2015 Melon Music Awards

2015 Melon Music Awards
2015 Melon Music Awards
Date	November 7, 2015
Location	Olympic Gymnastics Arena, Seoul, South Korea
Highlights
Most awards	Big Bang (4)
Most nominations	Big Bang and Exo (5)
Song of the Year	"Bang Bang Bang"
Album of the Year	Exodus
Artist of the Year	Big Bang
Website	www.melon.com/mma/index.htm
Television/radio coverage
Network	JTBC2; JTBC4; 1theK; KakaoTV; Daum; Melon;
Runtime	240 minutes

The 2015 Melon Music Awards were held on Saturday, November 7, 2015, at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul, South Korea. Organized by Kakao M through its online music store Melon, the 2015 ceremony was the seventh installment of the event. The ceremony was hosted by television personality Yoo Byung-jae. Exo and Big Bang led the number of nominations with five each, with BigBang winning four of those awards while Exo won two.

Performers

List of performances at 2015 Melon Music Awards
Artist(s)	Song(s)
Monsta X	"Trespass" / "Hero"
GFriend	"Glass Bead" / "Me Gustas Tu"
iKon	"My Type" / "Rhythm Ta"
Hong Jin-young	"Cheer Up"
EXID	"Up & Down" / "Ah Yeah"
Red Velvet	"Dumb Dumb"
BTS	Intro + "I Need U"
Hyukoh	"Hooka" / "Because I Love You"
Apink	"Mollayo" / "No No No" / "Mr. Chu" / "Luv" / "Remember"
Big Bang	"If You" / "Loser" / "Bang Bang Bang" / "Sober" / "Fantastic Baby"

Presenters

MCs

Winners and nominees

Main awards

Winners and nominees are listed below. Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold.

Top 10 Artists (Bonsang)	Album of the Year (Daesang)
Big Bang Girls' Generation Shinee Exo Apink San E Sistar Zion.T You Hee-yeol Hyukoh	Exo – Exodus Big Bang – M Shinee – Odd Toy – Da Capo Hyukoh – 22
Artist of the Year (Daesang)	Song of the Year (Daesang)
Big Bang Shinee Exo Zion.T Hyukoh	Big Bang – "Bang Bang Bang" Sistar – "Shake It" Apink – "Luv" Exo – "Call Me Baby" Toy – "Three of Us"
Best New Male Artist	Best New Female Artist
iKon Monsta X Seventeen Up10tion N.Flying	GFriend Lovelyz Sonamoo CLC Oh My Girl
Best Dance Award (Male)	Best Dance Award (Female)
BTS – "I Need U" Jonghyun – "Deja-Boo" Block B Bastarz – "Zero For Conduct" Jinusean – "Tell Me Once" Park Jin-young – "Who's Your Mama?"	Red Velvet – "Ice Cream Cake" Mamamoo – "Um Oh Ah Yea" EXID – "Ah Yeah" AOA – "Heart Attack" Miss A – "Only You"
Best Rap/Hip Hop Award	Best Ballad Award
Mad Clown ft. Jinsil – "Fire" MFBTY – "Angel" Loco – "You Don't Know" MC Mong – "Love Mash" Dynamic Duo ft. Lena Park – "Ssss"	Baek A-yeon ft. Young K – "Shouldn't Have..." Park Hyo-shin – "Happy Together" Huh Gak – "Snow of April" Davichi ft. Mad Clown – "Two Lovers" Noel – "Your Voice"
Best Indie Award	Best Rock Award
Standing Egg ft. Wheein – "The Sunlight Hurts" Vanilla Acoustic – "1분도 못버텨" The Black Skirts – "Hollywood" Sugarbowl – "나한테 집중해" Zitten – "잘 지내자, 우리"	Kim Sung-kyu – "The Answer" CNBLUE – "Cinderella" Buzz – "Tree" Nell – "Green Nocturne" Lee Moon-sae ft. Naul – "Spring Breeze"
Best Trot Award	Best OST Award
Hong Jin-young – "Love Wi-Fi" Jang Yoon-jeong – "반창고" Lizzy ft. Jung Hyung-don – "I'm Not an Easy Girl" So Yu-mi – "Shake Me Up" Hong Jeong-hee & Park Gu-yun – "I Love You and Thank You"	Loco & Yuju – "Spring Is Gone By Chance" Jang Jae-in ft. Nashow – "Auditory Hallucination" Park So-jin & Zico – "It Hurts" Kim Bum-soo – "From the Beginning of a Love Confession" MC the Max – "바라보기"
Netizen Popularity Award	Hot Trend Award
Big Bang Exo Infinite Beast Shinee Girls' Generation Apink iKon	Infinite Challenge Mino Kim Yeon-woo Jung Seung-hwan Shin Ji-min ft. Iron
Best R&B / Soul	Best Pop
Naul – "Living in the Same Time"	Mark Ronson – "Uptown Funk" (ft. Bruno Mars)

Other awards


Nominees	Winners
MBC Music Star Award	EXID
1theK Performance Award	Monsta X
Songwriter Award	Teddy Park