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.
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 ScoreTop 10 Artists20%80%—Main awards*20%60%20%Genre Awards**—70% 30%Popularity Awards***60%40%—KakaoBank Everyone's Star Award80%—20%Special Awards****——100%
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.
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 "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. Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
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 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 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 Ive 3 IU
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