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Hollywood Music in Media Awards

Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA), founded by Brent Harvey in 2009, is an annual November awards event honoring original song and score in film, TV, video games, trailers, and other visual media; nominations historically precede the Grammys, Golden Globes, and Oscars.

Hungarian Music Awards

Hungarian Music Awards (Fonogram – Magyar Zenei Díj), Hungary's national music prizes founded by MAHASZ in 1992 as the Arany Zsiráf, renamed Fonogram in 2004; 18 jury-voted genre categories plus public-voted Recording of the Year.

IHeartRadio Music Awards

The iHeartRadio Music Awards, also called the iHeart Awards, is iHeartMedia's annual music awards show founded in 2014, honoring the most-played artists on iHeartRadio stations and the app, with fan-voted categories and Icon, Innovator, and Landmark honors.

Independent Music Awards

The Independent Music Awards (IMAs) is an annual US competition run by Music Resource Group honoring self-released and independent-label recordings, judged by artists rather than sales.

Indigenous Music Awards

The Indigenous Music Awards, until 2015 the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards, were Winnipeg-based awards honoring First Nations, Inuit, and Métis recording artists worldwide, part of the Manito Ahbee Festival.

International Reggae and World Music Awards

The International Reggae and World Music Awards, also known as the Chicago Reggae Music Awards, honors reggae, dancehall, and world music; founded by Ephraim Martin in Chicago in 1982.

Intervision 2025 (Интервидение-2025)

Intervision 2025 (Интервидение-2025), a Russian song contest revived by Putin decree as an alternative to Eurovision, held 20 September 2025 in Moscow; won by Vietnam's Duc Phuc with 422 jury points and a 30-million-ruble prize.

Intervision 2026

Intervision 2026 is the second edition of Russia's revived Intervision Song Contest, the Eurovision alternative relaunched by Putin's February 2025 decree; Saudi Arabia was announced as host at the 2025 Moscow final and confirmed in August 2026.

Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026

Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026: KAN entered Noam Bettan with 'Michelle' in Vienna; amid boycotts and a voting-warning controversy, Israel finished second with 343 points behind Bulgaria's Dara.

Italian Music Awards

Italian Music Awards: FIMI-launched Italian music prize, first ceremony 5 February 2001, decided by a 400-member PwC-certified academy; distinct from the 2007 Music Awards and the unrelated IMA's.

Jamaica Music Industry Awards

Jamaica Music Industry Awards is a name covering Jamaican music honors: the defunct JAMI Awards (1986–1993), the JaRIA Honour Awards since 2009, and the diaspora-based JIMA since 2022.

Jasmine Rae

Jasmine Rae is an Australian country singer-songwriter from Melbourne, winner of Telstra Road to Tamworth 2008 and CMC Oz Artist of the Year 2012, with five albums including Lion Side (2020).

Jeff Jones (music industry executive)

Jeff Jones (Jeffrey Vaughan Jones), music executive, CEO of Apple Corps Ltd. 2007-2024, succeeding Neil Aspinall; brought Beatles music to iTunes, produced Beatles documentaries and 'Now And Then'; succeeded by Tom Greene.

Jerry Hadley

Jerry Hadley (1952–2007) was an American lyric tenor, considered the top American tenor of his generation, who won three Grammy Awards and sang leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera.

Jimmy Sturr

Jimmy Sturr (born 1941, Florida, NY) is an American polka bandleader leading Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra, winner of 18 Grammys from 24 nominations, mostly in Best Polka Album/Recording, with over 100 albums and a mainstream pop-country polka style.

Jon Cleary (musician)

Jon Cleary, British-born New Orleans funk and R&B pianist, singer, and songwriter with the Absolute Monster Gentlemen; won the 2016 Best Regional Roots Music Album Grammy for Go Go Juice; longtime sideman for Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal.

Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967)

Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967) is a 5-CD Rhino box set released October 30, 2020, with 119 tracks of unreleased pre-fame recordings, from her 1963 Saskatoon radio session to Canterbury House 1967; it won the 2022 Grammy for Best Historical Album.

Josie Music Awards

The Josie Music Awards (JMAs) are a privately owned, all-genre awards program honoring independent musicians, held annually in Nashville, Tennessee since 2015; The Tennessean calls it the world's largest independent music award show.

Joyce DiDonato

Joyce DiDonato (born Joyce Flaherty, 1969) is a Kansas-born American mezzo-soprano famed for Handel, Mozart, and Rossini roles. Three Grammy Awards, 2018 Olivier Award, thematic projects In War & Peace and EDEN, over 100 Metropolitan Opera appearances.

Juno Awards

The Juno Awards, first given as the Gold Leaf Awards, are Canada's national music prizes, presented by CARAS and decided by member delegates, industry judges, and sales data.

Juno Awards of 2026

55th Annual JUNO Awards, Canada's music prizes, held in Hamilton, Ontario, March 26-29, 2026, hosted by Mae Martin; Tate McRae won four awards, Nelly Furtado entered the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Kenneth Fuchs

Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956) is an American tonal composer, University of Connecticut composition professor, Juilliard-trained student of Babbitt and Diamond, and 2018 Grammy winner for Best Classical Compendium for his Naxos LSO album Piano Concerto 'Spiritualist'.

Kim Kashkashian

Kim Kashkashian, Armenian-American violist, Grammy-winning chamber musician and pedagogue. Long ECM artist since 1985; won 2013 Best Classical Instrumental Solo for Kurtág and Ligeti viola music; teaches at New England Conservatory; founded Music for Food.

Lankum

Lankum (formerly Lynched) is a Dublin four-piece Irish folk band of Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada, and Radie Peat, fusing traditional songs with drones; twice RTÉ Choice Prize winners and 2023 Mercury Prize nominees for False Lankum.

Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year

The Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year honors a single track's performance and production, awarded annually since 2000; Alejandro Sanz holds the record with eight wins.

Latin Grammy Awards

The Latin Grammy Awards (Latin Grammys) are annual peer-voted honors for Latin music recording, presented by the Latin Recording Academy since 2000 and open to Spanish and Portuguese recordings.

Latvian Music Awards

The Latvian Music Awards, known since 2014 as Zelta Mikrofons (Golden Microphone), are Latvia's national awards for music recordings, presented annually since the mid-1990s and judged by an industry jury.

Laura Story

Laura Story (Laura Mixon Story Elvington), American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter born September 5 in Augusta, Georgia; wrote "Indescribable" (Chris Tomlin hit) and Grammy-winning "Blessings"; worship leader at Atlanta's Perimeter Church since 2005 and author of several books.

List of accolades received by Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley accolades: 3 Grammy wins from 14 nominations (all gospel), 1971 Lifetime Achievement Award, 167 RIAA gold/platinum awards, Rock and Roll, Country, and Gospel halls of fame, 1987 AMA Award of Merit, and the 2018 posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom.

List of American Grammy Award winners and nominees

American Grammy Award winners and nominees: honors presented by the US Recording Academy since 1959, peer-voted by creator members, with recent top winners Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, and Olivia Dean.