Melon Music Awards 2020

[rose-potion.livejournal.com]

This year, because of COVID-19, the award ceremony for the "Melon Music Awards" was a bit different. Without an audience and broadcasted live online, the first MMA were given from December 2nd to 4th (Rock, Indie, OST, R&B/Soul, Ballad, Rap/Hip-Hop) and ended on 5th with the main ceremony. The Top 10 Artists were alson know prior to today.

Oh My Girl

TXT

Iz*One

BTS

Monsta X

The Boyz

“Mister Trot” Top 6

JANNABI’s Choi Jung Hoon, Simon Dominic, Code Kunst

The Top 10 artists:

• BTS


• BLACKPINK


• IZ*ONE


• EXO’s Baekhyun


• Im Young Woong


• Oh My Girl


• Kim Ho Joong


• Baek Yerin


• Zico


• IU

New Artist of the Year (Male): CRAVITY

New Artist of the Year (Female): Weeekly

Best Performance: MONSTA X

Best Pop: “To Die For” by Sam Smith

Best Dance (Male): “Dynamite” by BTS

Best Dance (Female): “How You Like That” by BLACKPINK

Best Trot: Im Young Woong

Best Performance Director: Son Sung Deuk (Big Hit Entertainment)

Best Song Writer: Young Tak

1theK Original Contents: The Boyz

Netizen’s Choice: BTS

Hot Trend: “Mister Trot” Top 6

Daesangs:

• Artist of the Year: BTS


• Album of the Year: “Map of the Soul: 7” by BTS


• Song of the Year: “Dynamite” by BTS

For the second year in a row, BTS swept them all!


Sources: 1theK YouTube, Melon Twitter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8, Soompi via Melon Twitter

BTS' performance was fun. The "Black Swan" intro with Jimin and Jungkook, the "Dynamite" dance break with Hobi, the "On" intro where they recreated their first appareance at the MMA. It still felt a bit disjointed because the songs they chose didn't go together, but they looked so good (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
See you tomorrow for the MAMA !

Comments

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

@ TXT -



Congrats to BTS!!

[violoncelliste.livejournal.com]

ha, mte

[cosmopudin.livejournal.com]

that bts sweep though OOFFF its hella hot

aside from that, I won't mention names but there was one there that just isn't it. MX and Weeekly were well-deserved, that I will say.

Those BTS perfs were beautiful 💜 I'm so in love with Jimin and JK's dance UGH Tae looked gorg per usual, missed Yoongi, Hobi is my sun, RM & Jin KILLED it.

[kimbafierce.livejournal.com]

Question: Do Korean shows has attendance as a criteria to win, or is it just common knowledge? I mean is it in the rule book that artists most be in attendance to have a chance of winning?

[rose-potion.livejournal.com]

For Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Top 10 Artists, Best New Artist, it's 60% digital sales, 20% online voting and 20% judge score so I guess they know in advance and that's why they go.

Edit: wait this explains better than me !

[mynameiscoco.livejournal.com]

It’s not an official requirement, and for big award shows like this I think it’s more a case of ‘we just won’t invite you if you’re not going to win’ as the awards are based on sales and judges scores etc so they can’t really fudge them that much, whereas smaller award shows like the one we had last week that aren’t under as much scrutiny just essentially split all the awards between whoever signs up to attend and don’t care too much about actual fairness/talent.

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

no, attendance has nothing to do with end of the year awards criteral .. its pettier than that

its more about internal conflicts between certain network and certain kpop agency

agencies know in advance they dont have a chance so they dont show up to ceremonies

for example jyp has problems with MMA organization so they dont nominate jyp artists to those awards therefor jyp artist wont even attend those awards lol its not about

same happens to yg for mamas and so on

i have no idea but if you ask to fandoms they always have a really long explanation to why top-tier groups skip some specific award ceremony

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

i guess common knowledge would be keep track of all those internal fights between kpop agencies and korean broadcasting channels lolz

[myungung.livejournal.com]

hah and Baek Yerin winning after she left JYPE makes it even more obvious about the feuding lol

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

yeah.. why so petty? 😅

[kimbafierce.livejournal.com]

That is what it seemed like to me, but I thought they'd add attending as a criteria to lure companies to make their artists show up, but they're too shameless they don't care to hide their pettiness.

[belintuchiha.livejournal.com]

As always the awards are BS like every year lol

[garnetstar38.livejournal.com]

I know these end of years award shows need boy groups to get views but they would be better served to keep the top prizes as awarded by judges scores + streams only. IU should have rightfully won a lot of those awards in years past. But I can’t argue that BTS didn’t deserve all three top awards this year. Because any metric you use they would still have won. But it is ironic that in years past when certain groups consistently won year after year no one did the pearl clutching we are currently seeing.

That Blacksawn and Dynamite dance break where pretty amazing. Jimin and Jungkook dancing even a tiny bit of a traditional pas de deux together was kinda amazing.

[joaniemaloney.livejournal.com]

holy shit, 2nd year in a row with the sweep.

and here I am just dreaming 24/7 about SHINee even getting another daesang again when they have just the one (I know the chances are unlikely with the competition now, not bc of the quality of their music, even at their peak they couldn't get more than one) bc I still cry to their acceptance speech. I didn't watch this year but i'll try to tune in for the first time next year which hopefully everything will be live again with everybody there.

speaking of award shows, excited to wake up @ 4am to watch MAMA for the first time tomorrow morning for Taemin. :)

[dallinferno.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah, congrats, BTS! I enjoyed their performance a lot as well, they keep teasing us with the orchestra version of Black Swan .. BigHit, you cowards, release it on spotify!!

[violoncelliste.livejournal.com]

txt's dance break absolutely killed me, i screamed. i didn't pay attention to much else, but it made me laugh how many times bts was let out of the cube

congrats to the winners :)

[dongsaengkiller.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to all the winners! I haven’t watched all the performances yet but so far, the bts one was really outstanding for me. Awards season is so fun with everyone getting to show excellent stages.

[kyungwons.livejournal.com]

the black swan intro and dynamite dance break were great, they and their team really do know how to create an award show performance

[mc1a.livejournal.com]

Jung Hoseok during Dynamite

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

another bonsang to IU 👏👏👏👏👏
now she's the female artist with most bonsangs since MMA exist

[myungung.livejournal.com]

happy for Baek Yerin, IZ*ONE and IU. wondered if Baek Yerin managed to perform though. I only found out it was live till quite late, and only saw the iz*one performance before it got cut off.

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

the bts performance was, i agree, a bit disjointed, but it was fun to see them refer back to their earlier performances and eras. the black swan dance break was goooorgeous, exactly what the song deserves. bless the foreheads during on :))) the styling being pretty good overall, taehyung looking like a prince during life goes on! the dynamite suits!! JUNG HOSEOK! his dancing is amazing

it was cute how yoongi is never fully forgotten during his hiatus, like how they left a space for him at the end of the on performance.

congrats to the winners! (but where was twice???)

[meterstandkaart.livejournal.com]

Get those awards, K-Pop Superstar Sam Smith!