Country Taiwan Network Taiwan Television Ceremony date 25 June 2016 | First awarded 1990 Winners JJ Lin, Penny Tai Presented by Ministry of Culture | |
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Awarded for Best in music production Reward(s) Golden Melody statuette | ||
The Golden Melody Awards (simplified Chinese: 金曲奖; traditional Chinese: 金曲獎; pinyin: Jīn Qǔ Jiǎng) is an annual Taiwanese music award, founded in 1990, presented by the Ministry of Culture (Republic of China). It is usually presented in May, June or July each year and presented for music in Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, and Formosan languages. It is the Taiwanese equivalent to the Grammy Awards. It is also one of the three major annual awards presented in Taiwan along with Golden Bell Awards for television production and Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for films.
There are two main streams of categories: Popular Music Category (流行音樂作品類) and Traditional Music Category (傳統暨藝術音樂作品類) and are presented at separate ceremonies.
It was first broadcast on Azio TV (東風衛視) from 2002 to 2009. Since 2010, it was broadcast on Taiwan Television (TTV) (台視), with the exception of 2013, in which the event was broadcast on SET Metro (三立都會台).