The 16th Annual World Music Awards was held on September 15, 2004 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, outside of Monaco for the first time. [1] Awards were given based on worldwide sales figures for that year.
The Diamond Award honored those incredibly successful recording-artists who had sold over 100 million albums during their career. This was the third year that this award was presented; the first was in 2001. [2]