CONCEPTION

TheAmerican
Music
Awards is one of four
annual major US
music
awards
show, created
byDick Clarkin 1973 for
ABC when the network's
contract
to
present
theGrammy
Awards
expired.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
AMAS AND GRAMMY AWARDS
While the Grammy Awards are awarded based
on votes by members of the entertainment
industry, the AMAs are determined by a poll of
music buyers. The American Music Awards have
nominations based on sales, airplay, activity on
social networks, and video viewing and can
nominate only the works released between 1
December of the previous year and 1 September
of the current year.

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FAVOURITE ARTIST OF THE YEAR

In 1996, the AMAs
instituted
a
new
award, Favorite Artist
of the Year, which was
awarded
toGarth
Brooks. Brooks left
the award on the
podium because he
didn't believe in the
concept of picking an
artist of the year.The
category
was
discontinued.

HOSTS

ARTISTS THAT WON MOST AWARDS AND

ARTISTS THAT WON THE MOST IN A SINGLE YEAR

The record for most American Music Awards

won is held byMichael Jackson, who has amassed
27 awards (twenty-four as solo artist), including
one for "Artist of the Century". The most
American Music Awards for a group belongs
toAlabama who have collected 23 awards and for
a female artist belongs toWhitney Houstonwith
22 awards.

The record for the most American Music

Awards won in a single year is held by both
Michael Jackson (in1984), and Whitney Houston
(in1994), each with 8 awards to their credit
(including theAward of Merit, with which both
artists were honored in the respective years).

LIST OF MOST AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS

RECEIVED BY MICHAEL JACKSON IN A SINGLE
YEAR:
Thriller

LIST OF MOST AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS

RECEIVED BY WHITNEY HOUSTON IN A SINGLE
YEAR:

ARTIST OF THE DECADE (SPECIAL

POLL)

In 2000 the AMAs held a poll to elect the Artist of

the Decade for each previous decade of the Rock &
Roll era. The results were:
'50s:Elvis Presley
'60s:The Beatles
'70s:Stevie Wonder
'80s:Michael Jackson
'90s:Garth Brooks