Nelly Furtado also accepted awards and performed in 2006 - at her peak when nobody in the world was as huge as her.

Hyuna for World's Best Female Artist? Really?!

just check on wiki for more understanding of the event, lol...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Music_Awards

lol my thoughts exactly

Please, don't let it be Taylor Swift. Or Adele. Pleeeaaasseee...

*keeps looking through the nominees*

Oh, God, if Nicki Minaj wins, I'm done.

omg so is in miami and if namie wins she might come again!!!
she's will be so close OMGOSH!

Wouldn't be ayu a serious candidate for this award? ( I don't know the exact number of her sales, that's why I wonder it).

According to Namie's official website, she is holding a concert at Tokyo Dome for her "namie amuro 5大ドーム TOUR ～20th Anniversary Best～" on the date of this show so I don't think she'll be in attendance.

She only sold a total of ~50 millions of her releases, but I don't know if it counts the worldwide sales, or only in Japan.

totally agreed! :headache

Seriously, what's so great abt hyuna? She can't sing, and she can't even look like a masterpiece after her plastic surgeries...

All she could do is rely on her colourful HD pvs with all those fashion sense...

That's only Japanese sales and only physical sales. 60-70 million seems like a good estimate for total sales(including digital)

Ayuma Hamasaki? Couldn't they even copy and paste her name right? :irked

Serioursly, why bringing in the plastic surgery topic? It's a music award, why would it matter if she did or did not do plastic surgery?

I like HyunA, I agree she's not that good to be nominated for World's Best Female Artist award, but there's no need to bash her for her looks...

For some reason i cant vote, nothing happens when it says "click here to vote" and theres a bar that just comes up at the top that just says "ok" :/ confusion :(

While it's a real award show I'm skeptical of everything with the voting because of how it's been put together. I wonder if it's just a trick. If not I hope she wins.

The website seems fixed now and actually responds when you click to vote ^^

The entire thing is weird. They say their awards are based on sales, yet they let fans vote and the nominees aren't even the best sellers...:thud

ah I forgot :(

Are you trolling or did Nelly Furtado not happen in the UK other than that one hit wonder about a bird in, what, 2000?

Her album Loose did really well in the UK, remember Maneater, Promiscous, All Good Things (Come To An End) and Say It Right? She released more singles from the album too (I think) but those 4 did really well on the charts/sales-wise :)

EDIT: This was in 2006 btw

Nelly was huge in the UK (and worldwide) in 2006. Maneater, Promiscuous, Say It Right, All Good Things Come to an End? Then the album Loose? How did you miss that? They all went at least top 5 and finished in the top 40/10 in multiple years of the yearly chart in the UK xD She was definitely one of the biggest acts of 2006/2007.

Anyways this awards show is definitely a bit shady. They don't seem to consistently have awards or any type of decent format. Though I like the idea of a WMA, definitely. But maybe one who doesn't have Ayuma Hamasaki as one of the nominees

Oh gosh, Maneater. I hated that song.

I don't know anyone who liked it/remembers her?! It was 6 years ago though, I guess? Still, there's a lot of stuff you still hear from then, I don't hear that song at all anymore.

I don't know any of the others.

finally voted!
voted for Ayu, your body, party queen, your body mv,

voted.. how much can you vote?

my sister voted just now! :)
she loves party queen XD

I'm voting (:

I think only once you can vote or only one vote counts

Just noticed they corrected her name from 'Ayuma' to 'Ayumi', thank you WMA..

I guess as a fan of hers I have a very different perspective of her career. Loose with all those catchy RnB-Pop hits from 2006 is by far my least favorite thing she has ever done, my favorite is 2003's Folklore with it's unique musical style that got rather popular in Germany, but flopped in most other countries. Then she released a Spanish album in 2009(she pretty much vanished from the World music scene except for two singles that smashed in a couple countries) and her 2012 album was a gigantic flop - even when it was one of the best Pop albums of the year.

So yeah, she was huge in 2006, but then she decided to go into completely different directions(no more generic Timbaland pop, another language...) and disappeared from the scene, even though her music improved.

