32nd Golden Melody Awards

The 32nd Golden Melody Awards (Chinese: 第32屆金曲獎) take place in Taipei, Taiwan in 2021. The ceremony was scheduled for 26 June 2021 in Taipei Arena, but rescheduled to 21 August, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and moved to the Taipei Music Center.^[1][2][3] This marked the second time GMA was held in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic after the 31st edition, both of which was held at the same location.

32nd Golden Melody Awards
Date	August 21, 2021 (2021-08-21) (Popular music)
Venue	Taipei Music Center (Popular music)
Country	Taiwan
Hosted by	Lulu
Website	gma.tavis.tw/gm32/index.htm
Television/radio coverage
Network	TTV
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Winners and nominees

Below is the list of winners and nominees for the popular music categories.^[4]

Vocal category – Record label awards
Album of the Year	Song of the Year
Gain Strength – Sangpuy Dear All – Wanfang Where is SHI? – Shi Shi Time Will Tell – Hebe Tien Home Cookin – Soft Lipa Sounds of My Life – William Wei Shi Ri Tan – James Li Ten – Henry Hsu tsu-pun – Olivia Tsao ū lí ê kòo-sū – aoi Kā lí sioh sioh – Hao Zi Gentleman with No Shoes – Sibongie First Half – Hanya Chang Khah-lah Thien-thoì – Siàu-lú khah-lah Those tree years – Yu-Wei Hsieh Till – ChuNoodle When the sun rises – Wing Lo Ah-Min – JiuLianZhenRen Rambling Naluwan – Dakanow How are you, my dear – Syaman macinanao žž – žž Lady of the ocean – Outlet Drift	"Your Name Engraved Herein" (from Your Name Engraved Herein) – Crowd Lu "A Vacant Seat" (from Dear All) – Wanfang "Bo Fu" (from Outta Body) – E.SO "When Tomorrow Comes feat. ?te" (from tsu-pun) – Olivia Tsao and ?te "Where I Lost Us" (from Easy Come, Easy Go) – Accusefive "Embrace" (from Gain Strength) – Sangpuy "Because Of You" (from Because Of You) – Mayday
Best Mandarin Album	Best Taiwanese Album
Home Cookin – Soft Lipa Dear All – Wanfang Where is SHI? – Shi Shi Time Will Tell – Hebe Tien Sounds of My Life – William Wei Shi Ri Tan – James Li	tsu-pun – Olivia Tsao Ten – Henry Hsu ū lí ê kòo-sū – aoi Kā lí sioh sioh – Hao Zi Gentleman with No Shoes – Sibongie First Half – Hanya Chang
Best Hakka Album	Best Aboriginal Album
Till – ChuNoodle Khah-lah Thien-thoì – Siàu-lú khah-lah Those tree years – Yu-Wei Hsieh When the sun rises – Wing Lo Ah-Min – JiuLianZhenRen	Lady of the ocean – Outlet Drift Rambling Naluwan – Dakanow Gain Strength – Sangpuy How are you, my dear – Syaman macinanao žž – žž
Best Music Video
"Home Cookin" (from Home Cookin) – Director: Cowper Wang "Hunger Game" (from Yellow Fiction) – Director: Jyun Chang "mài-mng _rock version" (from Little Hilly) – Director: Pei-Yu Liao and Zhi-Zhong Tang "Ballerina" (from Bedtime Story) – Director: Mich Yeh "Night Creepers" (from Ah-Min) – Director: Oneness Zeng "Candlelight (feat. Oh Hyuk)" (from Soft Storm) – Director: DQM "Until I Met You" (from If Only You Could Love Me) – Director: Remii Huang "One, after Another" (from Time Will Tell) – Director: Muh Chen
Vocal category – Individual awards
Best Female Mandarin Singer	Best Male Mandarin Singer
Time Will Tell – Hebe Tien Dear All – Wanfang LOVE, AND YET... – Panai Kusui Where is SHI? – Shi Shi Every Side of Me – Tarcy Su 3811 – Sitar Tan	Home Cookin – Soft Lipa Outta Body – E.SO Drifter · Like You Do – JJ Lin Folio Vol. 1 One and One – Wu Qing-feng Sounds of My Life – William Wei Shi Ri Tan – James Li
