Worldwide Winners

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Worldwide Awards
Awarded forExcellence in music
Sponsored by Worldwide FM
BBC Radio 6
BBC Radio 1 (former)
VenueKOKO (2010-)
Country United Kingdom
Presented by Gilles Peterson
Formerly calledWorldwide Winners
First awarded1999 (First ceremony: 2004)

The Worldwide Awards, formerly known as the Worldwide Winner Awards, are an annual awards celebration curated by radio DJ Gilles Peterson and currently hosted by Worldwide FM and Radio 6 which celebrates up-and-coming musicians on an international scale. The ceremony evolved out of an annual segment on Peterson's BBC Radio 1 show Worldwide during which listeners would vote on a list of Worldwide Winners.

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History

Worldwide Winners was begun by radio and club DJ Gilles Peterson during his tenure on BBC Radio 1. In 1998, he brought his show Worldwide to the station and began a quarterly radio segment called All Winners Special in which he replays what he considered the previous few months' best new tracks from out DJing or the show. At the end of the year, these winners, plus a few further favourites that may have been overlooked, were compiled into a longlist. Listeners of the show then get to vote this longlist down to a shortlist of ten Worldwide Winners in each section which Peterson plays over the last couple of editions of his radioshow at the end of the year.

Worldwide Winners has been compiled in various forms at the end of every year since 1998 to present, though the first few years did not involve any public vote. From 2004 onwards, this has been expanded into the Worldwide Winners Awards, now called the Worldwide Awards, with an event held at a London club venue during January of the following year. The celebration, which features live musical performances, was recorded and broadcast by Radio 1. When Peterson moved to BBC Radio 6 in 2012, the show followed him there. [1] The show is also promoted on Peterson's independent online radio platform Worldwide FM. [2]

For most of the ceremony's history, Track of the Year and Album of the Year has been awarded. Further categories were added over time, like Best Clubnight, Best Recordshop, Best Compilation Album, and The John Peel Play More Jazz Award (a tribute to Peterson's Radio 1 colleague who died suddenly in 2004) given to an artist, often a newcomer, who has displayed special noteworthy work over the year. Since 2017, the categories have been: Track of the Year, Album Of The Year, Jazz Album of the Year, Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Session of the Year, Label of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, John Peel Play More Jazz Award. [3]

Ceremonies

A ceremony has taken place for the Worldwide Awards from 2004 onwards.

Ceremonies, with details
YearDateVenueLocationRef.
200414 December 2004 Cargo Shoreditch, London
200512 December 2007 Koko Camden, London [4]
2006TBD
20075 January 2008CargoShoreditch, London [5]
200823 January 2009 [6]
20096 February 2010 The Garage Islington, London [7]
201022 January 2011 Koko Camden, London [8]
201121 January 2012 [9]
201219 January 2013 [10]
201318 January 2014 [11]
201417 January 2015 [12]
201516 January 2016 [13]
201621 January 2017 [14]
201720 January 2018 [15]
201819 January 2019 [16]
2019January 2020Digital only [3]
2020Did not occur

Winners

Contents: '99 - '00 - '01 - '01 - '03 - '04 - '05 - '06 - '07 - '08 - '09 - '10 - '11 - '12 - '13 - '14 - '15 - '16 - '17 - '18 - '19

1999: 1st Year

Note: 1999-2002 charts were on just one list, singles, individual album tracks and whole albums.

2000: 2nd Year

2001: 3rd Year

2002: 4th Year

2003: 5th Year

Note: 2003–present, switched to separate lists: Tracks - singles, individual album tracks / Albums - whole albums.

Tracks of the Year

Albums of the Year

2004: 6th Year

Tracks of the Year

Albums of the Year

2005: 7th Year

Tracks of the Year

Albums of the Year

2006: 8th Year

Tracks of the Year

Albums of the Year

2007: 9th Year

Tracks of the Year

Albums of the Year

2008: 10th Year

Tracks of the Year

Albums of the Year

2009: 11th Year

Tracks of the Year

Albums of the Year

2010: 12th Year

Tracks of the Year

Albums of the Year

2011: 13th Year

Tracks of the Year

Albums of the Year

2012: 14th Year

Tracks of the Year

Album of the Year

2013: 15th Year

Tracks of the Year

Album of the Year

2014: 16th Year

Tracks of the Year

Album of the Year

2015: 17th Year

Tracks of the Year

Album of the Year

2016: 18th Year

Tracks of the Year

Album of the Year

Other Awards

2017: 19th Year

Track of the Year

Album of the Year

Jazz Album of the Year

Other Awards

2018: 20th Year

Note: In press, it was noted that it was the 15th ceremony. [16]

2019: 21st Year

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