2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards

The 2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards ceremony, organized by CJ E&M through its music channel Mnet, took place from December 10 through December 14, 2018 (dubbed as "MAMA Week") in South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong. The ceremony was the first Mnet Asian Music Awards hosted in South Korea in nine years, the 20th ceremony in the show's history, and the second ceremony which took place in three locations. This was also the first ceremony broadcast worldwide online via YouTube. The three days event generated over 50 million messages sent on Twitter.

Four Grand Prizes (Daesangs) were given throughout the ceremonies; The inaugural Worldwide Icon of the Year is given alongside Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Artist of the Year.

Shows
"2018 MAMA Premiere in Korea" celebrated and honored new artists in both South Korea and other parts of Asia. "2018 MAMA Fans' Choice in Japan" awarded artists in fan voted categories and also announced the first Worldwide Icon of the Year. "2018 MAMA in Hong Kong" was the main event and the show's finale. The show gave awards to the artists that made great achievements in 2018.

Winners and nominees
Online voting opened on the official MAMA' website, the Mwave app, TikTok, and Twitter, on November 1, 2018, one hour after nominees were announced. Voting ended on December 9, 2018.

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Multiple awards
The following artist(s) received three or more awards:

Multiple nominations
The following artist(s) received seven or more nominations (excluding the special awards):

Performers
The following individuals and groups, listed in order of appearance, performed musical numbers.

Presenters
Korea
 * Jung Hae-in – main host
 * Bae Yoon-young and Lee Ki-woo – presented Best New Asian Artist (Thailand & Vietnam)
 * Jung Hae-in – presented Professional Categories
 * Ji-soo and Jung Chae-yeon – presented Best New Asian Artist (China, Indonesia & Japan)
 * Jung Hae-in – presented New Challenger Performance
 * Kang Seung-hyun – presented Best of Next Award
 * Kim Yu-ri and Hong Jong-hyun – presented Best New Artists
 * Kim So-hyun – presented DDP Best Trend Award

Japan
 * Park Bo-gum – main host
 * Yoo Hyun-min and Lee Da-hee – presented Worldwide Fan Choice Award
 * Minue – presented Favorite Dance Artist (Japan)
 * Ha Seok-jin – presented Favorite Music Video
 * Kwon Hyuk-soo – presented Worldwide Fans Choice Award
 * Choi Tae-joon and Lee Sung-kyung – presented Worldwide Fan Choice Award
 * Matsushige Yutaka and Shin Ah-young – presented Favorite Vocal Artist
 * Yang Se-jong – presented Favorite Male Dance Artist
 * Jung Il-woo and Jung So-min – presented Worldwide Fans Choice Award
 * Ha Seok-jin and Choi Kang-hee – presented Favorite Female Dance Artist and Worldwide Fans Choice Award
 * Jang Hyuk – presented Worldwide Icon of the Year

Hong Kong
 * Song Joong-ki – main host
 * Kim Dong-wook and Kim Da-mi – presented Best Unit
 * Lee Yi-kyung and Moon Ga-bi – presented Best Vocal Performance Solo
 * Yoon Jong-bin and Lee Sun-bin – presented Best OST
 * In Gyo-jin and So Yi-hyun – presented New Asian Artist
 * Kwon Hyuk-soo and Bae Jung-nam – presented Mwave Global Fan Choice
 * Lee Jun-hyung and Seo Eun-su – presented Best Dance Performance – Female Group and TikTok Most Popular Artist
 * Park Sung-woong – monologue
 * Song Joong-ki, Jackson (Got7), Daehwi (Wanna One) and RM (BTS) – presented Janet Jackson Inspiration Award
 * Park Sung-woong and Lee El – presented Best Asian Style and Discovery of the Year
 * Ahn Jae-hyun & Kim Sa-rang – presented Best Male Artist & Best Dance Performance – Solo
 * Lee Seung-chul and Lee Yo-won – presented Best Music Video
 * Kim Jong-kook – presented Best Asian Artist (Mandarin)
 * Seo Hyun-jin – presented Best Female Group
 * Ahn Jae-hyun and Jung Rye-won – presented Best Dance Performance – Male Group
 * Lee Jin-wook – presented Best Female Artist
 * Kim Sung-ryung – presented Best Male Group
 * Angelababy – presented Album of the Year
 * Cha Seung-won – presented Song of the Year
 * Hwang Jung-min – presented Artist of the Year

Broadcast
The red carpet and ceremonies of the 2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards were broadcast worldwide via Mnet, across CJ E&M channels and other international networks and online via Mnet K-pop's YouTube account, V Live, and Mnet's official website.