Best Female Taiwanese Singer	Best Male Taiwanese Singer
tsu-pun – Olivia Tsao Dream of Suzie – Angel Chu If You Wanna Know Me – Kelly Tsai Irochigai – Huang Fei First Half – Hanya Chang	Ten – Henry Hsu Kavalan Kites – Su-Hao Yang Wu Bai & China Blue Thàu lâm Hong Concert Live – Wu Bai Kā lí sioh sioh – Hao Zi Waiting For Daybreak - Ric Jan
Best Aboriginal Singer	Best Hakka Singer
Gain Strength – Sangpuy Rambling Naluwan – Dakanow Meander to the Horizon – Lowking mziboq su – Ciwas Losin žž – žž	When the sun rises – Wing Lo Onga Onga – Robin Tseng Those tree years – Yu-Wei Hsieh Out There – Pei-Shu Huang Till – ChuNoodle
Best Vocal Group	Best New Artist
Dear Adult – The Wanted Messenger – Night Keepers FALI-mini album-929 – FALI Seen it all? – Chang and Lee Leyou Height – Astro Bunny	A Bedroom of One's Own – ?te Yellow Fiction – YELLOW Yuba Youth – Heat Sketch Diamond in the Rough – Howard Lee ū lí ê kòo-sū – aoi The Fool – Bestards If Only You Could Love Me – Yo Lee
Best Composition	Best Lyrics
"AnHe" (from Every Side of Me) – Hush (Performer: Tarcy Su) "Flavor" (from tsu-pun) – Olivia Tsao and Baby-C (Performer: Olivia Tsao) "Where I Lost Us" (from Easy Come, Easy Go) – Edward Pan (Performer: Accusefive) "Embrace" (from Gain Strength) – Sangpuy (Performer: Sangpuy) "I Wrote a Song for You" (from Sounds of My Life) – William Wei (Performer: William Wei) "I Missed You" (from I Missed You) – Eve Ai (Performer: Eve Ai)	"Untold" (from Time Will Tell) – David Ke (Performer: Hebe Tien) "A Vacant Seat" (from Dear All) – Ting Huang (Performer: Wanfang) "Bo Fu" (from Outta Body) – E.SO (Performer: E.SO) "Wang Shih Lives in Memory" (from tsu-pun) – Bu-hiông (Performer: Olivia Tsao) "Drifter" (from Drifter · Like You Do) – Xiaohan (Performer: JJ Lin) "The Spider" (from Home Cookin) – Soft Lipa (Performer: Soft Lipa)
Best Music Arrangement	Producer of the Year, Album
"Flavor" (from tsu-pun) – Baby-C (Performer: Olivia Tsao) "Dazzled" (from Dear All) – Huang Shao-yong (Performer: Wanfang) "Danshari" (from Museum of Tears) – Tsai Yu-liang (Performer: Xing Zheng) "Miss Understanding" (from Miss Understanding) – YELLOW (Performer: Amuyi) "Last Animals" (from Last Animals) – Kyle Lu (Performer: JADE) "Dear Humans" (from Dear Humans) – Elephant Gym (Performer: Elephant Gym)	Time Will Tell – George Chen (Performer: Hebe Tien) Dear All – Kay Huang (Performer: Wanfang) tsu-pun – ZioN and Olivia Tsao (Performer: Olivia Tsao) Where is SHI? – MCKY, RAZOR, Shi Shi (Performer: Shi Shi) Gain Strength – Jen-Yi Tseng, Tzu-lung Hung, Sangpuy (Performer: Sangpuy) Shi Ri Tan – James Li and Jun Yan (Performer: James Li)
Producer of the Year, Single	Best Band
"Noodles" (from Home Sweet Home) – Khalil Fong (Performer: Khalil Fong) "Bad Weather" (from Unique) – CinCin Lee (Performer: Michael Wong) "Mojito" (from Mojito) – Jay Chou (Performer: Jay Chou) "Strange Weather" (from Strange Weather) – YELLOW and Chia-Lun Yue (Performer: YELLOW and 9m88) "Your Name Engraved Herein" (from Your Name Engraved Herein) – Yanis Huang (Performer: Crowd Lu) "Self Harmony" (from Self Harmony) – Arai Soichiro (Performer: Karen Mok and Evan Guo)	Soft Storm – Sunset Rollercoaster Black & Toughness – OVDS Water Snowflake Goes to Market – Sheng Xiang & Band Alternate Moments – KST Easy Come, Easy Go – Accusefive Lady of the Ocean – Outlet Drift Bird and Reflections – Deca Joins
