The World Music Awards was an international awards show founded in 1989 that annually honored recording artists based on worldwide sales figures provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). John Martinotti was an executive producer and co-founder of the show. The awards show was conducted under the patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and was based in Monte-Carlo. Melissa Corkens was the co-executive producer of the annual special, with Mark Young as the talent producer and Claudia Lang as the publicist.
The show was broadcast to North and South America, all of Europe, the Middle East, Japan and Southeast Asia, all of China, some other parts of Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and all of Africa reaching an estimated worldwide audience of around one billion viewers, in over 160 countries. The show had received much of its publicity and press from utilizing outside companies. The last World Music Awards show was held in 2010, and has not been held since.
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