The poll for this year’s winner of the said award will open on June 14 at MTV Asia Awards’ official homepage. Vying for the title of “Favorite Artist – Korea” are BIG BANG, Girls’ Generation, Wonder Girls and Super Junior. These candidates were selected through a survey among music industry officials and journalists and the winner of the award will be based on an online poll, which will end on July 25.
For the first time, the Awards show that celebrates and pays tribute to regional and international music talents will be held at the Arena of Stars in Genting- City of Entertainment, Malaysia on August 2, 2008 and will be hosted by Jared Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars.This year’s host Jared Leto is an accomplished singer and actor. In 1998, Jared Leto formed the band 30 Seconds to Mars in which he is the lead vocalist and guitarist.
Singapore: Electrico, JJ lin, Stephanie sun, Tanya chua
Malaysia: Faizal Tahir, Nicholas Teo, Pop Shuvit, Siti Nurhaliza
Thailand: Body slam, groove riders, k-otic, TOR+soksit
Indonesia: andra+backbone, Mulan Jameela, Nidji, Yovie+nouno
Phillipines: Sandwich, chicosci, spngecola, urbandub
hongkong: andy lau, Eason chan, joey yung, leo yu
Taiwan: Jolin tsai, MayDay, S.H.E., showloh
China: Flowers, Liyuchun, Wang feng, yangkun
Korea: Super junior, bigbang, Girls generation, wondergirls
International artist: Avril Lavigne, Fergie, Junstin Timberlake, Linkin Park
Home page: http://www.mtvasiaawards.com/
