Slot 1 Rick Denzien P.O. Box 567 Ambler PA 19002 Dear Rick Denzien: We would like to extend to your artist and label congratulations as being a nominee for the 2007 New Music Awards. The event will be held November 10th, 2007 at the world famous Avalon Theater in Hollywood, California. This year's ceremony will honor radio stations, music and program directors, along with both major and independent record labels. New Music Awards will host a star studded red-carpet prior to show time as well as "live" performances during the show. New Music Weekly magazine will also host both a pre-show and after- show celebration party and press event. As a nominee, complimentary tickets are available to the New Music Awards show and post-awards celebration party. Please contact us if your artist or a representative will be able to attend the 2007 New Music Awards. Fergie, Amy Winehouse, Daughtry and the Plain White T's are among the pop nominees while Country nominees include the likes of Taylor Swift, Tracy Lawrence, Montgomery Gentry and Luke Bryan. For further information go to www.newmusicawards.com or New Music Weekly magazine at www.newmusicweekly.com. Best wishes, Paul Loggins & Larry Weir Executive Producers / New Music Awards www.newmusicawards.com And the nominees are: Top40 single of the Year: "Makes Me Wonder"/Maroon 5 "The Sweet Escape"/Gwen Stefani "Girlfriend"/Avril Lavigne "Say It Right"/Nelly Furtado "Glamorous"/Fergie Top40 Male Artist of the Year: Akon John Mayer Sean Kingston Rob Thomas Justin Timberlake Kanye West Top40 Female Artist of the Year: Fergie Pink Gwen Stefani Kelly Clarkson Avril Lavigne Mandy Moore Top40 Group/Duo of the Year: Gym Class Heroes Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Plain White T's Maroon 5 Nickelback My Chemical Romance Top40 New Group/Duo of the Year: Burkhart Drowning Pool Cat Empire Goldy Locks Orion Experience Top40 Best New Top40 Artist of the Year: Daughtry Elliott Yamin Kim Kline Amy Winehouse Colbie Caillat Top40 Breakthrough Artist of the Year: Amy Whinehouse Vaughan Penn Fransisca London 30 Seconds To Mars Brandie Frampton Lisa Bouchelle Top40 Radio Station of the Year: KLBQ (El Dorado, AR) KFMI (Eureka, CA) KVTI (Tacoma, WA) KYEE (Alamogordo, NM) KLQQ (Sheridan, WY) WALV (Cleveland, TN) WXTQ (Athens, OH) Top40 PD of the Year of the Year: Dan Murphy/KLBQ John Mangan/KVTI Jim Koski/WMQT Bobby Dee/WELT Tom Sebourn/KFMI Chris Chatburn/KTPO Top40 MD of the Year of the Year: Beth Valiant/KVTI Brian Panerali/KCVI Johnny Holiday/WQLT Jim Lewis/WOAH Aaron Garrett/KLAZ Richard Voit/KTPO Top40 Promotion Person of the Year: Ken Lucek/Jive Bill Jerome/Bill Jerome Promotions Scot Finck/Hollywood Protocal Entertainment Top40 Label of the Year: Jive Capitol Interscope Island/Def Jam Hickory Columbia/Sony AC Single of the Year: "Hey There Delilah"/Plain White T's "Make A Memory"/Bon Jovi "Home"/Daughtry "Big Girls Don't Cry"/Fergie "Do You Really Think"/Vaughan Penn "Waitin On A Train" Patti Hall "Raincoat" Kelly Sweet AC Male Artist of the Year: John Mayer Rob Thomas Kelly Sweet Justin Timberlake Michael Buble Jim Brickman AC Female Artist of the Year: Fergie Gwen Stefani Pink Tiffany Mandy Moore Corinne Bailey Rae AC Group/Duo of the Year: Nickelback Hinder Rascal Flatts Lifehouse Goo Goo Dolls AC Best New Group/Duo of the Year: Fertitta & McClintock Ever Blue Thadeus Project People Coyote Sons Of Sound Porter Block Best New AC40 Artist of the Year: Ian Walsh Matt Backer Fransisca London Sara Niemietz Rose Moore Scott Forman AC Breakthrough Artist of the Year: Vaughan Penn Lisa Bouchelle Jimmy White Adrian Olivea Watson Rick Denzien AC Radio Station of the Year: KQCR (Hampton, IA) WJER (Dover, OH) KIXR (Ponca City, OK) KCHE (Cherokee, IA) WEAI (Jacksonville, IL) KKRB (Klamath Falls, OR) AC PD of the Year: Russ Davison/KEHK Billy Coble/KTRN Randy Adams/KKRB Jeff Ball/WHIZ Larry Kaszynski/WOCO John Anderson/KBLS AC MD of the Year: Brian Brawner/WWIS Eric St. John/WJER Nikki Thunder/KCHE Carol MurphyKIXR Mike Betten/KQCR Jeanna Spain/KGY AC Label of the Year: Island Reprise Octone/J Interscope Hollywood Sunshine Sound Country Single of the Year: "All My Friends Say"/Luke Bryan "Teardrops On My Guitar"/Taylor Swift "Lucky Man"/Montgomery Gentry "Find Out Who Your Friends Are"/Tracy Lawrence "Ticks"/Brad Paisley Country Male Artist of the Year: Brad Paisley Tim McGraw Jack Ingram Tracy Lawrence Charlie Allen Country Female Artist of the Year: Carrie Underwood Taylor Swift Sara Evans Danielle Peck Martina McBride Country Group/Duo of the Year: Big & Rich Brooks & Dunn Little Big Town Emerson Drive Montgomery Gentry Pirates of