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BT Digital Music Awards

Tuesday 3rd October 2006

Please find nominations below with winners highlighted in red.

Hundreds of musicians, celebrities, and music industry professionals last night flocked to Camden’s legendary Roundhouse, where Edith Bowman announced the winners of the BT Digital Music Awards 2006.

Lily Allen, Lemar, Lorraine, White Stripes and The Streets all walked away with gongs on the night, with Peter Gabriel picking up a special ‘Pioneer Award’ recognising his contribution to the world of digital music over the years – a first for the BT Digital Music Awards.

This year’s big winners were Muse and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke who each walked away with a two awards a-piece. Other winners on the night included Lily Allen for ‘Best Pop Artist’, McFly for ‘Best Official Website’, NME for ‘Best Music Magazine’, MySpace for ‘Best Innovation’ and London Elektricity for Best Podcast. There were 19 awards presented on the night, 13 of which were voted for by music fans via www.dma06.com and six of which were decided by a panel of experts.

Another first this year was the ‘Best Unsigned Artist’ award, which was won by three-piece band, The Wonderfuls, fresh out of the thriving Brighton live scene. They fought off tough competition from eight other unsigned acts shortlisted by Channel4.com/music for the once in a lifetime opportunity to showcase their talent in front of the 1000-strong audience at The Roundhouse.

The Wonderfuls weren’t the only ones to take to the stage at the awards. Hip Hop star Plan B performed an acoustic version of his song ‘No More Eating’, Rock School’s Lil’Chris belted out his hit single ‘Checkin’ it Out’ and Nate James treated the audience to a stunning performance of ‘Justify Me’ alongside members of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Other fantastic performances came from Sandi Thom, famed for broadcasting her live gigs on the internet earlier this year, winners in the ‘Best Electronic Artist/DJ’ category, Lorraine and Captain who performed an excellent version of their song ‘Frontline’.

Music fans that weren’t lucky enough to bag a ticket to this exclusive event can catch all of the action by tuning in to two special Channel 4 programmes, both presented by Alex Zane, dedicated to the awards ceremony and digital music. A 15-minute ‘teaser’ programme will be broadcast at midnight on Saturday 7th October, with the extended programme going out at the same time on Saturday 21st October.

The awards are supported by the BPI, the UK’s record trade association, the Official UK Charts Company, Phonographic Performance Ltd, The Mobile Entertainment Forum and the Association of Independent Music.

Gavin Patterson, group managing director consumer for BT says: “2006 has been a really great year for digital music, which has helped make this year’s awards even more exciting and harder to call than ever before. We’re delighted with the sheer quality of all shortlisted artists and winners.”

BT is dedicated to enabling the digital media marketplace and committed to developing and producing cutting-edge broadband technology and applications. BT Total Broadband is one of the most comprehensive broadband packages available in the UK, enabled by the brand new BT Home Hub. Total Broadband customers benefit from ultra-fast download speeds of up to 8Mb*, inclusive internet voice calls**, free video calls*** and a suite of security software, making life a little easier with everything you need from the internet in one place.

As part of its partnership with the music industry, BT is restricting participation in the awards to sites and services that have licensed music from record companies, ensuring that artists are properly rewarded for their work.

Best Pop Artist in association with TV Hits Magazine
Girls Aloud
Lily Allen
Sandi Thom
The Kooks
Will Young

Best Rock Artist
Editors
Hard-Fi
Kasabian
Muse
Mystery Jets

Best Urban Artist in association with Touch Magazine
Lemar
Nate James
Plan B
Sway
The Streets

Best Electronic Artist or DJ in association with Mixmag
Coldcut
John B
Lorraine
Pete Tong
Rob da Bank

Best Podcast
Kerrang!
London Elektricity
Radio 1’s Best of Unsigned
The Zutons Official
Zane Lowe’s Home Taping

Best Radio Station in with Packard Bell
BBC 6 Music
Gaydar Radio
LAUNCHcast
Ministry Of Sound
Pulse Rated

Best Music Store
3 Music
Bleep
DJ Download
iTunes
Napster

Best Music Magazine
Drowned In Sound
I Like Music
NME.com
Playlouder
Popjustice

Best Event or Performance site
Download Festival
PLAY.orchestra
Radio 1’s Big Weekend
The Jump Off
The Proms

Best Music Community in association with Vice magazine
Last.FM
MySpace.com
Napster
Ninja Tune Forum
Resident Advisor
Slash Music

Best Unsigned Artist in association with Channel4.com/music
Drugmule
Headway
Ironshore
John Joy
Kay B
Middleman
Teish O’Day
The Future
The Wonderfuls
Urbanspacelab

People’s Choice awards
Best Unofficial Music site
Best Official Music site
Best Music Blog in association with Metro

Categories judged by panel of experts

Best Artist Promotion
Gorillaz Take Over the BBC
Robbie Williams – Get More Robbie
Sigur Ros Photostream
Stereophonics Mobile Pre-order
White Stripes – Denial Twist project
Yahoo! Music & RCA Records: Shakira ‘Get Your Freak On’

Best Use of Broadband
Inspired Broadband Networks: THE Music - Digital Jukebox
MTV Overdrive
Musicbrigade
Yahoo! Music: The Extra Venue

Best Use of Mobile
3 Mobile/Sony BMG - Shakira ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
3 Mobile & Planet Funk: the UK’s first ever mobile-only single
Hard-Fi ‘Cash Machine’ Made-For-Mobile Video
MTV Goes Mobile
Thom Yorke Moblip

Best Artist Campaign
Hard-Fi
Lily Allen
Muse
Robbie Williams Live
Thom Yorke – The Eraser