The 2020 Melon Music Awards ceremony, organized by Kakao M through its online music store, Melon, took place virtually from December 2 through December 5, 2020 (dubbed as "MMA Week") in South Korea, with the main ceremony taking place on December 5 at 19:00 KST. This is the twelfth ceremony in the show's history, and the first to be held online and over a span of four days. It was held without an audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2]
BTS won 6 awards during the ceremony, sweeping all three Grand Awards (Daesangs) including Artist of the Year for the second consecutive year.
Judging criteria
Division
Online Voting
Digital Sales
Judge Score
Top 10 Artists
20%
80%
—
Main awards*
20%
60%
20%
Genre Awards**
20%
50%
30%
Popularity Awards***
60%
40%
—
Special Awards****
—
—
100%
*Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist **Rap/Hip Hop, R&B/Ballad, Rock, OST, Trot, Pop, Dance, Folk/Blue, Indie, Electronic, Hot Trend Award ***Netizen Popularity Award, KaKao Hot Star Award ****Record of the Year, Stage of the Year, Music Video Award, Song Writer Award, 1theK Performance Award
Winners and nominees
Voting for Melon's Top 10 Artists category opened on the Melon Music website on November 11 and continued until November 20. Only artists who released music between November 30, 2019, and November 10, 2020, are eligible. The longlist of nominees was selected based on a chart performance score (60% downloads and 40% streams) for each artist combined with weekly Melon Popularity Award votes achieved during the eligibility period.[3] Voting for Category awards, including daesang and rookie awards, took place from November 21–26, 2020.[4]
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.[5]
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