Golden Melody Award for Song of the Year


The Golden Melody Award for Song of the Year is presented by the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan to honor outstanding vocal recording tracks in the pop music genre. The Song of the Year award is one of the most prestigious categories at the awards presented annually since the 1st Golden Melody Awards in 1990. The award was presented for additional years until being discontinued in 1997, and was then revived in 2006. It is awarded to a single or for a track from an album, and goes to the performing artist for that song.

Recipients

YearPerforming artistWorkNomineesRef.
1990
Eagle Pan"I Want a Home"
  • Wang Wei-fang – "This Life and the Afterlife"
  • Chao Chuan – "I May Be Ugly but I Am Tender"
  • Jenny Tseng – "Still Your Hands"
  • Fei Yu-ching – "I Want to Loose Your Hands"
  • Li Tai-hsiang – "Needle and Thread"
  • Augustine Yeh – "Remember We Agreed to Meet"
  • Cyndi Chou – "Never Willing to Tell You"
  • Wang Wei-fang – "Talk About the Past"
  • Fei Yu-ching – "Who Says Juveniles Don't Know What Are Woes and Grief"
1990Emil Chau"There Is Love in This City"
  • Chang Ho-chirl – "North Wind"
  • Chiang Yu-heng – "I Still Have a Dream"
  • Lesley Lee – "Desert, Camel, Man, Woman"
  • Tseng Shu-ching – "Autumn Melancholy on the Trip"
  • Oriental Express – "Connect Your Soul to My Lines"
  • Chen Hsiao-yun – "Have the Opportunity to be President"
  • Zheng Zhihua – "Repentance"
  • Lesley Lee – "Skirt Flying"
  • Sarah Chen – "Dream to Awakening"
1991Lim Giong"Marching Forward"
  • Liu Ping-fang – "A Stick"
  • Jonathan Lee – "Song of Ordinary People"
  • Fong Fei-fei – "Lovely Baby"
  • Chao Chuan – "I Were a Little Bird"
  • Yeh Chi-tien – "Hometown"
  • Tracy Huang – "Crying Sand"
  • Sky Wu – "Give My Special Love to the Special You"
  • Chao Chuan – "Appear on Stage with Make-up"
  • Christine Hsu – "I Love Taiwan"
    • 1992Sally Yeh"Merry Go Round"
  • Lo Ta-yu – "Train"
  • Christine Hsu – "Where Are You From"
  • Top Partner – "Ode to Joy"
  • Yang Chung-hsien – "Dad Was Closed Like a Mountain"
  • Christine Hsu – "Vagrancy Life"
  • Chen Mei-lien – "Lost Child"
  • Ardor Huang – "Chiang Chiang Guen"
  • Tracy Huang – "Buried Heart"
  • Little Tigers – "Fly Butterfly Fly"
    • 1993Jacky Cheung"The Goodbye Kiss"
  • Stella Chang & Ukulele – "Wedding"
  • Dave Wang – "Going Home"
  • Chang Hsiu-ching – "Station"
  • Jody Chiang – "Words After Drinking"
  • Julie Sue – "Holding Hands"
  • Huang An – "The New Butterfly Dream"
  • Tseng Wei-yuan – "Fortune Teller"
  • Yang Chung-hsien – "Theatre Feet"
  • Andy Lau – "Thank You for Your Love"
    • 1994Jacky Cheung"Best Wishes for You"
  • Phil Chang – "Well-intentioned"
  • Jonathan Lee – "Hope"
  • Yu Tai-yan – "I'd Rather"
  • Cyndi Chou – "Marriage Proposal"
  • Sally Yeh – "Friends"
  • Winnie Hsin – "Try to Forget"
  • Cheng Gin-yi – "Rouge Horse"
  • Sky Wu – "Favorite Is You"
  • Pan Li-li – "Eyebrow Make-up"
    • 1996Yeh Chi-tien"Butterfly Dreams Fly"
  • Tom Chang – "We Are Still Friends"
  • Roger Wang – "Daydream"
  • Andy Lau – "Forever True"
  • George Lam – "Appreciate"
  • Ang It-hong – "Father"
  • Cheng Gin-yi – "The Secular World"
