V Chart Awards

V Chart Awards is a music award ceremony organised by the largest independent music website in China, YinYueTai. YinYueTai is the counterpart to Billboard in United States and Gaon Charts in Korea.[1] It aims to build a much fairer, more professional and influential music industry in China and the award to reflect the Chinese fans' love of music from different regions of the world.[2]

V Chart Awards
Current: The 5th V Chart Awards
Awarded forOutstanding achievements in the music industry.
CountryChina
First awardedApril 13, 2013

Categories

The beginning of the awards introduced the data category, jury category and the voting category. After the third ceremony, the award added on singer category, composition category and popular category while a techniques category was introduced in the fourth ceremony.

Shortlisted Criteria

1. The "data category" award nominees are artists who released an official MV in between January 1 to December 31 and the artist must have rankings in the chart throughout the whole year.[3]

2. "The Most Popular Artists" series (voting category) of shortlisted nominees are the top 30 artists in the TOP100 list in all five regions.[3]

3. "Artist Award" series nominees (singer category) are artists who released music-related work(s) in between January 1 to December 31. In addition to the results of the MV chart, the awards will be based on a combination of criteria: the standard of the released album, participation in offline activities, performances, film and television, hosting and the results that accompanies.[3]

4. "Composition Category" award nominees are artists who released an official MV from January 1 to December 31 and the artist must have the most #1 wins in the chart throughout the whole year. "MV Awards" are based on MV production standards, word of mouth, shooting, conception, production and list of achievements to determine the winning entries.[3]

5. "Album of The Year" is determined according to the annual album sales data ranking on the Yin Yue Shopping Mall. Shortlisted nominees are the top 10 albums on the data ranking.[3]

6. "Jury Category" winner will have their music-related work(s) scrutinised by the senior musicians combined with the results drawn from the V Chart.[3]

V Chart Awards (by year)

Session Year Date Venue Presenters
The 1st V Chart Awards 2013 April 13 Cadillac Arena, Beijing Mickey Huang and Ma Song
The 2nd V Chart Awards 2014 April 15 Li Chen, Bowie Tsang
The 3rd V Chart Awards 2015 April 11 Li Chen, Zhang Yu'an and Zhang Xinyue
The 4th V Chart Awards 2016 April 10 David Wu, Li Ai and Tao Guo
The 5th V Chart Awards 2017 April 8 Studio City, Macau Bowie Tsang and Tao Guo

Merit categories[4][5][6][7]

References

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