[Article] 2022 MAMA Awards Announces Nominees + Voting Begins
MAMA season is back!
On October 24, the nominations were announced for the 2022 MAMA Awards (previously known as the Mnet Asian Music Awards).
This year’s ceremony will take place at Osaka’s Kyocera Dome in Japan on November 29 and 30.
The criteria for the final winners are as follows:
- Artist of the Year and Artist Category Awards – 40% judge panel evaluation, 30% song downloads/streaming (20% Korea + 10% global), 30% physical album sales
- Song of the Year and Genre Category Awards – 40% judge panel evaluation, 60% song downloads/streaming (40% Korea + 20% global)
- Album of the Year – 40% judge panel evaluation, 60% physical album sales*
(*Note: The criteria written in Korean states 60% physical album sales while the criteria written in English states 60% song downloads/streaming) - Worldwide Icon of the Year – 50% Mnet Plus votes, 30% Spotify votes, 10% Twitter votes, 10% music video score, (10% extra) live broadcast Twitter votes
- Worldwide Fans’ Choice Top 10 – 50% Mnet Plus votes, 30% Spotify votes, 10% Twitter votes, 10% music video score
In order to be eligible, the music must have been released between November 1, 2021 and October 21, 2022.
Voting will take place online here through November 4 at 11:59 p.m. KST.
The nominees are as follows:
Best New Female Artist
- IVE
- Kep1er
- LE SSERAFIM
- NewJeans
- NMIXX
- Yena (Choi Ye Na)
Best New Male Artist
- ATBO
- TEMPEST
- TNX
- Xdinary Heroes
- YOUNITE
Best Female Artist
Best Male Artist
- J-Hope
- Kang Daniel
- Lim Young Woong
- PSY
- Zico
Best Female Group
Best Male Group
Best Vocal Performance Solo
- IU – “Drama”
- Kim Min Seok – “Drunken Confession”
- Lee Mujin – When it snows” (feat. Heize)
- Lim Young Woong – “Our Blues Our Life”
- Taeyeon – “INVU”
Best Vocal Performance Group
- BIGBANG – “Still Life”
- BTS – “Yet To Come”
- Davichi – “Fanfare”
- ENHYPEN – “Polaroid Love”
- WINNER – “I LOVE U”
Best Band Performance
- JANNABI – “GRIPPIN’THEGREEN”
- Jaurim – “STAY WITH ME”
- LUCY – “PLAY”
- The Black Skirts – “My Little Lambs”
- Xdinary Heroes – “Happy Death Day”
Best Dance Performance Solo
- Jessi – “ZOOM”
- Nayeon – “POP!”
- PSY – “That That” (prod. & feat. Suga)
- Sunmi – “Heart Burn”
- Yena – “SMILEY” (feat. BIBI)
Best Dance Performance Male Group
- NCT 127 – “2 Baddies”
- NCT DREAM – “Glitch Mode”
- SEVENTEEN – “HOT”
- Stray Kids – “MANIAC”
- TXT – “Good Boy Gone Bad”
- TREASURE – “JIKJIN”
Best Dance Performance Female Group
- (G)I-DLE – “TOMBOY”
- BLACKPINK – “Pink Venom”
- IVE – “LOVE DIVE”
- LE SSERAFIM – “FEARLESS”
- NewJeans – “Attention”
- Red Velvet – “Feel My Rhythm”
Best OST
- 10CM – “Drawer” (“Our Beloved Summer” OST)
- Jimin, Ha Sung Woon – “With You” (“Our Blues” OST)
- MeloMance – “Love, Maybe” (“A Business Proposal” OST)
- V – “Christmas Tree” (“Our Beloved Summer” OST)
- Wonstein – “Your Existence” (“Twenty Five, Twenty One” OST)
Best Collaboration
- 10CM, BIG Naughty – “Just 10 centimeters”
- Crush – “Rush Hour” (feat. J-Hope)
- Loco, Hwasa – “Somebody!”
