The Europe Music Awards, the coveted award show to honour the best in the music video medium, just got even more exciting with inclusion of five Indian nominations in their Worldwide Act Category. And bringing all this excitement to your TV screens is going to be none other than India's leading English Entertainment Channel from Viacom18 - Vh1 - that has procured the exclusive rights for airing the show in India. The five artists that have been nominated are Priyanka Chopra, Monica Dogra, Indus Creed, Your Chin and The SkaVengers.
These super-hot five Indian Artists have been nominated at the 2015 Europe Music Awards under the Best India Act category which falls under the Worldwide Act Category. The Worldwide Act category is a global category where the best talent is picked from across continents. Fans decide the best winning talent from amongst all the nominees through votes. The winner then competes with the winners from regions across the world to become one of the 6 Worldwide Act Winners. 6 Worldwide Act winners will be announced on the 2015 Europe Music Awards Show on 25thOctober, 2015.
Elated with the Indian nominations at the Europe Music Awards, Mr. Ferzad Palia, Executive Vice President Head- English Entertainment, Viacom18 shares, “It gives us immense pleasure to see Indian names competing with artists across the globe. This gives a huge encouragement to talent in the country who follow English music. We, at Viacom18, have always worked towards the growth of English entertainment in India. Hence events like these make us swell with happiness and pride. It is a matter of great honor to have such talented artists represent India on such a big platform for English music. We congratulate them for the nomination and wish the best for the competition ahead. We are sure to back them up with plenty of votes.”
Fans can cast their votes for their favourite artist from the official website of the Europe Music Awards, i.e. http://in.mtvema.com/vote. For social media voting Fans can also tweet or post both #MTVEMA #EmasOnVh1 AND #Nominate[artistname] for their vote to be counted.
BEST INDIA ACT NOMINEES:
(One ACT from the list below who is most voted will go on to compete with the rest of the world)
They list includes:
Priyanka Chopra, Monica Dogra, Indus Creed, Your Chin, The SkaVengers
Regional Breakdown
USA: North America (Canada, USA), South America (Brazil, Latin America Central, Latin America North, Latin America South)
Europe: (Adria, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland)
UK & Ireland
Africa: / India (Africa, India)
Asia: (Japan, Korea, Mainland China/Hong Kong
SE Asia Act: (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Philippines/Thailand/Vietnam), Taiwan)
Australia / New Zealand: (Australia, New Zealand)