2020 Melon Music Awards

The 2020 Melon Music Awards ceremony, organized by Kakao M through its online music store, Melon, took place virtually from December 2 through December 5, 2020 (dubbed as "MMA Week") in South Korea, with the main ceremony taking place on December 5 at 19:00 KST. This is the twelfth ceremony in the show's history, and the first to be held online and over a span of four days. It was held without an audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2]

2020 Melon Music Awards
DateDecember 2–5, 2020
LocationSouth Korea
Highlights
Most awardsBTS (6)
Most nominationsBTS (8)
Artist of the Year AwardBTS
Album of the Year AwardMap of the Soul: 7
Song of the Year Award"Dynamite"
Websitewww.melon.com/mma/index.htm
Television/radio coverage
Network1theK
Daum
Melon
YouTube
KakaoTV
← 2019 · Melon Music Awards · 2021 →

BTS won 6 awards during the ceremony, sweeping all three Grand Awards (Daesangs) including Artist of the Year for the second consecutive year.

Judging criteria

edit
Division Online Voting Digital Sales Judge Score
Top 10 Artists 20% 80%
Main awards* 20% 60% 20%
Genre Awards** 20% 50% 30%
Popularity Awards*** 60% 40%
Special Awards**** 100%
*Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist
**Rap/Hip Hop, R&B/Ballad, Rock, OST, Trot, Pop, Dance, Folk/Blue, Indie, Electronic, Hot Trend Award
***Netizen Popularity Award, KaKao Hot Star Award
****Record of the Year, Stage of the Year, Music Video Award, Song Writer Award, 1theK Performance Award

Winners and nominees

edit

Voting for Melon's Top 10 Artists category opened on the Melon Music website on November 11 and continued until November 20. Only artists who released music between November 30, 2019, and November 10, 2020, are eligible. The longlist of nominees was selected based on a chart performance score (60% downloads and 40% streams) for each artist combined with weekly Melon Popularity Award votes achieved during the eligibility period.[3] Voting for Category awards, including daesang and rookie awards, took place from November 21–26, 2020.[4]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.[5]

Top 10 Artists (Bonsang) Song of the Year (Daesang)
Artist of the Year (Daesang) Album of the Year (Daesang)
Best New Artist Netizen Popularity Award
Best Dance Award (Male) Best Dance Award (Female)
Best R&B/Soul Award Best Rap/Hip Hop Award
Best OST Award Best Rock Award
Best Pop Award Best Ballad Award
Best Indie Award Best Trot Award
Hot Trend Award

Other awards

edit
Award Winner(s)
Best Songwriter Award Young Tak
1theK Original Content The Boyz
Best Performance Director Son Sung-deuk
Best Performance Monsta X
Best Session Instrumental Drums – Shin Seok-cheol
Sound Designer – Hong Soo-jin
Bassist – Choi-hoon
Cross – Kim Hyun-ah
Guitarist – Juckjae

Performers

edit
List of performances at 2020 Melon Music Awards
Artist(s) Song(s) Notes / Segment
Day 1
Yumdda, The Quiett, Deepflow, Paloalto, Simon Dominic "I'mma Do" Best Rap & Hip Hop awardee
Day6 "Landed" / "Where the Sea Sleeps" / "Thanks To" Tiny Room Live
Park Moon-chi "We're Cool" (with Park Moon-chi Universe) / "I'm Into You" (with Kirin, Dala, & Jungu) Park Moon Chi & Friends' City Music Tour
Day 2
Gaho "Start Over" (Itaewon Class OST) "OST Medley"
"Give You My Heart" (orig. by IU) (Crash Landing on You OST)
"Aloha" (orig. by Cool & Jo Jung-suk) (Hospital Playlist OST)
"My Love" (orig. by Baekhyun) (Dr. Romantic 2 OST)
"Running" (Start-Up OST)
Leenalchi Intro / "You Know Who I Am?" / "Tiger Is Coming" Leenalchi Bespoke Story
Day 3
Jeong Se-woon "Twenty-Something" Performance during "The-Play" segment
Crying Nut "Isn't That Good"
Weeekly "Zig Zag" / "Tag Me" Rookie Stage
Cravity "Break All the Rules"
Jang Beom-june "Your Shampoo Scent In The Flowers" / "Can't Sleep" / "Karaoke" Tiny Room Live
Day 4
Choi Jung-hoon (Jannabi), Simon Dominic, Code Kunst "For the Gone" (with Elle Korea) Reconnect
Iz*One Intro / "Fiesta" / "Secret Story of the Swan" Bloomy
TXT Intro / "Puma" / "Blue Hour" / Outro The Moment When Time Becomes Space
Young Tak "Why Are You Coming Out From There?" / "Jjin-iya" Come On! My life
The Boyz Intro / "The Stealer" Dark Before the Dawn
YooA (Oh My Girl) "Far" / "Bon Voyage" Oh My Utopia
Oh My Girl "Dolphin" (acoustic ver.) / "Nonstop"
Monsta X Intro / "Beastmode" / Love Killa" Love's Madness
Lim Young-woong "Trust In Me" / "Hero" Hero: The Origin Of Love
BTS "Black Swan" / "On" / "Life Goes On" / "Dynamite" "Be" There

Presenters

edit

Day 1

Day 2

  • Jae Jae, Wyatt, Lee Dae-hwi, Lee Jang-jun – opening segment
  • Jo Jung-suk – Best OST & brief Q&A segment

Day 3

  • Jeong Se-woon, Dr. Seo Chang-hun, Weeekly, Crying Nut – "The-Play" segment
  • Shin Seok-cheol, Hong Soo-jin, Choi-hoon, Kim Hyun-ah, Juckjae – presented Best Session Instrumental Award & brief Q&A segment

Day 4

  • Jeff Benjamin, David Amber, Mayu Wakisaka, Danny Lee, Andreas Oberg – opening Q&A segment
  • Bae Suzy – narrator for intro and outro
  • Yoo Yeon-seok – opening introduction
  • Yoo Jae-suk – presented Album of the Year
  • Kim Jun-soo – presented Best Dance Awards
  • Ock Joo-hyun – presented Song of the Year
  • Yoo Hee-yeol – presented Artist of the Year

References

edit
  1. ^ Son, Jin-ah (October 28, 2020). 멜론뮤직어워드, 12월 첫째주 온라인 개최…MMA WEEK 진행(공식) [(Official) Melon Music Awards, held online in the first week of December… MMA WEEK proceeds]. Sports Maekyung (in Korean). Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2020 – via Naver.
  2. ^ Kim, Mi-ji (November 21, 2020). 'MMA 2020' TOP10 발표…김호중·방탄소년단·백현·아이유·임영웅 확정 [공식입장]. X Sports News (in Korean). Retrieved November 21, 2020 – via Naver.
  3. ^ Kim, Kyung-min (November 11, 2020). 카카오, 20일까지 ‘MMA 2020’ TOP10 선정 1차 투표 시작 [Kakao started the first round of voting for 'MMA 2020' TOP 10 selection until the 20th]. Newsen (in Korean). Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  4. ^ Noh, Man-young (November 11, 2020). MMA2020 TOP10 투표 진행 중...방탄소년단 1위 [MMA2020 TOP10 Voting in progress...BTS #1]. Culture News MHN (in Korean). Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  5. ^ Oh, Bo-ram (December 5, 2020). "방탄소년단, '멜론뮤직어워드' 2년 연속 대상 부문 싹쓸이". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Naver. Retrieved December 7, 2020.