BTS wins Album of the Year, Worldwide Icon of the Year at 2021 Asian Music Awards

South Korea’s music sensation, K-pop band BTS came out as top winners at the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards night on Saturday, reported Variety.

Known as MAMAs, the ceremony marked the region’s largest music awards event and was available to watch as a global live stream telecast on YouTube.

The Butter hitmaker septet won nine awards, including four wins of the night; album of the year, artist of the year, song of the year and worldwide icon of the year.

The Dynamite crooners received the awards with a heartfelt speech, saying, “For all of those who had difficult times this year, to share strength and comfort, we tried new things in making music and we worked really hard.”

“Butter and Permission to Dance gained enormous love this year, we will share this honour with everyone who worked hard to make great music and performances with us.”

In addition to those four top honours, the popular group also claimed Best Male Group, Best Dance Performance – Male Group and Favourite Moment trophies.