The 2016 Melon Music Awards ceremony, organized by Kakao M (a Kakao company) through its online music store Melon, took place on Saturday, November 19, 2016, in Seoul, South Korea. The eighth installment of the event since its offline launch in 2009, it was held at the Gocheok Sky Dome for the first time, which is one of the largest indoor concert venues in South Korea.
Details for the ceremony—including the announcement of its date and venue—were first made available on October 7, 2016. A list of nominations and the awardees for the Top 10 Artists were announced on November 4, with voting for the main awards beginning the same day.
The criteria for the awards varied depending on the category, consisting a mixture of digital sales data, judges evaluation, and online voting. Exo received the most nominations of the night, winning four of the six nominated categories. BTS, GFriend and Twice followed with the second most nominations with five each, while Zico received the second most awards, having won three times. Furthermore, BTS, Exo and Twice received the three daesang prizes of the night.
Judging criteria Division Online Voting Digital Sales Judge ScoreMain awards*30%70%—Genre Awards**30%40%30%Popularity Awards***60%40%—Special Awards****——100%*Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Top 10 Artists, Best New Artist**Rap/Hip Hop, R&B/Ballad, Rock, OST, Trot, Pop, Dance, Folk/Blue, Indie, Electronic***Netizen Popularity Award, Hot Trend Award****Music Video Award, Song Writer Award, MBC Music Star Award, Performing Arts Award, Global Star Award, QQ Asia Artist Award, Hall of Fame Award, Kakao Hot Star Award
Performers +List of performances at 2016 Melon Music Awards Artist(s) Song(s) BewhY "Dejavu" + "Day Day" 10cm "What the Spring??" Seventeen "Very Nice" Mamamoo "You're the Best" + "Decalcomanie" Blackpink "Whistle" + "Playing with Fire" Jung Eun-ji "Hopefully Sky" Red Velvet "Russian Roulette" I.O.I "Very Very Very" + "Dream Girls" iKon "Holup!" (Bobby solo) + "Sinosijak" + "Dumb & Dumber" Twice "Cheer Up" + "TT" Zico "I Am You, You Are Me" + "Boys and Girls" + "Yes or No" GFriend "Navillera" + "Rough" BTS "Blood Sweat & Tears" + "Fire" Sechs Kies "Comeback" + "Three Words" + "Couple" Exo "Growl" + "Overdose" + "Call Me Baby" + "Monster"
Winners and nominees Main awards Winners and nominees are listed below. Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold.
Top 10 Artists (Bonsang) Album of the Year (Daesang) Exo BTS Zico Twice AKMU GFriend Mamamoo BewhY Red Velvet Taeyeon BTS – The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever Exo – Ex'Act Psy – Chiljip Psy-da AKMU – Spring Jang Beom-june – Jang Beom June 2 AlbumArtist of the Year (Daesang)Song of the Year (Daesang) Exo Twice BTS GFriend Zico Twice – "Cheer Up" Zico – "I Am You, You Are Me" Urban Zakapa – "I Don't Love You" GFriend – "Rough" MC the Max – "No Matter Where"Best New ArtistBest Dance Award (Male) Blackpink NCT 127 Bolbbalgan4 I.O.I WJSN Exo – "Monster" BTS – "Fire" Winner – "Sentimentaly" Seventeen – "Pretty U" Psy ft. CL – "Daddy"Best Dance Award (Female)Best Folk/Blues Award GFriend – "Rough" Twice – "Cheer Up" Red Velvet – "Russian Roulette" Mamamoo – "You're The Best" Wonder Girls – "Why So Lonely" 10cm – "What The Spring??" AKMU – "Re-Bye" Sam Kim – "No Sense" Accourve – "Should Our Paths Cross Again" Hello Gayoung – "Feelings" Best Rap/Hip Hop Award Best R&B/Soul Award Zico – "Eureka" (feat. Zion.T) BewhY – "Day Day" Park Kyung ft. Eunha – "Inferiority Complex" Gary ft. Gaeko – "Lonely Night" San E, Mad Clown – "Sour Grapes" Baekhyun & Suzy – "Dream" Zico – "I Am You, You Are Me" Dean – "D (Half Moon)" Crush ft. Taeyeon – "Don't Forget" Lee Hi – "Breathe" Best Indie Award Best Rock Award Bolbbalgan4 – "Galaxy" Standing Egg – "Summer Night You & I" The Black Skirts – "Everything" Jung Joon Il ft. BewhY – "Plastic" Kiha & The Faces – "Kieuk" Ha Hyun-woo – "Don't Cry" Buzz – "Love From The Heart, Pt. 3" Jang Beom-june – "Fallen In Love (Only With You)" Nell – "Lost In Perspective" CNBLUE – "You're So Beautiful" Best Trot Award Best OST Award Hong Jin-young – "Thumbs Up" Yoon Jung-soo, Kim Sook – "You're The Boss" Jung Yoon-jeong, Seo Byung-soon – "Evocation" Jo Jung-min – "Superman" Han Young – "Mirror" Yoon Mi-rae – "Always" (Descendants of the Sun) Davichi – "This Love" (Descendants of the Sun) Ben – "Like A Dream" (Another Miss Oh) Gummy – "You Are My Everything" (Descendants of the Sun) Oh Hyuk – "A Little Girl" (for Reply 1988) Best Pop Award Best Ballad Award Justin Bieber – "Love Yourself" Troye Sivan – "Youth" Charlie Puth – "One Call Away" Lukas Graham – "7 Years" Gnash – "I Hate U, I Love U" (ft. Olivia O'Brien) Jung Eun-ji – "Hopefully Sky" Im Chang-jung – "The Love I Committed" Kim Na-young - "What If It Was Going" Park Hyo-shin - "Breath" Urban Zakapa - "I Don't Love You" Eddy Kim - "My Lips are warm like Coffee" (Feat. Lee Sung Kyung) M.C The Max - "No Matter Where" Yoon Mirae - "This Love" Taeyeon - "Rain" Han Dong-geun - "Amazing You" Netizen Popularity Award Hot Trend Award Exo BTS Twice I.O.I Mamamoo Beast GFriend Block B Winner Wonder Girls Zico Im Chang-jung Park Hyo-shin Ha Hyun-woo Jang Beom-june
Other awards + Nominees Winners Music Video of the Year Red Velvet – "Russian Roulette" Kakao Hot Star Exo MBC Music Star Award Seventeen Tecent QQ Music Asia Artist iKon Hall of Fame Sechs Kies Songwriter Award Hitman Bang
Stats
Artists with multiple nominations 6 nominations Exo
5 nominations BTS GFriend Twice
3 nominations AKMU Bewhy Jang Beom-june Mamamoo Red Velvet
2 nominations I.O.I Psy Seventeen Winner
Artists with multiple awards 5 awards Exo
3 awards Zico
2 awards BTS GFriend Red Velvet Twice
Gallery
Anecdote When BTS was announced as one of the Top 10 Artists , An Yu-jin, future member of Iz*One and Ive who was an ordinary audience member at the time, enthusiastically cheered along with the crowd. Six years later, at the 2022 Melon Music Awards, An returned to the stage as the leader of Ive, performing and receiving awards with her group.
References
External links
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