2017 Melon Music Awards

2017 South Korean music award ceremony

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The 2017 Melon Music Awards ceremony, organized by kakao M (a kakao company) through its online music store, Melon, took place on December 2, 2017, at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea. This was the ninth ceremony in the show's history.

Performers and presenters

The following individuals and groups, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Performers

Name(s)	Performance(s)
Winner	"Love Me Love Me" + "Really Really"
Hong Jin Young, Kim Young Chul	"Ring Ring"
GFriend	"Summer Rain" + "Love Whisper"
JBJ	"Intro" + "Fantasy"
Red Velvet	"Peek-A-Boo" + "Red Flavor"
Bolbbalgan4	"Some" + "Galaxy"
MeloMance	"Gift"
Wanna One	"Nothing Without You" + "Beautiful" + "Burn It Up"
Hyuna	"Intro" + "Lip & Hip"
IU	"Through The Night" + "Dear Name"
Park Hyo Shin	"I Am A Dreamer"
Twice	"Knock Knock" + "Likey"
BTS	"Intro" + "DNA" + "You Never Walk Alone" + "Spring Day"
EXO	"Intro" + "Forever" + "The Eve" + "Ko Ko Bop"

Presenters

Name(s)	Notes
Yeo Jin-goo	Presenter for Top 10 Artists (Twice and Bolbbalgan4)
Tony An	Presenter for Best New Artist
Hong Jong-hyun and Han Eun-jung	Presenter for Top 10 Artists (BTS and Exo)
Bae Jung-nam and Sim So-young	Presenter for Best Indie and Best R&B/Soul
Kang Han-na	Presenter for Top 10 Artists (Heize and IU)
Jung Sung-ho and Hong Yun-hwa	Presenter for Best Folk/Blues and Best Trot
Kim Jun-hyun and Seol In-ah	Presenter for MBC Music Star Award and Best Rap/Hip Hop
Daniel Lindemann, Alberto Mondi and Guillaume Patry	Presenter for Kakao Hot Star Award
Baek Ji-young and Yoo Jae-hwan	Presenter for Best Songwriter Award and Hot Trend Award
Ahn Hyo-seop, Kang Seung-hyun and Na Ha-eun	Presenter for Best of Dance Performance
Kai and Park Ha-na	Presenter for Top 10 Artists (Red Velvet and Winner)
Kim Poong and Park Kyung-lim	Presenter for Best OST and Best Music Video
Kim So-hyun	Presenter for Top 10 Artists (Wanna One) and Stage of the Year
Song Jae-rim and Jang Shin-young	Presenter for 1theK Performance Award and Netizen Popularity Award
Han Hyun-min	Presenter for Global Artist
Song Seung-heon	Presenter for Album of the Year
Eugene	Presenter for Song of the Year
Jung Woo-sung	Presenter for Artist of the Year

Judging criteria

Division	Online Voting	Digital Sales	Judge Score
Main Awards*	20%	60%	20%
Genre Awards**	30%	40%	30%
Popularity Awards***	60%	40%	–
Special Awards****	–	–	100%
Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, New Artist Ballad, Dance, Rap/Hip Hop, R&B/Soul, Indie, Rock, Trot, Folk/Blues, Pop, OST Netizen Choice Award, Hot Trend Award **Music Video Award, Song Writer Award, MBC Music Star Award, Kakao Hot Star Award, 1TheK Performance Award, Global Artist Award

Winners and nominees

Only artists who released music between November 20, 2016, and October 25, 2017, were eligible, and the nominees were selected by calculating the number of downloads, streams, and weekly Melon Popularity Award votes achieved by each artist.

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Voting for Top 10 Artists took place on the Melon Music website from October 26 through November 12, 2017. Voting for Category awards took place from November 13 through December 1, 2017.^[1]^[2]

Voted Awards

Top 10 Artists (Bonsang)

Song of the Year (Daesang)

Zico
Exo
Red Velvet
Twice
Wanna One
Winner
BTS
Bolbbalgan4
IU
Heize

List of nominated artists

Mad Clown
Mamamoo
Nucksal
Punch
Psy
Sechs Kies
Seventeen
Soyou
Suran
Taeyeon
20 Years of Age
Woo Won-jae
Yoon Jong-shin
Zico
Zion.T

BTS – "Spring Day"
- IU – "Through The Night"
- Exo – "Ko Ko Bop"
- Bolbbalgan4 – "Tell Me You Love Me"
- Ailee – "I Will Go to You Like the First Snow"

Artist of the Year (Daesang)

Album of the Year (Daesang)

Exo
- IU
- BTS
- Bolbbalgan4
- Heize

IU – Palette
- Exo – The War
- BTS – You Never Walk Alone
- Psy – 4X2=8
- Big Bang – Made

