Melon Music Awards

Melon Music Awards
Melon Music Awards
Current: 2024 Melon Music Awards
Awarded for	Exceptional digital performance
Country	South Korea
Presented by	Kakao Entertainment
First awarded	2005 (online); December 16, 2009; 15 years ago (live);
Website	www.melon.com/mma/index.htm
Television/radio coverage
Network	K-Star (2009); MBC Plus channels (2010–2017); JTBC Plus channels (2018); KakaoTV (2017–present); Melon (2019–present); KakaoTalk (2020–present);

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]

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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]

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]

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Year	Date	Venue	City	Ref.
2009	December 16, 2009	Olympic Hall	Seoul	^[4]
2010	December 15, 2010	Kyung Hee University Hall of Peace		^[5]
2011	November 24, 2011	Olympic Gymnastics Arena		^[6]
2012	December 14, 2012			^[7]
2013	November 14, 2013			^[8]
2014	November 13, 2014			^[9]
2015	November 7, 2015			^[10]
2016	November 19, 2016	Gocheok Sky Dome		^[11]
2017	December 2, 2017			^[12]
2018	December 1, 2018			^[13]
2019	November 30, 2019			^[14]
2020	December 2–5, 2020	Online event	—	^[15]
2021	December 4, 2021	Online event	—	^[16]
2022	November 26, 2022	Gocheok Sky Dome	Seoul	^[17]
2023	December 2, 2023	Inspire Arena	Incheon	^[18]
2024	November 30, 2024	Inspire Arena	Incheon	^[19]

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Division	Online Voting	Digital Sales	Judge Score
Grand prizes^[a]	20%	60%	20%
Best New Artist	20%	60%	20%
Main prizes^[b]	20%	80%	—
Genre Awards^[c]	30%	40%	30%
Popularity Awards^[d]	60%	40%	—
Special Awards^[e]	—	—	100%
^{^[a]} Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year ^{^[b]} Top 10 Artist, Millions Top 10 Album ^{^[c]} Rap/Hip Hop, Ballad, R&B, Rock, OST, Trot, Pop, Dance, Folk/Blues, Indie ^{^[d]} Netizen's Choice Award, Hot Trend Award ^{^[e]} Record of The Year, Music Video Award, Song Writer Award, MBC Music Star Award, Performing Arts Award, Global Star Award, QQ Asia Artist Award, Hall of Fame Award, Kakao Hot Star Award

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The four grand prizes (known as daesangs):

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Record of the Year
Year	Winner
2018	Wanna One
2019	BTS
2021	Aespa
2022	BTS
2023	NCT Dream
2024	(G)I-dle

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Top 10 Artist Award

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Year	Winners^[20]^[21]
2009	2PM	Girls' Generation	Kara	K.Will	G-Dragon	8eight	Super Junior	2NE1	Brown Eyed Girls	Davichi
2010	2PM	Girls' Generation	2AM	IU	DJ DOC	CNBLUE	Lee Seung-gi	2NE1	T-ara	4Men
2011	f(x)	Secret	Beast	IU	Big Bang	Sistar	Super Junior	2NE1	Leessang	Lena Park
2012	Psy	Busker Busker	Beast	IU	Big Bang	Sistar	Infinite	2NE1	T-ara	Huh Gak
2013	Shinee	Busker Busker	Beast	IU	G-Dragon	Sistar	Exo	Ailee	Dynamic Duo	Davichi
2014	g.o.d	Winner	Beast	IU	Taeyang	Sistar	Exo	2NE1	Girl's Day	AKMU
2015	Shinee	Girls' Generation	Hyukoh	Apink	Big Bang	Sistar	Exo	San E	Zion.T	Toy
2016	Bewhy	Taeyeon	BTS	GFriend	Mamamoo	Zico	Exo	Twice	Red Velvet	AKMU
2017	Heize	Winner	BTS	IU	Big Bang	Wanna One	Exo	Twice	Red Velvet	Bolbbalgan4
2018	iKon	BtoB	BTS	Apink	Mamamoo	Wanna One	Exo	Twice	Blackpink	Bolbbalgan4
2019	Heize	Taeyeon	BTS	Chungha	Mamamoo	MC the Max	Exo	Jannabi	Jang Beom-june	Bolbbalgan4
2020	Kim Ho-joong	Baek Ye-rin	BTS	IU	Oh My Girl	Zico	Baekhyun	Lim Young-woong	Blackpink	Iz*One
2021	Heize	Lee Mu-jin	BTS	IU	Lil Boi	NCT Dream	Aespa	Lim Young-woong	Ash Island	AKMU
2022	(G)I-dle	NewJeans	BTS	IU	MeloMance	NCT Dream	Be'O	Lim Young-woong	Ive	Seventeen
2023	(G)I-dle	NewJeans	BTS	Le Sserafim	Jungkook	NCT Dream	Aespa	Lim Young-woong	Ive	Seventeen
2024	(G)I-dle	NewJeans	Day6	IU	Jungkook	Plave	Aespa	Riize	TWS	Seventeen