Voted! I left it a while for them to fix the site. And finially they have spelt her name right!! :).
I remember last show they did i watched ALL of it...just to see namie. Was a bit miffed it was paris hilton, could of got some one a lot better to do it :(

from twitter:

WTF? hahahha!

To be honest, I hated Folklore... :thud And here in Germany there was no way to escape from it in 2003... For me it was plain annoying ... lol I listened to it again some time ago, but it annoys me as much as it did back then. The only song I truly love from her is Maneater... xD


I think that's cute.

Now that the website is fixed and actually is more legit looking, I had to vote for Ayu. And at least they chose a decent picture of her.

XD it's strange !!

Lol..mannie...he still love her???

VOTED!!! AYU!!!

Oh Mannie....lol what a cry for attention

yay voted ^^!~

mannie, again? (lol)
what is going on here?

now that the site finally works, i actually voted. i don't expect ayu to win any of those things, but i figured i'd vote anyway.

Drama drama everywhere, so what if Mannie wants people to vote for her, how does that qualify as a cry for attention, leave the poor ugly guy alone. XD

I think that was very nice of him. Also, he is not ugly. Goodness!

ALREADY VOTE

VOTE FOR BEST FEMALE, BEST ALBUM, BEST ENTERTAINER !

People you can now vote for Party Queen for albums and ayu for female artists and they fixed ayu's name! The website works well! vote :)

I remembered that there was no Best Entertainer category a few days ago.
Was it me or they added it?

haha it is surprising to see Mannie tweeted asking for vote for ayu, i think that's sweet, as a friend, somehow for me, it shows that Mannie and Ayu got no hard feeling to each other.

Yeah, finally it ends the hate rumors.

Nice and mature of him.

VOTE AYU~!!

I voted from Ayu for female artist, but she's got some stiff competition.. its great for Ayu to be recognized like this and more so if she wins.

edited: OH she's even entertainer of the year, I voted for her there too.

Its crazy how many nominees there are for each category, its a little overkill especially when most of them are American/British. Not to say they don't deserve to be nominated, but I feel there isn't much "World" in the World Music Awards, you know?

Really hope Ayu win >~< I think she deserves it <3

Awww, that's really sweet of Mannie to ask people to vote for Ayu - I wish those guys would get back together.

No offense to Maro (I like him too!)

Will have to vote myself, now that the website is working.

mi|kshake~

They fixed her name ♥

I used to love ayu and Mannies relationship but now I think it was all a lie.:(
I wonder who is going to win.

^Yeah, I start to wonder about it too tbh. But then I tried to not get too bogged down with what actually happened etc etc.

mi|kshake~

Now you can vote more than once. I voted for Ayu like 10 times. Before it won't let me do that again.

She'll win, go there, perform NaNaNa feat. Timmy and Party Queen will sell 10 millions in a week.

LOL XDDDD

Just voted for her:
best female
best album
best entertainer of the year

=)

I'm soo rutting for ayu!! She's the best signer whose ever lived, she has talent and a beautiful unmatched voice!! GOOO ayu :innocent

time to vote for the other categories

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i hope ayu will perform on the show...

SO THIS IS A CHANCE FOR NAMIE TO COME!

Just more proof that international work permits are a dumb invention that is deeply tied to the hidden racism in the concept of nationality and citizenship.

I agree with you!! Mannie trashed talk ayu and than ayu responded. What happened to all that?? And now they're friends?? Sadly I don't believe it !! This is what I personally think with the given facts!! Hoping ayu wins but with her current sales. Ayu winning might be wishful thinking!! :(

https://www.facebook.com/officialWMA

There's a question on their wall

"Who is the best Japanese Act of the year?"

So write "ayumi hamasaki" :)

^ Namie fans write so much, LOL

i even wrote namie amuro haha..
i'll write ayu now.

Too much of Namie ha ha ! (but very logical)

God... WMA web site is very...cheap ? not professional at all :/

LOL :lech

Hey guys i dont know if its true or not.... but world music awards website told that the event will be held in 6 days.

Please vote for ayu....


Sorry for my bad english