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.
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 ScoreTop 10 Artists20%80%—Main awards*20%60%20%Genre Awards**20%50% 30%Popularity Awards***60%40%—Special Awards****——100%
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. Voting for Category awards, including daesang and rookie awards, took place from November 21 to 26, 2020.
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Top 10 Artists (Bonsang) Song of the Year (Daesang) Kim Ho-joong BTS Baek Ye-rin Baekhyun IU Oh My Girl Lim Young-woong Zico Blackpink Iz*One BTS – "Dynamite" Blackpink – "How You Like That" Yerin Baek – Square (2017) IU – "Eight" featuring Suga Zico – "Any Song" Red Velvet – "Psycho" Hwasa – Maria MC the Max – Bloom Oh My Girl – Nonstop SSAK3 – Beach Again Artist of the Year (Daesang) Album of the Year (Daesang) BTS Baek Ye-rin IU Lim Young-woong Zico Blackpink Baekhyun Iz*One Kim Ho-joong Oh My Girl BTS – Map of the Soul: 7 Iz*One – Bloom*Iz Baek Ye-rin – Every letter I sent you Oh My Girl – Nonstop Blackpink – The Album Baekhyun – Delight Bol4 – Youth Diary II Hwasa – María (EP) NCT 127 – Neo Zone Red Velvet – The ReVe Festival: Finale Best New Artist Netizen Popularity Award Cravity Weeekly Treasure Cignature MCND BTS Iz*One Baekhyun Blackpink Apink IU Oh My Girl Suho SSAK3 Lim Young-woong Best Dance Award (Male) Best Dance Award (Female) BTS – "Dynamite" Seventeen – "Left & Right" NCT Dream – "Ridin'" SF9 – "Good Guy" J. Y. Park featuring Sunmi – "When We Disco" Blackpink – "How You Like That" Oh My Girl – "Nonstop" Hwasa – "Maria" Iz*One – "Fiesta" Red Velvet – "Psycho" Best R&B/Soul Award Best Rap/Hip Hop Award Baek Ye-rin – "Square (2017)" Baekhyun – "Candy" Lee Hi – "Holo" Taeyeon – "Happy" Paul Kim – "But I'll Miss You" Yumdda, The Quiett, Deepflow, Paloalto & Simon Dominic – "I'mma Do" BTS – "On" Jessi – "Nunu Nana" Zico – "Any Song" Rain, Jay Park, Haon, Sik-K, PH-1 – "Gang (Remix)" Best OST Award Best Rock Award Jo Jung-suk – "Aloha" Gaho – "Start Over" Kim Feel – "Someday, the Boy" IU – "Give You My Heart" Jeon Mi-do – "I Knew I Love" IU – "Eight" featuring Suga Suho – "Let's Love" N.Flying – "Oh Really" Day6 – "Zombie" Younha – "Dark Cloud" Best Pop Award Best Ballad Award Sam Smith – "To Die For" Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber – "Stuck With U" Harry Styles – "Watermelon Sugar" Jawsh 685, Jason Derulo, BTS – "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat) (BTS Remix)" Anne-Marie – "Birthday" Davichi – "Dear." IU and Sung Si Kyung – "First Winter" Jung Seung-hwan – "My Christmas Wish" MC the Max – "Bloom" Baek Ji-young – "No Love, No Heartbreak" Best Indie Award Best Trot Award Bolbbalgan4 – Leo (featuring Baekhyun) Lim Young-woong – "Trust in Me" Kim Ho-joong – "I Love You More Than Me" Second Aunt Kim Da-vi – "Gimme Gimme" Young Tak – "Jjin-iya" – "Blank Spaces" Hot Trend Award Trot Men 6 SSAK3 Jo Jung-suk Zico Sik-K, PH-1, Jay Park, Haon
Other awards + Award Winner(s) Best Songwriter AwardYoung Tak1theK Original ContentThe BoyzBest Performance DirectorSon Sung-deukBest PerformanceMonsta X Best Session InstrumentalDrums – Shin Seok-cheolSound Designer – Hong Soo-jinBassist – Choi-hoonCross – Kim Hyun-ahGuitarist – Jukjae
Performers +List of performances at 2020 Melon Music AwardsArtist(s)Song(s)Notes / SegmentDay 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 TourDay 2Gaho"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)LeenalchiIntro / "You Know Who I Am?" / "Tiger Is Coming"Leenalchi Bespoke StoryDay 3Jeong Se-woon"Twenty-Something"Performance during "The-Play" segmentCrying Nut"Isn't That Good"Weeekly"Zig Zag" / "Tag Me"Rookie StageCravity"Break All the Rules"Jang Beom-june"Your Shampoo Scent In The Flowers" / "Can't Sleep" / "Karaoke"Tiny Room LiveDay 4Choi Jung-hoon (Jannabi), Simon Dominic, Code Kunst"For the Gone" (with Elle Korea)ReconnectIz*OneIntro / "Fiesta" / "Secret Story of the Swan"BloomyTXTIntro / "Puma" / "Blue Hour" / OutroThe Moment When Time Becomes SpaceYoung Tak"Why Are You Coming Out From There?" / "Jjin-iya"Come On! My lifeThe BoyzIntro / "The Stealer"Dark Before the DawnYooA (Oh My Girl)"Far" / "Bon Voyage"Oh My UtopiaOh My Girl"Dolphin" (acoustic ver.) / "Nonstop"Monsta XIntro / "Beastmode" / Love Killa"Love's MadnessLim Young-woong"Trust In Me" / "Hero"Hero: The Origin Of LoveBTS"Black Swan" / "On" / "Life Goes On" / "Dynamite""Be" There
Presenters Day 1 Jae Jae, Wyatt (ONF), Lee Dae-hwi (AB6IX), Lee Jang-jun (Golden Child) – opening segment Davichi – Best Ballad Award & brief Q&A segment
Day 2 Jae Jae, Wyatt, Lee Dae-hwi, Lee Jang-jun – opening segment Jo Jung-suk – Best OST & brief Q&A segment
Day 3 Jeong Se-woon, Dr. Seo Chang-hun, Weeekly, Crying Nut – "The-Play" segment Shin Seok-cheol, Hong Soo-jin, Choi-hoon, Kim Hyun-ah, Juckjae – presented Best Session Instrumental Award & brief Q&A segment
Day 4 Jeff Benjamin, David Amber, Mayu Wakisaka, Danny Lee, Andreas Oberg – opening Q&A segment Bae Suzy – narrator for intro and outro Yoo Yeon-seok – opening introduction Yoo Jae-suk – presented Album of the Year Kim Jun-soo – presented Best Dance Awards Ock Joo-hyun – presented Song of the Year Yoo Hee-yeol – presented Artist of the Year
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