Ø Best Performer of the Year: the Ten Tenors (Australia)

MAINHILL AWARDS is annual award presented by Andy Mikheev and Eurovision – Kazakhstan website to the best music of 2004. It is based on personal view of authors and should in no way be considered official.

 Lifetime achievement: Bob Catley (UK)  Best performer of the year: The Ten Tenors (Australia)  Best female performer of the year: Waheeda (Malaysia)  Best song of the year : Klajdi Musabelli - Një shpresë për jetën time (Albania)  Best album of the year : Wig Wam – 667 The Neighbour of the Beast (Norway)  Best composer of the year: Dmitry Lomovtsev (Devyatiy Val) (Russia)  Best newcomer of the year: Almaviva (Russia)  Best Kazakhstan male singer of the year: Holy Dragons and Holger Komaroff  Best Kazakhstan female singer of the year: Marzhan Arapbaeva  Best rock performer of the year: Novi Ierusalim (Belarus)  Best metal performer of the year: Therion (Sweden) and Mats Leven  Best Voice of Asia male performer of the year: not awarded  Best Voice of Asia female performer of the year: Nadine (Sri-Lanka)  Best Eurovision SC song of the year: Jonsi – Heaven (Iceland)  Best ESC performance of the year: David D’Or – To Believe (Israel)  Best ESC preselection song of the year: Adrian Enache – My Love Story (Romania)  Best ESC male performer (including preselections): Jari Sillanpaa (Finland)  Best ESC female performer (including preselections): Davinia (Spain)  Best ESC duet/group (including preselections): Linas and Simona (Lithuania)  Best ESC preselection event: Albanian National Final 2004  Best Junior Eurovision singer of the year: Cory Spedding (UK)  Best music event of the year: “Bravo” anniversary concert (Russia), “Pavlov’s Dog” comeback concert (USA)  Special prize: Matheson Bayley (UK)