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Millions' Top 10 Album Award

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Year	Winners^[22]
2023	(G)I-dle – I Feel'	Aespa – My World	BSS – Second Wind	Ive – I've Ive	Jungkook – "Seven" (feat. Latto)	Le Sserafim – Unforgiven	Lim Young-woong – "Do or Die"	NCT Dream – ISTJ	NewJeans – Get Up	Seventeen – FML
2024	Taeyeon – To. X	Aespa – Armageddon	Plave – Asterum 134-1	Ive – Ive Switch	Jungkook – Golden	IU – The Winning	Lim Young-woong – Warmth	Riize – Riizing	NewJeans – How Sweet	Day6 – Band Aid

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Best Rap/Hip Hop

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Year	Winner	Song
2010	Supreme Team	"Dang Dang Dang"
2011	GD & TOP	"Oh Yeah" (feat. Park Bom)
2012	Dynamic Duo	"Without You"
2013	Baechigi	"Shower of Tears" (feat. Ailee)
2014	San E & Raina	"A Midsummer Night's Sweetness"
2015	Mad Clown	"Fire" (feat. Jinsil)
2016	Zico^[23]	"Eureka" (feat. Zion.T)
2017	Dynamic Duo & Chen	"Nosedive"
2018	BTS	"Fake Love"
2019	Epik High	"Lovedrunk" (feat. Crush)
2020	Yumdda, Paloalto, The Quiett, Deepflow, Simon Dominic	"I'mma Do" (feat. Woo Won-jae, Keem Hyo-eun, Nucksal, Huckleberry P)

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Best Ballad

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Year	Winner	Song
2010	Gummy	"Because You're A Man"
2011	Kim Bum-soo	"Please"
2012	K.Will	"Please Don't"
2013	Huh Gak	"Monodrama" (with Yoo Seung-woo)
2013	K.Will	"Love Blossom"
2014	M.C the Max	"Wind That Blows"
2015	Baek Ah Yeon	"Shouldn't Have" (feat. Young K)
2016	Jung Eun-ji	"Hopefully Sky"
2016	Im Chang-jung	"The Love I Committed"
2017	Yoon Jong-shin	"Like It"
2018	Roy Kim	"Only Then"
2019	Taeyeon	"Four Seasons"
2020	Davichi	"Dear"

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Best R&B

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Year	Winner	Song
2014	Fly to the Sky	"You You You"
2015	Naul	"Living in the Same Time"
2016	Baekhyun & Suzy	"Dream"
2017	Suran	"Wine"
2018	IU	"Bbibbi"
2019	Heize	"We Don't Talk Together"
2020	Baek Ye-rin	"Square (2017)"

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Best Rock

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Year	Winner	Song
2010	Hot Potato	"Confession"
2011	CNBLUE	"Intuition"
2012	Nell	"The Day Before"
2013	Cho Yong-pil	"Bounce"
2014	CNBLUE	"Can't Stop"
2015	Kim Sunggyu	"The Answer"
2016	Ha Hyun-woo	"Don't Cry"
2017	Kim Hee-chul & Min Kyung-hoon	"Sweet Dream"
2018	Kim Hee-chul & Min Kyung-hoon	"Falling Blossoms"
2019	N.Flying	"Rooftop"
2020	IU	"Eight" (feat. Suga)

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Best Trot

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Year	Winner	Song
2010	Jang Yoon-jeong	"Come On"
2015	Hong Jin Young	"Love Wifi"
2016	Hong Jin Young	"Thumbs Up"
2017	Hong Jin Young & Kim Young Chul	"Ring Ring (Composer ver.)"
2018	Hong Jin Young	"Goodbye"
2019	Hong Jin Young	"Love Tonight"
2020	Lim Young-woong	"Trust in Me"

