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2024 Mississippi Music Awards

You do not have to be a member of the Mississippi Music Foundation to submit entries for the 2025. 9th Mississippi Music Awards. The voting process will consist of fan voting and Final Winners of each category will be decided by a Review Committee.

The Call for Entries will allow each voter to nominate up to 3 Artists or Bands in each category. Multiple submissions will be deleted. All submissions will be tracked for quality purposes.

Once you have submitted your Call for Entries ballot you will not be able to change or modify it in any way. The Foundation reserves the right to remove or disqualify any entry that is inappropriate or not entered properly into the right category.

You may nominate any artists or group that lives in or is from North America . All nominated artists must have a recorded original song that can be found on an internet site or direct submission.

EXPLANATION OF AWARDS PROCEDURES:

1. All citizens of Earth are allowed to submit their suggestions for artistic Call for Entries granted the artist has been a resident of the United States

For all Mississippi Awards they have to be connected to Mississippi they have to be born or live in Mississippi . for example ( Mississippi Blues Award ) for all other categories they do have to be from Mississippi .

2. Once the Call for Entries deadline has been met, the submissions will be prepared by the Foundation Artistic Board and will be reviewed for eligibility. Eligibility dates are from December 2024 through February, 2025. If the submission does not meet the Foundation’s quality guidelines or standards it will be removed from nomination consideration.

3. Once the Call for Entries are been properly screened, they will be placed into a separate voting format and made available to the general public.

4. There will be two rounds of voting. During the first round of voting, all artist submissions will be available for voting in the appropriate category. After the first round of voting, the names of the top 3 nominees of each category will be released to the Foundation’s artistic committee, They will review and place the nominees into a ballot format and submit them to the President of the Foundation’s Artistic Review Committee. The Final Winners of each category will be decided by a Review Committee.

5. Once the voting committee has been selected, the top ten nominees from each category will be required to submit an exemplar of their work to the President of the Review Committee. Nominees can submit their work in Mp3, Mov, YouTube, Wav, CD or DVD formats. The President of the Review Committee will then compile all exemplars and will deliver them to members of the voting committee to be played on MSMF Radio.

Note: You will not be able to speak to any members of the Committee or Mississippi Music Foundation membership about your votes! You will only consult with them if you have any questions on how to vote or if there is a technical issue with one of the submissions.

6. The final three nominees, along with the winners, will be announced during the awards show and not before. (If you are in the top nominees list, you will not know if you have made it to the final top five until the night of the awards broadcast. Additionally, no artist can be considered in multiple categories without justification and qualification.

7. All nominees are required to be in attendance. Every effort will be made to notify each nominee. Refusal to confirm or inability to contact will result in disqualification of nomination. Only Retro Artists of the Year are permitted to not be in attendance as this award can be given posthumously in many cases or the artist has retired and unable to travel. However, every effort must be given to securing the artists appearance.

The Mississippi Music Foundation's voting platform is used by permission from our sister company, The Artists Music Guild, Inc.