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The Urban Music Awards

Wednesday 2nd of June 2010

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The Urban Music Awards yesterday announced the nominees for this year's 8th annual celebration. Tinie Tempah, Rihanna, Alexandra Burke, JLS, Professor Green, Plan B, Jay Sean, M.I.A, Roll Deep and Chipmunk are just a few chart-toppers who join a list of nominees for the biggest annual urban and dance music awards show. The much anticipated show will be held on the 18th of September 2010. UMA's will recognise the achievements of artists, entertainers and media personalities in over 18 categories.

Recent chart topper, Tinie Tempah receives a record 4 nominations for Best Newcomer, Best Collaboration with his single 'Pass Out', Best HipHop Act and Best Music Video for the single 'Frisky'. The South London rapper who recently signed a deal with EMI/Parlophone added "I am extremely excited to be nominated for this year. It's like a dream come true. The Urban Music Awards has always been the breaking ground for artists worldwide and I have always wanted to be at the UMA's. Thanks to all the fans who nominated me and I can't wait till the show in September".

Other nominees this year include; M.I.A, Skepta, Willy Denzy from France, Aggro Santos for his collaboration with ex-Pussy cat Dolls star, Kimberly Wyatt and newcomer Mclean who scored a top 10 hit with his single 'My Name' earlier this year.

The Street Dance Category which was first introduced in 2006 and won by Britain's Got Talent stars, 'Flawless' makes a welcome return with nominees including; Diversity, Flawless, Plague, Status and Boyblue.

Alexandra Burke continues her 2010 success by grabbing 3 nominations for Best Album, Best Collaboration and Best Music Video for her chart topping single 'All night Long' with US artists Pitbull.

The Urban Music Awards was launched in 2003 at a time when there was no support for the UK music scene. Undeterred by the lack of support. The UMA's invested millions in the UK urban music scene, celebrating, awarding, nurturing, and encouraging artists who have become household names today. The UMA's listened to music fans from as far back as 1999 with its specialist magazine and launched the UMA's in 2003 making sure all nominees were voted for by music fans nationwide. It became the 1st ever awards show in the UK to award 100% of all 23 categories to strictly British acts. This led to several multi-faceted sponsorship deals with brands such as; Samsung Mobile, Timberland, Footlocker, Kickers, MAC Cosmetics, Wella Professionals and many more to strengthen the UK Urban Music scene. The UMA's did not stop there, the awards show became the 1st ever British based awards show to launch a US version with the Urban Music Awards USA in New York city in 2007.

Founder of Urban Music Awards, Jordan Kensington added "In 1999, it was a hard task convincing sponsors, media, and labels and booking agents to showcase UK urban music. There was virtually no other awards show prepared to support UK urban artists. All awards shows had a more US biased agenda. We risked it all on the belief that if everybody fails to see the quality of our acts, we would work our hardest to make sure the scene got the recognition it deserves and now it's finally paid off. UK urban music is now the most popular music genre. Acts that were discovered at the UMA's are now household names. I am truly proud of our achievements but our work is not yet over as our plans are to engage and connect UK artists with opportunities in Europe and beyond".

To celebrate the recent success of UK urban music; The 2010 UMA awards show will be in cooperating one of the biggest European collaborations of all time. A record 6 categories were thrown open to commercial/popular urban and dance acts in France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the rest of Europe to be nominated making it a truly European event and finally setting a new precedent by bridging the gap between our UK artists and European counterparts to engage and commence working together to achieve far more success across different European territories. As a result the UMA's 2010 will be syndicated for broadcast in over 7 countries in Europe with a potential audience access of over 48 million music fans worldwide and this will follow the launch of the UMA 2010 compilation album featuring a mix of talent from Europe.

Grandmasterflash (Creator of HipHop) added "I am an innovator as we created HipHop, a music genre that wasn't fully embraced. We worked long and hard to make sure it grew to become a credible and successful genre and now it is being enjoyed all around the world by music fans from different races, ages and more. The UMA's will always have my support because what the UMA's are doing worldwide is way ahead of it's time and the effects and positive impact of the Urban Music Awards worldwide would only be realised several years after for how groundbreaking one show has been to inspire a generation from the grass roots to the mainstream".

Music fans who have nominated for all the categories will get to decide by voting on who gets to win a prestigious UMA award. This year, pioneering group Faithless are set to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Dance music whilst the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award winner will be announced at a pre-awards show launch party on the 14th of July.

Here is the full list of nominees for the 8th annual Urban Music Awards 2010;

Best Album 2010

Best Collaboration

Best Dance Act (Europe)

Best DJ 2010

Best Gospel Act 2010

Best Group 2010 (Europe)

Best European Act

Best International Act

Best Newcomer

Best HipHop Act (Europe)

Best R'n'B Act (Europe)

Best Music Video

Best Street Dance

Group 2010

Best Asian Act 2010

Best TV Station 2010

Best Radio Station

Best Radio Show

Best Producer (Europe)

You can vote for all nominees from the 1st of June till the 1st of August 2010 at the Urban Music Awards website.

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