Denver, CO. (Top40 Charts/ Beatport) - Beatport.com will honor the best artists and producers in electronic music with a new annual user poll called the Beatport
Music Awards. Launching today, the awards poll aims to recognize the producers behind the music, rather than the DJs who play it, by giving music fans, DJs and clubbers the chance to vote for their favorite artists, tracks and remixes.
Based on 2007 unit sales at Beatport.com, the Beatport Music Awards have been split into 19 categories. There are 16 categories broken down by music genre with the top 10 selling artists on Beatport from each genre making up the shortlists that music fans will vote on. Two further categories – Best Remix and Best Single – will also be decided by music fans who will choose from a shortlist of the top 10 sellers of 2007. A final open category asks music fans to name the most influential, forward-thinking and relevant person in electronic music.
'Rather than run another open popularity contest we wanted to create a secure poll that was relevant to the global electronic music community,' said Jonas Tempel, Beatport's CEO. 'Unit sales is a great way to gauge who is popular and we decided to split the awards into separate music genres so that artists that are relevant to their scene still get recognized. Techno fans will have their champion, as will drum & bass, dubstep and trance fans.'
The Beatport Music Awards has 19 categories altogether. The full list of nominees for the 2008 Beatport Music Awards can be found at www.beatportal.com/awards
Best Breakbeat Artist
Best Chill Out Artist
Best Deep House Artist
Best Drum & Bass Artist
Best Dubstep Artist
Best Electro House Artist
Best Electronica Artist
Best Hard Dance Artist
Best Hardcore Artist
Best House Artist
Best Minimal Artist
Best Progressive House Artist
Best Psy Trance Artist
Best Tech House Artist
Best Techno Artist
Best Trance Artist
Best Remix of 2007
Best Single of 2007
Plus: The Most Influential, Forward-thinking and Relevant Person in Electronic Music in 2007.
Voting commences for the Beatport Music Awards 2008 on Beatportal.com on March 18th and runs till April 22nd.
Vote at www.beatportal.com/awards.
Only registered Beatport users will be able to vote in the Beatport Music Awards. The results of the poll will be announced at the end of April on Beatportal.com.
About Beatport
Beatport is the recognized leader for electronic music downloads providing music to DJs and fans for personal use as well as playback on the world's leading sound systems. Launched in 2004, Beatport gives customers legal and secure access to a library of 375,000 tracks from over 7,500 of the world's leading independent labels, and is growing by as many as 100 new labels a month. Beatport was awarded 'Digital Music Store of the Year' in March 2007 by Music Week magazine, the premier music industry magazine for the UK. Beatport is privately held and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, USA.
