Melon Music Awards 2023 Announces Nominees For Daesangs And Category Awards

Nov 18, 2023

The Melon Music Awards (MMA) 2023 has kicked off its next round of voting!

On November 16, the first round of voting for this year’s Top 10 artists ended, and the winners were announced the following day. Voting has now officially opened for the Daesangs (Grand Prizes) and category awards.

Only music released between November 4, 2022 and November 1, 2023 was eligible for this year’s awards.

Melon’s new Millions Top 10 awards, which will be given to 10 albums that surpassed 1 million streams on Melon within the first 24 hours of their release, will be based 80 percent on their Melon download and streaming counts and 20 percent based on votes.

Melon has also opened voting for a number of additional awards, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Song of the Year, most of which will be determined based 60 percent on Melon download and streaming counts, 20 percent on judges’ evaluations, and 20 percent on votes.

Exceptions to the 60-20-20 formula are Best Music Style, which will be determined based 20 percent on Melon download and streaming counts, 60 percent on judges’ evaluations, and 20 percent on votes; and the KakaoBank Favorite Star Award, which will be determined based 20 percent on judges’ evaluations and 80 percent on votes.

Other awards that have not been included in the online voting, such as Record of the Year and Music Video of the Year, will be determined based entirely on judges’ evaluations.

Check out all of this year’s nominees below!

Artist of the Year (Top 10 Winners)

aespa
BTS
(G)I-DLE
IVE
Jungkook (BTS)
LE SSERAFIM
Lim Young Woong
NCT DREAM
NewJeans
SEVENTEEN

Album of the Year

aespa – “MY WORLD”
(G)I-DLE – “I feel”
IVE – “I’ve IVE”
Jimin (BTS) – “FACE”
LE SSERAFIM – “UNFORGIVEN”
NCT DREAM – “ISTJ”
NewJeans – “Get Up”
Parc Jae Jung – “Alone”
SEVENTEEN – “FML”
TXT – “The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION”

Best Song of the Year

aespa – “Spicy”
BSS (SEVENTEEN) – “Fighting” (featuring Lee Young Ji)
(G)I-DLE – “Queencard”
IVE – “I AM”
Jisoo (BLACKPINK) – “FLOWER”
LE SSERAFIM – “UNFORGIVEN” (featuring Nile Rodgers)
NCT DREAM – “Candy”
NewJeans – “Ditto”
Parc Jae Jung – “Let’s Say Goodbye”
STAYC – “Teddy Bear”

Millions Top 10

aespa – “MY WORLD”
Agust D (BTS’ Suga)– “D-DAY”
THE BOYZ– “BE AWAKE”
BSS (SEVENTEEN) – “SECOND WIND”
BTOB – “WIND AND WISH”
D.O. (EXO) – “Expectation”
EXO – “EXIST”
(G)I-DLE – “I feel”
ISEGYE IDOL – “KIDDING”
IVE – “I’ve IVE”
Jimin (BTS) – “FACE”
Jungkook (BTS) – “Seven” (featuring Latto)
LE SSERAFIM – “UNFORGIVEN”
Lee Chan Won – “ONE”
Lee Seung Yoon – “Shelter of Dreams”
Lim Young Woong – “Do or Die”
MONSTA X – “REASON”
NCT 127 – “Ay-Yo”
NCT DOJAEJUNG – “Perfume”
NCT DREAM – “ISTJ”
NewJeans – “Get Up”
PLAVE – “ASTERUM : The Shape of Things to Come”
SEVENTEEN – “FML”
SHINee – “HARD”
Shownu X Hyungwon (MONSTA X) – “THE UNSEEN”
Stray Kids – “★★★★★ (5-STAR)”
TXT – “The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION”
V (BTS) – “Layover”
Young Tak – “FORM”
ZEROBASEONE – “YOUTH IN THE SHADE”

New Artist of the Year

BOYNEXTDOOR
KISS OF LIFE
PLAVE
RIIZE
ZEROBASEONE

Best Group (Female)

aespa
(G)I-DLE
IVE
LE SSERAFIM
NewJeans

Best Group (Male)

BSS (SEVENTEEN)
BTS
NCT DREAM
SEVENTEEN
TXT

Best Solo Artist (Female)

Jisoo (BLACKPINK)
Lee Young Ji
Sin Ye Young
Song Ha Yea
Zia

Best Solo Artist (Male)

BIG Naughty
DK (December)
Jungkook (BTS)
Lim Young Woong
Woody

Best OST

BIG Naughty – “With me” (“The Interest of Love”)
Lim Jae Hyun – “Heaven (2023)” (“It Was Spring”)
Miyeon ((G)I-DLE) – “The Painted on the Moonlight” (“My Dearest”)
Paul Kim – “You Remember” (“The Glory”)
Younha – “Letter” (“Ditto”)

Best Pop Artist

Charlie Puth
Ed Sheeran
Post Malone
Sia
SZA

Best Music Style

bongjeingan – “GAEKKUM”
Carina Nebula – “Good Match”
Cloud’s Block – “The Lake”
Dabda – “Flower Tail”
Jclef – “jonny’s sofa”
Lee Hyungju – “A day my body lifted up”
O’Domar – “Don’t think about elephants”
Parannoul – “Polaris”
Silica Gel – “Tik Tak Tok” (featuring So!YoON!)
youra – “The Cherry Trees”

Voting will be open until December 1 for Melon users with verified accounts, and the winners will be announced at the Melon Music Awards on December 2 at 5 p.m. KST.

Which artists are you rooting for this year?

cr: Soompi