Music Industry Awards
| Music Industry Awards | |
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 2013 Music Industry Awards
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| Awarded for | Outstanding achievements in Flemish music industry |
| Country | Belgium |
| Presented by | Music Centre Flanders |
| First awarded | 1994 (as ZAMU Award) 2007 (as MIA) |
| Website | mias |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | VRT |
The MIA's, in full Music Industry Awards, are Flemish music prizes that are awarded by the VRT in collaboration with Music Centre Flanders. The prizes replace the ZAMU Awards, last awarded in 2006.
The abbreviation MIA is a wink to Mia, a song by Gorki.
The first MIA's were the 2007 MIA's, from which the winners were revealed on 30 January 2008; the show was broadcast by Eén two days later. The music awards counted twelve categories; in nine of them the winner was assigned by public votes, in three others by the music sector itself. In 2007 the zanger Milow from Leuven was the great winner with three prizes.
At the second edition, on 6 February 2009 Milow was again the great winner. This time he took home five prizes, among others the ones for best song and best male solo artist.
The third show (MIA's 2009) took place on 8 January 2010. Absynthe Minded and Daan (Stuyven) were the big winners. Absynthe Minded won the MIA's for Hit of the Year, best album, best rock/alternative and best band. Daan won the prizes for best solo man, best author/composer, best videoclip and best artwork.
In early December 2010 the VRT announced the nominees for the 2010 MIA's. The most nominated artists with four or more nominations were Stromae, Tom Dice, Bart Peeters and Admiral Freebee. The distribution happened live at Eén on 7 January 2011. Stromae won the most important MIA, "Hit van het Jaar", as well as "Best Breaktrough". There was no clear-cut winner of the event. The most successful artists, all with two winners were Stromae, The Black Box Revelation, Goose and Triggerfinger. Only at the 2010 show a MIA for "Kidspop" was awarded, with Kapitein Winokio as winner.
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