26th Golden Melody Awards

26th Golden Melody Awards
DateJune 27, 2015 (2015-06-27) (Popular)
LocationTaipei Arena, Taipei, Taiwan (Popular)
Hosted byHarlem Yu (Popular)
Television/radio coverage
NetworkTTV
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The 26th Golden Melody Awards (Chinese: 第26屆金曲獎) ceremony for popular music category was held on June 27, 2015. The TTV network broadcast the show live from the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan. The ceremony recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, which runs from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014.

Winners and nominees

Jolin Tsai was nominated for nine Golden Melody Awards and won three for Best Mandarin Album, Best Vocal Recording Album and Best Single Producer.

Winners are highlighted in boldface.[1]

Vocal category – Record label awards

Song of the Year

Best Mandarin Album

Best Hokkien Album

Best Hakka Album

  • The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road – Ayugo Huang
    • Daylight – Huang Wei-jie
    • Curving Roads – Huang Pei-shu
    • On the RoadMisa
    • Moments of Love – Sinco Chiu

Best Aboriginal Album

  • Polynesia – Chalaw Pasiwali
    • Hosa – Hosa
    • Wild Boxing – Boxing
    • Ocean, ForestSuming
    • Ima Lalu Su – Inka Mbing & Her Young Atayal Friends

Best Music Video

  • Shockley Huang – "Nebulous" (from You Lovely Bastard)
    • Li Bo-en – "Selfie Addict" (from XXXIII)
    • Muh Chen – "Play" (from Play)
    • Hou Chi-jan – "We're All Different, Yet the Same" (from Play)
    • Teng Yung-shing, Xi Ran – "In a Flash" (from In a Flash)

Vocal category – Individual awards

Best Composition

Best Lyrics

  • Francis Lee – "Departures" (from Departures)
    • Hush – "Missing" (from Missing)
    • Wyman Wong – "King of Comedy" (from Li Ronghao)
    • Lin Xi – "Listen Up" (from Rice & Shine)
    • Lin Xi – "It's All Good" (from Departures)

Best Music Arrangement

  • Buddha Jump – "Let You See" (from Let You See)
    • Chen Chien-chi – "Missing" (from Missing)
    • Lawrence Ku – "Touching Hearts" (from To the Top)
    • Pessi Levanto – "Forgotten Times" (from Midnight Cinema)
    • Starr Chen, Nese Ni – "Play" (from Play)

Producer of the Year, Album

  • Arai Soichiro – Departures
    • Ayugo Huang – The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road
    • Joanna Wang, Pessi Levanto – Midnight Cinema
    • Chen Chien-chi – You Lovely Bastard
    • Jay ChouAiyo, Not Bad

Producer of the Year, Single

  • Xiao An – "Lip Reading" (from Play)
    • JJ Lin – "Listen Up" (from Rice & Shine)
    • Stefanie Sun – "Kepler" (from Kepler)
    • Xiao An – "Sophisticated Game" (from Grown Love)
    • Starr Chen – "Play" (from Play)

Best Mandarin Male Singer

Best Mandarin Female Singer

Best Taiwanese Male Singer

Best Taiwanese Female Singer

Best Hakka Singer

  • Ayugo Huang – The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road
    • Huang Wei-jie – Daylight
    • Huang Pei-shu – Curving Roads
    • Misa – On the Road
    • Sinco Chiu – Moments of Love

Best Aboriginal Singer

  • Chalaw Garu – Polynesian''
    • Boxing – Wild Boxing
    • SumingSea, Forest

Best Band

  • Buddha Jump – Let You See''
    • ChthonicTimeless Sentence
    • Trash – Start from Zero
    • The Chairman – One World
    • Boxing – Boxing
    • Magic Power – Fighting for Love

Best Group

  • Murmurshow – Murmurshow
    • New Formosa BandThe Tenth Album
    • MJ116 – Fresh Game
    • PiA – Ain't Life a Surprise
    • Gentleman – Imperfect Gentleman

Best New Artist

  • Boxing – Boxing
    • Shi ShiGirls
    • Adrian Fu – Good Morning, Hard City
    • Chen Hui-ting – 21 Grams
    • Wang Hui-chu – A Voyage of Vera

Instrumental category – Record label awards

Best Instrumental Album

  • The Flow – Eiji Kadota
    • Interestring Quartet – Interestring Quartet
    • Homeland – Vincent Hsu
    • The Rest of Life - Seediq Bale – Purdur

Instrumental category – Individual awards

Producer of the Year, Instrumental

  • Daniel HoOur World in Song - An Odyssey of Musical Treasures
    • Yu Chia-lun, Huang Wei-Jun – Interestring Quartet
    • Eiji Kadota, Michael Ning – The Flow
    • Vincent Hsu – Homeland
    • Peng Fei – 3rd Month

Best Instrumental Composition

  • Peng Fei"Night Cats" (from 3rd Month)
    • Huang Wei-Jun – "Let's Play" (from Interestring Quartet)
    • Eiji Kadota "Dolphin Island" (from The Flow)
    • Vincent Hsu – "A New One" (from Homeland)
    • Purdur – "The Rest of Life" (from The Rest of Life - Seediq Bale)

Technical category – Individual awards

Best Album Design

  • Aaron Nieh – Enchantment
    • Joe Fang – Faces of Paranoia
    • Lo Wen-tsen, Tsai An-teng, Wu Chih-yin – Faces of Paranoia
    • Howza Hsu – Sweet Home Ka-Aluwan
    • Aaron Nieh – Play
    • Lee Chung-chiang – Aiyo, Not Bad (USB version)

Technical category – Record label awards

Best Vocal Recording Album

Best Instrumental Recording Album

  • Led by the Sea Breeze – Rich Huang
    • Interestring Quartet – Interestring Quartet
    • Stranger – Chen Jo-yu
    • Music Non-Stop – Lee Shih-yang, Sabu Toyozumi

Lifetime Contribution Award

References

  1. ^ TTV. "第26屆金曲獎頒獎典禮暨金曲國際音樂節". 金曲26 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 2018-09-30. Retrieved 2017-05-21.