Criteria
The first part of this two-day award ceremony highlighted the biggest digital releases in 2020. The second part, taking place on January 10, recognized achievements in the category of physical album releases. For judging the awards, music and albums released from November 2019 to November 2020 were considered. Those songs and albums which were excluded from the evaluation due to the judging count deadline in 34th awards were also included in this year's awards.{{Cite news |url= https://n.news.naver.com/entertain/now/article/011/0003836839|title= '골든디스크 어워즈' 내년 1월 9~10일 양일 개최···비대면 진행|trans-title='Golden Disc Awards' held on both days of January 9-10 next year...non-face-to-face ==Winners and nominees==