# 2022 MAMA Awards

The 2022 MAMA Awards ceremony organized by CJ E&M and broadcast through its music channel Mnet, was broadcast live on November 29 and 30, 2022. The ceremony was held at the Kyocera Dome Osaka, Japan. The theme for the ceremony is titled "K-POP World Citizenship" with sub-themes per night, "The world we build together" for day 1, and "We are K-POP" for day 2. The ceremony is the first to carry the new rebranded name, the first to take place overseas during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 24th in the show's history.
This year's ceremony saw the addition of the MAMA Platinum award which will be given to artists who've won all 4 daesangs (Grand Prizes) at once in a single night. BTS was the first, and so far only, artist to receive the award, by virtue of winning all of the four daesangs in the previous 3 editions.

## Background

On August 23, 2022, CJ E&M announced that the "Mnet Asian Music Awards" would be rebranded as simply the "MAMA Awards" going forward. On October 26, Mnet announced the first line up of artists for the ceremony. On November 9, Mnet announced the second line up of artists for the ceremony. On November 16, Mnet announced the hosts of the ceremony, Jeon Somi will be hosting day 1 while Park Bo-gum will host day 2. They also announced that BTS member, J-hope, will perform and collaboration stages.

## Performers
### Day 1

List of 2022 MAMA Awards day 1 performances :
| Artist(s) | Song(s) | Stage theme title |
| Jeon Somi and Leejung Lee (with YGX) | Songs From Worldwide Fans' Choice Nominated Artist | "The New Passion" |
| Nmixx | "O.O", "Dice" | "Downside Up" |
| DKZ | "Uh-Heung" | "The Final Destination" |
| Hyolyn | "Layin' Low" | "Two Women" |
| Bibi | "Bibi Vengeance" | "Two Women" |
| Bibi + Hyolyn | "Youknowbetter", "Law" | "Two Women" |
| JO1 | "SuperCali" (MAMA version) | "I Am, I Wish, I Will" |
| Le Sserafim | "Antifragile", "Fearless" | "Dear You Who Wish for My Fall" |
| Kep1er | "The Girls (Can't Turn Me Down)", "Wa Da Da" | "The Girls WaDaDa to Dream" |
| Forestella | "Fake Love" (BTS cover), "Save Our Lives" | "Live a Life of Love" |
| Street Man Fighter & Kang Daniel | "World Changer" | "Dance Makes One" |
| Ive, Kep1er, Nmixx, Le Sserafim, NewJeans | "Eleven", "Wa Da Da", "O.O", "Fearless", "Hype Boy" "Cheer Up" (Twice cover) | "LINNK the Next Generation" |
| Tomorrow X Together | "Opening Sequence", "Lonely Boy", "Good Boy Gone Bad" | "Goodbye Romeo" |
| Kara | "Lupin", "Step", "Mister", "When I Move" | "Kara Is Back" |
| Stray Kids | "Venom" (MAMA version), "Maniac" (MAMA version) | "Do You Want to Be Oddinary?" |

### Day 2

List of 2022 MAMA Awards day 2 performances :
| Artist(s) | Song(s) | Stage theme title |
| Jung Jae-il | "Parasite", "Squid Game" | "The Letter from Music" |
| Jung Jae-il, Tiger JK & 3Racha | "Music Makes One" | "The Letter from Music" |
| Tempest | "Dragon" | "Fly High" |
| NewJeans | Intro, "Hype Boy", "Attention" | "NewFriends" |
| Enhypen | "Blessed-Cursed", "Walk the Line", "Future Perfect (Pass the Mic)" | "Manifesto: 革命" |
| Ive | "Eleven", "Love Dive", "After Like" | "God Is Alive" |
| NiziU and INI | "Yuki no Hana" (Mika Nakashima cover), "Clap" (Seventeen cover) | "Into the Universe" |
| NiziU | "Clap Clap" | "Into the Universe" |
| INI | "Spectra" | "Into the Universe" |
| Treasure | "Volkno", "Jikjin", "Hello" | "We Don't Need Way Back" |
| (G)I-dle and Jaurim | "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One", "Tomboy" & "Boxing Helena", "Beeswax Angel" | "We Never Die" |
| Jaurim | "Hahaha Song" | "We Never Die" |
| (G)I-dle | "My Bag", "Tomboy" | "We Never Die" |
| Itzy | "Cheshire", "Sneakers" | "Birth of a Queen" |
| Lim Young-woong and Monika | "If We Ever Meet Again" | "Good, Bye" |
| Zico, Street Man Fighter and Soyeon of (G)I-dle | "New Thing", "Freak" | "Freakout" |
| J-Hope | "More", "Arson", "Future" | "I'm Your Hope" |

