20th Golden Melody Awards

Registration process

• The award for Best Music Video Director will become the award for Best Music Video to recognize advancements made by the recording industry.
• In the artistic and traditional music categories, there will be separate awards for Best Folk Drama Album, Best Ethnic Music Album, and Best Traditional Music Album in order to clarify the different target segments.
• The definition of "album" in the popular music categories, which initially read "six or more songs with a total length of 30 minutes ", will be changed to "a new arrangement of performance works".

Nominees

Popular Music categories

Song Of The Year

• Fragrant Rice - Capricorn - Jay Chou
• * 100 Ways of Living - 100 Ways of Living - Crowd Lu
• * Hold You Tightly - Hold You Tightly - Jody Chiang
• * South of the Border - Cape No. 7 soundtrack - Van Fan
• * The Next Dawn - The Next Dawn - Claire Kuo
• * You're Not Truly Happy - Poetry of the Day After - Mayday

  Pop Album Of The Year

• Don't Want to Let Go - Eason Chan
• * 100 Ways of Living - Crowd Lu
• * Capricorn - Jay Chou
• * If One Thing Is Important - Sandee Chan
• * We All Lay Down in the End - Stanley Huang

  Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

• Jay Chou - Capricorn
• * Eason Chan - Don't Want to Let Go
• * Khalil Fong - Orange Moon
• * Leehom Wang - Heart Beat
• * Ricky Hsiao - I am Ricky Hsiao

  Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

• Sandee Chan - If One Thing Is Important
• * A-lin - Diva
• * Fish Leong - Today is Our Valentine's Day
• * Tanya Chua - My Space
• * Tsai Chin - No Regrets

  Best New Artist

• Crowd Lu – 100 Ways of Living, sung by Crowd Lu
• * Hsiao Hung Jen - Hsiao Hung Jen
• * Jam Hsiao - Jam Hsiao
• * Joanna Wang - Start from Here
• * Rachel Liang - Love Poem
• * Yoga Lin - Mystery Guest

  Best Band

• Mayday - Poetry of the Day After
• * 13 Band - Horse-Faced Sailor's Summer
• * Natural Q - Breakthrough
• * The Chairmen - Spent All His Money
• * The Hohak Band - Rice and Love

  Best Composer

• Crowd Lu - 100 Ways of Living, sung by Crowd Lu
• * Jay Chou - Fragrant Rice, sung by Jay Chou
• * Khalil Fong - Singalongsong, sung by Khalil Fong
• * Li Ch'üan - Gaze, sung by Yoga Lin
• * Purdur - Memories of the Ancients, sung by the Nanwan Sisters

  Best Lyricist

• Wu Yü-hsüan - In the Trollycar, sung by Jody Chiang
• * Ashin - Like Smoke, sung by Mayday
• * Ashin - The Yet Unbroken Part of My Heart, sung by Mayday
• * Jay Chou - Fragrant Rice, sung by Jay Chou
• * Yen Yün-nung - South of the Border, sung by Van Fan

  Best Arrangement

• Martin Tan - As Love Begins to Mend, for Joanna Wang
• * Chung Ch'eng-hu, Ch'en Pai-chou, and Crowd Lu - Good Morning, Beautiful Dawn!, for Crowd Lu
• * Leehom Wang - No Reason to Pay Attention to You, for Leehom Wang
• * Khalil Fong - Singalongsong, for Khalil Fong
• * Chung Hsing-min - Mr. Magic, for Jay Chou

  Best Album Producer

• Purdur - The Nanwan Sisters, released by the Nanwan Sisters
• * Ch'en Tzu-hung and Jody Chiang - Hold You Tightly, released by Jody Chiang
• * Jay Chou - Capricorn, released by Jay Chou
• * Sandee Chan - If One Thing Is Important, released by Sandee Chan
• * Stanley Huang and Jae Chong - We All Lay Down in the End, released by Stanley Huang

  Best Single Producer

• Lü Sheng-fei - South of the Border, released for the Cape No. 7 soundtrack
• Lim Giong - Bosom, released for the CC Asia Band
• Kay Huang - Hope for Love, released by Aska Yang
• Wang Chih-p'ing and Kuo Wen-tsung - Gaze, released by Yoga Lin
• Lin Sheng-yang - Drying the Fields, released by Wu Sheng

  Best Singing Group

• 'The Nanwan Sisters - The Nanwan Sisters
• * Da Mouth - Wanka
• * NyLas -
• * Y2J - Live for You''

  Best Music Video

• Mr. Magic, directed and sung by Jay Chou
• * Black and White, directed by Penny Tai and sung by Khalil Fong
• * Love's Miracle Cure, directed by Kao Hui and sung by Josie Ho
• * Morbid, directed by Bounce and sung by Yoga Lin
• * Spacebomb, directed by Wang Jen-li and sung by Wu Bai & China Blue
• * The Happiest Thing, directed by Chou Ke-tai and sung by Rachel Liang
• * Wind, directed by Penny Tai and sung by Abin

  Best Instrumental Album

Best Instrumental Album Producer

Best Instrumental Composer

Best Religion Music Album

• *Stabat Mater 聖母哀悼曲 ／ 凌軒企業社
• *聖母之歌 ／ 財團法人聖保祿孝女會附設上智文化事業
• *慈悲三昧水懺 ／ 如是我聞文化股份有限公司
• *天。詩-心靈牧者 ／ 生活力人文工作室
• *貝斯特的聖誕 ／ 社團法人台灣彩虹愛家生命教育協會
• *來自發源地的呼喚 ／ 財團法人台灣基督長老教會泰雅爾中會

  Best Singer

• Peter Lee 李文智／Stabat Mater 聖母哀悼曲／凌軒企業社
• * 李靜芳／李靜芳個人唱唸專輯／李靜芳戲曲工作室
• * Chukie Tethong ／修行的女性／源動力文化發展事業有限公司
• * 王鳳珠／王鳳珠的山歌戲／吉聲影視音有限公司
• * 福爾摩沙合唱團／完美結合Perfection／福爾摩沙合唱團
• * 阿拉坦其其格、扎格達蘇榮／蒙古長調民歌／風潮音樂國際股份有限公司

  Best Hakka Singer

Best Aboriginal Singer

• 賴宜絜/變－臺灣當代箏樂演奏 ／ 喜瑪拉雅音樂事業股份有限公司
• * 古苑尋聲－王世榮的琵琶新視界 ／ 普音文化事業股份有限公司
• * 昭君出塞 ／ 風潮音樂國際股份有限公司
• * 箜篌引－任潔的古箏暢響 ／ 風潮音樂國際股份有限公司
• * 古琴 ／ 風潮音樂國際股份有限公司

  Best Hakka Album

Best Aboriginal Album

Jury Award

Lifetime Contribution Award

• Wu Zhaonan