Winners of MelOn Music Awards 2025

TOP 10: G-Dragon, IVE, aespa, PLAVE, BOYNEXTDOOR, RIIZE, NCT WISH, Jennie, Rosé, Lim Young Woong

Millions TOP10: IVE, Jennie, G-Dragon, PLAVE, RIIZE, BOYNEXTDOOR, Rosé, SEVENTEEN, Lim Young Woong, IU

Best Male Solo: G-Dragon

Best Female Solo: Rosé

Best Male Group: BOYNEXTDOOR

Best Female Group: IVE

Best Male Performance: RIIZE

Best Female Performance: ILLIT

Best Pop Artist: Ed Sheeran

Best OST: HUNTR/X - Golden

Best Music Video: KiiiKiii - I DO ME

Best Music Style: 10CM, ALLDAY PROJECT

Best Producer: Zico

Best Song Writer: G-Dragon

TrackZero Choice: Hanroro

Hot Trend: WOODZ

Japan Favorite Artist by U-NEXT: BOYNEXTDOOR

J-Pop Favorite Artist: Kenshi Yonezu

KakaoBank Everyone's Star: NCT WISH

Berriz Global Fan's Choice: Hearts2Hearts

1theK Global Icon: KiiiKiii

Global Rising Artist: IDID

Global Artist: aespa

Stage of the Year: aespa

New Artist of the Year: ALLDAY PROJECT, Hearts2Hearts

Record of the Year (Daesang): Jennie

Album of the Year (Daesang): G-Dragon - Übermensch

Artist of the Year (Daesang): G-Dragon

Song of the Year (Daesang): G-Dragon - HOME SWEET HOME (feat. Taeyang, Daesung)

Most Awarded Artists:

7 awards: GDRAGON

4 awards: BOYNEXTDOOR,

3 awards: IVE, RIIZE, aespa, ROSÉ, JENNIE

2 awards: PLAVE, Hearts2Hearts, KiiiKiii, ALLDAYPROJECT, NCTWISH, LimYoungWoong,

38 minutes ago, Darkling said:

I used to like their music a lot but they really fall off after that musical terrorism you posted

Ntm on Chasing That Grammy - it was just released too late when the retro and disco trend was already over, and would've been bigger if it was released in 2020, just like how Blue Hour was

Edited December 22, 2025Dec 22 by Pluto6

lol

2019 was such a great year omg now we are stuck with rich man and spaghetti

SingSing absolutely DEVOURED this perf. And the fact that she was sick!

I don't want to hear haters saying anything about them being lazy anymore

since ejae shared the demo of wisl a few days ago, i have been listening to it a lot in my opinion it is the superior song to golden

When you're constantly invited to appear on the national news in Korea because of your global achievements

Edited December 22, 2025Dec 22 by Pluto6

3 hours ago, Joseline said:

Winners of MelOn Music Awards 2025

TOP 10: G-Dragon, IVE, aespa, PLAVE, BOYNEXTDOOR, RIIZE, NCT WISH, Jennie, Rosé, Lim Young Woong

Millions TOP10: IVE, Jennie, G-Dragon, PLAVE, RIIZE, BOYNEXTDOOR, Rosé, SEVENTEEN, Lim Young Woong, IU

Best Male Solo: G-Dragon

Best Female Solo: Rosé

Best Male Group: BOYNEXTDOOR

Best Female Group: IVE

Best Male Performance: RIIZE

Best Female Performance: ILLIT

Best Pop Artist: Ed Sheeran

Best OST: HUNTR/X - Golden

Best Music Video: KiiiKiii - I DO ME

Best Music Style: 10CM, ALLDAY PROJECT

Best Producer: Zico

Best Song Writer: G-Dragon

TrackZero Choice: Hanroro

Hot Trend: WOODZ

Japan Favorite Artist by U-NEXT: BOYNEXTDOOR

J-Pop Favorite Artist: Kenshi Yonezu

KakaoBank Everyone's Star: NCT WISH

Berriz Global Fan's Choice: Hearts2Hearts

1theK Global Icon: KiiiKiii

Global Rising Artist: IDID

Global Artist: aespa

Stage of the Year: aespa

New Artist of the Year: ALLDAY PROJECT, Hearts2Hearts

Record of the Year (Daesang): Jennie

Album of the Year (Daesang): G-Dragon - Übermensch

Artist of the Year (Daesang): G-Dragon

Song of the Year (Daesang): G-Dragon - HOME SWEET HOME (feat. Taeyang, Daesung)

Most Awarded Artists:

7 awards: GDRAGON

4 awards: BOYNEXTDOOR,

3 awards: IVE, RIIZE, aespa, ROSÉ, JENNIE

2 awards: PLAVE, Hearts2Hearts, KiiiKiii, ALLDAYPROJECT, NCTWISH, LimYoungWoong,

RIIZE winning best male? Most fraudulent award on that list.

