Golden Melody Awards
annual Taiwanese music award ceremony
The Golden Melody Awards (simplified Chinese: 金曲奖; traditional Chinese: 金曲獎; pinyin: Jīnqǔ Jiǎng), commonly abbreviated as GMA, is an honor awarded by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Formosan languages popular and traditional music industry. The GMAs are awarded on the basis of votes by members of a jury and have been recognized as the equivalent to the Grammy Awards in the Chinese-speaking world. It is the music industry counterpart to the Golden Bell Awards (television) and the Golden Horse Awards (motion pictures).
The 1st Golden Melody Awards was held on January 6, 1990. Following the 1996 ceremony, the Ministry of Culture overhauled many Golden Melody Award categories for 1997.
In 1997, the awards were split into separate honors for popular music and traditional music. The two awards became distinct ceremonies in 2007. Starting in 2014, the Golden Melody Awards for traditional music has been awarded by the National Center for Traditional Arts, another division of the Ministry of Culture.
The 31st and 32nd editions of the awards ceremony were postponed to October 2020 and August 2021, respectively, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 33rd edition was held on July 2, 2022 at the Kaohsiung Arena in Kaohsiung, marking its first return to Kaohsiung City since the 16th edition.
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