Accordingly, the organizers revealed the Top 5 official nominees of 10 categories, with voting starting from February 13 to February 28.
The “Devotion Music” Awards will have 6 categories including: Album of the Year; Program of the Year; Program Series of the Year; Producer of the Year; Musician of the Year; Song of the Year; Music Video of the Year; New Artist of the Year; Female Singer of the Year; Male Singer of the Year.
According to Mr. Le Xuan Thanh - Editor-in-Chief of Sports and Culture Newspaper, Head of the Organizing Committee, the Dedication Award continues to develop, from 2023, it will begin to expand into the sports field, to become a Dedication ecosystem with 2 parallel award systems: "Dedication Music" Award and "Dedication Sports" Award; at the same time, the voting method is innovated so that in addition to the traditional votes of the press, there is also the active participation of experts and public votes.
The "Devoted Sports" Award has 4 categories: Sports Face of the Year; Sports Achievement of the Year; Young Sports Face of the Year; Dedication Aspiration.
The award aims to honor individuals or groups with outstanding work, actions and contributions in the socialization of sports, arousing passion, inspiring and spreading positive values in the community, contributing to encouraging the development of the sports movement nationwide.
The 19th Dedication Awards Ceremony - 2025 is scheduled to be held on the evening of March 5 at the Opera House, Hanoi. Musician Duong Cam will take on the role of Music Director. The program will be broadcast live on digital platforms.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Dedication Award, the organizing committee has specially ordered a Dedication Cup with the image of a nightingale, gilded in traditional "standard" and auctioned to support the charity program "For the school for children".
Mr. Le Xuan Thanh added that, marking 20 years of establishment and development, starting this year, the Dedication Award hopes to "advance to Asia" with strategic cooperation with the Japan Music Awards (MAJ).
And with this cooperation, starting this year, through the Dedication Bridge, Vietnamese artists will have the opportunity to be honored in the continental "arena", so that Vietnamese popular music can continue to integrate more deeply with the biggest music trends in Asia.
It is known that this year's Japan Music Awards ceremony will take place from May 21 to 22 at the ROHM Theater in Kyoto with 6 main categories, including "Best Asian Song" to honor outstanding works in the region, along with 60 other sub-categories.