4 hours ago, Graffiti said:

Nice, maybe drop a link in one of the Jpop threads to see if that gets some last min submissions. I know some of the Jpop fans like Kpop from time to time, but their threads tend to be quieter (because Kpop is superior to Jpop and they do know it).

Deserved Fifty Fifty's Cupid success

All I want for christmas this year is for aespa to finally get good demos from SM again

12 hours ago, Jared said:

BP, aespa and IVE fighting in the Top 3, and LE SSERAFIM being N/A oop.

Didn't someone literally just post about how LSRFM are always unfairly excluded from Top 4th gen GG conversations

NJ even not being active this year ranked while LSRFM are N/A despite multiple promotions. The way they have nothing without HYBE spotify payola

Edited December 23, 2025Dec 23 by Gaia

5 hours ago, Graffiti said:

I want to participate, but I don't think I listened to that much K-pop this year. Thank god we're starting 2026 with an Apink album. And NJ comeback, maybe?

Notice how SNSD is the only group on here twice #Legends

Even tho this list is a hot mess beyond that. Did a sheep intern at Melon make this?

1. BoA - No.1

2. EXO - Growl 

3. PSY - Gangnam Style 

4. BTS - Dynamite

5. SNSD - Gee

6. SNSD - Into The New World

7. 2NE1 - I'm The Best

8. Brown Eyed Girls - Abracadabra

9. Wonder Girls - Tell Me 

10. TVXQ - Mirotic 

11. SHINee - Sherlock 

12. Super Junior - Sorry, Sorry 

13. BlackPink - DDU-DU DDU-DU

14. S.E.S - I'm Your Girl 

15. IU - Good Day 

16. Lee Hyori - 10 Minutes

17. H.O.T - Candy 

18. KARA - Mister

19. BigBang - Lies

20. Red Velvet - Red Flavor

Edited December 23, 2025Dec 23 by Gorjesspazze9

1 hour ago, elevate said:

(because Kpop is superior to Jpop and they do know it).

Ddd period. I do like a selection of J-pop but there's really no competition there for me.

44 minutes ago, LuneMon said:

I want to participate, but I don't think I listened to that much K-pop this year. Thank god we're starting 2026 with an Apink album. And NJ comeback, maybe?

I only need 10 songs minimum but don't worry if you can't participate, I understand that for many here it's been a less than enthusiastic year for K-pop. You can always follow along with the results!

2 hours ago, Graffiti said:

I only need 10 songs minimum but don't worry if you can't participate, I understand that for many here it's been a less than enthusiastic year for K-pop. You can always follow along with the results!

ahh I know you tagged me too and I do wanna participate but I was mostly very un interested in kpop this year apart from Twice activities lol and I was also very busy with my crazy corporate career, but I do have my faves from the ones I've listened to from different playlists and there are mostly soloists from this year. I'll definitely try to squeeze some time to do it.

Edited December 23, 2025Dec 23 by Witnessed ET

12 hours ago, Red Velvet said:

Bringing attention to this classic turning 6. It was a rough year for them with Zimzalabim and Umpah bombing, they had one chance and scored a huge smash.

Sad that Wendy's accident happened a few days later and halted promotions but it still achieved #9 year end chart for 2020.

Still going viral all these years later

need more EJAE songs for the SM girlies: Psycho, Drama, Armageddon so far whew

4 hours ago, Gaia said:

Didn't someone literally just post about how LSRFM

girl just spell out their whole name atp

Are we going to address the elephant in the room? Why are male idols showing so much feet on their socials this year?

35 minutes ago, JonginBey said:

Are we going to address the elephant in the room? Why are male idols showing so much feet on their socials this year?

HyunA too. And her feet ain't cute at all. You can tell she's from the Celine Dion association, where shoes don't walk them, they walk the shoe.

How Can someone be this hot by just existing?