## Presenters
### Day 1

* Ahn Hyun-mo, Nam Yoon-su and Gabee – Red Carpet Hosts
* Joo Jung-hyuk – Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10
* Kang Han-na – Favorite New Artist and Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10
* Kwak Yoon-gy and Gabee – Yogibo Chill Artist Award
* Nam Yoon-su and Mio Imada – Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10 and Favorite New Artist
* Park Sung-hoon – Favorite New Artist and Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10
* Pak Se-ri – Favorite Asian Artist and Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10
* Lee Jae-wook – Favorite New Artist and Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10
* Seo Ji-hye – Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10
* Park Bo-gum – Worldwide Icon of the Year

### Day 2

* Ahn Hyun-mo, Nam Yoon-su and Aiki – Red Carpet Hosts
* Enhypen – Best New Male Group
* Yeo Jin-goo – Inspiring Achievement
* Woo Do-hwan and Han Sun-hwa – Best Male Artist and Best Female Artist
* Nam Yoon-su and Aiki – Global Music Trend Leader
* Moon Ga-young – Breakout Producer
* Yeo Jin-goo and Kim So-hyun – Most Popular Male Artist
* Kim Hae-joon and Lee Eun-ji – Best Dance Performance Female Group
* Hwang Min-hyun and Ahn So-hee – Favorite Female Group and Best Dance Performance Male Group
* Kentaro Sakaguchi – Album of the Year
* Jung Woo-sung – Song of the Year
* Yuna Kim – Artist of the Year
* Hwang Jung-min – MAMA Platinum

## Criteria

All songs that have been released from November 1, 2021, to October 21, 2022, are eligible to be nominated.
On November 9, 2022, Mnet announced that due to the changes in Twitter which makes securing and collecting data impossible, they will remove all Twitter votes from the Worldwide Icon of the Year and Worldwide Fan's Choice category without making adjustments to the other sources.
| Division | MAMA professional panel (Local and foreign) | Digital sales | Record sales | Global music video view counts | Online voting |
| Artist of the Year | 40% | 30% (20% South Korea + 10% Global) | 30% | — | — |
| Categories by Artist | 40% | 30% (20% South Korea + 10% Global) | 30% | — | — |
| Song of the Year | 40% | 60% (40% South Korea + 20% Global) | — | — | — |
| Categories by Genre | 40% | 60% (40% South Korea + 20% Global) | — | — | — |
| Album of the Year | 40% | — | 60% | — | — |
| Best Music Video | 70% | — | — | 30% | — |
| Worldwide Icon of the Year | — | — | — | 10% | 50% (Mnet Plus) 30% (Spotify votes) 10% (Twitter) |
| Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10 | — | — | — | 10% | 50% (Mnet Plus) 30% (Spotify votes) 10% (Twitter) |

## Winners and nominees

Winners and nominees are listed in alphabetical order. Winners listed first and highlighted in bold.
The nominees were announced during the live announcement last October 24, 2022 at 6PM KST. Voting opened an hour after.

### Main awards

| Artist of the Year (Daesang) | Song of the Year (Daesang) |
| BTS (G)I-dle Blackpink Ive Stray Kids | Ive – "Love Dive" (G)I-dle – "Tomboy" Blackpink – "Pink Venom" BTS – "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" NewJeans – "Attention" |
| Album of the Year (Daesang) | Worldwide Icon of the Year (Daesang) |
| BTS – Proof Blackpink – Born Pink NCT Dream – Glitch Mode Seventeen – Face the Sun Stray Kids – Maxident | BTS Blackpink Enhypen Got7 NCT Dream Psy Seventeen Stray Kids Tomorrow X Together Treasure |
| Best Male Group | Best Female Group |
| BTS Enhypen NCT Dream Seventeen Stray Kids Tomorrow X Together | Blackpink (G)I-dle Aespa Itzy Red Velvet Twice |
| Best Male Artist | Best Female Artist |
| Lim Young-woong J-Hope Kang Daniel Psy Zico | Nayeon IU Miyeon Seulgi Taeyeon |
| Best Dance Performance – Male Group | Best Dance Performance – Female Group |
| Seventeen – "Hot" NCT 127 – "2 Baddies" NCT Dream – "Glitch Mode" Stray Kids – "Maniac" Tomorrow X Together – "Good Boy Gone Bad" Treasure – "Jikjin" | Ive – "Love Dive" (G)I-dle – "Tomboy" Blackpink – "Pink Venom" Le Sserafim – "Fearless" NewJeans – "Attention" Red Velvet – "Feel My Rhythm" |
| Best Dance Performance – Solo | Best Vocal Performance – Solo |
| Psy – "That That" (feat. Suga) Jessi – "Zoom" Nayeon – "Pop!" Sunmi – "Heart Burn" Choi Ye-na – "Smiley" (feat. Bibi) | Taeyeon – "INVU" IU – "Drama" Kim Min-seok – "Drunken Confession" Lee Mu-jin – "When It Snows" (feat. Heize) Lim Young-woong – "Our Blues, Our Life" |
| Best Vocal Performance – Group | Best Collaboration |
| Big Bang – "Still Life" BTS – "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" Davichi – "Fanfare" Enhypen – "Polaroid Love" Winner – "I Love U" | Psy and Suga – "That That" 10cm and Big Naughty – "Just 10 Centimeters" Crush and J-Hope – "Rush Hour" Loco and Hwasa – "Somebody!" Woo Won-jae and Meenoi – "Ghosting" |
| Best New Male Artist | Best New Female Artist |
| Xdinary Heroes ATBO Tempest TNX Younite | Ive Kep1er Le Sserafim NewJeans Nmixx Choi Ye-na |
| Best OST | Best HipHop & Urban Music |
| MeloMance – "Love, Maybe" (from Business Proposal) 10cm – "Drawer" (from Our Beloved Summer) Jimin and Ha Sung-woon – "With You" (from Our Blues) V – "Christmas Tree" (from Our Beloved Summer) Wonstein – "Your Existence" (from Twenty-Five Twenty-One) | Jay Park – "Ganadara" (feat. IU) Be'O – "Counting Stars" (feat. Beenzino) Big Naughty – "Beyond Love" (feat. 10cm) J-Hope – "More" Zico – "Freak" |
| Best Band Performance | Best Music Video |
| Xdinary Heroes – "Happy Death Day" Jannabi – "Grippin' the Green" Jaurim – "Stay with Me" Lucy – "Play" The Black Skirts – "My Little Lambs" | Blackpink – "Pink Venom" |

