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aespa went home with three Grand Prizes, while (G)I-DLE won Record of the Year The 2024 Melon Music Awards took place over the weekend on November 30 with aespa emerging as the night’s biggest winners – view the full list of winners below. READ MORE: VIVIZ on K-pop idol life: “This job is about music and performances, but at the core, there are people” The 2024 Melon Music Awards (MMA) was held on November 30 at the Inspire Arena in Incheon, South Korea. The winners for most major categories were decided through a mix of digital sales, online voting and panelist evaluations.
The MMAs’ four most prestigous awards are considered “Grand Prizes”, and include Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Other prizes given out during the ceremony include Rookie of the Year, Best Pop Artist, Best Male/Female Groups, Global Artist and more. IU , TWS and aespa were the most nominated acts at the 2024 MMAs with seven nominations each.
However, aespa went home as the night’s biggest winners, having been awarded for all seven categories they were nominated for. aespa’s trohpies are three Grand Prizes, with Album of the Year for ‘Armageddon’, Song of the Year for ‘Supernova’ and Artist of the Year. Additionally, they also took home Top 10 Artist, Millions Top 10 Artist, Best Female Group and Best Performance (Female).
The remaining Grand Prize for Record of the Year was awarded to (G)I-DLE for their January studio album ‘[2]’, headlined by title track ‘Super Lady’. Other notable winners include ILLIT , Jungkook , IU and RIIZE , among others. Here is the full list of winners at the 2024 Melon Music Awards: Album of the Year (Grand Prize) aespa – ‘Armageddon’ Artist of the Year (Grand Prize) aespa Song of the Year (Grand Prize) aespa – ‘Supernova’ Record of the Year (Grand Prize) (G)I-DLE – ‘[2]’ Top 10 Artist (G)I-DLE aespa Day6 IU Jungkook NewJeans PLAVE RIIZE SEVENTEEN TWS Millions Top 10 Artist aespa – ‘Armageddon’ Day6 – ‘Bandaid’ IU – ‘The Winning’ IVE – ‘IVE Switch’ Jungkook – ‘Golden’ Lim Young-woong – ‘Warmth’ NewJeans – ‘How Sweet’ PLAVE – ‘Asterum: 134-1’ RIIZE – ‘RIIZING’ Taeyeon – ‘To.
X’ New Artist of the Year ILLIT TWS Best Pop Artist Benson Boone Best Male Solo Jungkook Best Female Solo IU Best Male Group RIIZE Best Female Group aespa Best OST Eclipse – ‘Sudden Shower’ from Lovely Runner Track Zero Choice Hyukoh and Sunset Rollercoaster – ‘Young Man’ Kakao Bank Everyone’s Star RIIZE Hot Trend Award QWER 1theK Global Icon tripleS Best Music Style BIBI Lee Young-ji Best Performance (Female) aespa Best Performance (Male) BOYNEXTDOOR Best Producer Seo Hyun-joo (Starship Entertainment) Global Artist ATEEZ IVE Global Rising Artist RIIZE J-pop Favourite Artist YOASOBI Music Video of the Year IVE – ‘Heya’ Songwriter Award Jeon So-yeon ((G)I-DLE) Stage of the Year IU – ‘HEREH’ world tour Related Topics (G)I-DLE ADOR aespa Belift Lab BIBI Big Hit Music BTS Day6 EDAM Entertainment Feel Ghood Music HYBE ILLIT IU IVE Jeon Soyeon Jungkook K-pop Lee Young-ji Modhaus NewJeans PLAVE Pledis Entertainment RIIZE Seventeen SM Entertainment Starship Entertainment Taeyeon tripleS TWS.
