List of Album of The Year Winners at MAMA Awards from Year to Year, Who Deserves to Win in 2025?

Kapanlagi.com - The Album of The Year award at the MAMA Awards is one of the daesang or main prizes at the MAMA Awards and is one of the most anticipated categories each year. This award first appeared at the 8th Mnet Asian Music Awards in 2006. At that time, SG Wannabe became the first winner with the album The 3rd Masterpiece. This category is awarded to soloists or groups that release the best and most influential albums in that year.

Since its debut, this category has always been in the spotlight as it shows who truly dominates the Korean music industry each year. Some names have even dominated, such as Super Junior, EXO, BTS, and now SEVENTEEN in the last two years.

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1. List of MAMA Awards Winners from 2006 to 2014

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The journey of this category began in 2006 with SG Wannabe taking home the award for the album The 3rd Masterpiece. In 2007, Epik High won this category with Remapping The Human Soul. The following year, TVXQ achieved victory with the legendary album MIROTIC. G-Dragon then became the winner in 2009 with the solo album Heartbreaker, followed by 2NE1 in 2010 with To Anyone.

Entering 2011 and 2012, Super Junior successfully won the award two years in a row with the albums Mr. Simple and Sexy, Free, & Single. After that, EXO began to show its dominance when they won the award in 2013 with XOXO and won again in 2014 with Overdose.

2. EXO, BTS, and SEVENTEEN Dominate MAMA Album of The Year for the Last Decade.

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EXO won awards again in 2015 with the album EXODUS, then in 2016 with the album EX'ACT, and in 2017 with THE WAR. After EXO, it was BTS's turn to dominate the Album of The Year category for five consecutive years. They won in 2018 with Love Yourself: Tear, then in 2019 with Map of the Soul: Persona, in 2020 with Map of The Soul: 7, in 2021 with BE, and in 2022 with PROOF.

In the last two years, SEVENTEEN has become the winner of this category. They successfully won the award in 2023 with the album FML and won it again in 2024 with Seventeenth Heaven. The list of winners over the past decade shows the increasingly fierce competition in the Korean music industry, especially in the album category.

3. As the MAMA Award 2025 Approaches, Who Deserves to be Album of The Year?

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As the MAMA Awards 2025 approaches, fans are starting to express their opinions on who deserves to take home the Album of The Year award this year. Several groups have received support from fans due to their achievements throughout 2025.

Some fans mention that LE SSERAFIM is highly favored due to their stable global performance and good chart achievements. On the other hand, fans argue that SEVENTEEN deserves to win again, especially since their album sales are reported to have reached the highest figures during the tracking period.

Stray Kids also stands as a worthy candidate for this award considering the impressive sales of their album KARMA. Additionally, many fans agree that Enhypen deserves more attention and believe that since their debut, they have been worthy of consideration in such a major category.

So, what do you think KLovers? Who deserves to take home Album of The Year this year?

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