Instrumental category – Record label awards
Best Instrumental Album
The Adventures of Pie Boy – The Spice Cabinet The Path – Chien Chien Lu KUNG's vol.1 – Kung Yu-chi Stream Legend – Spectro 7 Synthetic Steps – TTechmak
Instrumental category – Individual awards
Producer of the Year, Instrumental	Best Instrumental Composition
noista/gia – hirsk Stream Legend – Alex Wu Don’t Get Too Comfortable – Matt Fullen Your Name Engraved Herein (Original Soundtrack) – Chris Hou The Adventures of Pie Boy – Terry Hsieh and Derrick Sepnio	"Bitter Sweet" (from The Adventures of Pie Boy) – Terry Hsieh and Derrick Sepnio "The Path" (from The Path) – Chien Chien Lu "Clarity" (from Clarity) – Lawrence Ku "Synthetic Steps" (from Synthetic Steps) – Toby Mak "Dali Girl" (from The Adventures of Pie Boy) – Terry Hsieh and Derrick Sepnio
Technical category – Individual awards
Best Album Design
ZETA – Qing-yang Xiao LOVE, AND YET... – Shi-Ching Yang Water Snowflake Goes to Market – Mirr Lo, Chun Yung Lin, Ken Cheng Lee Time Will Tell – Yueh Yueh Liu Gain Strength – Gelresai METROPOLIS – Aaron Nieh and Even Chen
Technical category – Record label awards
Best Vocal Recording Album	Best Instrumental Recording Album
Where is SHI? – Recording Engineers: AJ Chen, Jansen Chen, Chou Han Tsay, Jonathan Liu, Fengtse Hsieh, Yu, Chris Chen, Micky Yang Main Mixing Engineers: AJ Chen, Chou Han Tsay, Wei Ming Shan, Double, Itun Chou, Kenny Main Mastering Post-Production: Dave kutch Drawing Dialogue – Recording Engineers: AKNIT, Andy Baker, Chung Cheng Yang, Chou Han Tsay, Wei Ming Shan, Koffkoff, Martin Lin, Chelin Liu, Liu Shih Wei Main Mixing Engineers: AKNIT, Ziya Huang, Liu Shih Wei Main Mastering Post-Production: AKNIT, Misi Ke Easy Come, Easy Go – Recording Engineers: Yu Hsuan Yeh, Chou Han Tsay, Micky Yang, Zen Chien, SHENB Main Mixing Engineers: Ziya Huang Main Mastering Post-Production: Randy Merrill Gain Strength – Recording Engineers: Hao Wen Tay, David Wang (Strings) Main Mixing Engineers: Keller Wang, Jerry Lin, Chun-hsien Huang, Hao Wen Tay Main Mastering Post-Production: Ted Jensen PORTAL – Recording Engineers: Chia Chen Chang Main Mixing Engineers: Itun Chou Main Mastering Post-Production: Chris Gehringer	The Adventures of Pie Boy – Recording Engineers: You Li Main Mixing Engineers: Wei Ming Shan Main Mastering Post-Production: Randy Merrill Eternal Journey – Recording Engineers: Clark Germain, Chris Bitoun, Vladimir Martinka Main Mixing Engineers: Clark Germain Main Mastering Post-Production: Chris Bellman Fly By Light – Recording Engineers: Zen Chien Main Mixing Engineers: Zen Chien Main Mastering Post-Production: Zen Chien The Path – Recording Engineers: Alex Conroy Main Mixing Engineers: David Darlington Main Mastering Post-Production: David Darlington Clarity – Recording Engineers: Teddy Zeng, Damien Banzigou Main Mixing Engineers: Damien Banzigou Main Mastering Post-Production: Randy Merrill
Special Contribution Award
Lo Ta-yu
Jury Award
Dear All – Wanfang

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