The 2025 Melon Music Awards is the seventeenth edition of the annual year-end award show collaboratively conducted by Melon and Kakao Entertainment. The event was held on December 20, 2025, at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea. The show was also broadcast through several outlets such as Waave for South Korea, 1theK for the international audience, U-Next for Japan, and MagentaTV for certain European territories.
For the 2025 Melon Music Awards award ceremony, songs and albums from the K-pop industry that were released between October 2024 and November 2025 were evaluated on their eligibility. Here's the complete criteria used for the nomination and winning procedure for the 2025 Melon Music Awards:
- Grand Prize: Digital Sales (60%) + Online Voting (20%) + Panelist (20%)
- Record of the Year: Panelist (100%)
- Main Awards: Grand Prize: Digital Sales (60%) + Online Voting (20%) + Panelist (20%)
- Millions Top 10: Digital Sales (80%) + Online Voting (20%)
- Special Awards: Panelist (100%)
- Kakao Bank's Favorite Star Award: Online Voting (80%) + Panelist (20%)
- Berriz Global Fan's Choice: Online Voting (80%) + Panelist (20%)
- Track Zero Choice: Digital Sales (20%) + Online Voting (20%) + Panelist (60%)
- Japan's Favorite Artist by U-Next: Online Voting (50%) + Panelist (50%)
Complete List of Winners at the 2025 Melon Music Awards: BLACKPINK's Jennie, G-Dragon, IVE, & RIIZE
Here's the complete list of winners at the 2025 Melon Music Awards:
Top 10 Artists (BONSANG): G-Dragon, BOYNEXTDOOR, NCT WISH, BLACKPINK's Jennie, BLACKPINK's ROSÉ, Lim Young Woong, RIIZE, aespa, PLAVE, and IVE
New Artist Of The Year #1: ALLDAY PROJECT
New Artist of the Year #2: Hearts2Hearts
Millions Top 10: IVE, JENNIE, G-Dragon, PLAVE, RIIZE, BOYNEXTDOOR, ROSÉ, SEVENTEEN, Lim Young Woong, and IU
Best Solo (Male): G-Dragon
Best Solo (Female): BLACKPINK's ROSÉ
Berriz Global Fans' Choice: Hearts2Hearts
Best Producer: ZICO
Best Male Group: BOYNEXTDOOR
Best Female Group: IVE
Best Performance Male: RIIZE
Best Performance Female: ILLIT
Best Music Video: I Do Me by KiiiKiii
TRACKZERO CHOICE: HANRORO
Hot Trend: WOODZ
Best Music Style: 10CM and ALLDAY PROJECT
Best Song Writer: G-Dragon
Japan's Favourite Artist: BOYNEXTDOOR
Best Global Rising Artist: IDID
Global Artist: aespa
Kakaobank Everyone's Star: NCT WISH
1theK Global Icon: KiiiKiii
Stage of the Year: aespa
Best OST: HUNTR/X - Golden (Kpop Demon Hunters)
Record of The Year: BLACKPINK's Jennie
Artist of The Year: G-Dragon
Song of The Year: Home Sweet Home (G-Dragon)
Album of the Year: Ubermensch (G-Dragon)
On the other hand, here's the complete setlist for the performance lineup at the 2025 Melon Music Awards:
Alpha Drive One
- Hola Solar (MMA version)
- Formula
KiiiKiii
- To Me from Me (MMA version)
- I Do Me (MMA version)
- Dancing Alone (MMA version)
Hanroro
- 0+0
- Landing in Love
Woodz
- Drowning
- 00:30
10cm
- CDEFG (acoustic version)
- To Reach You with Joo Woo-jae
IDID
- Chan-Ran (MMA version)
- Push Back (MMA version)
Jay Park, H1ghr Music, and LNGSHOT
- DNA (Remix - Jay Park solo)
- Blue Check (Jay Park solo)
- The Purge (H1ghr Music)
- Back Seat (LNGSHOT)
- Saucin' (LNGSHOT)
- Keep It Sexy (Mommae 2) (with Dayoung and Jay Park)
ALLDAY PROJECT
- One More Time
- Look At Me
- Famous
Hearts2Hearts
- The Chase (MMA version)
- Focus (MMA version)
ILLIT
- Do the Dance
- Not Cute Anymore
NCT WISH
- Poppop
- Videohood
- Color
RIIZE
- Fame
- Bag Bad Back
- Fly Up
BOYNEXTDOOR
- Hollywood Action (MMA version)
- If I Say, I Love You
ZICO
- Tough Cookie
- No, You Can't
- Duet (with Lilas)
IVE
- XOXZ
- Attitude
- Rebel Heart
PLAVE
- Dash
- BBUU!
EXO
- Wolf
- Monster
- The Eve
- Love Shot
- Growl
- Back It Up
Aespa
- Drift
- Rich Man
- Dirty Work
BLACKPINK's Jennie
- Seoul City
- Zen
- Like Jennie
G-Dragon
- Drama with Song So-hee & dance performance by Choi Ho-jong
- Power
- Home Sweet Home
- Too Bad (Big Naughty and Dress remix & dance performance by RHTokyo)
- Too Bad (Alan Walker remix)
- Crooked
Therefore, fans and netizens have been celebrating the recent wins of those who bagged trophies at the 2025 Melon Music Awards.
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