The Second Annual DM Awards winners are official. Great to see some impressive debuts from some DM Awards rookies such as Maria Danes, Alexander Lindqvist, and FraDonaghy. Also some of last year's champs defended their titles successfully - Traf in Blues and Tim Sanders in World.

And without further ado...the winners are...

ELECTRONIC (tie for 2nd place)
1. "Sea of Light(furiousBall Remix)" by ChillinBuzz
2. "Blinking Indicates Help is on the Way" by Spiral Galaxy Collision (tie)
2. "Isadora" by Joseph Cryss (tie)
3. "Didn't Know Your Neck Bent Like That" by furiousBall

JAZZ
1. "Outbound (collab w/Traf)" by Tim Sanders
2. "The Dark Horse" by Gene Hilbert
3. "An Error in the Garden of the Doppleganger" by Flying Apparatus

BLUES (tie for 2nd place)
1. "Lord I Know it's Wrong" by Traf
2. "For Tom (My Brother)" by Bill Rhynes (tie)
2. "Ballad Of Sally Anne" by Chris MacManus (tie)
3. "Strat's Blues" by Stratwizard

POP (tie for 3rd place)
1. "To The Good Times" by Pop Dolls
2. "Haven't Gotten Over You" by Bowillie
3. "Sand And Sea" by Empire Day (tie)
3. "Candy Ways" by Pop Dolls (tie)

WORLD (tie for 2nd place)
1. "Jamu" by Tim Sanders
2. "Moon Light Lullaby" by Strum (tie)
2. "Poplar Trees Along the River" by Liqueur (tie)
3. "The Accordion Thief" by Xym and the Symphony of Sound

INSTRUMENTAL
1. "Jamu" by Tim Sanders
2. "TrailGuideHand" by furiousBall
3. "The Buzzard" by Traf

HIP-HOP
1. "Hip Hop Fiesta " by JNX
2. "We Ridaz" by Get Crunk Ent
3. "Grease'n Tha Pan" by Dislocated Boner

ALTERNATIVE
1. "A Nice Guy, Ver 2" by Alexander Lindqvist
2. "Levitation" by Pop Dolls
3. "Pitchblackeyed Man" by ZSammy

BEST FEMALE VOCAL
1. Maria Danes
2. Diane Jessurun
3. ebarberella

PUNK/SKA
1. "High Fives" by Suburban Legends
2. "Panic Attack" by Shaka
3. "I is a Zombie" by The Promiscuous Robots

REGGAE
1. "Family" by Sons of Ace
2. "Enter Zion" by Iriemon

LATIN
1. "Ciudadano del Mundo" by Laura Garcia Y LaBanda
2. "Aeolian" by - Dan Sindel
3. "Groovy in Am" by RedDemon

FOLK (tie for 3rd place)
1. "In The Way" by FraDonaghy
2. "Katie in the Snow" by FraDonaghy
3. "100 mile Call" by The Dirty Hearts (tie)
3. "Promises" by The Dirty Hearts (tie)

BEST COLLABORATION (tie for 1st place)
1. "Sadness" by Bowillie and PablikMM (tie)
1. "Coin and A Suitcase" by Traf and Thoughtfox (tie)
2. "Don't You Feel It's Right" by Onewhodreams and Dizeazed
3. "Are we having fun?" by evansorchid and Scott LeRock

LIVE
1. "Bobby McGee" by Electric Gypsy
2. "Zombies-Time of the Season" by Peace and Onions
3. "Deeper" by Written Red

R&B/SOUL/URBAN
1. "The Rain" by Lenora Jaye
2. "Can't Let You Go" by Jessurun
3. "Light the Way" by Wonderful Life ft. Maria Daines

AMERICANA (tie for 2nd place)
1. "All My Words" by Halaka
2. "Baby Can You Hear Me" by Whiskey Bent (tie)
2. "Fool's Gold" by John Garza (tie)
3. "The Sky Gets Bored (Humanitarian Aid)" by Halaka

BEST MALE VOCAL
1. Alexander Lindqvist
2. Vince.Christian
3. Ryan Williams

OTHER
1. "TrailGuideHand" by furiousBall
2. "I'm Pale" by Alexander Lindqvist
3. "Part I The Room" by Spiral Galaxy Collision

ROCK (tie for 2nd place)
1. "Fly" By Empire Day
2. "Cold Day" By Traf (tie)
2. "Magazines" By Pop Dolls (tie)
3. "Starlight" By Tim Sanders and Israfel

CLASSICAL (tie for 2nd place)
1. "Vivaldi Four Seasons-Spring" by Dan Sindel
2. "Chalk Outline of an Esophagus" by Flying Apparatus (tie)
2. "Chanson Norvegienne - Felix Fourdrain" by Sara McKimmie (tie)
3. "Arnold Schoenberg Drei Klavierstücke op 11 –3" by egac

METAL
1. "I Hate" by Victors Skull
2. "Long As I Can Bleed" by Bill Rhynes
3. "Carve Your Name" by Quid Pro Quo

HARDCORE
1. "Irate in Irac" by Diagnosis Red
2. "Worth" by Shadowjack
3. "Nothing" by Mimic of a Mind

COUNTRY
1. "Feminine Jeans and Flying War Machines" by Knightmoods
2. "Burning Bridges, Turning Cold" by Whiskey Bent
3. "Light" by John Garza

BLUEGRASS
1. "I Saw the Light" by Gary Tucker
2. "Will The Circle Be Unbroken with Gary Tucker" by Karen Davis
3. "The Elephant Song" by Strum


Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to everyone who gave their time and effort to make these awards a success!

