The much-coveted Mnet Music Awards (MAMA) 2020 hailed as Asia’s biggest music award show is scheduled for Sunday, December 6, at 6 pm KST and the voting lines for all the nominations will close on December 5 at 11.59 pm (KST).

The breakdown of the voting process is as follows. For the Artist of the Year and other Artist category awards, the winner will be decided based on 30% official votes, 30% judge panel, 20% digital song sales plus 20% physical album sales. For ‘Song of the Year’ and Song Genre Category Awards, the title will go on the basis of 20% official votes, 40% judge panel, 30% digital song sales, 10% physical album sales. Major awards like ‘Album of the Year’ will be solely decided on numbers of 40% judge panel and 60% physical album sales. This year, MAMA has tweaked the voting rule of ‘Worldwide Fans Choice Top 10’, which will now be decided based on 60% official votes, 20% social media votes, 20% global music video views along with Worldwide Icon of the Year whose criteria is the same as Fans’ choice Top 10. For the ‘Best Music Video Award’, the criteria remains 70% judge panel votes plus 30% global music video views.

For the voters, it has been mandatory to vote for the Artist of the Year and Song of the Year award without which their vote will not be counted for any category. Music that has been released between October 24, 2019, and October 28, 2020, are eligible for nominations as stated by Mnet. 

‘The Battleship Island’ star Song Joong-ki will hosting the show, which has unveiled its theme to be ‘Gate to NEW-TOPIA’, depicting a new world rule. Take a look at the complete list of nominations.

Best Male Artist

Kang Daniel
Park Jin Young
Baekhyun
Zico
Taemin
Best Female Artist
Sunmi
IU
Chungha
Taeyeon
Hwasa

Best Male Group

EXO
GOT7
NCT
MONSTA X
BTS
SEVENTEEN

Best Female Group

BLACKPINK
TWICE
Red Velvet
MAMAMOO
IZ*ONE
Oh My Girl

Best New Male Artist

CRAVITY
MCND
TOO
TREASURE
WEi

Best New Female Artist

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Natty
SECRET NUMBER
Weeekly
woo!ah!

Best Dance Performance Male Group

ATEEZ – ‘INCEPTION’
EXO – ‘Obsession’
NCT 127 – ‘Kick It’
TXT – ‘Can’t You See Me?’
BTS – ‘Dynamite’
SEVENTEEN – ‘Left & Right’

Best Dance Performance Female Group

BLACKPINK – ‘How You Like That’
ITZY – ‘WANNABE’
TWICE – ‘MORE & MORE’
Red Velvet – ‘Psycho’
IZ*ONE – ‘Secret Story of the Swan’
Oh My Girl – ‘Nonstop’

Best Dance Performance Solo

Kang Daniel – ‘Who U Are’
Sunmi – ‘pporappippam’
Jessi – ‘NUNU NANA’
Taemin – ‘Criminal’
Hwasa – ‘Maria’

Best Vocal Performance Group

WINNER – ‘Hold’
Noel – ‘Late Night’
NU’EST – ‘I’m in Trouble’
Davichi – ‘Dear’
MAMAMOO – ‘HIP’
Best Vocal Performance Solo
Baek Yerin – ‘Square (2017)’
Baekhyun – ‘Candy’
IU – ‘Blueming’
Jung Seung Hwan – ‘My Christmas wish’
Taeyeon – ‘Spark’

Best Band Performance

DAY6 – ‘Zombie’
M.C the MAX – ‘BLOOM’
N.Flying – ‘Oh really’
LEENALCHI – ‘Tiger is Coming’
HYUKOH – ‘Help’

Best Hip Hop & Urban Music

Giriboy – ‘Eul’ (Feat. BIG Naughty)
YUMDDA – ‘Amanda’ (Feat. Simon Dominic)
Lee Hi – ‘Holo’
Zico – ‘Any song’
CHANGMO – ‘METEOR’

Best OST

Gaho – ‘Start’ (‘Itaewon Class’)
Baek Yerin – ‘Here I Am Again’ (‘Crash Landing On You’)
Sandeul – ‘Slightly Tipsy’ (‘She is My Type’)
Joy – ‘Introduce me a good person’ (‘Hospital Playlist’)
Jo Jung Suk – ‘Aloha’ (‘Hospital Playlist’)

