Plan B, Professor Green, Tinie Tempah and Dizzee Rascal all receive multiple nominations in BT Digital Music Awards

BT today reveals the nominations for the annual BT Digital Music Awards. Fans can now vote for their favourite artists and music sites at www.btdma.com

This year's nominees are a showcase of internationally acclaimed UK artists and with 21 categories on the cards, competition is fiercer than ever, with the likes of Cheryl Cole and Alexandra Burke not only fighting it out for Best Female Artist, they are also up against each other for Best Song.

Plan B, Chipmunk and Taio Cruz have all been nominated in both the Best Song and Best Male Artist category, where Robbie Williams and Dizzee Rascal have also been put forward. New celeb couple Rochelle Wiseman (The Saturdays) and Marvin Humes (JLS) will battle against each other to win Best Group, whilst a host of new talent including Example and Professor Green will strive to be named Best Newcomer.

In the categories decided by the official judges, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's Gorillaz pick up multiple nominations, alongside Australian rock/drum n bass band Pendulum and BT DMA regulars, Muse. Meanwhile the BBC wins nominations for its Glastonbury 2010 coverage and its 2009 Ukulele Prom, as well as nods for its podcasts and shows by 6Music DJs Adam & Joe, and Radio 2's Jamie Cullum. Among the newcomers heralded by the judges, Marina & The Diamonds will fight it out against The XX, Professor Green, deadmau5, Tinie Tempah and The Temper Trap.

This year sees the introduction of some new categories for 2010 including Best Place to Hear, Discover and Buy Music, Best Event and Best Music App to reflect the increased audience engagement and rapid developments in technology that the music industry has seen in recent years enabling music fans to access their favourite music when and where they want.

Also from today, anyone wishing to enter a music site in the People's Choice Awards can go to www.btdma.com to download an interactive 'voting button' which enables website visitors to vote directly for the site by simply clicking on the button.

The awards will be held at Camden's Roundhouse on Thursday 30 September, and fans will be able to catch all the action when the awards are broadcast on ITV2 on Saturday 2 October - if you're not in don't forget to set BT Vision to record.

BT is dedicated to enabling the digital media marketplace and committed to developing and producing cutting-edge technology. Lee Thompson, BT Vision's Head of Music said: "At BT we are very proud to be celebrating and supporting the music industry with the BT Digital Music Awards. The breadth of incredible new home grown talent that's emerged in the past 12 months, selling huge amounts of digital audio and video downloads, makes this year's BT Digital Music Awards nominations list our best ever."

BT Total Broadband is the UK's most complete broadband package, enabled by the BT Home Hub. BT Total Broadband customers benefit from ultra-fast download speeds of up to 20Mbps* and TV on demand with BT Vision.

As part of its partnership with the music industry, BT is restricting participation in the awards to sites and services that have licensed music from official sources, ensuring that artists are properly rewarded for their work.

Full list of nominations in this year's BT Digital Music Awards

The following categories have been shortlisted on the basis of download data from the Official Charts Company and are opened up to the public vote from today at www.btdma.com

Best Female Artist in association with SugarScape.com
Alexandra Burke
Cheryl Cole
Ellie Goulding
Florence & The Machine
Leona Lewis
Pixie Lott

Best Male Artist in association with The Sun
Chipmunk
Dizzee Rascal
Plan B
Robbie Williams
Taio Cruz
Tinie Tempah

Best Group in association with the Daily Star
JLS
Mumford & Sons
Muse
N-Dubz
The Saturdays
Sugababes

Best Song in association with The London Entertainment Lowdown
Bad Boys – Alexandra Burke ft Flo Rida
Break Your Heart – Taio Cruz
Fight For This Love – Cheryl Cole
Pass Out – Tinie Tempah
She Said – Plan B
You've Got The Love – Florence & The Machine

Best International Artist or Group in association with TOTP magazine
Alicia Keys
Black Eyed Peas
Glee Cast
Jay-Z
Lady Gaga
Rihanna

Best Independent Artist or Group in association with Clash magazine
Dizzee Rascal
Example
Lostprophets
Prodigy
The Temper Trap
Vampire Weekend

Best Newcomer in association with Last FM
Aggro Santos
Example
Joe McElderry
Mumford & Sons
Professor Green
Tinie Tempah

Best Video in association with BT Vision
Bad Boys – Alexandra Burke ft Flo Rida
Everybody in Love – JLS
Fight For This Love – Cheryl Cole
Good Times – Roll Deep
Pass Out – Tinie Tempah
Say It's Over – N'Dubz


Best Place to Discover Music

BBC Introducing
www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing

Drowned in Sound
www.drownedinsound.com

Guardian Music
www.guardian.co.uk/music

iTunes
www.itunes.co.uk

NME.com
www.nme.com

Resident Advisor
www.residentadvisor.net



Best Place to Hear Music

BBC 6Music
www.bbc.co.uk/6music

Last.fm
www.last.fm

MySpace
www.myspace.com/music

SoundCloud
www.soundcloud.com

Spotify
www.spotify.com

Youtube
www.youtube.com



Best Place to Buy Music

Amazon
www.amazon.co.uk

Boomkat
www.boomkat.com

eMusic
www.emusic.com

iTunes
www.itunes.co.uk

Play.com
www.play.com

Spotify
www.spotify.com



The following categories will be decided by an expert-judging panel:

Best Event
D&BTV presents Pendulum 'Immersion' live album preview
Glastonbury 2010
Nokia presents Rihanna Live
Sonisphere
Sonisphere 'The Big Four 2010' cinecast
The Ukulele Prom

Best Music App
Gorillaz Plastic Beach app
Gorillaz 'Escape to Plastic Beach' games
Pendulum Witchcraft Experiment Facebook app
deadmau5 Touchmix II app
MySpace Music Fan Video app
Little Boots RjDj iPhone app

Breakthrough Artist of the Year
deadmau5
Marina & The Diamonds
Professor Green
The Temper Trap
The XX
Tinie Tempah

Artist of the Year
30 Seconds to Mars
Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
Gorillaz
Kylie
Muse
Pendulum

Best Innovation or Gadget
BandCentral
BuzzDeck
Pledge Music
Songkick
SoundCloud
SoundOut

Best Artist Promotion
Christina Aguilera 'Bionic' album collaborator map
Giggs Freestyle competition
Gorillaz 'Escape to Plastic Beach' games
Gorillaz 'Escape to Plastic Beach' iTunes album
M.I.A 'Born Free' video
Muse 'United States of Eurasia' USB Treasure Hunt

Best Radio Show or Podcast
Adam & Joe podcasts
Adam Buxton's Big Mixtape show and podcast
Jamie Cullum's BBC Radio 2 podcast
Jim Gellatly's New Music podcast
Melodica show
SFG TV podcast

For more information please contact Rose Hobson or Gemma Sharp on 0207 479 4310 or email: rose@kazoo.co.uk or gemma@kazoo.co.uk

Daily updates about the BT Digital Music Awards can be found at the following sites:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BTDigitalMusicAwards
Twitter: www.twitter.com/btdma