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The Eurodanceweb Award is an online competition dedicated to dance music

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

, created in 2001 by an idea of a group of Italian and Maltese disc jockeys

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

. Main purpose of this project is the promotion of dance songs from all over Europe

Europe

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and the Mediterranean Basin

Mediterranean Basin

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, with strong links to their National language

National language

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and culture.

Every year, after monitoring the international record market, a panel of disc jockeys

Disc jockey

and journalists

Journalist

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chooses the best track for each European and Middle East

Middle East

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Country. The selected entries are then voted by a professional jury of disc jockeys, journalists, productors, radio speakers and webmasters of popular websites and music blogs.

The winner of this voting achieves the Eurodanceweb Award, a prestigious recognition which has become an important promotional channel worldwide.

Since 2007 also the readers of the official website of this competition can choose their favourite song, by voting on an Online Poll.

Here is the list of winners of the Eurodanceweb Awards so far:

Year	Country	Artist	Song
2001	Independent State of Croatia	Colonia Colonia (music group) Colonia is a Croatian dance music band from Vinkovci, Croatia. They have released nine albums and over 27 singles to date with various songs and albums gaining platinum status...	"Za Tvoje Snene Oči"
2002	Slovenia	Karmen Stavec Karmen Stavec Karmen Stavec is a Slovene musician and pop singer.-Early years:Karmen was born in West Berlin, at that time part of West Germany, to Slovene parents. After graduation she came to Domžale, Slovenia, where she joined the dance duo "4 Fun". She also began to study Germanic studies at the...	"Še in Še"
2003	Belgium	Jessy Jessy De Smet Jessy De Smet, whose stage name is just Jessy , is a Belgian dance music singer who had several gold records in the late 1990s and 2000s.- With The Mackenzie :"I Am Free""Arpegia "*"Love" / "You Got To Get Up"...	"Regardez-moi"
2004	Kingdom of Bulgaria	Malina	Leden Svyat
2005	Belarus	Natalia Podolskaya Natalia Podolskaya Natalia Podolskaya is a Belarusian singer that performed for Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest on May 21, 2005 and was ranked #15. In 2008 she became a Russian citizen.-Early years:Natalia was born in 1982 in Mogilev, Belarus...	"Pozdno" (Trance Remix)
2006	Sweden	Basshunter Basshunter Jonas Erik Altberg , better known by his stage name Basshunter, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, record producer and DJ. He is best known for his number one hits "Boten Anna", "Dota", "Now You're Gone" and "All I Ever Wanted". Basshunter has so far released a total of six albums, two of which have...	“Boten Anna Boten Anna "Boten Anna" is a song by Swedish eurodance musician Basshunter, which appears on his third studio album, . Due to the song, Basshunter became a noted artist in his native Sweden, as well as Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands after the release of the single in 2006... ”
2007	United Kingdom	Ultrabeat vs. Darren Styles Darren Styles Darren James Mew , better known as Darren Styles, is a British record producer, disc jockey and singer-songwriter from Colchester, England. Originally a member of the breakbeat hardcore group DJ Force & The Evolution, Darren found success during the 1990s as one half of Force & Styles...	“Sure Feels Good Sure Feels Good "Sure Feels Good" is a song written and recorded by Ultrabeat and Darren Styles, released as a single in 2007. It was the first Styles/Ultrabeat collaboration since Ultrabeat covered "Pretty Green Eyes" and "Feelin' Fine" in 2003... "
2008	Germany	Alex C Alex Christensen Alex Christensen , Jasper Forks or Alex C. as he is known, is a German dance music composer, producer, and DJ, generally known as the face, and one of the founding members, of U96... feat. Y-Ass	"Doktorspiele"
2009	Early Modern France	Angie Be Angie Be Angie Be pseudonym of Élodie Bouche, is a French singer and former candidate of Secret Story 2009 . Her single "Soundwaves" reached number 17 on the French charts in 2009 and remained on the chart for almost one year. In December 2009, a French version of Soundwaves was available digitally...	"Soundwaves"
2010	Kingdom of Romania	Inna Inna Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu , best known as Inna, is a Romanian dance music singer. On November 12, 2008, she released her debut single "Hot", which was produced by Play & Win, a Romanian dance music trio and one of the leading music producers in Romania...	"Sun Is Up Sun is Up "Sun Is Up" is a song by Romanian recording artist Inna from her second studio album, I Am the Club Rocker. In the United Kingdom, the song will serve as Inna's fifth single to be taken from her debut album, Hot. The song was written and produced by Play & Win and was officially sent to Romanian... "

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