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The TIM Music Awards, known between 2007–2013 and 2015–2018 as Wind Music Awards and between 2019 and 2021 as SEAT Music Awards are non-competitive
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s honoring Italian music artists who have sold a certain number of copies of an album, digital song, or music DVD over the previous year in Italy, as certified by the
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. The awards are organized by
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-based agency Friends & Partners, and held since 2007 as a replacement of the canceled
Italian Music Awards The Italian Music Awards were an accolade established in 2001 by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry to recognize the achievements in the Italian music business both by domestic and international artists. The awards were given by an acad ...
(2001–2003). Their previous name was dependent on the sponsorship of Italian phone company
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. In 2014 they were officially known as just Music Awards while between 2019 and 2021 they have been sponsored by
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. From 2022 it is sponsored by TIM.


History

From 2007 to 2009, the awards were held in
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, first in the Auditorium Conciliazione and then in the Valle Giulia. Since 2009, the event has been held in the
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, previously home to the
Festivalbar The Festivalbar was an Italian singing competition that took place in the most important Italian squares during summer, such as the Piazza del Duomo, Catania or Piazza Bra, Verona. The first edition took place in 1964 and was broadcast by RAI. ...
, for which the Wind Music Awards has been seen as a replacement. The first five years of the awards were broadcast on television network
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; they have been broadcast on
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since 2012. The event has also been broadcast on radio station
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. The awards have been criticized in the past by Italian
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label Produttori Musicali Indipendenti for excluding independent artists.


Awards

Based on:


Years


Compilation albums


References


External links


Official website
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