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MAMA와 MMA, 숫자로 비교
The Mnet-run MAMA Awards and Kakao's Melon Music Awards side by side, metric by metric: history, daesang counts, most wins, 2025 winners, how the top prizes are scored and the 2026 dates. Each cell is sourced and dated; the numbers aren't scored.
Data as of
| No. | Group | Metric | MAMA Awards | Melon Music Awards (MMA) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | History | Organiser | CJ ENM's music channel Mnet | Kakao Entertainment, through its streaming service Melon | 12 |
| 2 | History | First held | 1999, as the Mnet Video Music Awards | First live ceremony on December 16, 2009 (online fan-vote awards from 2005 to 2008) | 12 |
| 3 | Records | Grand prizes (daesang) presented through 2025 | 82 | 58 | 12 |
| 4 | Records | Daesang categories in 2025 | Artist, Song and Album of the Year and Fans' Choice of the Year | Artist, Album, Song and Record of the Year | 12 |
| 5 | Records | Most daesang won | BTS: 21 | BTS: 13 | 12 |
| 6 | Records | Every daesang in one year | BTS in 2019, 2020 and 2021 | BTS in 2019; no other act has taken all four | 12 |
| 7 | 2025 winners | Artist of the Year | G-Dragon | G-Dragon | 12 |
| 8 | 2025 winners | Song of the Year | ROSÉ and Bruno Mars, "APT." | G-Dragon, "Home Sweet Home" (feat. Taeyang, Daesung) | 12 |
| 9 | 2025 winners | Album of the Year | Stray Kids, Karma | G-Dragon, Übermensch | 12 |
| 10 | Scoring | Artist of the Year | 40% jury, 30% streaming and downloads, 30% physical albums | 60% Melon digital sales and streams, 20% votes, 20% panel | 34 |
| 11 | Scoring | Song of the Year | 50% jury, 50% streaming and downloads | 60% Melon digital sales and streams, 20% votes, 20% panel | 34 |
| 12 | Scoring | Album of the Year | 40% jury, 60% physical sales (albums that sold at least 1 million) | 60% Melon digital sales and streams, 20% votes, 20% panel | 34 |
| 13 | 2026 | Dates and venue | November 20–21, Kyocera Dome Osaka | November 14–15, Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul | 4 |
| 14 | 2026 | Fan voting | Fans' Choice rounds: October 12–22 and October 28–November 8 (organiser's notice) | TOP10 voting October 15–29; category voting October 30–November 13 | 4 |
Everything is as of November 9, 2026, before either 2026 show. Winners, counts and records come from DabPop's archives, which cite Wikipedia and Soompi and run through the 2025 shows.12 Scoring weights are MAMA's 2026 rules as Soompi reports them and the MMA's rules as DabPop's vote guide summarises the organiser's page; the organisers' own sites render by script or were unreadable, so neither side's weights come from an organiser page opened for this post.34 The rows are facts side by side, not a score: nothing here says which show is bigger or better. Where one cell has no counterpart (for example the MMA has no fan-vote daesang), the table says what each show does instead.
MAMA is run by CJ ENM's music channel Mnet and began in 1999 as the Mnet Video Music Awards; it has been called the MAMA Awards since 2022.1 The Melon Music Awards are run by Kakao Entertainment through its streaming service Melon. The awards began in 2005 as prizes announced online from fan votes, and the first live ceremony was held on December 16, 2009.2
MAMA has presented 82 daesang through 2025 and the MMA 58, and BTS hold the most at both: 21 at MAMA and 13 at the MMA.12 At MAMA, BTS took every grand prize on offer in 2019, 2020 and 2021; at the MMA they won all four in 2019, and no other act has taken all four there. Details are in DabPop's archives of every MAMA daesang winner and every Melon Music Awards daesang winner.12
G-Dragon won Artist of the Year at both shows in 2025.12 The other top prizes went different ways: ROSÉ and Bruno Mars's "APT." took MAMA's Song of the Year and Stray Kids' Karma its Album of the Year, while G-Dragon also won the MMA's Song of the Year ("Home Sweet Home") and Album of the Year (Übermensch).12
MAMA's 2026 rules weigh a jury at 40% for Artist of the Year, with streaming and downloads at 30% and physical albums at 30%; Song of the Year is 50% jury and 50% streaming and downloads; and Album of the Year is 40% jury and 60% physical sales, counting only albums that sold at least 1 million copies.4 At the MMA most prizes, including Artist, Album and Song of the Year, are scored 60% on Melon digital sales and streams, 20% on a panel and 20% on votes, so a fan vote counts for a fifth.3 The MAMA weights are as Soompi reports them; the MMA weights are from the organiser's page as summarised in DabPop's vote guide.34
The MMA comes first, on November 14 and 15 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, followed by MAMA on November 20 and 21 at Kyocera Dome Osaka.3 MAMA's Fans' Choice voting runs in two rounds, and the MMA runs TOP10 voting and then category voting. For MAMA's nominees and the full list of categories, see MAMA 2026 Nominations by the Numbers. This post will be updated with the winners once both shows have aired. Videos: the MMA2026 teaser from the Melon channel and the 2026 MAMA main teaser from Mnet K-POP.5