2020 Melon Music Awards

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2020 Melon Music Awards
MMA2020Logo.jpg
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

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]

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[]

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[]

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]

BTS won 6 awards, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year.
Blackpink won 2 awards, including Top 10 Artists and Best Dance Award (Female)
IU won 2 awards, including Top 10 Artists and Best Rock Award.
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[]

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

Line-up[]

Day 1[]

Performers
Name(s) Performance(s) Notes
Yumdda, The Quiett, Deepflow, Paloalto,

Simon Dominic

"I'mma Do" Best Rap & Hip Hop awardee
Day6 (Even of Day) "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
Presenters

Day 2[]

Performers
Name(s) Performance(s) Notes
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)
Lee Nalchi Intro + "You Know Who I Am ?" + "Tiger Is Coming" LEE NALCHI Bespoke Story
Presenters

Day 3[]

Performers
Name(s) Performance(s) Notes
Jeong Se-woon Twenty-Something Performance during Healing Music Interview "THE-PLAY" Segment
Crying Nut Isn't That Good
Weeekly Zig Zag + Tag Me (@ Me) Rookie Stage
Cravity Break All the Rules
Jang Beom-june "Your Shampoo Scent In The Flowers", "Can't Sleep", "Karaoke" Tiny Room Live
Presenters
  • Shin Seok-cheol (Drums), Hong Soo-jin (Sound Designer), Choi-hoon (Bassist), Kim Hyun-ah (Cross), Juckjae (Guitarist) — Best Session Instrumental Award & brief Q&A segment

Day 4[]

Performers
Name(s) Performance(s) Segment
Choi Jung-hoon (Jannabi), Simon Dominic, Code Kunst For the gone (with ELLE KOREA) RECONNECT
Iz*One Intro + Fiesta + Dance Performance + Secret Story of the Swan Bloomy
TXT Intro + Puma + Blue Hour + Outro (The Chaos Chapter) 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
Hyungwon (Monsta X) Intro LOVE'S MADNESS
Monsta X BEASTMODE + Love Killa
Lim Young-woong Under EX-3D SOUND ) Trust In Me + HERO HERO : The Origin Of Love
BTS Black Swan + On + Life Goes On + Dynamite "BE" There
Presenters
Name(s) Notes
Jeff Benjamin, David Amber, Mayu Wakisaka, Danny Lee,
Andreas Oberg 		Opening Q&A Segment (in English)
Bae Suzy Narrator For The Intro
Yoo Yeon-seok Opening introduction
BTS Accepting their award for Top 10
Lim Young-woong Accepting his award for Top 10
Yoo Jae-suk Presenter for Album of the Year (Daesang)
Cravity Accepting their award for Best New Artist - Male
Weeekly Accepting their award for Best New Artist - Female
The Boyz Accepting their award for 1theK Original Content Award
Young Tak Accepting his award for Best Songwriter Award
Son Seung-duk Accepting his award for Best Performance Director Award
Kim Jun-soo Presenter for Best Dance Awards
Monsta X Accepting their award for Best Performance Award
Iz*One Accepting their award for Top 10
Lim Young-woong Accepting his award for Best Trot
Trot Man 6 (Jang Min-ho, Kim Hee-jae, Lee Chan-won, Jung Dong-won,
Lim Young-woong & Young-tak) 		Accepting their award for Hot Trend Award
Ock Joo-hyun Presenter for Song of the Year (Daesang)
BTS Accepting their award for Netizen Popularity Award
Oh My Girl Accepting their award for Top 10
Yoo Hee-yeol Presenter for Artist of the Year (Daesang)
Bae Suzy Narrator For The Outro

References[]

  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 October 31, 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 (in Korean). Naver. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
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