2022 Melon Music Awards

2022 Melon Music Awards
2022 Melon Music Awards
	2022 MMA title card
Date	November 26, 2022
Location	Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul, South Korea
Presented by	Melon
Most awards	Lim Young-woong (5)
Most nominations	Ive (6)
Website	MMA 2022
Television/radio coverage
Network	1theK (YouTube channel); Melon; KakaoTV; Wavve; U-NEXT (Japan); CXO Media (Indonesia); FPT Play (Vietnam)

The 2022 Melon Music Awards was held on November 26, 2022, at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea. Organized by Kakao M through its online music store Melon, the 2022 ceremony was the fourteenth installment of the event and its first fully offline ceremony since 2019. Artists who released music between November 8, 2021, and November 3, 2022, are eligible for the awards.^[1]

Lim Young-woong won two daesangs—Artist of the Year and Album of the Year, while BTS were awarded the Record of the Year. Ive won the Song of the Year, the group's first ever daesang win, alongside Best New Artist with NewJeans, marking the first time two female acts won in the rookie category during the same ceremony.

Judging criteria

Division	Online Voting	Digital Sales	Judge Score
Top 10 Artists	20%	80%	—
Main awards*	20%	60%	20%
Genre Awards**	—	70%	30%
Popularity Awards***	60%	40%	—
KakaoBank Everyone's Star Award	80%	—	20%
Special Awards****	—	—	100%
Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Male/Female Solo, Best Male/Female Group Best Pop Artist, Best Collaboration, OST, Hot Trend Award, Project Music Award Netizen Popularity Award **Record of the Year, Music Video of the Year Award, Songwriter Award, 1theK Performance Award, 1theK Original Contents Award, Global Rising Artist, Best Performance Director, Best Session Instrumental, Best Music Style

Voting

Voting for categories opened for South Korean residents on the Melon Music website on November 4 and will continue until November 18, 2022. Only artists who released music between November 8, 2021, and November 3, 2022, are eligible. The longlist of nominees was selected based on the chart performance criteria (60% downloads and 40% streams) for each artist combined with weekly Melon Popularity Award votes achieved during the eligibility period. Categories that are open to online voting include: Top 10 Artists, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Male Solo, Best Female Solo, Best Male Group, Best Female Group, and Netizen Popularity Award.^[1]^[2]

Performers

List of musical performances
Artist	Song(s)	Segment
Be'O	"Counting Stars" / "Complex" / "Burnout Syndrome"	Run To Dream
STAYC	"Beautiful Monster"	Amor vincit omnia
ATBO	"Attitude" / "Monochrome (Color)"	The Beginning of a Journey
Enhypen	"Blessed-Cursed" / "Future Perfect (Pass the Mic)"	New Moon
NewJeans	"Cookie" / "Hype Boy" / "Attention"	We Are <NewJeans>
Gomak Boys^[A]	"You and Me" / "Sweet Thing"	Just The Beginning
Le Sserafim	"Fearless" / "The Hydra" / "Antifragile"	I'm Fearless
Ive	"Eleven" (Liz piano solo) / "Love Dive" (remix) / "After Like"	Colorful Atlantis
Tomorrow X Together	"Good Boy Gone Bad"	From blood and ash, We will rise
MeloMance	"Drunken Confession" / "Love, Maybe"	If Love? It's Now
(G)I-dle	"Nxde" / "Tomboy"	The ()I-dle
10cm and Big Naughty	"Just 10 Centimetres" / "Beyond Love"	IN(S)FP concerto
Monsta X	"Love" (Jazz ver.) / "Rush Hour"	Destroy the Limits of Love
Lim Young-woong	"London Boy" / "Polaroid" / "If We Ever Meet Again" (Orchestra ver.)	Higher Than Hero

Presenters

Kim Hyang-gi – Top 10 Artist Award
Jonathan Thona and Patricia Thona – Best Performance
Song Ye-rin – 2022 Choice
Bae Hyun-sung and Park Ji-hu – Best Songwriter & Best Music Style
Leo J – Global Artist & Global Rising Artist
Lee Sun-bin – Top 10 Artist Award
Haha and Shin Hyun-ji – Best Male – Solo & Best Group – Female
Jasson and Hong Hyun-hee – Netizen Choice & Best Music Video
Go Min-si – Top 10 Artist Award
Moon Sang-min and Yang Hye-ji – 1theK Global Icon & Hot Trend
Chung Sung-hwa – Best New Artist
Ahn Hyo-seop and Kim Se-jeong – Best OST & Best Collaboration
Lee Soo-hyuk – Album of the Year & Record of the Year
Cha Seung-won – Best Song of the Year & Artist of the Year

