2024 Melon Music Awards

2024 Melon Music Awards
Title card for 2024 Melon Music Awards
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DateNovember 30, 2024 (2024-11-30)
VenueInspire Arena
CountrySouth Korea
Most awardsAespa (7)
Most nominations
Websitemelon.com/mma/info.htm
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The 2024 Melon Music Awards (Korean: 2024 멜론 뮤직어워드), part of the Melon Music Awards series, was an awards ceremony held on November 30, 2024. It was organized by Melon, and Kakao Entertainment and broadcast through Melon, 1theK for global audience, and Unext in Japan.[1][2]

Aespa, IU, and TWS are the most nominated artists at the ceremony, with seven nominations each. Three of them and (G)I-dle are nominated in all the main Daesang categories: Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Song of the Year.[3] Aespa won seven awards, with three Daesangs for Song of the Year, Artist of the Year and Album of the Year, set record for a girl group with most winning in a single ceremony, while Record of the Year went to (G)I-dle.[4]

Criteria

All songs and albums that are eligible to be nominated must be released from November 2, 2023, to October 30, 2024.[5]

Category Digital sales Online voting Panelist
Album of the Year 60% 20% 20%
Artist of the Year
Song of the Year
Record of the Year N/A 100%
Top 10 80% 20% N/A
Millions Top 10[6]
Rookie of the Year 60% 20% 20%
Best Pop Artist
Best Male Solo
Best Female Solo
Best Male Group
Best Female Group
Best OST
Hot Trend Award 70% N/A 30%
Kakao Bank's Favorite Star Award N/A 80% 20%
Track Zero Choice 20% 20% 60%
Stage of the Year N/A 100%
Best Music Style
Music Video of the Year
Songwriter Award
Producer Award
J-pop Favorite Artist
Best Male Performance
Best Female Performance
Global Artist
Global Rising Artist

Performers

The list of performers was announced throughout November, with the final line-up revealed on November 21.[7]

List of performances
Artist(s) Song(s) performed Segment
QWER "My Name Is Malgeum"
"T.B.H" 		First Love
TripleS "Girls Never Die" Girls Assemble!
Lee Young-ji "16 (Intro)"
"My Cat"
"Small Girl" (with Sohee) 		Specialize Every Moment
Christopher "Bad"
"Trouble" (with Lee Young-ji)
Plave "Way 4 Luv"
"Pump Up the Volume!" 		Welcome to the New World
Bibi "Bam Yang Gang"
"Derre" 		LO...VE
TWS "Plot Twist"
"Double Take"
"Last Festival" 		Press the Next Chapter
BoyNextDoor "Intro"
"Dangerous"
"Earth, Wind & Fire" 		My Youth is Free!
Yoasobi "Intro" / "Idol"
"New Me" 		The Boundary
Riize "Combo"
"Boom Boom Bass" 		Love Your Rockstar
Ateez "Work"
"Ice on My Teeth" 		Our Journey Never Dies
Ive "Heya"
"Ice Queen"
"Accendio" 		The Magic Music Box
(G)I-dle Intro: "Latata" (Soyeon solo) / "Hann (Alone)" (Shuhua solo) / "Lion" (Minnie solo) / "Tomboy" (Yuqi solo) / "Queencard" (Miyeon solo)
"Fate" 		Welcome, I Festival
Aespa "Whiplash"
"Supernova"
"Armageddon" 		Game Changer

Presenters

The list of presenters was announced throughout November, with the final line-up revealed on November 26.[8]

Winners and nominees

The list of nominees for Top 10 Award was announced on October 31, 2024, through the official website. Voting took place from October 31 to November 14, 2024.[9][10] The remaining categories, excluding Record of the Year and Hot Trend Award, were announced on November 15. Voting began that same day, and ended on November 29.[11][unreliable source?]

Winners and nominees are listed in alphanumerical order, with winners listed first and emphasized in bold.[12][13]

Main awards

List of winners and nominees for the main awards
Album of the Year
(Daesang) 		Artist of the Year
(Daesang)
List of longlisted nominees
List of longlisted nominees
Song of the Year
(Daesang) 		Record of the Year
(Daesang)
List of longlisted nominees
Top 10 Millions Top 10
List of nominees
List of longlisted nominees
New Artist of the Year Best Pop Artist
Best Male Solo Best Female Solo
Best Male Group Best Female Group
Best OST

Popularity awards

List of winners for the special awards
Track Zero Choice Kakao Bank Everyone's Star
Hot Trend Award

Special awards

List of winners for the special awards
1theK Global Icon Best Music Style
Best Performance – Female Best Performance – Male
Best Producer Global Artist
Global Rising Artist J-Pop Favorite Artist
Music Video of the Year Songwriter Award
Stage of the Year

Multiple awards

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

Count Artist(s)
7 Aespa
5 Riize
4 IU
3 Ive
Jungkook
2 (G)I-dle
Day6
NewJeans
Plave
TWS
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Notes

  1. ^ a b Eclipse is a fictional band from the series Lovely Runner. The song is performed by Byeon Woo-seok as vocalist, Lee Seung-hyub as guitarist, Yang Hyuk as bassist, and Moon Yong-suk as drummer.

References

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  2. ^ Woo, Ji-won (September 4, 2024). "Kakao Entertainment to host Melon Music Awards on Nov. 30". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on November 25, 2024. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
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  9. ^ Cho, Soo-hyun (October 31, 2024). MMA2024(멜론뮤직어워드), 올해 가장 사랑 받은 아티스트는 누구일까? TOP10 투표 및 이벤트 시작 [MMA2024 (Melon Music Awards), who is this year's most loved artist? Top10 voting and event starts] (in Korean). Star Daily News. Archived from the original on November 25, 2024. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Naver.
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