Say hello to a new year-end award ceremony

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Melon.com, a popular online music website in Korea, has announced that it will be hosting a year-end music award ceremony.

The name of the ceremony is 2009 Melon Music Awards, and it will be hosted on December 16th. Melon, music distributor LOEN entertainment and cable TV company CU Media will be collaborating on this event. Melon expressed, "The 2009 Melon Music Awards will be focused on digital music sales and will be fair because sales is based purely on choice of the consumers and nobody else. We have planned this event as an alternative to traditional award ceremonies." The emphasis on fairness appears to be targeted towards Mnet's MAMA which has seen quite a number of artists shy away from it due to its questionable integrity.

Candidates of each award will be selected from songs released between the October 31 and November 1, and will be based on number of times that song has been played (30%), downloaded (50%) and other usage (20%). Combination of those factors amount to 80% and the rest are decided by user poll which starts on December 10th. There is a total of fifteen awards including Top 10, Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, OST of the Year, and The Most Popular Artist.

No information regarding participation of artists has been released so far, but since Melon is one of the biggest names in digital music industry, popular artists are expected to make appearance.

Source: allkpop
http://awards.melon.com/

Comments

[zomoandzo.livejournal.com]

OST of the year HAS TO GO TO YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL.

okay i hope no one boycotss MELON

[xshinebrighterx.livejournal.com]

WORD.

[crisketch.livejournal.com]

lmao omg your icon.

[lost-roxz55.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly!

[deawere.livejournal.com]

this.

[gabbeeee.livejournal.com]

sadly, theres a high chance it'll go to BOF since both versions sold out :/

[afrahh.livejournal.com]

omg THIS SO HARD.

[chibi-rei.livejournal.com]

THIS

Also your icon makes me lol for real

[seagull-life.livejournal.com]

I think this will be the new big award show, because ... MAMA is fail! and this one have the same categories!

[liime-arix.livejournal.com]

This.

[xshinebrighterx.livejournal.com]

ALSO WORD.

That promotional clip was pretty pointed...

[silvaesedai.livejournal.com]

I need a "sick burn" macro and I don't have one. =/

[wassereis.livejournal.com]

Candidates of each award will be selected from songs released between the October 31 and November 1
that makes me confused. I guess October last year or sth? @_@

and I think it's 10th november, can't imagine they start the poll 6 days before the award show :/

[wassereis.livejournal.com]

but anyway, sounds cool and far better than MAMA 8D

[faithgrowsold.livejournal.com]

lol, i totally stared at that for a minute too being wtf? but yeah, i'm pretty sure they meant last year xD

[ryoflame.livejournal.com]

Intriguing.

[schizofragile.livejournal.com]

Candidates of each award will be selected from songs released between the October 31 and November 1
lolwut?

[schizofragile.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm assuming this is oct 2008 (amirite? amirite.), but I srsly went "bzuh?" when I first read it

[faithgrowsold.livejournal.com]

me too xD

[seagull-life.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it's last year, because I think the MAMA (or was it GDA) article that said the same thing!

[faithgrowsold.livejournal.com]

i like.

but maybe i just like the name. because it makes me think of melon soda/hungry

[angel-fied.livejournal.com]

step aside, MAMA.

[silvaesedai.livejournal.com]

Your icon. ♥♥

[deazaskia.livejournal.com]

Yay, I love melon!!

[auxelle.livejournal.com]

Melon and Loen? This is gonna be interesting.

[omgcats.livejournal.com]

Cool. Hopefully the artists will go to this, since three people will be showing up for MAMA.

[fuuism.livejournal.com]

But seriously, I hope this works out nicely and that many artists show interest. MAMA is looking depressing at the moment.

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

XDDD

So cute!

[ellystage.livejournal.com]

Melon sounds a lot better than MAMA.

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

This sounds a lot better. Especially since netizens are mostly turning to online purchases for their music anyways.