2020 Melon Music Awards

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2020 Melon Music Awards
MMA2020Logo.jpg
DateDecember 2–5, 2020
LocationSouth Korea
Highlights
Most awards BTS (6)
Most nominationsBTS (8)
Artist of the Year AwardBTS
Album of the Year Award Map of the Soul: 7
Song of the Year Award"Dynamite"
Website www.melon.com/mma/index.htm
Television/radio coverage
Network 1theK
Daum
Melon
YouTube
KakaoTV
←  2019  · Melon Music Awards ·  2021  →

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]

Contents

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

DivisionOnline VotingDigital SalesJudge Score
Top 10 Artists20%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]

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 AwardBest Rap/Hip Hop Award
Best OST AwardBest Rock Award
Best Pop AwardBest Ballad Award
Best Indie AwardBest Trot Award
Hot Trend Award

Other awards

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

Performers

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" / OutroThe 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 XIntro / "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

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

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