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International Dance Music Awards nominees

International Dance Music Awards Nominees & Big Data: The Connection

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International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) have a long tradition of celebrating outstanding artists, venues, festivals, services, and other electronic music industry stakeholders. For years it has been one of the pillars of the Winter Music Conference that has thousands of dance music professionals from all over the world coming to Miami each March. The IDMA winners are chosen by a public vote, however, the past two years the International Dance Music Awards Nominees nominees in the artist categories have been selected by the music-tech startup, Viberate.

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2015 IDMA Award Winners and 6AM Picks

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The winners for the 30th International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) were announced last week at WMC. In years past there has been a somewhat even balance between underground and mainstream being represented in the awards, but unfortunately the same cannot be said in 2015.

Each genre was represented, but throughout the 57 various awards there was a clear bias towards the more commercially successful EDM/Pop artists with an apparent negligence for presenting an even playing field. At least the legendary Frankie Knuckles was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award; The IDMA’s did get one thing right. We ran through and critiqued the list picking out our most note-worthy categories and winners. Read more