  • Tsai Chin – "Light Up the Neon Lights"
  • Winnie Hsin – "Understanding"
  • Sandy Lam – "Fragrance of Roses"
    • 2006Ara Kimbo"Pacific Wind"
  • Jody Chiang – "Fish Likes Dreaming"
  • Wu Bai – "Made in Taiwan"
  • David Tao – "The Art of War"
    • 2007David Tao & Jolin Tsai"Marry Me Today"
  • Lin Sheng-hsiang – "Planting Trees"
  • Jay Chou & Fei Yu-ching – "Faraway"
  • Karen Mok – "Same World"
  • Deserts Chang – "Baby "
  • Sodagreen – "Little Universe"
    • 2008Jay Chou"Blue and White Porcelain"
  • Sodagreen – "Incomparable Beauty"
  • Tanya Chua – "Darwin"
  • Khalil Fong – "Love Song"
  • Stefanie Sun – "Against the Light"
  • A-Mei – "A Moment"
    • 2009Jay Chou"Rice Aroma"
  • Jody Chiang – "Hold You Tightly"
  • Claire Kuo – "The Next Dawn"
  • Crowd Lu – "100 Kinds of Life"
  • Mayday – "You Are Not Truly Happy"
  • Van Fan – "South of the Border"
    • 2010A-Mei"Bold for My Love"
  • Lala Hsu – "White Horse"
  • Claire Kuo – "Singing in the Trees"
  • Superband – "Desperado"
  • Cheer Chen – "The Edge"
    • 2011Jonathan Lee"Jonathan's Song"
  • Yao Hung – "Flower Love"
  • Jay Chou – "Superman Can't Fly"
  • Karen Mok – "Perfect Loneliness"
  • Freya Lim – "Wounded"
  • Jody Chiang – "When I Wanted to Marry"
  • Wang Leehom – "All the Things You Never Knew"
    • 2012Mayday"Noah's Ark"
  • Luantan Ascent – "Perfect Landing"
  • R-chord – "Growing Up"
  • Tanya Chua – "Sing It Out of Love"
  • Hu Xia – "Those Years"
    • 2013Jolin Tsai"The Great Artist"
  • Kay Huang – "Retrospection"
  • Sandy Lam – "Wordless Song"
  • Yonlon Chen – "Coastline"
  • Deserts Chang – "Rose-colored"
    • 2014Jonathan Lee"Hills"
  • Tizzy Bac – "It's Because We Can Feel Pain"
  • Cheer Chen – "Gypsy in Memory"
  • Jeannie Hsieh – "Sister"
  • Mayday – "Song of Battle"
    • 2015Fire EX."Island's Sunrise"
  • Lala Hsu – "Missing"
  • Jacky Cheung – "The Rest of Time"
  • A-Mei – "Faces of Paranoia"
  • Jolin Tsai – "Play"
    • 2016Suming"Aka Pisawad"
  • A-Mei – "Matriarchy"
  • JJ Lin – "Twilight"
  • Sodagreen – "Rainy Night"
  • Hebe Tien – "A Little Happiness"
    • 2017No Party for Cao Dong"Simon Says"
  • Jay Chou – "Love Confession"
  • Rainie Yang – "Traces of Time in Love"
  • Wu Bai – "Peng Kung"
  • Eve Ai – "The Sum of Us"
  • Mayday – "Tough"
  • Faith Yang – "Centrifugal Force"
  • Yoga Lin – "Spoiled Innocence"
    • 2018Crowd Lu"He-R"
  • Lin Sheng-xiang – "To Have, or Not to Have"
  • Fire EX. – "Southbound Night Bus"
  • Lo Ta-yu – "Guan Yin Shan"
  • JJ Lin – "Little Big Us"
    • 2019Jolin Tsai"Womxnly"
  • "Millennia's Faith Undone " – Chthonic and Denise Ho
  • "To Be Together" – Eason Chan
  • "Core" – Sandy Lam
  • "Seventeen" – S.H.E
  • "Newly Written Old Song" – Jonathan Lee
  • "Waves Wandering" – EggPlantEgg

    • Category facts

    Most wins
    Rank1st2nd
    ArtistJolin TsaiJacky Cheung
    Jay Chou
    Jonathan Lee
    Total wins3 wins2 wins

    Most nominations
    Rank1st2nd3rd
    ArtistJay ChouJody Chiang
    Jonathan Lee
    A-Mei
    Mayday
    Jolin Tsai    		Chao Chuan
    Christine Hsu
    Fei Yu-ching
    Sodagreen
    Jacky Cheung
    Total nominations5 nominations4 nominations3 nominations