Melon, the music platform of Kakao Entertainment, said on the 21st that the 2025 Melon Music Awards (MMA2025) wrapped up to roaring cheers from about 18,000 spectators.
On the night of the 20th at Seoul's Gocheok Sky Dome, the flagship K-pop music festival MMA2025 brought together artists who lit up the Melon charts. Performances by G-DRAGON, Jennie, Riize, Ive, and ALLDAY PROJECT took place, and awards were given in 29 institutional sectors.
At this year's ceremony, G-DRAGON swept the major prizes of "artist of the year," "KakaoBank album of the year," and "best song of the year," and took a total of seven crowns including "TOP10," "Millions TOP10," "best solo male," and "best songwriter."
G-DRAGON's third full-length album released in February, Übermensch, surpassed 1 million streams just four hours after release and entered Melon's "Millions album" with the fastest record ever for a solo artist. HOME SWEET HOME (feat. Taeyang, Daesung), which won "best song of the year," recorded the most listeners on Melon in the first half of the year. In an acceptance speech, G-DRAGON said, "I thank the fans who became the source of inspiration."
Jennie of Blackpink won the major award "record of the year" with her first solo full-length album, Ruby, released in March. The album's title track, like JENNIE, entered the Melon TOP100 chart right after release and has remained on the chart for 10 months to date.
"rookie of the year" was jointly awarded to the coed group ALLDAY PROJECT and the girl group Hearts2Hearts. "best solo" female artist went to Rosé, "best group" female went to Ive, and "best group" male went to BOYNEXTDOOR.
"best OST" went to Golden, sung by HUNTR/X from the globally popular K-pop Demon Hunters.
This year's MMA brought in KakaoBank as the title sponsor and strengthened membership benefits, including presales for subscribers with more than one year of long-term memberships and invitations to the VIP red carpet.
Jang Yoon-jung, CEO of Kakao Entertainment, said, "For this MMA2025, we concentrated all of Melon's capabilities to showcase artists' achievements to the world, while striving to give the greatest pride to customers who have cherished Melon for a long time," adding, "Going forward, Melon will steadfastly uphold the stature of the flagship K-pop festival that global music fans aspire to, as the platform that best understands the value of K-pop."