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Best Pop

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Year	Winner	Song
2012	Maroon 5	"Payphone" (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
2013	Bruno Mars	"Young Girls"
2015	Mark Ronson	"Uptown Funk" (feat. Bruno Mars)
2016	Justin Bieber	"Love Yourself"
2017	Ed Sheeran	"Shape of You"
2018	Camila Cabello	"Havana" (feat. Young Thug)
2019	Billie Eilish	"Bad Guy"
2020	Sam Smith	"To Die For"
2022	Charlie Puth	"That's Hilarious"
2023	Charlie Puth	"That's Not How This Works" (feat. Dan + Shay)
2024	Benson Boone	"Beautiful Things"

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Best Dance

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Year	Winner^[23]		Song
2014	Male	Block B	"Her"
2014	Female	Apink	"Mr. Chu"
2015	Male	BTS	"I Need U"
2015	Female	Red Velvet	"Ice Cream Cake"
2016	Male	Exo	"Monster"
2016	Female	GFriend	"Rough"
2017	Male	Exo	"Ko Ko Bop"
2017	Female	Twice	"Knock Knock"
2018	Male	Wanna One	"Boomerang"
2018	Female	Blackpink	"Ddu-Du Ddu-Du"
2019	Male	BTS	"Boy with Luv" (feat. Halsey)
2019	Female	Chungha	"Gotta Go"
2020	Male	BTS	"Dynamite"
2020	Female	Blackpink	"How You Like That"

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Best Folk/Blues

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Year	Winner	Song
2014	Akdong Musician	"200%"
2015	10cm	"Sseudam Sseudam"
2016	10cm^[23]	"What The Spring??"
2017	Jung Eun-ji	"The Spring"
2018	Hong Jin-young	"Good Bye"

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Best Indie

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Year	Winner	Song
2014	Standing Egg	"Lean on Me" (feat. Park Se-young)
2015	Standing Egg	"The Sunlight Hurts" (feat. Wheein & Obroject Yundak)
2016	Bolbbalgan4	"Galaxy"
2017	MeloMance	"Gift"
2018	MeloMance	"Fairy Tale"
2019	MeloMance	"You&I"
2020	Bolbbalgan4	"Leo" (feat. Baekhyun)

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Best OST

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Year	Winner	Song	Drama/Show TV
2009	Future Liger	"Let's Dance"	Infinite Challenge
2010	Lee Seung-gi	"Losing My Mind"	My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox
2011	Sunny Hill	"Pit-a-Pat"	The Greatest Love
2012	Seo In-guk & Jung Eun-ji	"All For You"	Reply 1997
2013	Yoon Mi-rae	"Touch Love"	Master's Sun
2014	Lyn	"My Destiny"	My Love from the Star
2015	Loco & Yuju of GFriend	"Spring is Gone By Chance"	A Girl Who Sees Smells
2016	Yoon Mi-rae	"Always"	Descendants of the Sun
2017	Ailee	"I Will Go to You Like the First Snow"	Goblin
2018	Paul Kim	"Every Day, Every Moment"	Should We Kiss First?
2019	Gummy	"Remember Me"	Hotel del Luna
2020	Jo Jung-suk	"Aloha"	Hospital Playlist
2021	Lee Mu-jin	"Rain and You"	Hospital Playlist 2
2022	MeloMance	"Love, Maybe"	Business Proposal
2023	Lim Jae-hyun	"Heaven"	It Was Spring
2024	Eclipse (Byeon Woo-Seok)	"Sudden Shower"	Lovely Runner

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Best Performance

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Year	Winner
2020	Male	Monsta X
2021	Male	The Boyz
2022	Male	Tomorrow X Together
2022	Female	Le Sserafim
2023	Male	Seventeen
2023	Female	Aespa
2024	Male	BoyNextDoor
2024	Female	Aespa

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Netizen's Choice Award

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Year	Winner	Song
2010	Super Junior	"Bonamana"
2011	Super Junior	"Mr. Simple"
2012	Beast	"Midnight"
2013	Exo	"Growl"
2014	Beast	"Good Luck"
2015	Big Bang	"Bang Bang Bang"
2016	Exo	"Monster"
2017	Exo	"Ko Ko Bop"
2018	BTS	"Idol"
2019	BTS	"Boy with Luv"
2020	BTS	"Dynamite"
2021	BTS	"Butter"
2022	Lim Young-woong	"If We Ever Meet Again"

