The singer G-DRAGON, who has been showing moves befitting the "king of K-POP" day after day, will perform at the Melon Music Awards, which announces artists' yearly achievements worldwide based on Melon data and fans' votes.
Kakao Entertainment's music platform Melon announced G-DRAGON as part of the third lineup for 'The 17th Melon Music Awards, MMA2025 (2025 Melon Music Awards),' which will be held Dec. 20 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul.
G-DRAGON, who recently received the Ok-gwan Cultural Order, the highest government honor in the cultural sector, and captivated world leaders with his performance at the welcome banquet of the APEC summit in Gyeongju, revealing his status as a national treasure–level artist, also produced numerous record-breaking achievements on Melon this year.
G-DRAGON's third full-length album, Übermensch, released Feb. 11 after 11 years and five months, surpassed 1 million streams within four hours of release, entering Melon's Hall of Fame as a "Millions album" with the shortest time ever for a solo artist. Cumulative streams in 24 hours reached 4.2 million, and the highest hourly streams were 271,300, breaking all previous solo artist records.
The title track "TOO BAD (feat. Anderson .Paak)" reached No. 1 on the Melon TOP100 chart within one hour of release, and having more than eight album tracks simultaneously enter the TOP15 was the first such record since the chart's reorganization.
Also, G-DRAGON was selected as the artist with the highest number of listeners on Melon in the first half of this year, and the new song "HOME SWEET HOME" also achieved the highest number of listeners. In the weekday commuting time popular artist and popular song categories, G-DRAGON and "HOME SWEET HOME" each took first place.
In this way, G-DRAGON spent a year firmly proving the worth of the name "king of K-POP" through overwhelming popularity revealed on the Melon charts and various music data. He is expected to showcase that class on the MMA2025 stage in front of music fans.
The main slogan for MMA2025, presented with KakaoBank as the title sponsor, is "Play The Moment," conveying the idea of meeting all the moments and stories connected and recorded by music at MMA2025.
All ticketing for MMA2025 will be conducted through the ticketing platform Melon Ticket. The first ticketing, open only to MVIP, VIP and GOLD members who have subscribed to Melon for more than one year, runs about four hours from 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Nov. 24 (Mon). The second ticketing, open to all Melon pass holders, opens at 8 p.m. on Nov. 27 (Thu) and covers the tiered seats and remaining seats including cancellations from the first ticketing.
Melon is currently running an event offering a special opportunity to attend MMA2025 on site for a total of 100 VIP-level members, including 20 customer-only skybox viewing tickets. Notices and events related to the TOP10 and category voting will be released sequentially later on the official MMA2025 page within Melon.
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