The 2024 Melon Music Awards (), 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.
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. 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.
Criteria All songs and albums that are eligible to be nominated must be released from November 2, 2023, to October 30, 2024.
Category Digital sales Online voting Panelist Grand Prize 60% 20% 20% Record of the Year colspan="2" 100% Top 10 Awards 80% 20% Main Awards 60% 20% 20% Hot Trend Award 70% 30% Kakao Bank's Favorite Star Award 80% 20% Track Zero Choice 20% 20% 60% Special Awards colspan="2" 100%
Performers The list of performers was announced throughout November, with the final line-up revealed on November 21.
+ 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" Specialize Every Moment Christopher "Bad" "Trouble" 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" / "Hann (Alone)" / "Lion" / "Tomboy" / "Queencard" "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. JAESSBEE – Red carpet host Jang Won-young – Opening speech Kim Young-dae and Han Ji-hyun – presented Top 10 Award Jang Geun-suk – presented Top 10 Award Bae In-hyuk and Lee Yul-eum – presented Top 10 Award and Music Video of the Year Choi Hyun-seok and Song Hae-na – presented Best Performance – Male and Best Performance – Female Lee Chang-ho and Park Se-mi – presented J-Pop Favorite Artist and Global Rising Artist Kim Won-hoon and Uhm Ji-yoon – presented Best Female Group and Best Male Group Moon Geun-young – presented Millions Top 10 Cha Woo-min and Park Yoo-na – presented Songwriter Award and Best Producer Lee Se-hee and Yoon Ji-on – presented Hot Trend and Stage of the Year JAESSBEE – presented 1theK Global Icon Kang Hoon and Keum Sae-rok – presented New Artist of the Year Kim Bo-ra and Nam Yoon-su – presented Best Music Style Kim Jun-ho and Sung Hae-eun – presented Kakao Bank Everyone's Star Ahn Jae-hyun – presented Millions Top 10 Risabae – presented Global Artist – Male and Global Artist – Female Lee Je-hoon – presented Song of the Year (Daesang) and Artist of the Year (Daesang) Uhm Jung-hwa – presented Record of the Year (Daesang) and Album of the Year (Daesang)
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. 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.
Winners and nominees are listed in alphanumerical order, with winners listed first and emphasized in bold.
Grand Prize + Album of the Year(Daesang) Artist of the Year(Daesang) Aespa – Armageddon (G)I-dle – 2 Day6 – Fourever IU – The Winning Plave – Asterum: 134-1 Aespa (G)I-dle Day6 NewJeans Plave Song of the Year(Daesang) Record of the Year(Daesang) Aespa – "Supernova" (G)I-dle – "Fate" IU – "Love Wins All" Lee Chang-sub – "Heavenly Fate" TWS – "Plot Twist" (G)I-dle
Main awards + Top 10 Millions Top 10 (G)I-dle Aespa Day6 IU Jungkook NewJeans Plave Riize Seventeen TWS Aespa – Armageddon Day6 – Band Aid IU – The Winning Ive – Ive Switch Jungkook – Golden Lim Young-woong – "Warmth" NewJeans – How Sweet Plave – Asterum: 134-1 Riize – Riizing Taeyeon – To. X New Artist of the Year Best Pop Artist Illit TWS Babymonster Meovv Pagaehun Benson Boone Ariana Grande Ayumu Imazu Max Sabrina Carpenter Best Male Solo Best Female Solo Jungkook Lee Chang-sub Lee Mu-jin Lim Jae-hyun Zico IU Bibi Bol4 Lee Young-ji Taeyeon Best Male Group Best Female Group Riize Day6 Plave Seventeen TWS Aespa (G)I-dle Illit Le Sserafim NewJeans Best OST Eclipse – "Sudden Shower" 10cm – "Spring Snow" Crush – "Love You With All My Heart" Roy Kim – "Whenever, Wherever" Taeyeon – "Dream"
Popularity awards + Track Zero Choice Kakao Bank Everyone's Star Hyukoh & Sunset Rollercoaster – "Young Man" Bongjeingan – "Know You Did" Danpyunsun and the Moments Ensemble – "Independent" Hanroro – "H O M E" Kim Sa-wol– "Default" O'KOYE – "O'KOYE" Savina & Drones – "Nobody Knows" Sumin & Slom – "Why, Why, Why" The Solutions – "N/A" Wave to Earth – "Annie." Riize (G)I-dle Aespa Day6 IU Jungkook NewJeans Plave Seventeen TWS Hot Trend Award QWER
Special awards + 1theK Global Icon Best Music Style TripleS Bibi Lee Young-ji Best Performance – Female Best Performance – Male Aespa BoyNextDoor Best Producer Global Artist – Female Seo Hyun-joo (Starship Entertainment) Ive Global Artist – Male Global Rising Artist Ateez Riize J-Pop Favorite Artist Music Video of the Year Yoasobi Ive – "Heya" Songwriter Award Stage of the Year Jeon So-yeon IU – IU HEREH World Tour
Multiple awards The following artist(s) received two or more awards:
Count Artist(s) 7 Aespa 5 Riize 4 IU 3 Ive Jungkook2 (G)I-dle Day6 NewJeans Plave TWS
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