2016 Melon Music Awards

The 2016 Melon Music Awards ceremony, organized by Kakao M (a Kakao company) through its online music store Melon, took place on Saturday, November 19, 2016, in Seoul, South Korea.^[1] The eighth installment of the event since its offline launch in 2009, it was held at the Gocheok Sky Dome for the first time, which is one of the largest indoor concert venues in South Korea.^[2]

2016 Melon Music Awards
Date	November 19, 2016
Location	Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul, South Korea
Highlights
Most awards	Exo (5)
Most nominations	Exo (6)
Song of the Year	"Cheer Up"
Album of the Year	The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever
Artist of the Year	Exo
Website	www.melon.com/mma/index.htm
Television/radio coverage
Network	JTBC2 JTBC4 1theK KakaoTV Daum Melon
Runtime	240 minutes
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Details for the ceremony—including the announcement of its date and venue—were first made available on October 7, 2016.^[3] A list of nominations and the awardees for the Top 10 Artists were announced on November 4, with voting for the main awards beginning the same day.^[4]

The criteria for the awards varied depending on the category, consisting a mixture of digital sales data, judges evaluation, and online voting. Exo received the most nominations of the night, winning four of the six nominated categories. BTS, GFriend and Twice followed with the second most nominations with five each, while Zico received the second most awards, having won three times. Furthermore, BTS, Exo and Twice received the three daesang prizes of the night.

Judging criteria

Division	Online Voting	Digital Sales	Judge Score
Main awards*	30%	70%	—
Genre Awards**	30%	40%	30%
Popularity Awards***	60%	40%	—
Special Awards****	—	—	100%
*Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Top 10 Artists, Best New Artist **Rap/Hip Hop, R&B/Ballad, Rock, OST, Trot, Pop, Dance, Folk/Blue, Indie, Electronic ***Netizen Popularity Award, Hot Trend Award ****Music Video Award, Song Writer Award, MBC Music Star Award, Performing Arts Award, Global Star Award, QQ Asia Artist Award, Hall of Fame Award, Kakao Hot Star Award

Performers

List of performances at 2016 Melon Music Awards

Artist(s)	Song(s)
BewhY	"Dejavu" + "Day Day"
10cm	"What the Spring??"
Seventeen	"Very Nice"
Mamamoo	"You're the Best" + "Decalcomanie"
Blackpink	"Whistle" + "Playing with Fire"
Jeong Eun-ji	"Hopefully Sky"
Red Velvet	"Russian Roulette"
I.O.I	"Very Very Very" + "Dream Girls"
iKon	"Holup!" (Bobby solo) + "Sinosijak" + "Dumb & Dumber"
Twice	"Cheer Up" + "TT"
Zico	"I Am You, You Are Me" + "Boys and Girls" + "Yes or No"
GFriend	"Navillera" + "Rough"
BTS	"Blood Sweat & Tears" + "Fire"
Sechs Kies	"Comeback" + "Three Words" + "Couple"
Exo	"Growl" + "Overdose" + "Call Me Baby" + "Monster"

Winners and nominees

Main awards

Winners and nominees are listed below.^[5][6] Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold.^[7][8][9]

