2016 Melon Music Awards


The 2016 Melon Music Awards ceremony, organized by Kakao M through its online music store Melon, took place on Saturday, November 19, 2016, in Seoul, South Korea. The eighth installment of the event since its offline launch in 2009, it was held at the Gocheok Sky Dome for the first time, which is one of the largest indoor concert venues in South Korea.
Details for the ceremony—including the announcement of its date and venue—were first made available on October 7, 2016. A list of nominations and the awardees for the Top 10 Artists were announced on November 4, with voting for the main awards beginning the same day.
The criteria for the awards varied depending on the category, consisting a mixture of digital sales data, judges evaluation, and online voting. Exo received the most nominations of the night, winning four of the six nominated categories. BTS, GFriend and Twice followed with the second most nominations with five each, while Zico received the second most awards, having won three times. Furthermore, BTS, Exo and Twice received the three daesang prizes of the night.

Winners and nominees

Main awards

Winners and nominees are listed below. Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold.
Top 10 Artists Album of the Year
ExoBTSZicoTwiceAKMUGFriendMamamooBewhYRed VelvetTaeyeonBTS – The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever
Artist of the Year Song of the Year
Exo
  • * Twice
  • * BTS
  • * GFriend
  • * Zico
    		• Twice – "Cheer Up"
  • * Zico – "I Am You, You Are Me"
  • * Urban Zakapa – "I Don't Love You"
  • * GFriend – "Rough"
  • * MC the Max – "No Matter Where"
    • Best New ArtistBest Dance Award
    Blackpink
  • * NCT 127
  • * Bolbbalgan4
  • * I.O.I
  • * WJSN
  • Exo – "Monster"
  • *BTS – "Fire"
  • *Winner – "Sentimentaly"
  • *Seventeen – "Pretty U"
  • *Psy ft. CL – "Daddy"
    • Best Dance Award Best Folk/Blues Award
    GFriend – "Rough"
  • *Twice – "Cheer Up"
  • *Red Velvet – "Russian Roulette"
  • *Mamamoo – "You're The Best"
  • *Wonder Girls – "Why So Lonely"
    		• 10cm – "What The Spring??"
  • *AKMU – "Re-Bye"
  • *Sam Kim – "No Sense"
  • *Accourve – "Should Our Paths Cross Again"
  • *Hello Gayoung – "Feelings"
    • Best Rap/Hip Hop AwardBest R&B/Soul Award
    Zico – "Eureka"
  • * BewhY – "Day Day"
  • * Park Kyung ft. Eunha – "Inferiority Complex"
  • * Gary ft. Gaeko – "Lonely Night"
  • * San E, Mad Clown – "Sour Grapes"
    		• Baekhyun & Suzy – "Dream"
  • * Zico – "I Am You, You Are Me"
  • * Dean – "D "
  • * Crush ft. Taeyeon – "Don't Forget"
  • * Lee Hi – "Breathe"
    • Best Indie AwardBest Rock Award
    Bolbbalgan4 – "Galaxy"
  • * Standing Egg – "Summer Night You & I"
  • * The Black Skirts – "Everything"
  • * Jung Joon Il ft. BewhY – "Plastic"
  • * Kiha & The Faces – "Kieuk"
    		• Ha Hyun-woo – "Don't Cry"
  • * Buzz – "Love From The Heart, Pt. 3"
  • * Jang Beom-june – "Fallen In Love "
  • * Nell – "Lost In Perspective"
  • * CNBLUE – "You're So Beautiful"
    • Best Trot AwardBest OST Award
    Hong Jin-young – "Thumbs Up"
  • * Yoon Jung-soo, Kim Sook – "You're The Boss"
  • * Jung Yoon-jeong, Seo Byung-soon – "Evocation"
  • * Jo Jung-min – "Superman"
  • * Han Young – "Mirror"
    		• Yoon Mi-rae – "Always"
  • * Davichi – "This Love"
  • * Ben – "Like A Dream"
  • * Gummy – "You Are My Everything"
  • * Oh Hyuk – "A Little Girl"
    • Best Pop AwardBest Ballad Award
    Justin Bieber – "Love Yourself"
  • * Troye Sivan – "Youth"
  • * Charlie Puth – "One Call Away"
  • * Lukas Graham – "7 Years"
  • * Gnash – "I Hate U, I Love U"
    		• Jung Eun-ji – "Hopefully Sky"Im Chang-jung – "The Love I Committed"
  • * Kim Na-young - "What If It Was Going"
  • * Park Hyo-shin - "Breath"
  • * Urban Zakapa - "I Don't Love You"
  • * Eddy Kim - "My Lips are warm like Coffee"
  • * M.C The Max - "No Matter Where"
  • * Yoon Mirae - "This Love"
  • * Taeyeon - "Rain"
  • * Han Dong-geun - "Amazing You"
    • Netizen Popularity AwardHot Trend Award
    Exo
  • * BTS
  • * Twice
  • * I.O.I
  • * Mamamoo
  • * Beast
  • * GFriend
  • * Block B
  • * Winner
  • * Wonder Girls
    		• Zico
  • * Im Chang-jung
  • * Park Hyo-shin
  • * Ha Hyun-woo
  • * Jang Beom-june

    • Stats

    Artists with multiple nominations

    ;6 nominations
    ;5 nominations
    ;3 nominations
    ;2 nominations

    Artists with multiple awards

    ;5 awards
    ;3 awards
    ;2 awards

    Anecdote

    When BTS was announced as one of the Top 10 Artists, An Yu-jin, future member of Iz*One and Ive who was an ordinary audience member at the time, enthusiastically cheered along with the crowd. Six years later, at the 2022 Melon Music Awards, An returned to the stage as the leader of Ive, performing and receiving awards with her group.