Melon Music Awards 2025 Announces Nominees

The Melon Music Awards (MMA) 2025 has revealed this year’s nominees!

Following the announcement of this year’s Top 10 winners, the Melon Music Awards has now announced the nominees for the Daesangs (Grand Prizes) and category awards.

Only music released between October 31, 2024 and November 19, 2025 was eligible for this year’s awards.

With the exception of the Millions Top 10 awards and the Track Zero Choice award, all of the following awards will be determined 60 percent by download and streaming counts, 20 percent by judges’ evaluations, and 20 percent by votes.

The Millions Top 10 awards, which are given to 10 albums that surpassed 1 million streams on Melon within the first 24 hours of their release, will be determined 80 percent by download and streaming counts and 20 percent by votes.

Voting for the following awards will run from December 5 to 11:59 p.m. KST on December 19.

Check out all of this year’s nominees below!

Artist of the Year (Top 10 Winners)

Album of the Year

Song of the Year

Millions Top 10

New Artist of the Year

Best Group (Female)

Best Group (Male)

Best Solo Artist (Female)

Best Solo Artist (Male)

Best OST

Best Pop Artist

Track Zero Choice

The Melon Music Awards 2025 will take place on December 20 at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul. Check out the lineup of performing artists here!

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