Stray Kids, aespa, TXT, IVE and More Are All Headed to This One Hong Kong Awards Show

The 2026 TME Live International Music Awards, better known as TIMA, just dropped a lineup that reads like someone copy-pasted the entire Melon Top 100 onto one event page. The show runs August 22–23 at Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong, and the roster is genuinely hard to scroll past.

Day one, August 22, pulls in NCT's Taeyong, aespa, BABYMONSTER, RIIZE, Super Junior, and TOMORROW X TOGETHER. TXT's Yeonjun gets double duty, he's on the lineup as both a group member and a solo act, which is worth noting given how actively he's been building that solo lane.

Also on day one: 82MAJOR, Kiki, NOWZ, Allday Project, AlphaDrive1, and Hearts2Hearts round out a set of acts with strong Chinese-market followings.

Day two, August 23, goes even wider. Stray Kids, IVE, NMIXX, PLAVE, Girls' Generation's Taeyeon, WayV, NCT WISH, KICKFLIP, NEXZ, Unchild, ANDBLE, EVAN, and MIAO are all confirmed. And Charlie Puth closes out the international side of the bill.

TIMA is organized by Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China's largest music streaming conglomerate, which launched the awards show only last year. For a first-year property, the 2025 edition already drew significant K-pop attendance, and the 2026 edition looks like a step up in ambition.

The announcement came through the event's official SNS accounts on July 14.