26th Golden Melody Awards

The 26th Golden Melody Awards ceremony for popular music category was held on June 27, 2015. The TTV network broadcast the show live from the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan. The ceremony recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, which runs from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014.

Winners and nominees

Winners are highlighted in boldface.

Vocal category – Record label awards

Song of the Year

"Island's Sunrise " – Fire EX.

* "Missing" – Lala Hsu
* "The Rest of Time" – Jacky Cheung
* "Faces of Paranoia" – aMEI, Soft Lipa
* "Play" – Jolin Tsai

Best Mandarin Album

Play – Jolin Tsai

* Missing – Lala Hsu
* Wake Up Dreaming – Jacky Cheung
* Rice & Shine – Eason Chan
* Aiyo, Not Bad – Jay Chou
* Departures – Karen Mok

Best Hokkien Album

The Most Beautiful Flower – Ricky Hsiao

* Timeless Sentence – Chthonic
* The Tenth Album – New Formosa Band
* Ye Shou – Hsieh Ming-yu
* Polaris – Chan Ya-wen

Best Hakka Album

The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road – Ayugo Huang

* Daylight – Huang Wei-jie
* Curving Roads – Huang Pei-shu
* On the Road – Misa
* Moments of Love – Sinco Chiu

Best Aboriginal Album

Polynesia – Chalaw Pasiwali

* Hosa – Hosa
* Wild Boxing – Boxing
* Ocean, Forest – Suming
* Ima Lalu Su – Inka Mbing & Her Young Atayal Friends

Best Music Video

Shockley Huang – "Nebulous"

* Li Bo-en – "Selfie Addict"
* Muh Chen – "Play"
* Hou Chi-jan – "We're All Different, Yet the Same"
* Teng Yung-shing, Xi Ran – "In a Flash"

Vocal category – Individual awards

Best Composition

William Wei – "Wolves"

* Europa Huang – "Missing"
* Li Ronghao – "King of Comedy"
* JJ Lin – "Listen Up"
* Chang Shilei – "Departures"

Best Lyrics

Francis Lee – "Departures"

* Hush – "Missing"
* Wyman Wong – "King of Comedy"
* Lin Xi – "Listen Up"
* Lin Xi – "It's All Good"

Best Music Arrangement

Buddha Jump – "Let You See"

* Chen Chien-chi – "Missing"
* Lawrence Ku – "Touching Hearts"
* Pessi Levanto – "Forgotten Times"
* Starr Chen, Nese Ni – "Play"

Producer of the Year, Album

Arai Soichiro – Departures

* Ayugo Huang – The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road
* Joanna Wang, Pessi Levanto – Midnight Cinema
* Chen Chien-chi – You Lovely Bastard
* Jay Chou – ''Aiyo, Not Bad''

Producer of the Year, Single

Xiao An – "Lip Reading"

* JJ Lin – "Listen Up"
* Stefanie Sun – "Kepler"
* Xiao An – "Sophisticated Game"
* Starr Chen – "Play"

Best Mandarin Male Singer

Eason Chan – Rice & Shine''

* Jacky Cheung – Wake Up Dreaming
* Khalil Fong – Dangerous World
* William Wei – Journey Into the Night
* Roger Yang – ''Beast in the Dark''

Best Mandarin Female Singer

aMEI – Faces of Paranoia''

* Lala Hsu – Missing
* Waa Wei – You Lovely Bastard
* Karen Mok – Departures
* A-Lin – ''Guilt''

Best Taiwanese Male Singer

Hsiao Huang-chi – The Most Beautiful Flower''

* Daniel Luo – Hero
* Henry Hsu – An Inch of True Heart
* Hsieh Ming-yu – Ye Shou
* Michael Shih – ''Kui-Cho Hai-Liau-Liau''

Best Taiwanese Female Singer

Angie Lee – Breeze, City''

* Tseng Hsin-mei – Rainwater
* Ara Guo – Women's Courage
* Chan Ya-wen – Polaris
* Sun Shu-may – ''Love Me Forever If You Dare''

Best Hakka Singer

Ayugo Huang – The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road

* Huang Wei-jie – Daylight
* Huang Pei-shu – Curving Roads
* Misa – On the Road
* Sinco Chiu – ''Moments of Love''

Best Aboriginal Singer

Chalaw Garu – Polynesian''

* Boxing – Wild Boxing
* Suming – ''Sea, Forest''

Best Band

Buddha Jump – Let You See''

* Chthonic – Timeless Sentence
* Trash – Start from Zero
* The Chairman – One World
* Boxing – Boxing
* Magic Power – ''Fighting for Love''

Best Group

Murmurshow – Murmurshow

* New Formosa Band – The Tenth Album
* MJ116 – Fresh Game
* PiA – Ain't Life a Surprise
* Gentleman – ''Imperfect Gentleman''

Best New Artist

Boxing – Boxing

* Shi Shi – Girls
* Adrian Fu – Good Morning, Hard City
* Chen Hui-ting – 21 Grams
* – ''A Voyage of Vera''

Instrumental category – Record label awards

Best Instrumental Album

The Flow – Eiji Kadota

* Interestring Quartet – Interestring Quartet
* Homeland – Vincent Hsu
* The Rest of Life - Seediq Bale – Purdur

Instrumental category – Individual awards

Producer of the Year, Instrumental

Daniel Ho – Our World in Song - An Odyssey of Musical Treasures

* Yu Chia-lun, Huang Wei-Jun – Interestring Quartet
* Eiji Kadota, Michael Ning – The Flow
* Vincent Hsu – Homeland
* Peng Fei ''– 3rd Month''

Best Instrumental Composition

Peng Fei – "Night Cats" ''

* Huang Wei-Jun – "Let's Play"
* Eiji Kadota – "Dolphin Island"
* Vincent Hsu – "A New One"
* Purdur – "The Rest of Life"

Technical category – Individual awards

Best Album Design

Aaron Nieh – Enchantment

* Joe Fang – Faces of Paranoia
* Lo Wen-tsen, Tsai An-teng, Wu Chih-yin – Faces of Paranoia
* Howza Hsu – Sweet Home Ka-Aluwan
* Aaron Nieh – Play
* Lee Chung-chiang – ''Aiyo, Not Bad''

Technical category – Record label awards

Best Vocal Recording Album

Play – Jolin Tsai

* Midnight Cinema – Joanna Wang
* Dangerous World – Khalil Fong
* Departures – Karen Mok
* Polynesia – Chalaw Pasiwali

Best Instrumental Recording Album

Led by the Sea Breeze – Rich Huang

* Interestring Quartet – Interestring Quartet
* Stranger – Chen Jo-yu
* Music Non-Stop – Lee Shih-yang, Sabu Toyozumi

Lifetime Contribution Award

Chen Yang

'''Jody Chiang'''