Top Hit Music Awards - Wikipedia

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Top Hit Music Awards
Date	since 2013
Location	Moscow, Russia
Country	Russia and Ukraine
Presented by	Igor Kraev
Website	thma.tophit.live

Top Hit Music Awards is an annual music award ceremony established by TopHit in 2013. Artists, authors and producers from Russia, Ukraine, other countries of Eastern Europe and countries around the world are awarded for outstanding achievements in popular music and the recording business based on data from the rotation of songs on radio stations and views of video clips on the Internet. Performers are also awarded for the best concert shows. Ceremonies are held annually in Moscow.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Top Hit Music Awards rewards not only popular performers from Russia and Ukraine, but also from other countries of Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, Central Asia and other countries of the world; over the years, the leaders of the hit parade were Alla Pugacheva, Valery Leontyev, Jason Derulo, Billie Eilish, David Guetta, Pink, Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Imany, BTS, Svetlana Loboda, Bi-2, Zemfira, A'Studio, Dan Balan, Serebro, Little Big, Max Barskikh, Zivert, Niletto and others.^{[8][9][10][11]}

There is a Top Hit Hall of Fame as a part of the award. Every year 10 nominees are announced by partnering radio stations, determined by voting.^[12] Then past Hall of Fame members elect 2 of them.

Yolka singer, one of the most popular Russian singers, honors Top Hit Music Awards as a tool for determining artists by their real statistical popularity, not by decisions of some jury. This also emphasizes professional nature of the award.^[13] Yolka was awarded multiple times, including "Artist of the decade award", as Top Hit measurements show that she is extremely popular among Russian-speaking listeners with over 19 million of airplays in 10 years.^[14]

TimeOut showbiz magazine coined the ceremony a metaphor of "Unbiased Prize of Numbers which is based exceptionally on statistics and is not subject to objections" .^[15]

Main awards for singers

• Local Russian artists and groups most played on Russian radio in the past year
• Foreign artists and groups most played on Russian radio in the past year
• Local Russian artists most played at YouTube Russia in the past year
• Foreign artists most played at YouTube Russia in the past year
• Local Russian artists most played at Spotify Russia in the past year
• Foreign artists most played at Spotify Russia in the past year

Other awards for singers (artist of decade, takeoff, breakthrough, comeback and other special nominations).

Nominations for songs

• Russian hits most played on Russian radio over the year
• Foreign hits most played on Russian radio over the year
• Russian hits most played and watched on YouTube Russia over the year
• Foreign hits played and watched on YouTube Russia over the year
• Russian hits most played at Spotify Russia in the past year
• Foreign hits most played at Spotify Russia in the past year

Professional nominations

• Local Russian composers and poets most played on Russian radios during past year
• Local Russian producers whose artists were most played on Russian radios during past year
• Local Russian record labels whose artists were most played on Russian radios during past year
• Foreign record labels whose artists were most played on Russian radios during past year
• Local Russian composers and poets most played and watched on YouTube Russia during past year
• Local music video makers whose music videos were most played on YouTube Russia over the year
• Local record labels whose artists were most played on YouTube Russia over the year

• ZD Awards
• Russian pop music
• Pop music in Ukraine

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