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Hot Trend Award

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Year	Winner	Work	Topic
2010	Girls' Generation	"Hoot"	Music
2011	Infinite Challenge	"West Coast Expressway Music Festival"	Variety Series
2012	Trouble Maker	"Trouble Maker"	Collaboration
2013	Crayon Pop	"Bar Bar Bar"	Music
2013	Rose Motel	"Longtime Lovers"	Music
2014	Soyou & Junggigo	"Some"	Collaboration
2015	Infinite Challenge	"Yeongdong Expressway Music Festival"	Variety Series
2016	Zico	"I Am You, You Are Me"	Radio Star
2017	Suran & Suga	"Wine"	Singer and Producer
2018	Loco & Hwasa	"Don't"	Collaboration
2019	AB6IX	—	Produce 101 Alumni
2020	Mr. Trot 6	—	Reality Show
2021	Brave Girls	"Rollin'"	Music
2022	Le Sserafim	"Fearless"	Music
2023	Jungkook	"Seven"	Soloist & Unit
2024	QWER	—	Music

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Music Video Award

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Year	Winner	Music Video
2010	Hwang Soo-ah	Ga-in's "Irreversible"
2011	Cha Eun-taek	T-ara's "Roly-Poly"
2012	Cho Soo-hyun	Psy's "Gangnam Style"
2013	Lee Gi-baek (Tiger Cave Studio)	Beast's "Shadow"
2014	Won Tae-yeon (LOEN Entertainment)	Melody Day's "Another Parting"
2015	Naive Creative Production	Park Jin-young's "Who's Your Mama?" (feat. Jessi)
2016	Shin Hee-won	Red Velvet's "Russian Roulette"
2017	Choi Yong-su (Lumpens)	BTS' "DNA"
2018	Ko Yoo-jeong (Lumpens)	GFriend's "Time for the Moon Night"
2019	VM Project Architecture	Kang Daniel's "What Are You Up To"
2021	Yong Seok Choi, Guzza (Lumpens)	TXT's "0X1=Lovesong (I Know I Love You)" (feat. Seori)
2022	Samson (Highqualityfish)	(G)I-dle's "Tomboy"
2023	Naive Creative Production	STAYC's "Bubble"
2024	Yoon Seung-rim, Jang Dong-ju (Rigend Film)	Ive's "Heya"

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Song Writer Award

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Year	Winner	Song
2009	Hitman Bang	8eight's "Without A Heart" & "Goodbye My Love"
2010	Lee Min-soo & Kim Eana	IU and Im Seulong's "Nagging"
2011	Jeon Hye-sung	Davichi's "Don't Say Goodbye", Baek Ji-young's "That Woman"
2012	Duble Sidekick	Sistar's "Loving U", Baek Ji-young's "Voice", "Good Boy"
2013	Shinsadong Tiger	Ailee's "U&I", Apink's "NoNoNo", Trouble Maker's "Now"
2014	Kim Do-hoon	Soyou & Junggigo's "Some", Mad Clown's "Without You", Ailee's "Don't Touch Me"
2015	Teddy Park	BigBang's "Loser", "Bae Bae", "Bang Bang Bang", "We Like 2 Party", "Sober", "Zutter" (GD & TOP), and "Let's Not Fall In Love"
2016	Hitman Bang	BTS' "Fire", "Save Me", and "Blood Sweat & Tears"
2017	IU	IU's "Through the Night", "Can't Love You Anymore", "Palette", and "Ending Scene"
2018	B.I	iKon's "Love Scenario", "Killing Me", and "Goodbye Road"
2019	Pdogg	BTS' "Boy with Luv","Dionysus", "Mikrokosmos", "Make It Right", and TXT's "Angel or Devil"
2020	Young Tak	Lee Daewon's "Champion", Jang Minho's "Read and Ignored", Jung Dongwon and Nam Seungmin's "Hit It Off", Young & Wild's "Thirsty", Ko Jaegeun's "Love Cowboy", Sungwonee's "Because of Money", and Han Leejae's "Knock Knock Knock"
2021	IU	IU's "Strawberry Moon", "Lilac", "Celebrity", "Coin", "My Sea" and "Hi Spring Bye"
2022	Jeon So-yeon	(G)I-dle's "Tomboy", "My Bag" and "Nxde"
2023	Ryan S. Jhun	Ive's "I Am", "Kitsch", "I Want", "Off the Record", "Baddie" & "Either Way", Monsta X's "Beautiful Liar", Hwang Min-hyun's "Hidden Side", Queendom Puzzle's "SNAP", "Bad Blood" & "I Do", Fromis_9's "#menow", Ren's "Ready to Move", Oh My Girl's "Summer Comes", Infinite's "New Emotion", Cignature's "Smooth Sailing", Weeekly's "Good Day (Special Daileee)", D.O's "I Do", Just B's "Medusa", Viviz's "Untie" & Enhypen's "Orange Flower (You Complete Me)"
2024	Jeon So-yeon	(G)I-dle's "Super Lady", "Fate", "Wife" and "Klaxon", QWER's "My Name Is Malgeum", Jennifer Lopez's This Time Around

