Olivia Dean ‘s “Man I Need” took favorite viral song. “Man I Need” is expected to be a top contender for record and song of the year at the 2027 Grammy Awards. KATSEYE won favorite female breakout artist/group. Bini , a Filipino girl group, won favorite global music star. Several music performances brightened the show. Ashe performed her current top 30 Hot 100 hit, “Stop the Wedding!,” wearing a beautiful wedding gown, with her hair perfectly coiffed. No matter: She was doused with slime at the end of the performance like just about everyone else. Jamie Miller performed “Babydoll,” which has been No. 1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart for four weeks and is climbing the Hot 100. Sofi Tukker performed “Tsunami.” JYT performed briefly at the end of the opening segment, which focused on dance hits over the decades, stretching back to the 1980s. (The 1970