Best New Artist

Best Dance Award (Male)

Wanna One
- Kard
- Pristin
- Woo Won-jae
- Chungha
- Dreamcatcher

Exo – "Ko Ko Bop"
- Winner – "Really Really"
- BTS – "DNA"
- Psy – "New Face"
- Highlight – "Plz Don't Be Sad"

Best Dance Award (Female)

Best Folk/Blues Award

Twice – "Knock Knock"
- Black Pink – "As If It's Your Last"
- Red Velvet – "Red Flavor"
- Mamamoo – "Yes I Am"
- Sunmi – "Gashina"

Jung Eun-ji – "The Spring" (featuring Harim)
- 10cm – "Phoncert"
- Akdong Musician – "Last Goodbye"
- Yoon Ddan Ddan – "The Night I Miss You"
- Cao Lu, Kisum, and Yerin – "Spring Again"

Best R&B/Soul Award

Best Rap/Hip Hop Award

Suran – "Wine" (featuring Changmo)
- G-Dragon – "Untitled, 2014"
- Zion.T – "The Song"
- Sistar – "Lonely"
- Zico – "She's A Baby"

Dynamic Duo and Chen – "Nosedive"
- Nucksal, Hanhae, Rhino, and Jo Woo-chan – "1/N" (featuring Dynamic Duo)
- Mad Clown – "Lost Without You" (featuring Bolbbalgan4)
- Woo Won-jae – "We Are" (featuring Loco and Gray)
- Zico – "Bermuda Triangle" (featuring Crush and Dean)

Best Indie Award

Best Rock Award

MeloMance – "Gift"
- Cheeze – "Love You (bye)"
- Vanilla Acoustic – "Only Think Of You"
- Standing Egg – "You've Come To Think Of It"
- Jung Joon Il – "Wish"

Heechul and Min Kyung-hoon – "Sweet Dream"
- Buzz – "The Love"
- Day6 – "You Were Beautiful"
- F.T. Island – "Wind"
- Hyukoh – "Tomboy"

Best Trot Award

Best OST Award

Hong Jin-young – "Ring Ring" (Composer Ver.)
- Kim Yeon Ja, Dia and Hong Jin-young – "You Are My Flower"
- Na Hoon-a – "The Man's Life Story"
- Jang Yun-jeong – "Cherry Blossom Road 2017"
- Choi Won Young – "I'm Coming"

Ailee – "I Will Go To You Like The First Snow"
- Bolbbalgan4 – "You And Me From The Start"
- Kassy – "Good Morning"
- Sung Si Kyung – "Somewhere Someday"
- V and Jin – "Even If I Die, It's You"

Best Pop Award

Best Ballad Award

Ed Sheeran – "Shape of You"
- The Chainsmokers, Coldplay – "Something Just Like This"
- Charlie Puth – "Attention"
- Maroon 5 – "Don't Wanna Know" (featuring Kendrick Lamar)
- Zedd and Alessia Cara – "Stay"

Yoon Jong-shin – "Like It"
- Hwang Chi-yeul – "A Daily Song"
- Jungkey – "Anymore" (featuring Wheein)
- Jung Seung Hwan – "The Fool"
- Taeyeon – "Fine"

Netizen Popularity Award

Hot Trend Award

Exo
- Big Bang
- BtoB
- BTS
- Highlight
- Hwang Chi-yeul
- Mamamoo
- Twice
- Wanna One
- Winner

Suran – "Wine" (featuring Changmo)
- Girls Next Door – "Deep Blue Eyes"
- I.O.I – "Downpour"
- Kim Sejeong – "Flower Way"
- Taeil, Kim Sejeong – "I Like You, I Don't"

Other awards


Nominees	Winners
Best Music Video Award	BTS – "DNA"
Stage of the Year	Park Hyo Shin
Best Songwriter Award	IU
MBC Music Star Award	Hyuna
Global Artist Award	BTS
Kakao Hot Star	Wanna One
1theK Performance Award	GFriend

Gallery

2017 Melon Music Awards gallery

BTS after winning Song of the Year
Twice after winning Best Dance Performance
Twice performing "Knock Knock"
Twice performing "Likey"
Red Velvet's Seulgi
Red Velvet's Joy performing "Peek-a-Boo"
Red Velvet's Irene performing "Peek-a-Boo"
Hyuna after winning MBC Music Star Award
IU
Exo's D.O.
Exo's Baekhyun
Exo's Xiumin
Twice's Jihyo
Twice's Chaeyoung
Wanna One's Kang Daniel
Kim Dong-han

References

^ "2017 Melon Music Awards Announces Nominees For Category Awards + Voting Begins". Soompi. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
^ "2017 Melon Music Awards Announces Nominees For Top 10 Artists + Voting Begins". Soompi. Retrieved 2019-07-07.