The Blue Wave Awards ceremony on the evening of January 15th took place like a concert of Vietnamese music. The awards were presented quite completely, except for the Male Singer/Rapper of the Year award for HIEUTHUHAI, which caused controversy.

January 15 evening, awards ceremony Blue Wave 2024 took place at Nguyen Du Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City. With music director DTAP and band Quan Nguyen, the award ceremony was worthy of a small-scale concert with the most prominent singers of Vietnamese music in the past year.

Toc Tien, Truc Nhan, Mono performed solo with the dance troupe. Group performances exploded with singers from Anh trai vu ngan cong gai, Anh trai say hi, Phuong My Chi - Tieu Minh Phung - Huynh Lap...

Why did HIEUTHUHAI win over Son Tung M-TP, Quang Hung MasterD, Soobin?

The "four pillars" of the Blue Wave awards are Male Singer/Rapper of the Year, Female Singer/Rapper of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year.

In which, the Male Singer/Rapper of the Year award belongs to rapper HIEUTHUHAI. The award was voted on by the council with an overwhelming 44.2% of the votes.

HIEUTHUHAI created a "precedent" at Blue Wave when he won the two most important awards for artists for the first time: Most Favorite Male Singer/Rapper and Male Singer/Rapper of the Year.

In addition, he and his teammates in Say Hi Brother is in the Top 10 most loved songs with Stupid, with a Song of the Year nomination for this song.

With the overwhelming number of votes, it seemed like this was a convincing victory for HIEUTHUHAI over other nominees for Male Singer/Rapper of the Year such as Son Tung M-TP, Quang Hung MasterD, Soobin, Vu., Phan Manh Quynh.

But the results when posted on entertainment fanpages have been controversial. Many comments said that HIEUTHUHAI did not have any impressive personal music products last year. Most of his great achievements came from songs combined with many other artists and were all included in the program. Hi drunk brother.

HIEUTHUHAI himself also expressed surprise when receiving the Male Singer/Rapper of the Year award on stage.

He said perhaps many viewers also understand that one of the important reasons is the program. Hi drunk brother.

"Is it because you often go on game shows that you win awards?" - an audience member asked.

In response, fans defended HIEUTHUHAI by listing his musical achievements such as top 1 most listened singer on Spotify Vietnam 2024, singer with top 1 trending YouTube in 2024 (with combined songs), champion drunk brother

On the opposing side, many comments emphasized Son Tung M-TP is a singer who sings, composes, and performs independently, not dependent on any big game show, but still has two top hit songs of the year: Don't break my heart and We of the future.

In there, Don't break my heart win the grand prize Song of the year with 45.5% of the votes of the judging panel. Two other male singers, Soobin and Quang Hung MasterD, are also considered to have impressive personal achievements.

Soobin win big Album of the year with Turn it on sung, composed and produced by him. Quang Hung won the important individual award. Breakout Singer (with 53.6% of votes), as well as having self-composed products Tide into the top 10 Green Wave 2024.

In response to opinions that this person or that person "deserves more than HIEUTHUHAI", the organizers said the results were voted by a jury with representatives from the media, singers, musicians, and music producers. HIEUTHUHAI's overwhelming victory is undeniable.

Another reason why this category is controversial is the clear rise of male singers and rappers in the past year, making the competition in the nominations very fierce.

The remaining award, Female Singer/Rapper of the Year, was given to rapper tlinh. The number of votes was also overwhelming at 48.1%. This award was not controversial because tlinh had affirmed herself with the album Love, individual songs as well as many collaboration songs, showing a unique path in Vietnamese music.

"Peace" between two Brother shows

On the evening of January 15, many viewers joked that the organizers of Blue Wave were like the Nobel Peace Prize when they opened a new category. Program of the year without going through the election board, and given to two programs: Brother overcame thousands of obstacles and Hi drunk brother.

Named by Lan Song Xanh, representatives of the two programs along with the talented and older brothers of each side simultaneously went on stage to receive the award. The moment Soobin hugged HIEUTHUHAI, Tuan Hung whispered to Rhyder or the other talented and older brothers hugged each other... went viral on social networks.

Prize Phenomenal song unexpectedly called name Walk in the bright sky by Ngo Lan Huong. In addition to the Album of the Year award, Soobin also won the Excellent combination with the talented people in the program Brother overcomes thousands of obstacles with songs rice drum

SlimV Manufacturer The brother overcame thousands of obstacles to win the category Music Producer of the Year with a record high voting rate: 67.4%.

Category The mixing and mastering duo Kriss Ngo and Touliver are called out for their work. Drum rice. MV of the year award goes to Niggling by the duo Truc Nhan and Dinh Ha Uyen Thu.

Duong Thu and Bao Chan are respected by the music industry.

A quiet part of the award ceremony was dedicated to two giants of Vietnamese music, musician Duong Thu and musician Bao Chan, each with decades of dedication. The junior and senior artists gave them respectful applause.

Musician Duong Thu is one of the leading musicians of Vietnamese music with poetic, delicate and lyrical songs: Give me a day, Lullaby for you, Still singing love songs, Nightingale singing in the rain, Listening to spring coming, Gentle sun, Awakening spring, Flying into the green day...

Musician Bao Chan made a strong impression with deep, gentle and emotional ballads: Come back to me, Beside you is the vast ocean, A winter day, The rain is rustling, Spring flowers and grass, That place is peaceful, Knowing you are still a little angry, Tonight I dream about you, A wonderful dream, A gentle longing, And the rain comes...