Presented by PHMA, the prestigious Haitian Music Awards (PHMA) is an annual event honoring excellence and innovation in the Haitian Music Industry. With categories like Breakthrough Artist, Song of the Year, and Artist of the Year (among many others) the PHMAs highlight the year’s best music, concepts, and accomplishments by both veterans and newcomers in the HMI.
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Nominations are now open and can be submitted through the create nomination process!
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Due to Haiti’s political issues, production slowed in 2023, because of this, and to get the awards back on track we have made a few changes for this year.
Nominated releases, brands, and artists must have been active or released between the dates August 1st, 2023 & August 1st, 2024
To make sure the awards honor as many people as possible, in the fairest way we can. They will be voted on by both industry panel members and the public (one award per category).
For this year, we have also:
– Prestige of the Year
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!
Only nominated items can be considered for the awards. If you want your work to be considered please nominate it, nominations are confidential and there is no shame in nominating yourself or your own product!
If you really want to make sure your work is seen by our panel and included in the running for the awards, we cannot stress enough how important it is to nominate yourself and your products. This year it is more important than ever before as we will working from a large pool of four years instead of the usual one.
Start Nominating Now!
How do the Awards work?
1. Open Nominations – Call for entries is open for anyone (yourself included) to make a relevant nomination. Nominations are private and will be used to determine the Finalists. – All award descriptions can be seen here.
2. Nomination Committees – The PHMAs host small committees of industry professionals and collectors, carefully matched to categories in order to take the list of nominations and to determine the Finalists. The committees meet and discuss every entry, using the published list of award criteria to make their selections. These will be published on the website as the year’s official Finalists.
3. Voting – We run two voting blocs:
PHMA Panel: Industry professionals make up the PHMA panel. They are charged with voting once per category for the winner in the panel-voted awards. Each year new panel members are added to keep our list as diverse and relevant as possible.
Fan Voted: The public voters contribute by getting one vote per category (which is ensured by tracking IP addresses and other means of maintaining voter integrity).
4. Winners – Winners of each category are determined by the most votes in each category.
5. Awards Ceremony – The awards are presented at a ceremony on January 11, 2025. For members of the public to attend the ceremony, they must have purchased a VIP ticket on Eventbrite. Vendors / Nominees / Press / Industry professionals are invited to the ceremony for free.
Join the PHMA Industry Panel
If you would like to be considered as a judging panel member, please complete this form. The more industry professionals on this panel the better!
