New Jeans, the winner was awarded the most prizes on the day with 5 prizes

Ive shared, “We will become a progressive singer”

SOURCE: 'MMA 2023' live stream screenshot

[The FactㅣReporter Mun Hwa Young] The group New Jeans once again proved that they are a trend by winning a total of 5 awards, including 2 Daesang awards, at 'MMA 2023'. Ive and NCT DREAM also each received a Daesang award.

'MMA 2023 (Melon Music Awards)' was held at Inspire Arena in Seoul from 5 pm on the 2nd. New Jeans won two of the four Daesang awards as Artist of the Year and Best Song, while Ive and NCT DREAM won Album of the Year and Record of the Year respectively.

First, this year's Best Song award goes to New Jeans. New Jeans after winning the award for 'Ditto' shared, "We will always grow and continuously show good music."

Hani said, "I remember feeling healed when I first heard Ditto, and I'm so grateful that that feeling has been conveyed to many people," while Daniel expressed his heart to Bunnies (fandom name): "Let's spend a warm and happy time together this winter."

After that, they once again became the main characters at the Artist of the Year awards. Hyein said: "It's an honor that we can receive so many great awards at an awards ceremony even though we haven't debuted for a long time." Minji also emphasized: "We will continue to work hard so that New Jeans will be even more desirable."

New Jeans won 5 awards, including Top 10, Million Top 10 and Best Female Group trophy.

Source: 'MMA 2023' live stream screenshot

Ive received the Album of the Year award for his first full album, 'I've IVE.' They also won the Daesang last year as Song of the Year. Thus, the group was awarded Daesang for two consecutive years. In particular, the award has even more special meaning when the day was also the 2nd anniversary of Ive's debut.

Yu-jin said: "We received a meaningful award at MMA last year, but we still clearly remember the time we received the Daesang award. Looking back at the past year, I think to myself 'Am I the one? Is the singer suitable for that?' But this year I will continue to ask that question and become a more improved singer."

Jang Won Young also shared, "Not only us, but everyone these days asks, 'Is what they are doing right?' "Suddenly, I thought about that point. I felt like there were many situations where music and everything we were doing could become a source of strength or an answer to that question, and this award made me realize that one more time."

NCT DREAM won the 'Record of the Year' trophy as proof of their hard work over the past 7 years. Since this is their first appearance on 'MMA', the group has also set expectations for constant changes in the future.

Mark said in his acceptance speech: "We only released one album this year, but the members worked hard and I'm grateful to everyone who worked with the Neo Production team. Despite the power of The artists and fans are great, but the power of the people working hard behind the scenes is also great."

He then mentioned the new album that will be released soon: "I think we live in an era where there are so many genres of music being released today and sometimes it's easy for us to feel tired of it, but we want to preserve the meaning of music so the whole group is preparing for next year's album."

Jisung, the youngest of the members, shed tears. He said: "I think this award is not only for NCTzen (fandom name) and us but also for the company. As you know, initially we were a group of 7 people who couldn't work together, but I 'I'm grateful to the company for protecting us to the end and making it happen'. At the same time, he expressed his feelings for the fans: "We will not let you down." "Hopefully, don't worry and please keep following us."

Source: 'MMA 2023' live stream screenshot

At the stage that day, artists such as Aespa, Stay C, Zero Base One, RIIZE, SHINee attended and delivered rich performances. After 10 years participating in MMA, SHINee received the Stage of the Year award with a perfect live performance.

The new artists of the year who received awards were Zero Base One and RIIZE. RIIZE shared "We will always be a mature RIIZE and make dreams come true like the group's name", Zero Base One shared. "There are a lot of dream-like things happening. We will work even harder so I hope everyone will love the group a lot."

The 10 TOP awards went to New Jeans, Aespa, Ive, NCT Dream, Lim Young Woong, and the newly established Top 10 Millions awards this year went to IVE, NCT Dream, New Jeans, Aespa.