2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards

The 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards ceremony, organized by CJ E&M through its music channel Mnet, took place on December 4 at Nagoya Dome, Japan. It was the 21st ceremony and one of the largest in the show's history, with more than 40,000 people attending.^[1]

2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards
Date	December 4, 2019
Location	Nagoya, Japan
Hosted by	Park Bo-gum
Most awards	BTS (9)
Website	2019mama.com
Television/radio coverage
Network	Mnet, across CJ E&M channels and other international networks, YouTube
Runtime	100 minutes (Red Carpet) 240 minutes (Main Ceremony)
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Background

In August, Mnet responded to reports regarding the venues of the year's ceremony as Hong Kong, where it had been held in the past, was deemed unsafe due to political conflict in the city. On September 29, Mnet announced that the host location of 2019 MAMA will be at Nagoya, Japan, stating that cultural exchange must continue regardless of political matters.^[2]

All songs that are eligible to be nominated are songs released from November 3, 2018, to October 31, 2019.

Criteria

Division	Online Voting	MAMA Professional Panel (Local + Foreign)	Music Sales	Record Sales	Social Media Voting	Global M/V View Counts
Artist of the Year Categories by Artist*	30%	30%	20%	20%	—	—
Song of the Year Categories by Genre**	20%	40%	30%	10%	—	—
Album of the Year	—	40%	—	60%	—	—
Special Prize***	—	70%	—	—	—	30%
Worldwide Icon of the Year Global Top 10 Fans' Choice	60%	—	—	—	20%	20%
*Best New (M)ale/(F)emale Artist, Best M/F Artist, Best M/F Group **Best Dance Performance (Solo/M/F Group), Best Vocal Performance (M/F/Group), Best HipHop & Urban Music, Best Band Performance, Best Collaboration, Best OST ***Best Music Video

Performers

The following individuals and groups, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.^[3]

Artist(s)	Song(s)	Stage theme
Ateez	"Hala Hala", "Say My Name"	Red Carpet Special Stage
UNINE	"Set It Off"
Itzy	"Dalla Dalla", "Icy"	"It's ITZY"
TXT	"Intro, Run Away"	"The Next Dream Chapter"
Chungha	"Intro", "Blue Haze", "Gotta Go"	"The Genesis Of Time"
Monsta X	"Forever", "Never Die", "Intro", "Follow"	"Who Is Real?"
Hwasa	"New Rules"	"Make The New Rules"
Dua Lipa	"Don't Start Now"
Oneus Ateez	Oneus: "Sherlock (Clue + Note)", "Something", "Don't Wanna Cry", "Rough", "Lit" Ateez: "Wonderland", "Blood, Sweat & Tears", "View", "Good Bye Baby"	"Greatest Expectations"
WayV	"Intro", "Moonwalk", "Take Off"	"Pioneer: V"
Got7	"Eclipse", "You Calling My Name", "Crash & Burn"	"Phases Of The Moon"
Seventeen	"Intro", "Fear", "Hit"	"Alternate Universe #17"
Mamamoo Park Jin-young	"Intro", "Twit", "Don't Leave Me", "Hip" (Remix ver.), "You're the One (Party ver.) + "Who's Your Mama?", "Yes I Am", "Fever"	"Glamorous Party"
Twice	"Intro", "Feel Special", "Fancy"	"Everything's all right"
BTS	"Intro", "N.O", "We Are Bulletproof Pt. 2", "Boy with Luv", "Mikrokosmos", "Dionysus"	"Map of the Soul: Journey to Myself"

Presenters

• Park Bo-gum – host
• Lee Sang-yeob & Jung Hye-sung – presented Best Male & Female Group
• Kim Byung-hyun & Yoon Ji-ni – presented World Performer, Favorite Vocal & Dance Performance
• Shin A-young & Tsukasa Saito – presented Favorite Male & Female Artist
• Lee Yi-kyung & Karata Erika – presented Best New Male & Female Artist
• Jimmy Fallon (recorded at NBC Studios in NYC) – presented Album of the Year
• Kentaro Sakaguchi – presented Best Dance Performance – Male & Female Group
• Lee Sang-yeob & Lee Yu-bi – presented Worldwide Fans' Choice
• Ji Sook & Joo Woo-jae – presented Best Female Artist & Best New Asian Artist
• Lee Kwang-soo & Choi Yu-hwa – presented Worldwide Fans' Choice
• Chang Chen – presented Worldwide Icon of the Year
• Lee Soo-syuk & Gulnazar – presented Best Dance Solo Performance & Best Urban/Hip-Hop Music
• Park Tam-hee – presented Breakthrough Achievement Award
• Cha Sung-won – presented Song of the Year
• Shin Seung-hun – presented Artist of the Year

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Online voting opened on the official MAMA website, Mwave app, and Twitter an hour after the announcement of nominees on October 22, 2019. Voting ended on December 4, 2019.

