The yearly awards event, which honors recording artists based on worldwide album sales, as certified by the International Federation ofthe Phonographic Industry (IFPI)., took place in Monte Carlo, on Sunday night Nov. 4.
Unfortunately, neither Haifa,nor Nancy and not even Elissa gotthe award this year! You guessed it; Amr Diab got it instead. We wonder, are these awards really reliable? The feedback we obtained on Amr Diab’s latest album wasn’t that encouraging.
First Elissa wins the title when Nancy Agram was literally taking the Arab music scene by storm, with everyone purchasing two or three Nancy albums (one for the car, one for the office and one for home of course) and now this Do you think the results are being tampered with?
Likewise, Shakira also lost the title of World’s Best-Selling Pop Female Artist to Rihanna 🙁
Mika scraped four awards though. We can comfort ourselves abit there.
Anyway here is the press release and the results which came as follows:
MAJOR AWARDS
Legend Award for Outstanding Contribution to R&B
Legend Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music – Celine Dion
World Best Selling Pop Female – Rihanna
World Best Selling Pop Rock Male Artist – Mika
World Best Selling Pop Rock Female Artist – Avril Lavigne
World Best Selling DJ – David Guetta
World Best Selling R and B Male Artist – Shaggy
Entertainer of the year – Shaggy
World Best Selling Hip Hop Artist – 50 Cent
World Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist – Amr Diab
World Best Selling Latin Group – Mana
THE BEST SELLING ARTISTS FROM THE WORLD:
Africa – Akon
America – Justin Timberlake
Australia – Silverchair
Britain – Mika
Canada – Avril Lavigne
China – Jay Chou
Netherlands – Within Temptation
France – Christophe Willem
Germany – Cascada
Ireland – U2
Italy – Laura Pausini
Middle East – Amr Diab
Russia – Silver
Spain – Miguel Bose
Scandinavia – Nightwish
TOP AWARD WINNERS
Mika won a total of four awards including: the Best selling British Artist, the Best selling new artist, the World best selling pop rock male artist and the Best selling male entertainer.
Akon won a total of three awards including: the best selling R&B male artist, the best selling African artist & the best selling internet artist.
Avril Lavigne won two awards including: the best selling Canadian artist and the best selling pop rock female artist.