Mnet Asian Music Awards 2018 atau yang lebih sering disebut MAMA 2018 akan diselenggarakan dalam waktu yang tidak lama lagi.
Tahun ini, ajang penghargaan musik ini akan digelar di Dongdaemun Design Plaza (Korea Selatan) pada tanggal 10 Desember, Saitama Super Arena (Jepang) tanggal 12 Desember, dan terakhir di AsiaWorld Expo Arena (Hongkong) tanggal 14 Desember 2018.
Kriteria untuk tiap-tiap kategori harus memenuhi syarat-syarat sebagai berikut:
Kategori Artist of the Year dan Artist – 20% voting di Mwave, 30% panel juri (Korea + international), 30% penjualan digital, 20% penjualan album fisik.
Kategori Song of the Year dan Genre – 20% voting di Mwave, 40% panel juri (Korea + international), 30% penjualan digital, 10% penjualan album fisik.
Album of the Year – 40% panel juri (Korea + international), 60% penjualan album fisik.
Kategori Worldwide Icon of the Year – 60% voting di Mwave, 20% voting di media sosial, 20% global music video views, + 10% live voting di media sosial
Kategori Global Top 10 Fans’ Choice – 60% voting di Mwave, 20% voting di media sosial, 20% global music video views
Kategori Special Award – 30% voting di Mwave, 70% panel juri (Korea + international)
Untuk dapat masuk ke kategori-kategori tersebut, album dan lagu yang dinominasikan harus dirilis antara tanggal 18 Oktober 2017 – 31 Oktober 2018.
Voting bagi yang mempunyai akun MWave tersedia di sini antara tanggal 1 November 2018 pukul 18.00 waktu Korea sampai 9 Desember 2018 pukul 23.59 waktu Korea.
Voting untuk Global Fans’ Choice tersedia di sini.
Berikut daftar nominasi MAMA 2018:
Best New Male Artist
- HAON
- Stray Kids
- Kim Dong Han
- The Boyz
- VINXEN
- Hyeongseop X Euiwoong
Best New Female Artist
- NATURE
- GWSN
- IZ*ONE
- (G)I-DLE
- LOONA
- fromis_9
Best Male Artist
- DEAN
- Roy Kim
- Park Hyo Shin
- Zico
- Hwang Chi Yeol
Best Female Artist
- IU
- Sunmi
- Chungha
- Taeyeon
- Heize
Best Male Group
- GOT7
- NCT 127
- NU’EST W
- Wanna One
- BTS
- SEVENTEEN
Best Female Group
- BLACKPINK
- TWICE
- Red Velvet
- MAMAMOO
- MOMOLAND
- GFRIEND
Best Band Performance
- DAY6 – “Shoot Me”
- FTISLAND – “Summer Night’s Dream”
- Guckkasten – “Stranger”
- Kiha and the Faces – “Cho Shim”
- Hyukoh – “Love Ya!”
Best Hip Hop & Urban Music
- DEAN – “instagram”
- Jay Park – “Soju”
- Zico – “Soulmate” (Feat. IU)
- Crush – “Bittersweet”
- Heize – “Jenga”
Best Music Video
- BLACKPINK – “DDU-DU DDU-DU”
- TWICE – “What is Love?”
- Wanna One – “Beautiful”
- BTS – “IDOL”
- SHINee – “Good Evening”
Best OST
- NU’EST W – “And I” (“Mr. Sunshine”)
- Roy Kim – “No Longer Mine” (“Familiar Wife”)
- Park Hyo Shin – “The Day” (“Mr. Sunshine”)
- SEVENTEEN – “A-TEEN” (“A-TEEN”)
- Paul Kim – “Every Day, Every Moment” (“Shall We Kiss First?”)
Best Unit
- EXO-CBX – “Blooming Day”
- Wanna One Triple Position – “Kangaroo”
- gugudan SEMINA – “SEMINA”
- SEVENTEEN BSS – “Just Do It”
- Girls’ Generation Oh!GG – “Lil’ Touch”
Best Vocal Performance Solo
- Roy Kim – “Only Then”
- Park Hyo Shin – “Sound of Winter”
- Lim Chang Jung – “There has Never Been a Day I Haven’t Loved You”
- Jung Seung Hwan – “The Snowman”
- Heize – “Didn’t Know Me”
Best Vocal Performance Group
- iKON – “Love Scenario”
- MAMAMOO – “Starry Night”
- MeloMance – “Tale”
- Bolbbalgan4 – “Travel”
- BTOB – “Only One for Me”
Best Dance Performance Solo
- Sunmi – “Siren”
- Seungri – “1, 2, 3!”