- PSY – “That That” (prod. & feat. Suga)
- Woo Won Jae, meenoi – “Ghosting” (prod. CODE KUNST)
Best Hip Hop & Urban Music
- BE’O – “Counting Stars” (feat. Beenzino)
- BIG Naughty – “Beyond Love” (feat. 10CM)
- J-Hope – “MORE”
- Jay Park – “GANADARA” (feat. IU)
- Zico – “Freak”
Song of the Year
(Nominees for the song genre categories are automatically nominated.)
- 10CM – “Drawer”
- 10CM, BIG Naughty – “Just 10 centimeters”
- BE’O – “Counting Stars” (feat. Beenzino)
- BIGBANG – “Still Life”
- BIG Naughty – “Beyond Love” (feat. 10CM)
- BLACKPINK – “Pink Venom”
- BTS – “Yet To Come”
- Crush – “Rush Hour” (feat. J-Hope)
- Davichi – “Fanfare”
- ENHYPEN – “Polaroid Love”
- (G)I-DLE – “TOMBOY”
- IU – “Drama”
- IVE – “LOVE DIVE”
- JANNABI – “GRIPPIN’THEGREEN”
- Jaurim – “STAY WITH ME”
- Jay Park – “GANADARA” (feat. IU)
- Jessi – “ZOOM”
- J-Hope – “MORE”
- Jimin, Ha Sung Woon – “With You”
- Kim Min Seok – “Drunken Confession”
- LE SSERAFIM – “FEARLESS”
- Lee Mujin – When it snows” (feat. Heize)
- Lim Young Woong – “Our Blues Our Life”
- Loco, Hwasa – “Somebody!”
- LUCY – “PLAY”
- MeloMance – “Love, Maybe”
- Nayeon – “POP!”
- NCT 127 – “2 Baddies”
- NCT DREAM – “Glitch Mode”
- NewJeans – “Attention”
- PSY – “That That” (prod. & feat. Suga)
- Red Velvet – “Feel My Rhythm”
- SEVENTEEN – “HOT”
- Stray Kids – “MANIAC”
- Sunmi – “Heart Burn”
- Taeyeon – “INVU”
- The Black Skirts – “My Little Lambs”
- TREASURE – “JIKJIN”
- TXT – “Good Boy Gone Bad”
- V – “Christmas Tree”
- WINNER – “I LOVE U”
- Wonstein – “Your Existence”
- Woo Won Jae, meenoi – “Ghosting” (prod. CODE KUNST)
- Xdinary Heroes – “Happy Death Day”
- Yena – “SMILEY” (feat. BIBI)
- Zico – “Freak”
Artist of the Year
(Nominees for the artist categories are automatically nominated.)
- aespa
- ATBO
- BLACKPINK
- BTS
- ENHYPEN
- (G)I-DLE
- ITZY
- IU
- IVE
- J-Hope
- Kang Daniel
- Kep1er
- LE SSERAFIM
- Lim Young Woong
- Miyeon
- Nayeon
- NCT DREAM
- NewJeans
- NMIXX
- PSY
- Red Velvet
- Seulgi
- SEVENTEEN
- Stray Kids
- Taeyeon
- TEMPEST
- TNX
- TWICE
- TXT
- Xdinary Heroes
- Yena
- YOUNITE
- Zico
Worldwide Fans’ Choice Top 10
- aespa
- ASTRO
- ATEEZ
- BIGBANG
- Billlie
- BLACKPINK
- Brave Girls
- BTOB
- BTS
- Chungha
- Crush
- Dreamcatcher
- ENHYPEN
- EVERGLOW
- fromis_9
- (G)I-DLE
- Girls’ Generation
- GOT7
- ITZY
- IU
- IVE
- Jay Park
- Jessi
- Jo Yu Ri
- Kai
- Kang Daniel
- KARD
- Kep1er
- LE SSERAFIM
- LOONA
- MAMAMOO
- MONSTA X
- NCT 127
- NCT DREAM
- NewJeans
- NMIXX
- ONEUS
- PENTAGON
- PSY
- Red Velvet
- SEVENTEEN
- STAYC
- Stray Kids
- Sunmi
- THE BOYZ
- TREASURE
- TWICE
- TXT
- WINNER
- Yena
