The Melon Music Awards 2022 will be held on Nov. 26 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, Kakao Entertainment announced Thursday.

The Melon Music Awards started as an online event in 2005 and switched to both an offline and online event from 2009. The award ceremony was only held online in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This year’s awards ceremony will feature K-pop stars who have landed on the Melon charts and indie artists introduced through “Track Zero,” an indie discovery project.

In line with the upcoming awards ceremony, Melon plans to release “MY RECORD,” which shows users’ individual music tastes at a glance, and “Data Lab,” which shows the chart performance of artists, at the end of next month.


BY LIM JEONG-WON [lim.jeongwon@joongang.co.kr]