### Favorite awards

Worldwide Fans' Choice Top 10 :
| Blackpink BTS Enhypen Got7 NCT Dream Psy Seventeen Stray Kids Tomorrow X Together Treasure List of nominated artists Aespa Astro Ateez Big Bang Billlie Brave Girls BtoB Chungha Crush Dreamcatcher Everglow Fromis 9 (G)I-dle Girls' Generation Itzy IU Ive Jay Park Jessi Jo Yu-ri Kai Kang Daniel Kard Kep1er Le Sserafim Loona Mamamoo Monsta X NCT 127 NewJeans Nmixx Oneus Pentagon Red Velvet STAYC Sunmi The Boyz Twice Winner Yena ||
| Favorite New Artist | Favorite Asian Artist |
| Ive Kep1er Le Sserafim Nmixx | JO1 |
| Favorite Female Group ||
| (G)I-dle ||

### Special awards

| Category | Category | Winner |
| Yogibo Chill Artist | Yogibo Chill Artist | Stray Kids |
| Bibigo Culture and Style | Bibigo Culture and Style | J-Hope |
| Inspiring Achievement | Inspiring Achievement | Jaurim |
| Global Music Trend Leader | Global Music Trend Leader | Zico |
| Most Popular Male Artist | Most Popular Male Artist | J-Hope |
| Most Popular Group | Most Popular Group | Stray Kids |
| MAMA Platinum | MAMA Platinum | BTS |

### Professional Categories

| Category | Winner | Work |
| Breakout Producer | Min Hee-jin | New Jeans |

### Multiple awards

The following artist(s) received three or more awards:
| Awards | Artist(s) |
| 6 | BTS |
| 4 | Ive |
| 3 | Blackpink |
| 3 | Psy |
| 3 | Stray Kids |

## Broadcast

The ceremony of the 2022 MAMA Awards will be broadcast live worldwide from Mnet in South Korea, to simulcast across CJ E&M channels (where available); other international networks, and online via Mnet K-pop, Mnet TV, M2, and KCON's YouTube account. The red carpet will be broadcast live 2 hours before the main ceremony.
| Country | Network | Network |
| Worldwide | YouTube (Mnet K-Pop, Mnet TV, M2 and KCON Official) | YouTube (Mnet K-Pop, Mnet TV, M2 and KCON Official) |
| South Korea | Mnet, tvN Show (awards show only), TVING | Mnet, tvN Show (awards show only), TVING |
| Japan | Mnet Japan, Mnet Smart+, au Smart Pass | Mnet Japan, Mnet Smart+, au Smart Pass |
| Singapore | Channel U (live highlights), MeWATCH | tvN Asia |
| Taiwan | FET Friday Video, FET Mobile Circle app (Far EasTone) | tvN Asia |
| Malaysia | TonTon (awards show only) | tvN Asia |
| Vietnam | FPT Play | FPT Play |
| Philippines | tvN Asia (via Smart GigaPlay & Cignal (PLDT Group)) | tvN Asia (via Smart GigaPlay & Cignal (PLDT Group)) |
| Hong Kong | tvN Asia | tvN Asia |
| Indonesia | tvN Asia | tvN Asia |
| Thailand | tvN Asia | tvN Asia |
| Myanmar | tvN Asia | tvN Asia |
| Maldives | tvN Asia | tvN Asia |
| Macau | tvN Asia | tvN Asia |
| Sri Lanka | tvN Asia | tvN Asia |