Main Awards

Artist of the Year (Daesang)	Song of the Year (Daesang)
BTS Blackpink Exo Twice Chungha	BTS – "Boy with Luv" Blackpink – "Kill This Love" Exo – "Tempo" Twice – "Fancy" Chungha – "Gotta Go"
Album of the Year (Daesang)	Worldwide Icon of the Year (Daesang)
BTS – Map of the Soul: Persona Blackpink – Kill This Love Exo – Don't Mess Up My Tempo Twice – Fancy You Seventeen – An Ode	BTS Blackpink Exo Got7 Ateez Monsta X X1 Seventeen Twice TXT
Best Male Group	Best Female Group
BTS Exo NCT 127 Got7 Seventeen Monsta X	Twice Blackpink Red Velvet Mamamoo Iz*One GFriend
Best Male Artist	Best Female Artist
Baekhyun Paul Kim Taemin Park Hyo Shin Mino	Chungha Jennie Hwasa Taeyeon Heize
Best Dance Performance – Male Group	Best Dance Performance – Female Group
BTS – "Boy with Luv" Exo – "Tempo" Got7 – "Eclipse" Monsta X – "Alligator" NU'EST – "Bet Bet" Seventeen – "Fear"	Twice – "Fancy" Iz*One – "Violeta" GFriend – "Sunrise" Red Velvet – "Zimzalabim" Blackpink – "Kill This Love" (G)I-dle – "Senorita"
Best Dance Performance – Solo	Best Vocal Performance – Solo
Chungha – "Gotta Go" Hwasa – "Twit" Taemin – "Want" Sunmi – "Lalalay" Jennie – "Solo"	Taeyeon – "Four Seasons" Ben – "180 Degree" Chen – "Beautiful Goodbye" Park Bom – "Spring" Kim Jae Hwan – "Begin Again" Jang Bum June – "Karaoke"
Best Vocal Performance – Group	Best Collaboration
BOL4 – "Bom" AKMU – "How Can I Love the Heartbreak, You're the One I Love" Winner – "Millions" Davichi – "Unspoken Words" Mamamoo – "Gogobebe" BtoB – "Beautiful Pain"	Lee So-ra feat. Suga of BTS – "Song Request" Soyou & Ovan – "Rain Drop" Jang Hye-jin & Yoon Min-soo – "Drunk on Love" Chang Mo, Hash Swan, Ash Island & Kim Hyoeun – "Band" Heize feat. Giriboy – "We Don't Talk Together"
Best New Male Artist	Best New Female Artist
TXT AB6IX Ateez Kim Jae-hwan X1 Kang Daniel	Itzy Rocket Punch Jeon Somi Bvndit Everglow Cherry Bullet
Best OST	Best Band Performance
Gummy – "Remember Me" (Hotel del Luna) Jannabi – "Take My Hand" (Romance Is a Bonus Book) Jang Beom-jun – "Your Shampoo Scent In The Flowers" (Be Melodramatic) Paul Kim – "So Long" (Hotel del Luna) Ha Jin – "We All Lie" (Sky Castle)	Jannabi – "For Lovers Who Hesitate" Day6 – "Time of Our Life" MC the Max – "After You've Gone" Nell – "Let's Part" N.Flying – "Rooftop"
Best HipHop & Urban Music	Best Music Video
Heize – "She's Fine" Mino – "Fiancé" Epik High feat. Crush and IU – "Love Drunk" Woo Won-jae feat. Giriboy – "Taste" Crush – "Nappa"	BTS – "Boy with Luv"

Favorite Awards

Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10
BTS Blackpink Exo Seventeen TXT ATEEZ Monsta X GOT7 X1 Twice
Qoo10 Favorite Male Artist	Qoo10 Favorite Female Artist
BTS	Twice
Favorite Dance Performance	Favorite Vocal Performance
Got7	Mamamoo

Special Awards

Category		Winner
Best Asian Artist	Thailand	Nont Tanont
	Mandarin	Li Ronghao
	Vietnam	Hoàng Thùy Linh
	Japan	Aimyon
	Indonesia	Andmesh Kamaleng
Best New Asian Artist	Thailand	Wanyai
	Taiwan	OSN
	Vietnam	K-ICM & Jack
	Japan	King Gnu
	Indonesia	Stephanie Poetri
	China	WayV
World Performer		Monsta X
International Favorite Artist		Dua Lipa
Breakthrough Achievement		Seventeen
Best Producer of the Year		Starr Chen, Howe Chen & RAZOR
Best Composer of the Year		Pdogg
Best Engineer of the Year		Kwon Nam Woo
Best Art Director of the Year		Yuni Yoshida
Best Video Director of the Year		Lumpens
Best Choreographer of the Year		Kiel Tutin
Best Executive Producer of the Year		Bang Si-hyuk

Multiple awards

The following artist(s) received three or more awards:

Awards	Artist(s)
9	BTS
4	Twice

Broadcast

The red carpet and main ceremony of the 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards was broadcast worldwide via Mnet, across CJ E&M channels and other international networks and online via Mnet K-pop's YouTube account and Mnet's official website.^[4] The Red Carpet was live streamed on the official Mnet MAMA Twitter page.

Country	Network
Worldwide	YouTube, Mwave
South Korea	Mnet, OnStyle, O'live, XtvN, TVING
Japan	Mnet Smart, Mnet Japan, VideoPass
United States	Mnet America, Kcon.tv
Hong Kong	ViuTV, ViuTVsix	tvN Asia
Macau
Taiwan	ETTODAY
Philippines	Myx
Singapore	Mediacorp Toggle
Indonesia	Indosiar, Vidio, JOOX
Malaysia	JOOX
Thailand
Myanmar
Sri Lanka	tvN Asia
Cambodia	MyTV
Vietnam	FPT Play HD [5]

^ Restricted access on some countries due to broadcasting rights.