Producers and DJs all of the sudden started tweeting and sharing about nominations for the annual EDM Awards, scheduled to reveal their winners in Miami this 12 months throughout Miami Music Week on the Fontainebleau Pool. The awards occasion incorporates a staggering 38 classes to vote in, most of them a number of alternative, with three classes made for write-in votes — Industry Achievement, Legend Award, and Icon Award.
Like the DJ Mag Top 100, these awards are fan-powered, permitting artists with bigger followings to dominate the voting pool with a tweet or a narrative. Most of the classes supply a set pool of selections, nevertheless, in contrast to the DJ Mag Top 100. Determined by whom? Their web site doesn’t say. Nor does it have any hyperlinks to social media, although if you happen to look exhausting sufficient, they do have an Instagram web page.
After a bit extra digging, the Awards seem to be government produced and hosted by Sean “Hollywood” Hamilton, a Hall of Fame radio host, whose resumé consists of Z100 New York, KIISFM Los Angeles & KBIG/MYFM Los Angeles. He additionally government produced and hosted a syndicated present known as Remix Top 30 from 2009-2021. He is presently employed at 103.5 KTU as a part of the iHeartMedia household.
Previous winners of the Awards embrace Afrojack, Armin van Buuren, Arty, Cash Cash, Cedric Gervais, Cheat Codes, David Guetta, Diplo, Galantis, Lodato, Marshmello, Martin Garrix, MK, Skrillex, Slushii, Steve Aoki, The Chainsmokers, as famous in a press launch.
When visiting the web site to vote, you’ll click on on particular person classes, labeled solely by a daring header atop a generic field that reuses the identical graphic, that lead to a separate tab to vote on a pre-selected group of nominees. Some of the classes (Remix of the Year, Best Performance Arena / Festival, Best Radio Show) seem to require an e mail deal with to vote, for no disclosed motive.
Some classes additionally supply an attention-grabbing alternative of nominees, with Tale Of Us nominated in “Best New Artist” regardless of being lively since 2009. Overall, the alternatives out there make sense, however ultimately, followers are nonetheless restricted to who they will vote for.
If you may have sturdy opinions about any of the classes out there, you possibly can head right here to solid your vote. The Awards will apparently be live streamed from Miami, with directions on the place and when to watch nonetheless pending.
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