- Chungha – “Roller Coaster”
- HyunA – “Lip & Hip”
- Hyolyn – “Dally” (Feat. Gray)
Best Dance Performance Female Group
- AOA – “Bingle Bangle”
- TWICE – “What is Love?”
- BLACKPINK – “DDU-DU DDU-DU”
- Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”
- Lovelyz – “That Day”
- Oh My Girl – “Secret Garden”
Best Dance Performance Male Group
- Wanna One – “Boomerang”
- GOT7 – “Lullaby”
- MONSTA X – “Shoot Out”
- BTS – “Fake Love”
- SEVENTEEN – “Oh My!”
- PENTAGON – “Shine”
Song of the Year
(Lagu-lagu yang sudah dinominasikan dalam kategori lain otomatis masuk ke nominasi ini)
- AOA – “Bingle Bangle”
- BLACKPINK – “DDU-DU DDU-DU”
- Bolbbalgan4 – “Travel”
- BTOB – “Only One for Me”
- BTS – “Fake Love”
- Chungha – “Roller Coaster”
- Crush – “Bittersweet”
- DAY6 – “Shoot Me”
- DEAN – “instagram”
- EXO-CBX – “Blooming Day”
- FTISLAND – “Summer Night’s Dream”
- Girls’ Generation-Oh!GG – “Lil’ Touch”
- GOT7 – “Lullaby”
- Guckkasten – “Stranger”
- gugudan SEMINA – “SEMINA”
- Heize – “Didn’t Know Me”
- Heize – “Jenga”
- Hyukoh – “Love Ya!”
- HyunA – “Lip & Hip”
- Hyolyn – “Dally” (Feat. Gray)
- iKON – “Love Scenario”
- Jay Park – “Soju”
- Jung Seung Hwan – “The Snowman”
- Kiha and the Faces – “Cho Shim”
- Lim Chang Jung – “There has Never Been a Day I Haven’t Loved You”
- Lovelyz – “That Day”
- MAMAMOO – “Starry Night”
- MeloMance – “Tale”
- MONSTA X – “Shoot Out”
- Oh My Girl – “Secret Garden”
- Park Hyo Shin – “Sound of Winter”
- PENTAGON – “Shine”
- Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”
- Roy Kim – “Only Then”
- Seungri – “1, 2, 3!”
- SEVENTEEN – “Oh My!”
- SEVENTEEN BSS – “Just Do It”
- Sunmi – “Siren”
- TWICE – “What is Love?”
- Wanna One – “Boomerang”
- Wanna One Triple Position – “Kangaroo”
- Zico – “Soulmate” (Feat. IU)
Artist of the Year
(Artis yang sudah didominasikan di kategori lain otomatis dimasukan ke nominasi ini)
- BLACKPINK
- BTS
- Chungha
- DEAN
- fromis_9
- GFRIEND
- (G)I-DLE
- GOT7
- GWSN
- HAON
- Heize
- Hwang Chi Yeol
- Hyeongseop X Euiwoong
- IU
- IZ*ONE
- Kim Dong Han
- LOONA
- MAMAMOO
- MOMOLAND
- NATURE
- NCT 127
- NU’EST W
- Park Hyo Shin
- Red Velvet
- Roy Kim
- SEVENTEEN
- Stray Kids
- Sunmi
- Taeyeon
- The Boyz
- TWICE
- VINXEN
- Wanna One
- Zico
Mwave Global Fans’ Choice
(Nominasi ditentukan oleh pemenang voting online di MWave tiap bulannya)
- Desember: Wanna One – “Beautiful”
- Januari: MONSTA X – “Dramarama”
- Februari & Maret: JBJ – “My Flower”
- April: GOT7 – “Look”
- Mei: EXO-CBX – “Blooming Day”
- Juni & Juli: BTS – “Fake Love”
- Agustus: SEVENTEEN – “Oh My!”
- September: Stray Kids – “My Pace”
- Oktober: GOT7 – “Lullaby”