26th Golden Melody Awards

Winners and nominees

Vocal category – Record label awards

Song of the Year

• "Island's Sunrise " – Fire EX.
• * "Missing" – Lala Hsu
• * "The Rest of Time" – Jacky Cheung
• * "Faces of Paranoia" – aMEI, Soft Lipa
• * "Play" – Jolin Tsai

  Best Mandarin Album

• Play – Jolin Tsai
• * Missing – Lala Hsu
• * Wake Up Dreaming – Jacky Cheung
• * Rice & Shine – Eason Chan
• * Aiyo, Not Bad – Jay Chou
• * Departures – Karen Mok

  Best Hokkien Album

• The Most Beautiful Flower – Ricky Hsiao
• * Timeless Sentence – Chthonic
• * The Tenth Album – New Formosa Band
• * Ye Shou – Hsieh Ming-yu
• * Polaris – Chan Ya-wen

  Best Hakka Album

• The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road – Ayugo Huang
• * Daylight – Huang Wei-jie
• * Curving Roads – Huang Pei-shu
• * On the Road – Misa
• * Moments of Love – Sinco Chiu

  Best Aboriginal Album

• Polynesia – Chalaw Pasiwali
• * Hosa – Hosa
• * Wild Boxing – Boxing
• * Ocean, Forest – Suming
• * Ima Lalu Su – Inka Mbing & Her Young Atayal Friends

  Best Music Video

• Shockley Huang – "Nebulous"
• * Li Bo-en – "Selfie Addict"
• * Muh Chen – "Play"
• * Hou Chi-jan – "We're All Different, Yet the Same"
• * Teng Yung-shing, Xi Ran – "In a Flash"

  Vocal category – Individual awards

Best Composition

• William Wei – "Wolves"
• * Europa Huang – "Missing"
• * Li Ronghao – "King of Comedy"
• * JJ Lin – "Listen Up"
• * Chang Shilei – "Departures"

  Best Lyrics

• Francis Lee – "Departures"
• * Hush – "Missing"
• * Wyman Wong – "King of Comedy"
• * Lin Xi – "Listen Up"
• * Lin Xi – "It's All Good"

  Best Music Arrangement

• Buddha Jump – "Let You See"
• * Chen Chien-chi – "Missing"
• * Lawrence Ku – "Touching Hearts"
• * Pessi Levanto – "Forgotten Times"
• * Starr Chen, Nese Ni – "Play"

  Producer of the Year, Album

• Arai Soichiro – Departures
• * Ayugo Huang – The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road
• * Joanna Wang, Pessi Levanto – Midnight Cinema
• * Chen Chien-chi – You Lovely Bastard
• * Jay Chou – Aiyo, Not Bad

  Producer of the Year, Single

• Xiao An – "Lip Reading"
• * JJ Lin – "Listen Up"
• * Stefanie Sun – "Kepler"
• * Xiao An – "Sophisticated Game"
• * Starr Chen – "Play"

  Best Mandarin Male Singer

• Eason Chan – Rice & Shine
• * Jacky Cheung – Wake Up Dreaming
• * Khalil Fong – Dangerous World
• * William Wei – Journey Into the Night
• * Roger Yang – Beast in the Dark''

  Best Mandarin Female Singer

• aMEI – Faces of Paranoia
• * Lala Hsu – Missing
• * Waa Wei – You Lovely Bastard
• * Karen Mok – Departures
• * A-Lin – Guilt''

  Best Taiwanese Male Singer

• Xiao Huang-chi – The Most Beautiful Flower
• * Daniel Luo – Hero
• * Henry Hsu – An Inch of True Heart
• * Hsieh Ming-yo – Ye Shou
• * Michael Shih – Kui-Cho Hai-Liau-Liau''

  Best Taiwanese Female Singer

• Angie Lee – Breeze, City
• * Tseng Hsin-mei – Rainwater
• * Ara Guo – Women's Courage
• * Chan Ya-wen – Polaris
• * Sun Shu-may – Love Me Forever If You Dare''

  Best Hakka Singer

• Ayugo Huang – The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road
• * Huang Wei-jie – Daylight
• * Huang Pei-shu – Curving Roads
• * Misa – On the Road
• * Sinco Chiu – Moments of Love''

  Best Aboriginal Singer

• Chalaw Garu – Polynesian
• * Boxing – Wild Boxing
• * Suming – Sea, Forest''

  Best Band

• Buddha Jump – Let You See
• * Chthonic – Timeless Sentence
• * Trash – Start from Zero
• * The Chairman – One World
• * Boxing – Boxing
• * Magic Power – Fighting for Love''

  Best Group

• Murmurshow – Murmurshow
• * New Formosa Band – The Tenth Album
• * MJ116 – Fresh Game
• * PiA – Ain't Life a Surprise
• * Gentleman – Imperfect Gentleman

  Best New Artist

• Boxing – Boxing
• * Shi Shi – Girls
• * Adrian Fu – Good Morning, Hard City
• * Chen Hui-ting – 21 Grams
• * Wang Hui-chu – A Voyage of Vera

  Instrumental category – Record label awards

Best Instrumental Album

• The Flow – Eiji Kadota
• * Interestring Quartet – Interestring Quartet
• * Homeland – Vincent Hsu
• * The Rest of Life - Seediq Bale – Purdur

  Instrumental category – Individual awards

Producer of the Year, Instrumental

• Daniel Ho – Our World in Song - An Odyssey of Musical Treasures
• * Yu Chia-lun, Huang Wei-Jun – Interestring Quartet
• * Eiji Kadota, Michael Ning – The Flow
• * Vincent Hsu – Homeland
• * Peng Fei – 3rd Month

  Best Instrumental Composition

• Peng Fei – "Night Cats" ''
• * Huang Wei-Jun – "Let's Play"
• * Eiji Kadota – "Dolphin Island"
• * Vincent Hsu – "A New One"
• * Purdur – "The Rest of Life"

  Technical category – Individual awards

Best Album Design

• Aaron Nieh – Enchantment
• * Joe Fang – Faces of Paranoia
• * Lo Wen-tsen, Tsai An-teng, Wu Chih-yin – Faces of Paranoia
• * Howza Hsu – Sweet Home Ka-Aluwan
• * Aaron Nieh – Play
• * Lee Chung-chiang – Aiyo, Not Bad

  Technical category – Record label awards

Best Vocal Recording Album

• Play – Jolin Tsai
• * Midnight Cinema – Joanna Wang
• * Dangerous World – Khalil Fong
• * Departures – Karen Mok
• * Polynesia – Chalaw Pasiwali

  Best Instrumental Recording Album

• Led by the Sea Breeze – Rich Huang
• * Interestring Quartet – Interestring Quartet
• * Stranger – Chen Jo-yu
• * Music Non-Stop – Lee Shih-yang, Sabu Toyozumi

  Lifetime Contribution Award

• Chen Yang
• Jody Chiang