Winners and nominees

Nominations were announced via the Melon website on November 4, 2022.^[2] Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.^[3]

Top 10 Artists (Bonsang)

Song of the Year (Daesang)

(G)I-dle
Ive
Lim Young-woong
MeloMance
NewJeans
Be'O
BTS
IU
Seventeen
NCT Dream

List of nominated artists

Ive – "Love Dive"
- Big Bang – "Still Life"
- (G)I-dle – "Tomboy"
- Kim Min-seok – "Drunken Confession"
- Psy – "That That" (featuring Suga)

Artist of the Year (Daesang)

KakaoBank Album of the Year (Daesang)

Lim Young-woong
- MeloMance
- BTS
- (G)I-dle
- Ive

Lim Young-woong – Im Hero
- (G)I-dle – I Never Die
- IU – Pieces
- NewJeans – New Jeans
- Psy – Psy 9th

Record of the Year (Daesang)

Best New Artist

BTS

Ive
NewJeans
- Billlie
- Kep1er
- Le Sserafim
- Nmixx

Best Male Solo

Best Female Solo

Lim Young-woong
- 10cm
- Be'O
- Big Naughty
- Psy

IU
- Kassy
- KyoungSeo
- Taeyeon
- Choi Ye-na

Best Male Group

Best Female Group

BTS
- Big Bang
- Monsta X
- NCT Dream
- Seventeen

Ive
- Aespa
- Blackpink
- (G)I-dle
- NewJeans

Best OST

Best Collaboration

MeloMance – "Love, Maybe" (from Business Proposal)

10cm and Big Naughty – "Beyond Love"

Netizen Popularity Award

Hot Trend

Lim Young-woong
- Big Bang
- BTS
- Blackpink
- Ha Sung-woon
- Ive
- Kim Ho-joong
- NCT Dream
- NCT 127
- Seventeen

Le Sserafim

Other awards


Award	Winner(s)
Best Performance	Tomorrow X Together Le Sserafim
Best Pop Artist	Charlie Puth
Best Songwriter	Jeon So-yeon
Best Music Style	Big Naughty
Global Artist	Monsta X
Global Rising Artist	STAYC
Music Video of the Year	(G)I-dle – "Tomboy"
1theK Global Icon	Enhypen
KakaoBank Everyone's Star	BTS
Project Music Award	WSG Wannabe
Best Session	Lee Shin-woo
Stage of the Year	IU – The Golden Hour: Under the Orange Sun

Multiple awards

The following artist(s) received three or more awards:

Count	Artist(s)
5	Lim Young-woong
4	BTS
4	Ive
3	IU

Notes

^ Project group consisting of Paul Kim, Kim Min-seok, Jung Seung-hwan, Ha Hyun-sang, and Big Naughty.

References

^ ^a ^b "2022 Melon Music Awards" (in Korean). Melon. Retrieved November 4, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "MMA 2022". November 4, 2022. Archived from the original on November 4, 2022.
^ Park, Sang-hoo (November 26, 2022). "'2022 MMA' 임영웅 5관왕 주인공 우뚝… BTS·아이브 4관왕[종합]" ['2022 MMA' Lim Young-woong, the main character with 5 awards ... BTS, Ive wins 4 awards [comprehensive]]. JTBC (in Korean). Naver. Retrieved November 27, 2022.

[3] Project group consisting of Paul Kim, Kim Min-seok, Jung Seung-hwan, Ha Hyun-sang, and Big Naughty.

[melon-1] "2022 Melon Music Awards" (in Korean). Melon. Retrieved November 4, 2022.

[melon_noms-2] "MMA 2022". November 4, 2022. Archived from the original on November 4, 2022.

[4] Park, Sang-hoo (November 26, 2022). "'2022 MMA' 임영웅 5관왕 주인공 우뚝… BTS·아이브 4관왕[종합]" ['2022 MMA' Lim Young-woong, the main character with 5 awards ... BTS, Ive wins 4 awards [comprehensive]]. JTBC (in Korean). Naver. Retrieved November 27, 2022.

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