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Melon Music Awards
South Korean annual music awards From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Melon Music Awards (Korean: 멜론 뮤직어워드) is a major music awards show that is held annually by Kakao Entertainment (a Kakao company) through its online music store Melon. The event was initially a fan-voted award conducted entirely online from 2005 through 2008, and has been officially held offline in Seoul since 2009.[1]
The award show uses digital data from the Melon music platform—along with online voting and judges evaluation—to base its awards to artists who have had exceptional performance during the year.[2]
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History
The awards show underwent a logo rebranding starting with the 2019 edition. 2020 Melon Music Awards was held for 4 days from December 2 to 5, dubbed as "MMA Week", and was broadcast online due to government restrictions imposed because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[3]
Host venues
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Judging criteria
Grand prizes
The four grand prizes (known as daesangs):
Main prizes
Top 10 Artist Award
Millions Top 10 Album Award
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New Artist of the Year Award
Genre Awards
Best Rap/Hip Hop
Best Ballad
Best R&B
Best Rock
Best Trot
Best Pop
Best Dance
Best Folk/Blues
Best Indie
Best OST
Best Performance
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Popularity awards
Netizen's Choice Award
Hot Trend Award
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Special awards
Music Video Award
Songwriter Award
Best Performance Director
Best Music Style
Best Solo
Best Group
Best Collaboration
Global Artist Award
Global Rising Artist
Kakao Hot Star Award
Stage of the Year
1theK Performance Award
1theK Original Contents
1theK Global Icon
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Other awards
2009
- Star: TVXQ
- Mania: TVXQ - "Mirotic"
- Current Stream: Kim Tae-woo – "Love Rain"
- Smart Radio: Girls' Generation
- Odyssey: Girls' Generation – "Gee"
- Mobile Music: Girls' Generation
- Sudden Rise: Leessang
- Y-STAR Live: Lee Seung-chul
2010
- Best Dressed Singer: Girls' Generation
- Best MBC Radio Singer: Jung Yeop – "Without You"
2016
- Hall of Fame Award: Sechs Kies
- Tencent-QQ Music Asia Star Award: iKon
2020
- Best Drum: Shin Seok Cheol
- Best Bass: Choi Hoon
- Best Synthesizer: Hong So Jin
- Best Guitar: Juk Jae
- Best Chorus: Kim Hyun Ah
2021
- Project Music: MSG Wannabe M.O.M
- Best Session Instrumental Award: Kim Dong-min (Guitarist), Go Tae-yeong (Bassist), Gureum (Keyboardist)
- Legendary Performance: BTS – "IDOL"
2022
- Project Music Award: WSG Wannabe
- KakaoBank Everyone's Star: BTS
2023
2024
- Kakao Bank Everyone's Star: Riize
- J-Pop Favorite Artist: Yoasobi
- Track Zero Choice: Hyukoh & Sunset Rollercoaster - "Young Man"
- Best Producer: Seo Hyun-joo (Starship Entertainment)
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Discontinued awards
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Most wins
Most grand prizes awarded
This list includes Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year Award.
Most awarded overall
Broadcasting
South Korea
- The 1st Melon Music Awards ceremony was broadcast through CU Media's y-star, Dramax and Comedy TV channels. Internet partners include Melon, Nate (then a sister brand), GOMTV and Afreeca TV (2009-2010).
- In 2010, LOEN Entertainment partnered with MBC Plus Media, and the latter transmitted the awards night through MBC every1, MBC Dramanet (from 2010 to 2011 and 2013), MBC Game (now defunct) and MBC Life (now defunct). When MBC Music was launched in 2012, it shared the honor of being the flagship station of MMA with MBC every1. MBC QueeN joined in 2013.
- Daum was the local internet partner in 2013. One year later, it merged with LOEN's incumbent parent company Kakao.
- In 2018, the awards show was broadcast on JTBC2, JTBC4, 1theK, and KakaoTV as part of their partnership with JTBC Plus Media.[26]
Worldwide
- Since 2011, Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube (specifically the 1theK (formerly LOEN Music) channel) is the internet broadcast partner of Melon Music Awards. Microsoft's Zune was the first internet broadcast partner (2009).
China
Japan
- The Sony Music Japan-owned Music On! TV acquired the local broadcast rights in 2015, making Melon Music Awards the second Korean music awarding event that it broadcasts (the first being Mnet Asian Music Awards).[27]
Thailand
- Joox, another Tencent-owned music service, together with its sister property Sanook.com, brought Melon Music Awards to its users in Thailand in 2016 and 2017.
Taiwan
- Streaming rights is handled by Taiwan Mobile's MyMusic service.
References
External links
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