DMusic Vote Counters - Cryxan, Alstroph, MinisterofScissors, perkie1973, independentmusician, Kingo, FraDonaghy, koiulpoi, Distilled1, MinisterofScissors, & victorsskull.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote, and especially to Van - who made it all happen
Congratulations to all the winners.
..oh, and a personal thank you for everyone who voted for me too

I didnt loose this year

thanx every one

Great job for the winners!!!!!!

you know the thing I really dug about this year's (and last year's for that matter) is finding out about some artists I haven't had a chance to listen to...Whiskey Bent, Strum, John Garza, Pini...

Good stuff.

Congratulations to all the winnners! This was great fun! And for all those who helped out with this! Great job everyone!

WOW "Z" WOW

wheres aflunky?

He's recording a straight-up rendition of "YMCA". Bound to set the place on fire. Best song ever.

congrats to all

Wow! Thank you to everyone who nominated/voted.

Congrats to all of the winners and nominees!

The DMusic community rocks my socks off!

thanks to everyone that voted for the Pop Dolls and Diagnosis Red!
and Congrats to all nominees great music!

Awesome! The best music in the world is right here on this site, free. I just read many of my favorite names in this thread.

Anyway big thank you to those who nominated and voted my songs in the Bluegrass category, and also to those who did not.

Gary

Oh yay!!!

well it was quiet an honor to be nominated, guess i'll do my best to win something next time.

Congratulations to all the nominees and for the winners (very impressive level of skills and talents in this communauty, i think i'll stay )

holy friggin moly!
uh..uh...i
ll be back..im speechless.

woo woo congrats everyone

"ALL ARTISTS HERE ARE FANTASTIC and DMusic is filled with talented composers, instrumentalists, lyrics writers, poetrists and people interesting in music ..." No contest or awards will ever change that.

Tim

Congratulations to all who won, were nominated, voted and put tis together DMusic and Keep supporting indipendant music

And thanks for the votes for Empire Day now its time for us to bring you some new recordings.

Congrats Everyone!

and a safe and Happy New Year to all!

&

CONGRATULATIONS, EVERYONE!

Well said Tim.. What a great place this is..
Thanks for the votes and congrats to everyone... There's some great music here.
Happy new year everyone..

Thanx for your votes ... it really means a lot to me to be a part of this comunity ... no mather who won or who doesn´t the most important thing is that its all about music and people around music ... thanx DMusic.

It is an offense. The Orchestra of the Hand Tap earned to win at least each category in which it was called. We will destroy you DMusic, we will become you the desire will make that you were not alike there, in order to be there, if we make, what we to make, around you the desire to make you were not there directly. I know that this competition was supported and the mechanism from the beginning, it was too much, in order to expect me that the real winners of the industry win really possibly somewhat. Aspire it just.

...o...k...

Even tho I won a Dmusic Award (Best Song R&B/Soul/Urban) I totally agree with HandClapOrchestra's assessment. I would also like to add that even though they did not win they were here from the moment they began and they started before they were here but will ALWAYS be the winner of losers whether on dmusic or not off dmusic in case they perform and sometimes instruments matter. They have aspirations behind.

Congratulations to everyone who was nominated!!!
Lots of folks were overlooked, but such is life.
I'm deeply honored that I was even considered.
To everyone who voted for my material.....
......your check is in the mail.

where was chuckie akenz? his tracks got more hits than the rest of the site combined

Did you nominate him? Did you vote? Did he participate? Do any of his fans actually exist? Does HE actually exist? Are we the same person, you and I? Did someone leave the lights on? How did the what?

NOBODY FUCKING LISTENS TO CHUCKIE, is the thing. If anybody listens to chuckie they don't seem to nominate/vote. So they don't actually participate in the site. So they don't actually exist. And if nobody exists who listens to Chuckie then nobody listens to Chuckie, which is what I said, which is what the is.

Congrads to EVERYBODY! There was so much wonderful music this year! (I know because I took the time and tried to vote in every category! Took me a couple days, lol.)

to ALL!

Where was chukie go check this http://news.dmusic.com/article/19029

Thank you to everyone!

Congrats everyone and thanks to everyone, especially the counters, who took part, whether it be voting or nominating or counting or everything else

Yeah, seriously, great job putting this together. Any complaints about the way things were run and who ain't won or been nominated should be addressed by participating a little more consistently this time next year, ya know? Heck, I'm still shocked I even got nominated Anyway, look at it this way: isn't disappointment like a sign of arrogance under the circumstances?

Props to all involved and keep the contests coming!!

CONGRATS EVERYONE!

POP DOLLS RULE!

Congrats to all the winners. Well done.

Come off it. If you've got a problem with Chuckie being on top of the charts you're caring WAY too much about very superficial charts.

Get out there and MARKET your music! Or hire someone to!

This contest was great. Being a counter was amazing. My notes/day ratio went up significantly.

Ulations to everyone!

Add some "u"'s to "Ululation!

somebody send me a list of the urls and I will start an rss feed...

thanks for voting for D.R. and congrats!