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Melon Music Awards to return with first 2-day ceremony in November

The 2026 Melon Music Awards will run for two days in Seoul for the first time, adding new categories tied to Melon’s Global K-Chart.

2026.6.9

Singers G-Dragon, left, and Jennie receive Grand Prizes at the Melon Music Awards at Gocheok Sky Dome in western Seoul on Dec. 20. [KAKAO ENTERTAINMENT]

Solo stars dominate: G-Dragon, Jennie and Rosé sweep the Melon Music Awards

Solo singers powered through this year's Melon Music Awards (MMA), as K-pop icon G-Dragon swept seven awards, including three Grand Prizes, and Blackpink singers Jennie and Rosé also nabbed six awards together as solo artists.

2025.12.21

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G-Dragon performs during the 17th Melon Music Awards held at Gocheok Sky Dome in western Seoul on Dec. 20. [MELON]

G-Dragon sweeps 17th Melon Music Awards; Jennie wins Record of the Year — as it happened

The Melon Music Awards takes place this evening with a star-studded lineup including Jennie, G-Dragon, Zico and EXO. The red carpet begins at 4 p.m. and the main ceremony kicks off at 5 p.m. Join us here for live updates from 3 p.m.

2025.12.20

Left: Jennie performs during Blackpink's ″Deadline″ world tour at Goyang's main stadium in Gyeonggi on July 6. Right: G-Dragon performs during a concert of his “Ubermensch” world tour at Gocheok Sky Dome in western Seoul, held on Dec. 12, 13 and 14. [YG ENTERTAINMENT/GALAXY CORPORATION]

G-Dragon, Jennie lead star-studded lineup for 17th Melon Music Awards

The Melon Music Awards (MMA), one of Korea’s largest year-end music awards shows, will take place Saturday evening with a star-studded lineup of K-pop artists, including Jennie, G-Dragon, Zico and EXO.

2025.12.19

Girl group aespa at the Melon Music Awards 2024 (MMA 2024) held on Nov. 30 at the Inspire Arena in Incheon [KAKAO ENTERTAINMENT]

aespa takes home seven awards at Melon Music Awards 2024

Girl groups aespa and (G)I-DLE rocked the Melon Music Awards 2024 night, the former taking home a total of whopping seven awards and the latter announcing its surprise news during the ceremony held Saturday in Incheon.

2024.12.1

NewJeans performs during the Melon Music Awards 2023 held at Inspire Arena in Incheon on Saturday. [KAKAO ENTERTAINMENT]

Melon Music Awards 2023: NewJeans wins two of four top honors, while IVE, NCT Dream each take one

NewJeans took home five awards at the Melon Music Awards (MMA) 2023 on Saturday, including Song of the Year and Artist of the Year, just a year and four months since its debut.

2023.12.4

Yabuki Nako and Honda Hitomi will be hosting this year's Melon Music Awards (MMA2023) [KAKAO ENTERTAINMENT]

IVE, NCT Dream to lead highly anticipated 2023 MMA awards

Saturday's Melon Music Awards will feature a number of special performances. NCT Dream will perform fan-favorite "Poison" for the first time ever, while aespa will appear on the MMA stage for the first time.

2023.12.1

Inspire Arena inside the new Moghegan Inspire Entertainment Resort in Incheon [MOHEGAN INSPIRE ENTERTAINMENT RESORT]

Melon Music Awards, SBS Gayo Daejon and more to take place at new Inspire Arena

Incheon's Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort announced a new lineup of shows that will take place in its Inspire Arena throughout December, including the 2023 Melon Music Awards.

2023.11.28

Lim Young-woong to stage special performance at Melon Music Awards

Singer Lim Young-woong will stage a special performance at the upcoming 2022 Melon Music Awards presented by Kakao Bank. The event is set to take place on Nov. 26 at 6 p.m. at Gocheok Sky Dome in western Seoul. It will also be streamed via...

2022.11.16