South Korea's Melon Music Awards were held on December 2, and the winners are finally announced.
The 2023 Melon Music Awards, organized by Kakao Entertainment is the 14th annual event in the show's history. The Melon Music Awards are renowned for emphasising digital sales and allowing the public to vote for the winners. This year's winners were artists whoreleased songs between November 4, 2022, and November 1, 2023.
The award show, which is Korea's leading music honors and festival event was held in the Inspire Arena, South Korea on Saturday, December 2. An Yu-jin hosted the show, while the pre-ceremony red carpet event was hosted by Hitomi Honda, Nako Yabuki, and Ha Ji-young.
On November 2, 2023, the nominations for the Top 10 Artists were revealed via the official website. The period for voting was November 2 to16. On November 17, the remaining categories—Record of the Year and Hot Trend Award excluded—were revealed. Voting began that day itself and ended on December 1.
Take a look at the all the winners below.
Album of the Year: Ive - I've Ive
Artist of the Year: NewJeans
Song of the Year: NewJeans - Ditto
Record of the Year: NCT Dream
Rookie of the Year: Riize, Zerobaseone
Best Pop Artist: Charlie Puth
Best Male Solo: Jung Kook
Best Female Solo: Lee Young-ji
Best Male Group: NCT Dream
Best Female Group: NewJeans
Best OST: Lim Jae-hyun - Heaven
Best Music Style: Silica Gel - Tik Tak Tok ft. So!Yoon!
Hot Trend Award: Jung Kook
Kakao Favourite Star Award: BTS
Stage of the Year: SHINee - SHINee World VI: Perfect Illumination
Music Video of the Year: STAYC - Bubble
Songwriter Award: Ryan S. Jhun
J-Pop Favourite Artist: imase
Best Male Performance: Seventeen
Best Female Performance: aespa
Global Artist: aespa
Global Rising Artist: BoyNextDoor
1theK Global Icon: Kiss of Life
Top 10 Artist: (G)I-dle, Aespa, BTS, Ive, Jung Kook, Le Sserafim, Lim Young-woong, NCT Dream, NewJeans, Seventeen
Millions Top 10 Artist:
(G)I-dle - I Feel
Aespa - My World
BSS - Second Wind
Ive - I've Ive
Jung Kook - Seven ft. Latto
Le Sserafim - Unforgiven
Lim Young-woong - Do or Die
NCT Dream - ISTJ
NewJeans - Get Up
Seventeen - FML
The stage also was set on fire with wonderful performances of many artists - NewJeans, aespa, SHINee, NCT Dream, Riize, Kiss of Life, and many more.