2025 KGMA Adds Nexz, The Boyz, Xikers, Woodz, CRAVITY, fromis_9 to Star-Studded Lineup
Sep 23, 2025
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On the 23rd, the KGMA Organizing Committee officially announced the appearance of Nexge, The Boyz, Psycus, Woods, CRAVITY, and fromis9 (hereinafter in alphabetical order) as the fourth lineup of the '2025 Korea Grand Music Awards with iMBank' (2025 KGMA) to be held at Inspire Arena in Unseo-dong, Jung-gu, Incheon on November 14 and 15.
Nexge (Tomoya, Yuwoo, Haru, So Gun, Seita, Hewy, Yuki) released its 2nd mini album in April 'Oh Really?It performed well on major Japanese charts as well as in Korea with its second EP 'One Byte' released in July. Those who demonstrated their growth by entering Tokyo Budokan alone last summer are preparing for their domestic comeback in October.
THE BOYZ (Sangyeon, Jacob, Younghoon, Hyunjae, Juyeon, Kevin, New, Q, Sunwoo, and Eric) released their 3rd full-length album 'Unexpected' and 10th mini album 'A effect' this year, and continue their aggressive album activities in their 9th year. The fourth world tour 'The Boyz
Psykers (Minjae, Junmin, Sumin, Jinsik, Hyunwoo, Junghoon, Seeun, Yoojun, Hunter, and Yechan) are considered the next generation of global representatives, with the album 'House of Tricky: Spur', released in April, ranking 3rd on the Billboard World Albums chart and 4th on Emerging Artists. I recently successfully completed my world tour 'Road to XY: Enter the Gate' which tours 5 U.S. cities and Japan.
Woods is the main character who wrote the myth of No. 1 in music charts and No. 1 in music broadcasts while serving in the military. Woods, who has been on the stage of various music festivals since being discharged from the military in July, will make a comeback after releasing a digital single 'Will Never Love Again' on the 24th, following 'Smashing Concrete' which was pre-released as a visualizer video.
CRAVITY (Serim, Allen, Jungmo, Woo Bin, Wonjin, Minhee, Hyeongjun, Taeyoung, and Sungmin) once again proved its cascading growth with a spectrum without limits, challenging concepts differentiated from before through their second full-length album 'Dare to Crave' released in June. Like the winning team of Mnet 'Road to Kingdom: Ace of Ace', they are showing off their extraordinary performance skills in the ongoing fan concert tour.
Fromis_9 (Song Ha-young, Park Ji-won, Lee Chae-young, Lee Na-kyung, and Baek Ji-heon) received great love this summer with the title song of their 6th mini album, Like You VERRER, which was released in June, and solidified its position as a Summer Queen. Those who demonstrated their skills by performing live performances without wavering on various stages, including university festivals, are currently on their first world tour around 10 cities in four countries.
This year's KGMA will host Red Velvet's Irene and Kiss of Life Natty on the 14th and 15th, respectively, along with actor Nam Ji-hyun, who will be the MC for two consecutive days following last year. Following the announcement of the fourth lineup, the KGMA Organizing Committee will also unveil the special lineup.
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