MAMA Award for Best Female Artist

The MAMA Award for Best Female Artist (여자 가수상) is an award presented annually by CJ E&M Pictures (Mnet).

MAMA Award for Best Female Artist
Country	South Korea
Presented by	CJ E&M Pictures (Mnet)
First awarded	1999
Currently held by	IU – "Celebrity" (2021)
Most awards	IU (5 wins)
Most nominations	BoA, Taeyeon (5)
Website	Mnet Asian Music Awards

It was first awarded at the 1st Mnet Asian Music Awards ceremony held in 1999; Uhm Jung-hwa won the award for her song "I Don't Know", and it is given in honor of a female artist with the best performance in the music industry.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Year^[I]	Winner(s)	Song	Nominee(s)
1999 (1st)	Uhm Jung-hwa	"I Don't Know"	Kim Jin-won – "Happy Birthday To You" Lena Park – "A Person in My Dream" Park Ji-yoon – "I Do Not Know Anything" Yangpa – "Adios"
2000 (2nd)	Park Ji-yoon	"Coming of Age Ceremony"	Kim Hyun-jung – "Are You Really" Baek Ji-young – "Sad Salsa" Uhm Jung-hwa – "Cross" Lee Jung-hyun – "Peace"
2001 (3rd)	Kim Hyun-jung	"You Who Left"	Yangpa – "Special Night" Uhm Jung-hwa – "Crack" J – "The Saddest Words" T – "As Time Goes By"
2002 (4th)	Jang Na-ra	"Sweet Dream"	Kim Hyun-jung – "Knife" BoA – "No. 1" Wax – "Please" Lee Soo-young – "La La La"
2003 (5th)	Lee Soo-young	"Solitary"	Bada – "Music" BoA – "Atlantis Princess" Wax – "Relationship" Lee Hyori – "10 Minutes"
2004 (6th)		"Whistle to Me"	Gummy – "Loss Of Memory" BoA – "My Name" Eugene – "Windy" Jang Na-ra – "Is That True?
2005 (7th)	BoA	"Girls on Top"	Gummy – "No" Lexy – "Tears" Jang Yoon-jeong – "Really!" Chae Yeon – "Two Of Us"
2006 (8th)	Baek Ji-young	"I Won't Love"	Bada – "V.I.P" Park Jung-ah – "Yeah" Lee Soo-young – "Grace" Lee Hyori – "Shall We Dance?"
2007 (9th)	Ivy	"Sonata of Temptation"	Baek Ji-young – "I Only Need One Love" Yangpa – "Love... What Is It?" Lee Hyori – "Toc Toc Toc" Chae Yeon – "My Love"
2008 (10th)	Lee Hyori	"U-Go-Girl"	Gummy – "I'm Sorry" ft. T.O.P Seo In-young – "Cinderella" Uhm Jung-hwa – "Disco" ft. T.O.P Younha – "Telepathy"
2009 (11th)	Baek Ji-young	"Like Being Hit by a Bullet"	Bada – "Mad" ft. Untouchable Son Dam-bi – Saturday Night Younha – "123" Chae Yeon – "Shake"
2010 (12th)	BoA	"Hurricane Venus"	Gummy – "Because You're a Man" Son Dam-bi – "Queen" Seo In-young – "Written as Love, Sung as Pain" Lee Hyori – "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (feat. Ceejay)
2011 (13th)	Baek Ji-young	"Ordinary"	Kim Wan-sun – "Super Love" Seo In-young – "Into The Rhythm" IU – "Good Day" G.NA – "Black And White"
2012 (14th)	IU	"You and I"	Baek Ji-young – "Voice" BoA – "Only One" Ga-in – "Bloom" G.NA – "2Hot"
2013 (15th)	Lee Hyori	"Bad Girls"	Ailee – "U&I" Baek Ji-young – "Hate" IU – "The Red Shoes" Sunmi – "24 Hours"
2014 (16th)	IU	"Friday"	Sunmi – "Full Moon" Ailee – "Singing Got Better" Hyuna – "Red" Hyolyn – "One Way"
2015 (17th)	Taeyeon	"I"	BoA – "Kiss My Lips" IU – "Twenty Three" Ailee – "Mind Your Own Business" Hyuna – "Roll Deep"
2016 (18th)		"Why"	Ailee – "Home" Baek Ayeon – "So-So" Lee Hi – "Breathe" Jeong Eunji – "Hopefully Sky"
2017 (19th)	IU	"Palette"	Sunmi – "Gashina" Suzy – "Yes No Maybe" Taeyeon – "Fine" Heize – "You, Clouds, Rain"
2018 (20th)	Sunmi	"Siren"	IU – "Bbibbi" Chungha – "Roller Coaster" Taeyeon – "Something New" Heize – "Jenga"
2019 (21st)	Chungha	"Gotta Go"	Jennie – "Solo" Taeyeon – "Four Seasons" Heize – "She's Fine" Hwasa – "Twit"
2020 (22nd)	IU	"Blueming"	Sunmi – "Pporappippam" Chungha – "Play" Taeyeon – "Spark" Hwasa – "Maria"
2021 (23rd)		"Celebrity"	Heize – "Happen" Lisa – "Lalisa" Rosé – "On the Ground" Taeyeon – "Weekend"
2022 (24th)	Nayeon	"Pop!"	Taeyeon – "INVU" IU – "Winter Sleep" Miyeon – "Drive" Seulgi – "28 Reasons"

Multiple awards for Best Female Artist

As of 2020, six female artists received two or more awards.

5 wins

• IU

3 wins

• Baek Ji-young

2 wins

• Lee Hyori
• BoA
• Lee Soo-young
• Taeyeon

^{^[I]} Each year is linked to the article about the Mnet Asian Music Awards held that year.

Gallery

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  Uhm Jung-hwa, (1999)

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  Park Ji-yoon, (2000)

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  Kim Hyun-jung, (2001)

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  Jang Na-ra, (2002)

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  Lee Soo-young, (2003-04)

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  BoA, (2005, 2010)

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  Baek Ji-young, (2006, 2009, 2011)

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  Ivy, (2007)

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  Lee Hyori, (2008, 2013)

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  IU, (2012, 2014, 2017, 2020-21)

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  Kim Tae-yeon, (2015-16)

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  Sunmi, (2018)

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  Chungha, (2019)

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  Nayeon, (2022)

See also

• List of music awards honoring women

Notes

1. "1999 M.net Korean Music Festival Winners list" 2014-10-09 at the Wayback Machine. MAMA. Retrieved 2014-06-12.

References

• "M.net Asian Music Awards Winners list by year". mwave. MAMA.
• "M.net Asian Music Awards Broadcasts by year". mwave. MAMA.
• "M.net Asian Music Awards Photos by year". mwave. MAMA.

External links

• Mnet Asian Music Awards official website