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Best Performance Director

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Year	Winner
2020	Son Seung-duk
2021	Son Seung-duk

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Best Music Style

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Year	Winner
2021	Homies
2022	Big Naughty
2023	Silica Gel
2024	Bibi & Lee Young-ji

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Best Solo

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Year	Winner
2021	Male	Lim Young-woong
2021	Female	IU
2022	Male	Lim Young-woong
2022	Female	IU
2023	Male	Jungkook
2023	Female	Lee Young-ji
2024	Male	Jungkook
2024	Female	IU

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Best Group

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Year	Winner
2021	Male	BTS
2021	Female	Aespa
2022	Male	BTS
2022	Female	Ive
2023	Male	NCT Dream
2023	Female	NewJeans
2024	Male	Riize
2024	Female	aespa

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Best Collaboration

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Year	Winner	Song
2021	Coldplay & BTS	"My Universe"
2022	10cm & Big Naughty	"Beyond Love"
2023	Jung Kook & Latto	"Seven"

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Global Rising Artist

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Year	Winner	Song
2011	Girls' Generation	"The Boys"
2012	Psy	"Gangnam Style"
2013	Psy	"Gentleman"
2017	BTS	"DNA"
2018	BTS	"Fake Love"
2021	Enhypen	"Drunk Dazed"
2022	STAYC	"Beautiful Monster"
2023	Boynextdoor	"But Sometimes"^[24]
2024	Riize	"Impossible"

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Global Rising Artist

Kakao Hot Star Award

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Year	Winner
2016	Exo^[23]
2017	Wanna One
2018	BTS
2019	BTS

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Stage of the Year

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Year	Winner
2017	Park Hyo Shin
2018	Lee Sun-hee
2019	Seventeen
2022	IU
2023	Shinee – Shinee World VI: Perfect Illumination
2024	IU – IU HEREH World Tour

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1theK Performance Award

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Year	Winner
2015	Monsta X
2017	GFriend
2018	Momoland
2019	The Boyz

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1theK Original Contents

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Year	Winner
2020	The Boyz
2021	STAYC

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1theK Global Icon

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Year	Winner
2022	Enhypen
2023	Kiss of Life
2024	TripleS

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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

Kakao Favorite Star: BTS
J-Pop Favorite Artist: imase

2024

Kakao Bank Everyone's Star: Riize
J-Pop Favorite Artist: Yoasobi
Track Zero Choice: Hyukoh & Sunset Rollercoaster - "Young Man"
Music Video of the Year: Ive – Heya
Best Producer: Seo Hyun-joo (Starship Entertainment)

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Year	Winner	Song
2014	2NE1	"Come Back Home"

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Year	Winner^[23]
2010	Miss A
2011	Baek Ji-young
2012	Shindong & Kim Shin-young
2013	f(x)
2014	Ladies' Code
2015	EXID
2016	Seventeen
2017	Hyuna

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Year	Winner	Song
2010	Psy	"Right Now"
2011	Lee Seung-hwan	"Super Hero"
2013	Shin Seung-hun	—

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Best Electronic

MBC Music Star Award

Performing Arts Award

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.

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Awards	Artist
13	BTS
5	IU
4	Exo
	Lim Young-woong
	Aespa
3	Girls' Generation
2	Big Bang
	2NE1
	NewJeans
	Ive
	Busker Busker
	Beast

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Most awarded overall

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Awards	Artist
40	BTS
25	IU
17	Exo
15	Aespa
12	Girls' Generation
11	Lim Young-woong
10	Ive
9	2NE1
	NewJeans
	Beast
7	Big Bang

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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.^[25]

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

Tencent, via its QQ Music and QQ Live services, owns the broadcast rights since 2016.

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).^[26]

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.

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Official website (in Korean) (MBC)
Melon Music Awards' channel on YouTube

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Melon Music Awards
Current: 2024 Melon Music Awards

Awarded for	Exceptional digital performance
Country	South Korea
Presented by	Kakao Entertainment
First awarded	2005 (online) December 16, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-12-16) (live)
Website	www.melon.com/mma/index.htm
Television/radio coverage
Network	K-Star (2009) MBC Plus channels (2010–2017) JTBC Plus channels (2018) KakaoTV (2017–present) Melon (2019–present) KakaoTalk (2020–present)