[Video] Melon Music Awards 2026 Day 2 Closes November 15 at Seoul's Gocheok Sky Dome: BTS Named Artist of the Year, IVE's 'BANG BANG' Song of the Year, CORTIS Record of the Year
The second day of the 18th Melon Music Awards (MMA 2026) was held on November 15 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, following the first ceremony on November 14. Of the grand prizes presented on Day 2, Artist of the Year went to BTS, Record of the Year to CORTIS, and Best Song of the Year to IVE's 'BANG BANG.' BTS, unable to attend because of their ongoing tour, delivered a prerecorded acceptance speech, saying the group had received six awards across the two-day ceremony and thanking their fans, ARMY. IVE also won Best Music Video for 'BANG BANG' and Best Female Group.
Other Day 2 honours included New Artist of the Year for ALPHA DRIVE ONE and LNGSHOT, Best Male Group for BTS, Best Performance – Female for KiiiKiii and ILLIT, Best Music Style for KiiiKiii, Best Songwriter for Lee Chanhyuk, Global Rising Artist for AND2BLE, Global Impact Artist for ILLIT and NCT WISH, Japan Favourite Artist by U-NEXT for NCT WISH, TrackZero Choice for SUMIN, and the 1theK Icon award for hrtz.wav. The Top 10 list comprised NCT WISH, IVE, PLAVE, CORTIS, KiiiKiii, AKMU, BTS, ILLIT, I.O.I and Hearts2Hearts, while the Global Top 10 comprised IVE, CORTIS, ILLIT, NCT WISH, aespa, G-Dragon, RESCENE, RIIZE, BTS and Hearts2Hearts.
The Melon Music Awards honour artists using Melon streaming data, user voting and expert evaluation; Record of the Year is selected entirely by judges. The 18th edition expanded to a two-day format for the first time in 2026, and Day 2 featured performances by IVE, NCT 127, PLAVE, NCT WISH, ILLIT, KiiiKiii, CORTIS, 82MAJOR, ALPHA DRIVE ONE, LNGSHOT, AND2BLE and hrtz.wav. On Day 1, BTS's ARIRANG tour won Stage of the Year and BTS also took the Album of the Year grand prize for 'ARIRANG.'
图中是韩国首尔高尺天空巨蛋的内景，本届Melon音乐奖两日颁奖礼在此举行。
Source: Melon Music Awards
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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