MUMBAI: Artist Aloud Music Awards 2014 powered by Hungama, has fast gained incredible momentum in its first phase of the fourth edition of the India’s only Digital Awards for Independent Artists in Music. Garnering a digital reach of over 20 million music fans across the globe, the first innings of the awards has received numerous votes for the talented singers and musicians nominated from India as well as other international countries. The overwhelming response from thousands of music lovers created a storm in just a few days of Phase 1, resulting in the awards consistently getting featured in the Top 10 trends on Twitter in India. The towering acknowledgement from fans and the music industry has been encouraging.

Now in the second phase, Artist Aloud Music Awards 2014 is calling on fans to contribute to the nominations in the categories of Bajaate Raho Song - Best Song, Best Male, Best Female and Best Group. The nominees for the open public voting for the final TOP 4 categories are:

Fans can cast their Vote for the Top 20 finalists and choose the best of melodies and soulful tunes by voting on the Artist Aloud website. Other categories that will be recognised at the awards are Best Album, Best Video, Best Lyrics, Best Composition, Best Genre, Best International Artist , Best Sound & Best Single (Jury) which will be judged basis Jury voting. The Awards will be announced on 18th May 2015 from 10 am to 10 pm on ArtistAloud.com and multiple social engagement sites where one award will be declared every hour.

The final winners will be announced and presented their awards by music icons such as Pankaj Udhas, Himesh Reshammiya, Pritam, Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant, Kailash Kher, Shaan, Leslie Lewis, Sona Mahapatra, Shankar Mahadevan, Abhijeet & RJ Malishka, who are coming together to support the independent music artists on this digital platform to make the 4th edition of the awards bigger and better

Talking about these distinctive digital awards, Soumini Sridhara Paul, Vice President, Artist Aloud said, “Tapping into the growing popularity of music consumption on mobile and tablet through internet, ArtistAloud.com has fast become a name to reckon with for fans and aficionados of independent music. The 4th edition of the digital music awards has garnered an unconventional support in the online space by trending consistently four times with the backing of the Twitterati in India. With the inspiring and encouraging voting numbers we now progress into the second phase of public voting to felicitate the best of independent artists and music released by Artist Aloud.”

This year the 4th edition of the Artist Aloud Music Awards, powered by Hungama is being amplified with support from television partner 9xO, India’s leading English music channel and heavily promoted on the airwaves of radio partner Red FM. And in the digital space taking it up a notch higher is the online media partner RadioAndMusic.com along with Actfaqs as online promotional partner and Giftxoxo as the gratification partner. Aurave Media has come on board as the outdoor digital partner and Provogue is the Celebrity Lifestyle partner. Each of the partners are lending their support in making this property as the most desired and renowned honour for independent music artists.