Top 10 Artists (Bonsang)	Album of the Year (Daesang)
Exo BTS Zico Twice AKMU GFriend Mamamoo BewhY Red Velvet Taeyeon	BTS – The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever Exo – Ex'Act Psy – Chiljip Psy-da AKMU – Spring Jang Beom-june – Jang Beom June 2 Album
Artist of the Year (Daesang)	Song of the Year (Daesang)
Exo Twice BTS GFriend Zico	Twice – "Cheer Up" Zico – "I Am You, You Are Me" Urban Zakapa – "I Don't Love You" GFriend – "Rough" MC the Max – "No Matter Where"
Best New Artist	Best Dance Award (Male)
Blackpink NCT 127 Bolbbalgan4 I.O.I WJSN	Exo – "Monster" BTS – "Fire" Winner – "Sentimentaly" Seventeen – "Pretty U" Psy ft. CL – "Daddy"
Best Dance Award (Female)	Best Folk/Blues Award
GFriend – "Rough" Twice – "Cheer Up" Red Velvet – "Russian Roulette" Mamamoo – "You're The Best" Wonder Girls – "Why So Lonely"	10cm – "What The Spring??" AKMU – "Re-Bye" Sam Kim – "No Sense" Accourve – "Should Our Paths Cross Again" Hello Gayoung – "Feelings"
Best Rap/Hip Hop Award	Best R&B/Soul Award
Zico – "Eureka" (feat. Zion.T) BewhY – "Day Day" Park Kyung ft. Eunha – "Inferiority Complex" Gary ft. Gaeko – "Lonely Night" San E, Mad Clown – "Sour Grapes"	Baekhyun & Suzy – "Dream" Zico – "I Am You, You Are Me" Dean – "D (Half Moon)" Crush ft. Taeyeon – "Don't Forget" Lee Hi – "Breathe"
Best Indie Award	Best Rock Award
Bolbbalgan4 – "Galaxy" Standing Egg – "Summer Night You & I" The Black Skirts – "Everything" Jung Joon Il ft. BewhY – "Plastic" Kiha & The Faces – "Kieuk"	Ha Hyun-woo – "Don't Cry" Buzz – "Love From The Heart, Pt. 3" Jang Beom-june – "Fallen In Love (Only With You)" Nell – "Lost In Perspective" CNBLUE – "You're So Beautiful"
Best Trot Award	Best OST Award
Hong Jin-young – "Thumbs Up" Yoon Jung-soo, Kim Sook – "You're The Boss" Jung Yoon-jeong, Seo Byung-soon – "Evocation" Jo Jung-min – "Superman" Han Young – "Mirror"	Yoon Mi-rae – "Always" (Descendants of the Sun) Davichi – "This Love" (Descendants of the Sun) Ben – "Like A Dream" (Another Miss Oh) Gummy – "You Are My Everything" (Descendants of the Sun) Oh Hyuk – "A Little Girl" (for Reply 1988)
Best Pop Award	Best Ballad Award
Justin Bieber – "Love Yourself" Troye Sivan – "Youth" Charlie Puth – "One Call Away" Lukas Graham – "7 Years" Gnash – "I Hate U, I Love U" (ft. Olivia O'Brien)	Jung Eun-ji – "Hopefully Sky" Im Chang-jung – "The Love I Committed"
Netizen Popularity Award	Hot Trend Award
Exo BTS Twice I.O.I Mamamoo Beast GFriend Block B Winner Wonder Girls	Zico Im Chang-jung Park Hyo-shin Ha Hyun-woo Jang Beom-june

Other awards

Nominees	Winners
Music Video of the Year	Red Velvet – "Russian Roulette"
Kakao Hot Star	Exo
MBC Music Star Award	Seventeen
Tecent QQ Music Asia Artist	iKon
Hall of Fame	Sechs Kies
Songwriter Award	Hitman Bang

Stats

Artists with multiple nominations 6 nominations Exo 5 nominations BTS GFriend Twice 3 nominations AKMU Bewhy Jang Beom-june Mamamoo Red Velvet 2 nominations I.O.I Psy Seventeen Winner

Artists with multiple awards 5 awards Exo 3 awards Zico 2 awards BTS GFriend Red Velvet Twice

Gallery

• 2016 Melon Music Awards gallery
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  BTS after winning their first daesang

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  Zico

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  Blackpink performing "Playing with Fire"

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  Blackpink's Lisa

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  Red Velvet's Irene

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  Red Velvet's Seulgi performing "Russian Roulette"

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  Red Velvet's Wendy

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  Red Velvet's Joy

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  BTS's Jungkook

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  BTs's Jimin

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  BTS's Jin

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  Exo's Sehun

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  Exo's Baekhyun

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  GFriend after winning Best Dance Performance

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  Sechs Kies after winning Hall of Fame

References

1. "Melon Music Awards 2016 Introduction". Melon (in Korean). from the original on November 19, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
2. "Gocheok Skydome". Seoul Tourism Organization. February 22, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
3. "멜론뮤직어워드, 11월19일 고척돔 개최 '올해 첫 음악 시상식'" [Melon Music Awards, held at Gocheok Dome on November 19th 'The year's first music awards ceremony']. My Daily (in Korean). Naver. October 7, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
4. ""걸그룹 강세" 레드벨벳·여자친구·트와이스, '멜론뮤직어워드' TOP10 등극". TV Report. November 4, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
5. [2016 MelOn Music Awards] Part.1 (1부) (Online broadcast) (in Korean). Kakao M. November 21, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2022 – via YouTube.
6. [2016 MelOn Music Awards] Part.2 (2부) (Online broadcast) (in Korean). Kakao M. November 21, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2022 – via YouTube.
7. Lee, Sang-won (November 20, 2016). "Winners from the 2016 MelOn Music Awards". The Korea Herald. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
8. Chung, Joo-won (November 20, 2016). "BTS, Exo, Twice top 2016 Melon Music Awards". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
9. "2016 Melon Music Awards celebrates top K-pop artists". The Korea Herald. November 20, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2022.

External links

• Official website