Golden Melody Award for Best Vocal Recording Album
The Golden Melody Award for Best Vocal Recording Album (Chinese: 金曲獎最佳演唱錄音專輯) has been awarded since 1990. From 1990 to 1996 there was an award called Best Recording Album designed to honor quality engineering for pop or instrumental recording albums; The award was discontinued from 1997 in a major overhaul of Golden Melody Award categories. The award category re-emerged in 2015, but was divided into two new awards, the Golden Melody Awards for Best Vocal Recording Album and Best Instrumental Recording Album.
| Golden Melody Award for Best Vocal Recording Album | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | quality engineering for pop vocal albums |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Presented by | Ministry of Culture |
| First awarded | 2015 |
| Last awarded | 2017 |
| Currently held by | Sangpuy, Yaangad (2017) |
| Website | gma.tavis.tw |
The award is presented to the audio engineer(s) on the winning work, not to the artist or performer, except if the artist is also a credited engineer.
Recipients
Golden Melody Awards of 2015[1][2]
- Tiger Chung, AJ Chen, Yeh Yu-hsuan, Ooi Teng Fong, Zhao Huitao, Shin Chou, Joshua Lee & Michael Lin (recording engineers); Kenny Fan, Jaycen Joshua, Dan Grech & Jerry Lin (mixing engineers); Chris Gehringer (mastering engineer) for Play, performed by Jolin Tsai
Nominees
- Martin Roller & Miikka Huttunen (recording engineers); Miikka Huttunen (mixing engineer); Svante Forsbäck (mastering engineer) for Midnight Cinema, performed by Joanna Wang
- Chang Te-ming (recording engineer); Chang Te-ming, Khalil Fong, Phil Tan, Fabian Marasciullo & Ken Lewis (mixing engineers); Dave Kutch (mastering engineer) for Dangerous World, performed by Khalil Fong
- Zhou Tianche, Thomas Lo, Zhang Hongjun & Arai Soichiro (recording engineers); Zhao Jing & Zhou Tianche (mixing engineers); Ray Staff (mastering engineer) for Departures, performed by Karen Mok
- Cheng Fung-sheng & Isaac Muñoz Casado (recording engineers); Isaac Muñoz Casado (mixing engineer); Ben Wang (mastering engineer) for Polynesia, performed by Chalaw Basiwali
Golden Melody Awards of 2016[3][4]
- Li You, Dou Ruyi, Zhang Bo & Yan Zhongkun (recording engineers); Howie & Joe Hirst (mixing engineers); Ray Staff (mastering engineer) for Frozen Light, performed by Cui Jian
Nominees
- Peter Roberts, Lupo Groinig & Strawberry (recording engineers); Richard Furch & George Dum (mixing engineers); Reuben Cohen (mastering engineer) for Heartbeat, performed by G.E.M.
- AJ Chen & Jansen Chen (recording engineers); Kenny Fan (mixing engineer); Joe LaPorta (mastering engineer) for Amit 2, performed by A-mei
- Kyle Hoffmann (recording engineer); An Dong & Richard Furch (mixing engineers); John Davis (mastering engineer) for Aphasia, performed by Tanya Chua
- Howie Chou & Yeh Yu-hsuan (recording engineers); Killer Wang & Jerry Lin (mixing engineers); Chris Gehringer (mastering engineer) for Love Myself, performed by Landy Wen
Golden Melody Awards of 2017[5]
- Sun Tien-chih (recording engineer); Sun Tien-chih (mixing engineer); Ted Jensen (mastering engineer) for Yaangad, performed by Sangpuy
Nominees
- Derrick Sepnio & Jeff Li (recording engineers); Phil Tan, Ken Lewis, Jaycen Joshua, Tony Maserati & Dave Pensado (mixing engineers); Chris Gehringer (mastering engineer) for Journey to the West, performed by Khalil Fong
- Brian Paturalski, |Ken Lewis, Tye & Enik Lin (recording engineers); Brian Paturalski, Ken Lewis, Tye & Enik Lin (mixing engineers); James Cruz (mastering engineer) for #MWHYB, performed by Vanness Wu
- Chief Wang (recording engineer); Jerry Lin (mixing engineer); Chris Gehringer (mastering engineer) for Thief, performed by Penny Tai
- Sean Chen, Yeh Yu-hsuan, Jim Lee, John Hermanson, Johnny Lin, Chen Yi-lin & Li Yuesong (recording engineers); Kenny Fan, Jerry Lin & Jim Lee (mixing engineers); Michael D. (mastering engineer) for Flow, performed by Winnie Hsin
Golden Melody Awards of 2018[6]
- Andrew Chu, Lin Si Tong, Craig Burbidge, Plamen Penchev, A-Mon, Luantan Ascent (recording engineer); Craig Burbidge (mixing engineer); Andrew Chu (mastering engineer) for Home III, performed by Lo Ta-yu
Nominees
- Chief Wang (recording engineers); Roman Klun (mixing engineers); Roman Klun (mastering engineer) for Can You or Can You Not Understand My Mandarin, performed by Anie Fann
- Misi Ke, Andy Baker, Lin Chia-yu, Chief Wang, Liu Shih-wei (recording engineers); Andy Baker, Liu Shih-wei (mixing engineers); Joel Hatstat (mastering engineer) for Don't Make a Sound, performed by Misi Ke
- Ooi Teng Fong, Yeh Yu-hsuan, Lei Chang-hang, Micky Yang (recording engineer); Phil Tan (mixing engineer); Chris Gehringer (mastering engineer) for Story Thief, performed by A-Mei
- Marco Trentacoste (recording engineers); Marco Trentacoste (mixing engineers); Brian "Big Bass" Gardner (mastering engineer) for That's Not Me, performed by Xie Tianxiao
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- TTV. "第29屆金曲獎頒獎典禮 - 金曲APP". 金曲29 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2018-10-01.