The head of the Dedication Award organizing committee explained that the program "Beautiful Sister Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves" received the initial proposal but was not officially nominated - Photo: Cut from the program clip
The Organizing Committee of the Dedication Award has just announced the list of Top 10 nominees for 2024 with a total of 10 categories and 92 artists, works, and programs.
The list brings together artists from many genres and musical styles, naming diverse performances and music game shows in 2023.
In addition, the media also has some questions such as: Why were the programs Chi dep dap gio roa song and Ca si mat ma chut nominated for the Program Series of the Year? Why was musician Giang Son, a member of the voting council (hereinafter referred to as the council), still nominated for 2 categories?
Mr. Le Xuan Thanh - editor-in-chief of Sports and Culture newspaper / VNA, head of the organizing committee of the 2024 Dedication Award - discussed with Tuoi Tre Online the viewpoint of the organizing committee.
Beautiful Sister, Mask Singer does not meet the criteria of depth and creativity
Regarding Chi dep dap gio roi song (season 1) and Ca si mat ma (season 2), Mr. Le Xuan Thanh commented that the two programs have undeniable large coverage but have not met the criteria and regulations of the Dedication Award.
Singer and musician Trang Phap is the champion of the show "Beautiful Sister Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves" season 1 - Photo: Provided by the program
The organizing committee and the council discussed many times and came to an agreement on these two programs.
Regarding "Beautiful Sister Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves", when the organizing committee consulted for nominations from reporters from the North and South, they received two suggestions for this program to be included in the category of Program Series of the Year.
After discussion, the organizing committee and the council agreed that:
" The Beautiful Sister Who Makes the Waves" is produced in a reality TV format and is an entertainment program that is not "purely" and "in-depth" about music as per the criteria and regulations of the Dedication Award, so it is not suitable for nomination."
Regarding The Masked Singer , the organizers and the council gave their opinion:
"The Masked Singer program has not yet met the core criteria of the Dedication Award (as stated in the regulations) to a high degree.
That is: "There are discoveries and creations that practically contribute to the richness and development of popular music life", even though the program was included in the initial list of proposals".
"Ban Don Elephant" Anh Tu is the champion of Mask Singer season 2 - Photo: Provided by the program
In the 2024 Dedication Award regulations, there are criteria (common for all categories):
Make a strong impression on the public and have a positive impact on the music market. Music products and artists must "have discoveries and creations that contribute practically to the richness and development of popular music life".
The criteria of the dedicated music award are based on two factors: "public opinion" and "discovery" as the main basis for nomination and voting.
Therefore, creative discoveries may be known to the general public (publicity factor) or may not be known to the general public, but they are truly practical creative discoveries (discovery factor).
Musician Giang Son "deserves two Dedication nominations"
Along with the nomination list, the Dedication Organizing Committee also announced the 2024 award selection committee with 9 members, including musician Giang Son. The results of the Top 10 nominations achieved the general consensus of the committee.
Accordingly, musician Giang Son has two nominations: Album of the Year (for the album Sing my Sol ) and Musician of the Year.
The organizers said artist Giang Son deserved to receive two nominations according to the award criteria, and she also did not participate in voting for the categories related to her - Photo: NVCC
Regarding this, Mr. Le Xuan Thanh told Tuoi Tre Online : "The organizing committee and the election council also noticed this when creating the nomination, but after consideration, we found that:
First of all, the Dedication Award regulations do not prohibit members of the voting council, including prestigious artists and experts, from appearing in nomination categories.
Mr. Thanh cited the award regulations and the rigorous multi-step selection process. To come up with the top 10, the organizing committee and the voting council went through the following steps:
Summarize and evaluate the popular music situation during the year and provide a list of expected nominations.
Conduct a nomination consultation round by sending the tentative list of nominees to journalists who will participate in the vote to collect their comments.
Summarize comments from the consultation round to finalize and announce the Top 10 nominations for the Dedication Music Award with 10 categories, each category has 7-10 candidates.
According to the head of the organizing committee, candidates considered for nomination must "have positive public opinion, actions, work, products...; have significant contributions to the life of Vietnamese popular music; and be suitable for the criteria and time of the award.
These subjects are related to popular music life and belong to the following areas: albums, programs, series, producers, musicians, songs, music videos (MVs), new artists, male singers and female singers.
"Moreover, the Dedication Award is not a competition, but a recognition and evaluation from public opinion for contributions to Vietnamese popular music during the year.
Musician Giang Son or any member of the voting board, if they have products and contributions in the year that meet the criteria of the Dedication Award, the award is responsible for considering and including them in the nomination process, as long as there is a way to ensure true fairness and objectivity.
On the contrary, removing good products from the voting board members from the nominations, although very easy, can make the Top 10 nominations not fully reflect the general picture of Vietnamese popular music in the year, in which the board members also made significant contributions" - Mr. Le Xuan Thanh said.
The top 5 official nominees for the 2024 Dedication Award will be announced on March 5.
Van Mai Huong received 4 nominations, Wren Evans received 3 nominations in the Top 10 Dedication 2024, and the official nomination list is Top 5 - Photo: NVCC
Musician Giang Son did not vote for his own category.
To be objective, the Dedication Organizing Committee has proposed a solution: Members of the voting council, if appearing on the list of expected nominees, will not participate in voting for nominations related to themselves.
All 9 members of the 2024 Dedication Award voting council, including musician Giang Son, followed the above method.
Mr. Le Xuan Thanh commented: "This is a public and fair result."
During the Top 10 voting process, the head of the organizing committee encouraged musician Giang Son not to withdraw from the nomination process but to courageously accept the votes of the council and soon the public, or journalists (if he made it into the Top 5).
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