Mnet Asian Music Awards

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The Mnet Asian Music Awards (abbreviated as MAMA) is a major South Korean music awards ceremony presented annually by entertainment company CJ E&M. The majority of prizes are awarded to K-pop artists, though some prizes are awarded to other Asian artists. The awards ceremony was first held in Seoul in 1999 and aired on Mnet. MAMA has been held outside of South Korea since 2011 and now airs internationally.

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History

Ceremony

The event was launched in 1999 as a music video awards ceremony, modeled after the MTV Video Music Awards, called the Mnet Music Video Festival. By the mid-2000s, the awards ceremony had attracted some international interest due to the spread of Hallyu, and it aired in China and Japan in 2008.

In 2009, the event was renamed the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) to reflect its expansion outside of South Korea. In 2010, MAMA was held in Macau, marking the first time it was held outside of South Korea. The following year, in 2011, MAMA was held in Singapore, and was then held in Hong Kong from 2012 to 2017. In 2017, the awards ceremony was expanded to four nights, and parts of the event were held in Vietnam and Japan, in addition to Hong Kong.

Event name

• Mnet Video Music Awards (1999)
• Mnet Music Video Festival (2000-2003)
• Mnet KM Music Video Festival (2004-2005)
• Mnet KM Music Festival (2006-2008)
• Mnet Asian Music Awards (2009-present)

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Host venues

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Award categories

Grand Prizes

The three grand prizes (known as daesang) were introduced in 2006.

• Album of the Year
• Song of the Year
• Artist of the Year

Competitive awards

Unless otherwise noted, each award category was introduced in 1999.

• Best Male Artist
• Best Female Artist
• Best Male Group (since 2000, was known as Best Group in 1999)
• Best Female Group (since 2000)
• Best New Artist

• Best Dance Performance
• Best Band Performance
• Best Rap Performance
• Best Vocal Performance (since 2010)
• Best Collaboration (since 2010)

Special awards

These awards have been given once or occasionally.

• Best International Artist (1999-2006, 2009-2010, 2012-2014)
• Best Asian Artist (since 2004)
• Other special awards

Discontinued awards

• Music Video of the Year (1999-2005)
  (former daesang award and currently Best Music Video since 2006)
• Best Popular Music Video (1999-2005)
  (former daesang award)
• Best Music Video Performance (2005-2007)
• Best Music Video Director (1999-2006)
• Best Mixed Group (2000-2009)
• Best Ballad Performance (1999-2009)
• Best R&B Performance (2000-2007)
• Best Indie Performance (1999-2002)
• Best House & Electronic Performance (2007-2009)
• Best Trot Performance (2009)
• Best Digital Single (2010)

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Most wins

Daesang awards

The following lists the artist(s) who received two or more daesang awards.
(Includes Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year)

Competitive awards

The following lists the artists who received four or more competitive awards.
(Daesang awards are not included)

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Controversies

Boycotting incidents

In 2007, Lee Min-woo and Shin Hye-sung from the group Shinhwa canceled their appearance at the event one hour before the awards ceremony began. Shin later said they left because they did not trust the event to fairly select winners.

In 2009, entertainment companies S.M. Entertainment and Inwoo Production boycotted the 2009 awards ceremony, and therefore none of their artists attended. Both companies said the reason for their boycott was that they questioned the fairness of the voting process. In particular, S.M. Entertainment said that Girls' Generation had held the #1 spot on a music chart for nine consecutive weeks, but the group never won first place on Mnet's weekly M Countdown music show. The company also criticized a mobile poll which required participants to pay money in order to vote.

Voter fraud

Prior to the 2017 awards ceremony, Mnet found that some fans had cast fraudulent votes through the use of bots. As a result, Mnet temporarily halted voting, then nullified all fraudulent votes and blocked relevant IP addresses and deleted relevant user accounts.

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Broadcasting

The show is broadcast live in thirteen countries across Asia. In South Korea and Japan, it is broadcast on Mnet and across CJ E&M channels. Other TV channels that have broadcast the show include tvN (Asia), Music On! TV (Japan), 8TV (Malaysia), MediaCorp Channel U (Singapore), GMM 25 (Thailand), Indosiar (Indonesia), Myx (Philippines), MY TV (Cambodia), Iflix (Sri Lanka), Mnet America (United States), NRK (Norway) and SBS (Australia). The show is also broadcast online from Mnet's website in South Korea, Sohu in China, YouTube Live, and Vapp for the rest of the world.

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References

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External links

• Official website

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