2015 Melon Music Awards Explained

2015 Melon Music Awards
Date:	November 7, 2015
Location:	Olympic Gymnastics Arena, Seoul, South Korea
Most Awards:	Big Bang (4)
Most Nominations:	Big Bang and Exo (5)
Award1 Type:	Song of the Year
Award1 Winner:	"Bang Bang Bang"
Award2 Type:	Album of the Year
Award2 Winner:	Exodus
Award3 Type:	Artist of the Year
Award3 Winner:	Big Bang
Runtime:	240 minutes
Previous:	2014
Main:	2015
Next:	2016

The 2015 Melon Music Awards were held on Saturday, November 7, 2015, at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul, South Korea.^[1] 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

Artist(s)! width="300"
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^[2]

Winners and nominees

Main awards

Winners and nominees are listed below.^[3] ^[4] Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold.^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

Artist of the Year (Daesang)	Song of the Year (Daesang)
! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	Top 10 Artists (Bonsang)	! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	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
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
! scope="col" style="background:#EEDD85; width:50%"	Best Dance Award (Male)	! scope="col" style="background:#EEDD85; width:50%"	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"
! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	Best Rap/Hip Hop Award	! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	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"
! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	Best Indie Award	! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	Best Rock Award
Standing Egg ft. Wheein – "The Sunlight Hurts" Vanilla Acoustic – "I can't last even a minute" (1분도 못버텨) The Black Skirts – "Hollywood" Sugarbowl – "Focus on Me" (나한테 집중해) Zitten – "Let's get along, we" (잘 지내자, 우리)	Kim Sung-kyu – "The Answer" CNBLUE – "Cinderella" Buzz – "Tree" Nell – "Green Nocturne" Lee Moon-sae ft. Naul – "Spring Breeze"
! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	Best Trot Award	! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	Best OST Award
Hong Jin-young – "Love Wi-Fi" Jang Yoon-jeong – "Adhesive Plaster" (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 – "Look" (바라보기)
! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	Netizen Popularity Award	! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	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
! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	Best R&B / Soul	! style="background:#EEDD85; width=;"50%"	Best Pop
Naul – "Living in the Same Time"	Mark Ronson – "Uptown Funk" (ft. Bruno Mars)

Other awards

Nominees! style="background:#90EE90;
Winners
MBC Music Star Award	EXID
1theK Performance Award	Monsta X
Songwriter Award	Teddy Park

External links

Official website

Notes and References

Web site: Melon Music Awards - Last Awards. Melon. ko. October 15, 2016. November 26, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191126124337/https://www.melon.com/melonaward/yearlyaward.htm. live.
Web site: [단독] 유병재 '2015 멜론뮤직어워드' MC로 참석…첫 진행 나선다 ]. [Exclusive] Yoo Byung-jae as MC for '2015 Melon Music Awards'... go first . My Daily . . 22 February 2022 . ko . 6 November 2015.
[2015 MelOn Music Awards] Part.1 (1부)]. November 8, 2015. Online broadcast. ko. Kakao M. February 22, 2022. YouTube.
[2015 MelOn Music Awards] Part.2 (2부)]. November 8, 2015. Online broadcast. ko. Kakao M. February 22, 2022. YouTube.
Web site: 2015 Melon Music Awards Winners. November 28, 2021. Melon. ko.
Web site: Sung. So-young. 2015-11-08. Big Bang snags four Melon awards. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210123025121/https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2015/11/08/etc/Big-Bang-snags-four-Melon-awards/3011283.html. 2021-01-23. 2022-02-22. Korea JoongAng Daily. en.
Web site: Kim. Young-jin. 2015-11-08. ‘2015 멜론뮤직어워드’ 빅뱅, 4관왕…여자친구·아이콘 신인상 영예(종합). '2015 Melon Music Awards' Big Bang wins 4 awards ... GFriend, iKon wins Rookie of the Year Award (Comprehensive). 2022-02-22. Asia Today. ko.