Pollstar Concert Industry Awards Winners Archives - by year
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Each year POLLSTAR invites a cross section of international music business professionals to make the nominations for The Pollstar Concert Industry Awards. The awards honor artists, management, talent buyers, venues, support services and more for their professionalism, achievements and abilities. Winners are determined by votes from the international readership of POLLSTAR.

The Pollstar Concert Industry Award winners were first announced in 1984 while the official Concert Industry Awards presentations began in 1990 at New York City's prestigious Radio City Music Hall. Historic moments and memorable locations followed as future events were held at such notable landmarks as The Wiltern LG, House of Blues, Universal Amphitheatre and Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, as well as the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City and the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The Concert Industry Awards has featured a variety of celebrity guest hosts from Bobcat Goldthwait, Joe Piscopo and Elayne Boosler to Father Guido Sarducci, the Firesign Theater, Richard Jeni, Kevin Nealon and Lewis Black.

In the twenty year history of the Awards the categories have grown from ten to over thirty. Awards have ranged from Innovation of the Year (1988 - The Benefit Concert Telethon) and Trend of the Year (1987 - Direct Talent Buying by Venues) to Best Small Outdoor Venue (renamed the Red Rocks Award in 2001 in recognition of the Colorado venue's multiple awards) and Most Creative Stage Production (2003 - Blue Man Group).

Numerous categories continue to represent the full spectrum of the concert industry, including Major Tour of The Year, Best New Artist Tour, Talent Buyer of The Year, Personal Manager of The Year and the Bill Graham Award for Promoter of The Year which honors the memory of the legendary promoter who revolutionized the concert industry. The Bobby Brooks Award for Agent of the Year honors the CAA agent who lost his life in the same 1990 helicopter crash that claimed the life of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Pollstar wishes to again congratulate all the nominees and winners from past years to the present. With focus and diligence we're certain you will continue to make a difference in the next twenty years as the industry evolves.