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Awards Business News
Music Week award winners
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 9 April 2009
Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, of course, has been named the most influential figure in the last fifty years of the British music industry at this year’s Music Week awards. Blackwell beat the likes of George Martin and Simon Cowell to win the special prize, awarded this year to celebrate Music Week’s 50th anniversary, and conveniently coinciding with Island Records’ own fiftieth birthday. Blackwell’s Island records brought us music from Jimmy Cliff, Traffic, Nick Drake, Roxy Music and, perhaps most famously, Bob Marley. In a pre-recorded acceptance message, Blackwell said the award was an “unbelievable” honour.
Other special prizes at the Music Week awards bash this year went to Alison Wenham, who won a Special Achievement prize to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the trade body she runs, the Association Of Independent Music; while a posthumous award was given to the late Rob Partridge, the founder of the Coalition PR and management company who died last year. His award was preceded by a video tribute which included, among others, U2, who said: “I think it’s fair to say that you believed in us before we believed in ourselves”.
The full list of winners at the trade mag’s awards were as follows…
The A&R Award: Jim Chancellor
Manager of the Year: Jeanette Lee
Producer of the Year: Xenomania
National Promotions Team of the Year: Atlantic Promotions
Regional Promotions Team of the Year: Columbia Records
Artist Marketing Campaign of the Year: Liz Goodwin from Polydor for Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid
Catalogue Marketing Campaign of the Year: Rachael Paley from Mercury Records for Stereophonics – Decade In The Sun – Best Of
PR Campaign of the Year: MBC PR for Duffy: The Rise of Little Big Voice
Music & Brand Partnership of the Year: Bacardi & Groove Armada – KLP
Music Sync of the Year: Boots “Here Come The Girls” – Sugababes – Universal Music
Digital Achievement of the Year: Lost Tunes – Universal Music Catalogue, UK
Publisher of the Year: EMI Music Publishing
Independent Publisher of the Year: Kobalt
Record Company of the Year: Polydor
Independent Record Company of the Year: XL
Music Sales Force of the Year: Sony Music
Distributor of the Year: Proper Music Distribution
Music Retail Brand of the Year: Amazon.co.uk
Music Retail Store of the Year: Rough Trade East, London
Music Venue of the Year: O2 Academy Brixton
Concert Promoter of the Year: Rob Hallett
National Radio Station of the Year: BBC Radio 2
Regional Radio Station of the Year: Radio City 96.7
Special Achievement – 10 Years of AIM: Alison Wenham
The Strat: Rob Partridge
UK Music Executive of the Past 50 Years: Chris Blackwell
