Voting has officially begun for the 2018 Melon Music Awards!

The 2018 Melon Music Awards has kicked off its first round of voting by revealing the list of 40 artists who are nominated for this year’s Top 10.

Only artists who released music between December 2, 2017 and October 25, 2018 were eligible, and the nominees were selected by calculating the number of downloads, streams, and weekly Melon Popularity Award votes achieved by each artist.

The 40 nominees are listed below in alphabetical order:

1. Apink
2. Ben
3. BIGBANG
4. BLACKPINK
5. Bolbbalgan4
6. BTOB
7. BTS
8. Camila Cabello
9. Chungha
10. Dean
11. Epik HIgh
12. EXO
13. EXO-CBX
14. GFRIEND
15. HAON
16. Heize
17. Hwasa (MAMAMOO)
18. iKON
19. ISU (MC the Max)
20. Jang Deok Cheol
21. Jung Seung Hwan
22. Loco
23. MAMAMOO
24. MeloMance
25. Minseo
26. MOMOLAND
27. Nilo
28. Paul Kim
29. Red Velvet
30. Roy Kim
31. SEVENTEEN
32. Shaun
33. Sunmi
34. TWICE
35. VINXEN
36. Wanna One
37. WINNER
38. Yang Da Il
39. Yong Junhyung (Highlight)
40. Yoon Jong Shin

Voting for the top 10 will run from October 26 to November 13 KST on Melon’s website and mobile app, followed by a second round of category voting for specific awards.

The 2018 Melon Music Awards will take place on December 1 at the Gocheok Sky Dome. The awards show will also air live via JTBC2, JTBC4, 1theK, and KakaoTV.

Which artists have your vote this year? Share your thoughts below!

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The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for singers!

The rankings were determined through an analysis of singers’ media coverage, consumer participation, interaction, and community indexes, using big data collected from September 26 to October 27.

BTS took first place in the rankings for the third consecutive month, scoring a brand reputation index of 19,903,080 for October.

High-ranking phrases in the group’s keyword analysis included “thankful,” “do one’s best,” and “happy,” while their highest-ranking related terms included “return home,” “Jimin,” and “Waste It on Me.” BTS’s positivity-negativity analysis also revealed a score of 82.99 percent positive reactions.

BLACKPINK maintained their spot at second place with a brand reputation index of 8,722,222, while Wanna One held onto third place with a score of 7,716,213 for October.

Check out this month’s top 30 below!

1. BTS
2. BLACKPINK
3. Wanna One
4. iKON
5. IU
6. EXO
7. Red Velvet
8. TWICE
9. Girls’ Generation
10. PSY
11. GFRIEND
12. SEVENTEEN
13. BIGBANG
14. Seungri
15. Apink
16. Oh My Girl
17. MOMOLAND
18. (G)I-DLE
19. BTOB
20. MAMAMOO
21. Hong Jin Young
22. MeloMance
23. Vibe
24. Lee Moon Sae
25. Im Chang Jung
26. Sunmi
27. Ben
28. ISU
29. Zico
30. Crush

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The Korean Business Research Institute has released the brand reputation rankings for individual boy group members for the month of October.

The Institute analyzed big data from 445 individual boy group members during the period between September 18 and October 19. The amount of data, from various areas such as consumer participation, media coverage, communication, and community awareness, decreased about 34.59 percent from last month.

Topping the list this month was Wanna One’s Kang Daniel, with a total score of 7,721,034. This is a 21.31 percent decrease from his score in September, where he placed second.

In second place this month was BIGBANG’s Seungri, with a total score of 5,405,268. This is a 115.70 percent increase from last month’s score of 2,505,881.

In third place was BTS’s Jimin, with a total score of 5,196,621. This is a 48.75 percent decrease from September’s rankings, where he placed first.

Check out the top 30 below:

1. Wanna One’s Kang Daniel
2. BIGBANG’s Seungri
3. BTS’s Jimin
4. BTS’s V
5. BTS’s Jungkook
6. BTS’s RM
7. BTS’s Jin
8. ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo
9. Wanna One’s Hwang Min Hyun
10. BTS’ Suga
11. Wanna One’s Ong Seong Woo
12. Wanna One’s Park Ji Hoon
13. Wanna One’s Ha Sung Woon
14. Wanna One’s Lee Dae Hwi
15. Block B’s P.O
16. BTS’s J-Hope
17. IMFACT’s Lee Sang
18. Wanna One’s Kim Jae Hwan
19. The Boyz’s Hyunjae
20. Block B’s Zico
21. The Boyz’s New
22. SECHSKIES’s Kang Sung Hoon
23. Wanna One’s Park Woo Jin
24. SECHSKIES’s Eun Ji Won
25. Shinhwa’s Lee Min Woo
26. Wanna One’s Lai Guan Lin
27. Wanna One’s Bae Jin Young
28. iKON’s Junhoe
29. EXO’s Lay
30. Super Junior’s Leeteuk

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