MAMA Award for Best Female Artist

MAMA Award
for Best Female Artist
CountrySouth Korea
Presented byCJ E&M Pictures (Mnet)
First awarded1999
Currently held byJisoo – "Flower" (2023)
Most awardsIU (5 wins)
Most nominationsBoA, Taeyeon (5)
WebsiteMnet Asian Music Awards

The MAMA Award for Best Female Artist (여자 가수상) is an award presented annually by CJ E&M Pictures (Mnet).

It was first awarded at the 1st Mnet Asian Music Awards ceremony held in 1999; Uhm Jung-hwa won the award for her song "I Don't Know", and it is given in honor of a female artist with the best performance in the music industry.[1]

Winners and nominees[edit]

Year[I] Winner(s) Song Nominee(s)
1999
(1st) 		Uhm Jung-hwa "I Don't Know"
  • Kim Jin-won – "Happy Birthday To You"
  • Lena Park – "A Person in My Dream"
  • Park Ji-yoon – "I Do Not Know Anything"
  • Yangpa – "Adios"
2000
(2nd) 		Park Ji-yoon "Coming of Age Ceremony"
2001
(3rd) 		Kim Hyun-jung "You Who Left"
  • Yangpa – "Special Night"
  • Uhm Jung-hwa – "Crack"
  • J – "The Saddest Words"
  • T – "As Time Goes By"
2002
(4th) 		Jang Na-ra "Sweet Dream"
2003
(5th) 		Lee Soo-young "Solitary"
2004
(6th) 		"Whistle to Me"
2005
(7th) 		BoA "Girls on Top"
2006
(8th) 		Baek Ji-young "I Won't Love"
2007
(9th) 		Ivy "Sonata of Temptation"
2008
(10th) 		Lee Hyori "U-Go-Girl"
2009
(11th) 		Baek Ji-young "Like Being Hit by a Bullet"
2010
(12th) 		BoA "Hurricane Venus"
2011
(13th) 		Baek Ji-young "Ordinary"
2012
(14th) 		IU "You and I"
2013
(15th) 		Lee Hyori "Bad Girls"
2014
(16th) 		IU "Friday"
2015
(17th) 		Taeyeon "I"
2016
(18th) 		"Why"
2017
(19th) 		IU "Palette"
2018
(20th) 		Sunmi "Siren"
2019
(21st) 		Chungha "Gotta Go"
2020
(22nd) 		IU "Blueming"
2021
(23rd) 		"Celebrity"
2022
(24th) 		Nayeon "Pop!"
2023
(25th) 		Jisoo "Flower"

Multiple awards for Best Female Artist[edit]

As of 2020, six female artists received two or more awards.

5 wins
3 wins
2 wins

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Mnet Asian Music Awards held that year.

Gallery[edit]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "1999 M.net Korean Music Festival Winners list" Archived 2014-10-09 at the Wayback Machine. MAMA. Retrieved 2014-06-12.

References[edit]

  • "M.net Asian Music Awards Winners list by year". mwave. MAMA.
  • "M.net Asian Music Awards Broadcasts by year". mwave. MAMA.
  • "M.net Asian Music Awards Photos by year". mwave. MAMA.

External links[edit]

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