Music Week Awards winners announced

Friday March 16, 2007

Jazz Summers, Polydor, Mark Ronson, Radio Two and HMV were among the big winners at the Music Week Awards supported by T-Mobile last night.

The awards, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London's Park Lane, were hosted by Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins of the Friday Night Project and climaxed with Jazz Summer's receipt of the Strat Award.

Presented by Lisa Stansfield, Summer's award recognised three decades as a music manager, representing artists as diverse as Stansfield, Soul II Soul, The Verve, Snow Patrol, Badly Drawn Boy, and Wham! Summers told the audience he was touched by the honour.

Polydor won best label, the A&R award, and best regional promotions team, while Sundraj Sreenivasan won the PR campaign of the year for his work on Girls Aloud.

Elsewhere, EMI was victorious in the international marketing campaign of the year and UK marketing campaign of the year categories, winning for campaigns for Corinne Bailey Rae and Lily Allen respectively, as well as picking up awards for distributor of the year and publisher of the Year.

The new live awards category saw Simon Moran honoured as promoter of the year, while Free Trade's Paul Boswell was named booking agent of the year. The Luminaire was named as venue of the year.

Producer and artist Mark Ronson was named producer of the year, for his work with Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse and Robbie Williams, and told the Grosvenor audience that the award was the first he had ever won. Ronson later played a DJ set at the aftershow party, which was hosted by Capital 95.8.

Radio Two won the radio station award, while Kerrang Radio's Emma Scrafton was named music programmer of the year. The retail award saw HMV voted music chain of the year, with London's Sister Ray named indie retailer of the year.

Besides T-Mobile, premium sponsors on the night included PPL, Nielsen Music Control, Yahoo! Music, VidZone Digital Media, MTV, Sony Ericsson and Red Stripe, and partners Peacock and CMCS Group PLC.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Independent Store of the Year: Sister Ray, London

Digital Store of the Year: iTunes

Music Retail Chain of the Year: HMV

Sales Force of the Year: Universal

Distributor of the Year: EMI

Digital Music Service of the Year: 3 Music Store

Music Programmer of the Year: Emma Scrafton - Kerrang! Radio

Radio Station of the Year (sponsored by PPL): BBC Radio 2

Regional Promotions Team of the Year (sponsored by Nielsen Music Control): Polydor Regional

National Promotions Team of the Year: Island Records Group

Booking Agent of the Year: Paul Boswell, Free Trade

Concert Promoter of the Year: Simon Moran, SJM

Venue of the Year (sponsored by Red Stripe): The Luminaire

Publisher of the Year: EMI

Producer of the Year: Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Robbie Williams, Lily Allen)

The A&R Award (sponsored by MTV Networks UK & Ireland): Polydor

PR Campaign of the Year: Sundraj Sreenivasan (for The Sound of Girls Aloud)

International Marketing Campaign of the Year (Supported by T-Mobile): Mike Allen, Kevin Brown & Caitlin Gibbons - Corinne Bailey Rae
Catalogue Marketing Campaign on the Year: Chas Chandler - Slade Remastered

UK Marketing Campaign of the Year (sponsored by Yahoo! Music): Katherine Parrott and Dan Duncombe - Lily Allen

Independent Record Label of the Year (sponsored by VidZone Digital Media): Domino

Record Label of the Year: Polydor

Manager of the Year (sponsored by Sony Ericsson): Neale Easterby/Richard Ramsey - Empire

The Strat Award: Jazz Summers