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, Colombian singer-songwriters

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and Carlos Vives, and Cuban ensemble Gente de Zona earned three awards each, including Pop/Rock Album of the Year and Pop Song of the Year for CNCO; Colombian

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received the

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accolade for the second year in a row. American artist

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received the Excellence Award and TV host

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earned the Trajectory Award. The telecast garnered in average 10 million viewers in North America.

Winners and nominees

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received the most nominations with seven each. Among others, Banda MS was nominated for

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, and won for Regional Mexican Album (''Qué Bendición'') and Regional Mexican Song ("Solo Con Verte"); Wisin earned the Collaboration of the Year for "

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" by Carlos Vives and

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earned all the awards it was nominated for, which included Single of the Year, Video of the Year and Tropical Song. Mexican artist

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was named Pop Female Artist, her first win in the category since

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and Gente de Zona earned three awards each.

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won for Artist of the Year for the second consecutive time.

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received the Excellence Award and TV host

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earned the Trajectory Award. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double-dagger ().

Ceremony information

Categories and voting process

The categories considered were for the Pop, Tropical, Regional Mexican, and Urban genres, with additional awards for the General Field that includes nominees from all genres, for the Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Single of the Year, Male and Female Artist, Duo or Group, Collaboration and Music Video categories. The nominees were selected through an

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voting poll at the official website and a total of 70 artist were included in the nominations; the winners were chosen from a total 26 different categories. The ceremony was hosted by Mexican model

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Ratings and reception

The American telecast on

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drew in an average 10 million people during its three hours of length. Univision was third in the ratings during its first two hours, but rose to number one in the third, last hour of the broadcast. According to Glenn Santana of the newspaper '' Primera Hora'', the ratings were lower comparing to those of the previous year, and they have continually decreased since 2011 when they registered 26.4 million viewers.

References

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