Amid the ongoing controversy over the lack of nominations for The Weeknd in the next Grammys, Ellie Goulding has published her own questions about the way music industry awards work. “My […]
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Apple Music Awards return with big gong for Lil Baby
It’s nearly a year since Apple Music held its first awards, anointing Billie Eilish as its inaugural ‘global artist of the year’ with additional prizes for Lizzo and Lil Nas X. […]
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Spotify’s first awards show will have 62 categories
Spotify has revealed more details, including the nominees, for its first Spotify Awards on 5 March in Mexico City. There will be 12 ‘main’ categories that will be shown in the […]
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Sound Diplomacy launches its first Music Cities Awards
Music company Sound Diplomacy has been researching and promoting the concept of ‘music cities’ for years now, making its impact felt in various parts of the world. Now it’s launching […]
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Billie Eilish wins big in Apple awards and Spotify 2019 stats
What we need, said almost nobody in the music industry, are a few more awards ceremonies. But now we have two, from the world’s biggest subscription music-streaming services.
Spotify’s first awards will take place in Mexico City next March, driven entirely by its data, but Apple Music’s first event took place overnight, chosen purely by the company’s editorial team. The simplification of Spotify as ‘algorithms’ and Apple Music as ‘humans’ is a complete fallacy, but dammit if the two services’ awards aren’t playing right in to it.
Spotify’s awards don’t even have nominees yet, but the company did (also overnight) just release its ‘Wrapped 2019’ data for the most popular artists and music on its platform this year. So what can we learn? There’s fun to be had comparing the 2019 stream-count for Billie Eilish on these fierce rivals.
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Next Clio Music awards submission deadline is 17 May
Clio Music, the global advertising and marketing awards born of the original Clios, recently announced their 2019 juries for music marketing and the use of music in advertising. Currently, the […]
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Dice reveals its 2016 Live Award nominees
British ticketing startup Dice has announced the nominees for its third annual Live Award, which highlights emerging artists in the UK and Ireland. This year’s nominees are Bonzai, Pumarosa, Loyle […]
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YouTube Music Awards will return in March
Last year’s YouTube Music Awards were very strange – mostly in a good way – with a livestreamed event that seemed to be surprising its hosts as often as its […]
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Streams and video views now count towards RIAA Gold and Platinum awards
Here’s a digital milestone of sorts: artists can now earn Gold and Platinum awards in the US based on on-demand streams and video views of their songs, as well as sales.
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Brit Awards 2013 set to make a bigger digital splash
The date has been set for the 2013 Brit Awards: 20 February, with next year’s gongfest set to be the most digital yet.
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Ice Cream Sandwich wins prestigious design award
Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich operating system has won the Parsons School of Design’s User Experience 2012 award.
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AIM to host second annual awards in October
Independent trade body AIM has announced the date for its second annual awards. The AIM Independent Music Awards will take place on 29 October, and will double in size