Best Collaboration

Park Jin Young – ‘When We Disco’ (Duet with Sunmi)
BOL4 – ‘Leo’ (Feat. Baekhyun)
Sung Si Kyung & IU – ‘First Winter’
IU – ‘eight’ (Prod. & Feat. Suga)
Zico – ‘Summer Hate’ (Feat. Rain)

Song of the Year

Nominees for the song genre categories are automatically nominated

ATEEZ – ‘INCEPTION’
Baekhyun – ‘Candy’
Baek Yerin – ‘Here I Am Again’ (‘Crash Landing On You’)
Baek Yerin – ‘Square (2017)’
BLACKPINK – ‘How You Like That’
BOL4 – ‘Leo’ (Feat. Baekhyun)
BTS – ‘Dynamite’
CHANGMO – ‘METEOR’
Davichi – ‘Dear’
DAY6 – ‘Zombie’
EXO – ‘Obsession’
Gaho – ‘Start’ (‘Itaewon Class’)
Giriboy – ‘Eul’ (Feat. BIG Naughty)
Hwasa – ‘Maria’
HYUKOH – ‘Help’
ITZY – ‘WANNABE’
IU – ‘Blueming’
IU – ‘eight’ (Prod. & Feat. Suga)
IZ*ONE – ‘Secret Story of the Swan’
Jessi – ‘NUNU NANA’
Jo Jung Suk – ‘Aloha’ (Hospital Playlist)
Joy – ‘Introduce me a good person’ (‘Hospital Playlist’)
Jung Seung Hwan – ‘My Christmas wish’
Kang Daniel – ‘Who U Are’
Lee Hi – ‘Holo’
LEENALCHI – ‘Tiger is Coming’
M.C the MAX – ‘BLOOM’
MAMAMOO – ‘HIP’
N.Flying – ‘Oh really’
NCT 127 – ‘Kick It’
Noel – ‘Late Night’
NU’EST – ‘I’m in Trouble’
Oh My Girl – ‘Nonstop’
Park Jin Young – ‘When We Disco’ (Duet with Sunmi)
Red Velvet – ‘Psycho’
Sandeul – ‘Slightly Tipsy’ (‘She is My Type’)
SEVENTEEN – ‘Left & Right’
Sung Si Kyung & IU – ‘First Winter’
Sunmi – ‘pporappippam’
Taemin – ‘Criminal’
Taeyeon – ‘Spark’
TWICE – ‘MORE & MORE’
TXT – ‘Can’t You See Me?’
WINNER – ‘Hold’
YUMDDA – ‘Amanda’ (Feat. Simon Dominic)
Zico – ‘Any song’
Zico – ‘Summer Hate’ (Feat. Rain)

Artist of the Year

Nominees for the artist categories are automatically nominated

Baekhyun
BLACKPINK
BTS
Chungha
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CRAVITY
EXO
GOT7
Hwasa
IU
IZ*ONE
Kang Daniel
MAMAMOO
MCND
MONSTA X
Natty
NCT
Oh My Girl
Park Jin Young
Red Velvet
SECRET NUMBER
SEVENTEEN
Sunmi
Taemin
Taeyeon
TOO
TREASURE
TWICE
Weeekly
WEi
woo!ah!
Zico

Worldwide Fans’ Choice Top 10

Nominees are automatically nominated. If both an individual artist and his/her group is eligible, then only the group is nominated

ATEEZ
Baek Yerin
BLACKPINK
BTS
CHANGMO
Chungha
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CRAVITY
Davichi
DAY6
EXO
Giriboy
GOT7
HYUKOH
ITZY
IU
IZ*ONE
Jessi
Jung Seung Hwan
Kang Daniel
Lee Hi – “Holo”
LEENALCHI
MAMAMOO
MCND
M.C the MAX
MONSTA X
Natty
NCT
N.Flying
Noel
NU’EST
Oh My Girl
Park Jin Young
Red Velvet
SECRET NUMBER
SEVENTEEN
Sunmi
Taemin
Taeyeon
TOO
TREASURE
TWICE
TXT
Weeekly
WEi
WINNER
woo!ah!
YUMDDA
Zico

Who are you voting for this year?

Catch the star-studded event on Sunday, December 6 at 6 pm KST. However, the red carpet will kick off at 4 pm, so tune in then to see all your favorite artists arriving at the award show.