Melon Music Award
for Song of the Year
Awarded forTop performing singles
CountrySouth Korea
Presented byKakao M
First awarded2005 (online)
2009 (ceremony)
Currently held byNewJeans – "Ditto" (2023)
Most awardsBTS (4)
WebsiteOfficial website

The Melon Music Award for Song of the Year is one of the awards from the annual Melon Music Awards, an event that uses data from Melon's streaming service to celebrate artists who have had exceptional performance during the year.[1] The Song of the Year category recognizes the top performing single in South Korea based on various metrics such as digital performance, voting, and judge evaluation.

From 2005 to 2008, awards for best song of the year were based entirely on online voting and were announced on Melon's website. Live ceremonies began in Seoul starting in 2009, with Song of the Year becoming one of the ceremonies' daesang (grand prize) awards.[2][3] The award is determined through several criteria; as of 2021, 60% of the evaluation is based on figures for digital downloads and streaming, 20% from the evaluation of a panel of judges, and 20% from online voting.[4]

The artist with the most Song of the Year awards is BTS, having won four times in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021 with "Spring Day", "Boy with Luv", "Dynamite" and "Butter", respectively. Wonder Girls received the award twice during its online period, with "Tell Me" and "So Hot" receiving the most votes in 2007 and 2008, respectively. IU has the most nominations in the category with seven nominations, winning once for "Good Day" in 2011.

Winners and nominees

Wonder Girls dancing onstage in pink colored clothing
Wonder Girls received the Best Song award in 2007–08.
Girls' Generation posing for the camera while holding LG cooky phones
2009 award winner for "Gee", Girls' Generation
2AM standing onstage in white suits
2010 winner 2AM for "Can't Let You Go Even If I Die"
IU looking forward and smiling wearing a lavender dress
2011 recipient IU, winning for "Good Day"
Exo performing onstage
2013 recipient for "Growl", Exo
Big Bang posing for the camera while holding cellphones
2015 recipient Big Bang, winning for "Bang Bang Bang"
Twice performing on stage in red stage outfits
Twice won the award for "Cheer Up" in 2016.
BTS posing for the camera while outdoors
Four-time award winner BTS, winning in 2017 and 2019–21
2022 winner Ive for "Love Dive"
2023 winner NewJeans for "Ditto"
List of online award winners (2005–2008)
Year[a] Winner(s) Song Ref.
2005 Epik High "Fly" [5]
2006 Baek Ji-young "I Won't Love" [6]
2007 Wonder Girls "Tell Me" [7]
2008 "So Hot" [8]
List of daesang award winners and nominees (2009–present)
Year Winner(s) Song Nominees[b] Ref.
2009 Girls' Generation "Gee" See:
2009 Melon Music Awards § Winners and nominees 		[9]
2010 2AM "Can't Let You Go Even If I Die" [10]
[11]
2011 IU "Good Day" [12]
2012 Psy "Gangnam Style" [13]
[14]
2013 Exo "Growl" [15]
[16]
2014 Taeyang "Eyes, Nose, Lips" [17]
[18]
2015 Big Bang "Bang Bang Bang" [19]
[20]
2016 Twice "Cheer Up" [21]
[22]
2017 BTS "Spring Day" [23]
[24]
2018 iKon "Love Scenario" [25]
[26]
2019 BTS "Boy with Luv" (feat. Halsey) [27]
[28]
2020 "Dynamite" [29]
[30]
2021 "Butter" [31]
2022 Ive "Love Dive" [32]
2023 NewJeans "Ditto" [33]

Artists with multiple wins

4 wins
2 wins

Artists with multiple nominations

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Winners for the event were announced online from 2005 to 2008.
  2. ^ Shortlisted nominees only—except for 2009, where no shortlist was announced

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