[OBJECTIVE] Melon Album of the Year Criteria
This is not an invitation for bashing or fanwars so stay out of this post if that is your intention. This is to lay out the facts and ask objective questions. Although I am happy for BTS, according to MMA’s criteria that 70% would be based on MELON DIGITALS (outlined in the chart) and the rest on voting (which EXO was carrying by a mile) I truly want to ask Melon if, how and why they somehow changed their criteria for a different winner. EXO’s downloads alone were 5 million + ONLY for their album digitals this year. In this regard, they even beat out girl groups who are known for their stellar melon performances.
Knetz are in doubt and questioning this as well, so please Melon at the very least give a clear transparent criteria for the winners or if you’re just going to hand out awards why have critera at all? For example IOI not winning Rookie although their melon digitals were above and beyond any other rookie group there or Jang Beom Jung’s album which had over FOUR times the downloads and over 3 times the streams that bts had, even more than EXO and if there was no voting included than he should have won. If you don’t follow the criteria you yourself ave outlined, you can’t expect people to just nod and accept it. Doing this lowers the credibility of the award show and the awards themselves.