2019 Melon Music Awards
DateNovember 30, 2019
LocationGocheok Sky Dome, Seoul, South Korea
Most awardsBTS (8)
Most nominationsBTS (6)
Websitewww.melon.com/mma/index.htm
Television/radio coverage
Network
Runtime240 minutes
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The 2019 Melon Music Awards ceremony, organized by Kakao M (a Kakao company) through its online music store Melon, took place on November 30, 2019 at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea.[1][2] This is the eleventh ceremony in the show's history.

BTS took home all four most prestigious Daesang awards of the night.[3]

Judging criteria

Division Online Voting Digital Sales Judge Score
Top 10 Artists 20% 80% —
Main awards* 20% 60% 20%
Genre Awards** 30% 40% 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

Performers and presenters

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

Performances

Artist(s) Song(s) Segment
The Boyz "D.D.D" "Boyz in Wonderland"
Heize, Giriboy "Falling Leaves are Beautiful" / "We Don't Talk Together" "만추"
Giriboy, Yunhway, Han Yo-han, Justhis, Swings, Young B (Yanghongwon), Lil Tachi "I'm Sick" "IMJMWDP"
N.Flying "Rooftop" / "Good Bam" "The Music for Tomorrow"
AB6IX "Breathe" / "Blind for Love" "Love is Blindness"
TXT "New Rules" / "9 and Three Quarters (Run Away)" "School of Magic"
Hwasa, Mamamoo "Twit" / "Gogobebe" "Neon in the black"
Itzy "Want It?" / "Dalla Dalla" / "Icy" "The way I AM"
Jannabi "Good Good Night" / "For Lovers Who Hesitate" —
Kang Daniel "What Are You Up To" / "Touchin'" "Touch My Color":
Chungha "Gotta Go" / "Snapping" "Co-existing"
BTS "Intro: Persona" / "Boy in Luv" / "Boy With Luv" / "Mikrokosmos" / "Dionysus" / Member dance solos (remixes)[a] "Map of the Soul: The Show"

Presenters

Name(s) Notes
Park Seo-joon Opening, Presenter for Artist of the Year Award
Lee Hyun-woo Presenter for Top 10 Artists (BTS and Jannabi)
Lee Jae-wook & Byung Jung Ha Presenter for Best New Artist Awards
Jang Sung Kyu Presenter for Netizen Popularity Award
Kim So-hyun & Jung Ga-ram, Na Ha-eun Presenter for Best Dance Awards
Han Ji-hye & Kim Do Wan Presenter for Top 10 Artists (Mamamoo and Heize)
Kwak Dong-yeon & Jin Ki-joo Presenter for Best OST & Best Music Video Award
Choi Woo-shik Presenter for Record of the Year (Daesang)
Kim Young-dae & Hong Soo-hyun Presenter for Top 10 Artists (Chungha and MC the Max)
Kim Jae-wook Presenter for Kakao Hot Star
Kim Yeong-cheol & Oh Ah Yeon Presenter for Hot Trend Award
Yoo Su Bin & Hong Hyun Hee Presenter for 1theK Performance Award
Lee Joo-yeon & Byeon Woo-seok Presenter for Best Rock & Best R&B/Soul Award
Lee Je-hoon Presenter for Song of the Year (Daesang)
Im Soo-jung Presenter for Album of the Year (Daesang)
Park Seo-joon Presenter for Artist of the Year (Daesang)

Winners and nominees

Only artists who released music between December 1, 2018 and November 13, 2019 were eligible, and the nominees were selected by calculating the number of downloads, streams, and weekly Melon Popularity Award votes achieved by each artist. Voting for Top 10 Artists took place on the Melon Music website from October 30 through November 13, 2019. Voting for Category awards took place from November 14 through November 29, 2019.[4][5]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Main awards

Top 10 Artists (Bonsang)
Record of the Year (Daesang)
Best Dance Award (Male)
Best Dance Award (Female)
Best Rap/Hip Hop Award
Best R&B/Soul Award
Best Indie Award
Best Rock Award
  • MeloMance – "You&I"‡
    • HAEUN and YOSEP – "Girlfriend"
    • OVAN – "Happiness"
    • MAKTUB – "To You My Light" (Feat. Lee Raon)
    • Woody – "Fire up"
Best Trot Award
Best OST Award
Best Pop Award
Best Ballad Award
Netizen Popularity Awards
Hot Trend Award

Other awards

Award Winner(s)
Best Music Video Award Kang Daniel – "What Are You Up To"
Stage of the Year Seventeen
Best Songwriter Award Pdogg
Kakao Hot Star BTS
1theK Performance Award The Boyz

Notes

  1. ^ "No More Dream" (V) + "Danger" (Jin) + "I Need U" (Jimin) + "Fire" (Suga) + "Save Me" (Jungkook) + "Fake Love" (J-Hope) + "Dionysus" (RM)

References

  1. ^ "BTS Turn 2019 Melon Music Awards Into Mini Concert Before Picking Up Top Honors". Billboard. New York City, U.S.: Billboard. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  2. ^ "BTS sweep 2019 Melon Music Awards". SBS PopAsia. Australia: Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  3. ^ "'MMA 2019' 방탄소년단, 4개 대상 포함 8관왕...공연 열기 꽉 채운 ★들 [종합]". hankyung.com (in Korean). December 1, 2019. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  4. ^ "2018 Melon Music Awards Announces Nominees For Top 10 + Opens Voting". Soompi. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  5. ^ "2018 Melon Music Awards Announces Nominees For Category Awards + Voting Begins". Soompi. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
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