the Mississippi Sugarland Best New Country Artist of the Year: Bucky Covington Kristina Cornell Luke Bryan Kellie Pickler Kim McAbee Christine Van Hoy Breakthrough Country Artist of the Year: Bailey Brandie Frampton Miko Marks Floyd Flowers Derek Sholl Patti Hall Country Radio Station of the Year: KTTI/Yuma, AZ KFAV/Warrenton, MO KTJJ/Farmington, ME KBCR/Steamboat Springs, CO KOFM/Enid, OK WCJW/Warsaw, NY KZKS/Grand Junction, CO Country Program Director of the Year: Mike Thomas/KFAV Larry Anderson/KHPQ Jay Walker/KTTI Greg Holman/KWWR Sam Schroeder/KEYB Ed Carter/WKSR Country Music Director of the Year: Lynn Thomas/KMCO Lee Richey/WCJW Shelly Marx/WWBE Debbie Duncan/KBCR Michael Johnson/KZKS Country Promotion Person of the Year: Alan Young James Williams Jennifer Blair Debbie Green Debbie Gibson Palmer Bill Wence Country Label of the Year: Capitol Sony Curb Big 7 Lyric Street Big Machine Crossover Artist of the Year: Patti Hall Michael Chain Thadeus Project Jimmy White Rick Denzien Brandie Frampton Top College Artist Of The Year: Ryan Adams Marc Boussard Lily Allen Ryan Shaw Jeff Buckley Richard Thompson College Best New Artist of the Year Ryan Show Mike Stockdale Joe Locke Lilly Allen Adrian Young Koko Taylor Top College Band of the Year: Wilco Modest Mouse Deathstar Awakening Seventh Power War Of Ages Breakthrough College Artist: Narnia Royalush Zombie Girls Jimmy LaFave Surface Tension Vienna CC College Radio Station of the Year: KCLC/St Louis, MO WPKN/Bridgeport, CT WALW/Moulton, AL KVSF/Santa Fe, NM KLBC/Long Beach, CA WQNR/Auburn, AL College PD of the Year: Naomi Soule Jeep Ward Scott Matthews Jason Wells College MD of the Year: Terry Moses Phil Bowler Brent Jackson Danyel Johnson College Promotion Person/Company of the Year: Ray Paul Powderfinger Promotion Planetary Group Protocal College Record Label of the Year: Vanguard Wounded Lost Highway Premium Nonesuch/Reprise Alligator Best Internet Station of the Year: Hot N' Gold/London I-Radio Lex Broadcasting Mpak Radio Country Bear Real Country/Japan Hot Country Radio Belgium Record Pool of the Year: Soundworks Long Island Poolwest Starfleet WHEN: November 10th, 2007 Pre-Awards Meet & Greet the Media 4:00pm New Music Awards 6:00pm Post-Awards Celebration 8:00pm WHERE: Avalon Hollywood 1735 Vine Street Hollywood, CA 90028 Phone: 310-325-9997 ABOUT THE NEW MUSIC AWARDS: The New Music Awards known as "New Music's Biggest Night" brings the radio and music industry together for one night. Celebrating artists and bands as well record labels, and radio stations and its programmers. The New Music Awards is proud to be the first and only award show not weighted down with the politics and corruption of the corporate world, but an award show showing the true talent which exists in the music industry today. ABOUT AVALON: In 1964, The Beatles had their first West Coast performance. Born as the Hollywood Playhouse, the building opened as one of Los Angeles' first and most lavish legitimate theatres on January 24, 1927 with a production of "Alias The Deacon," starring 1920s matinee idol Burton Churchill. Many theatrical productions followed, including the West Coast premiere of Ibsen's "An Enemy Of The People." The advent of radio brought many CBS Radio Network programs to its stage, including the infamous Fanny Brice with her "Baby Snooks" show and Lucille Ball's "My Favorite Husband." With the dawning of the '40s came a new name and spirit. Now called the El Capitan Theatre, the building opened with "Ken Murray's Blackouts," a live variety/burlesque show which played 3,844 performances--a record that has remained unbroken since 1949. In 1963, the building was again renamed, dubbed The Jerry Lewis Theatre to house the comedian's weekly ABC-TV variety series. When the program failed, ABC raised a more classic title onto the marquee, The Hollywood Palace, and launched its hit "Hollywood Palace" series with a kaleidoscope of show business greats- -from Judy Garland to Louis Armstrong. Through seven successful years three things remained constant: season premieres hosted by Bing Crosby, a weekly all-star line-up unrivaled by any television presentation before or since, and ratings that made Nielsen history. The Hollywood Palace also continued to feature music concerts, among them The Beatles' noted performance (over the years, each ex-Beatle would also take the stage as a solo artist). !" Though the "Hollywood Palace" series was canceled in 1970, the name and the theatre lived on as an ABC studio where variety shows were produced featuring Fred Astaire, Jimmy Durante and Pearl Bailey. Subsequently, Merv Griffin would settle in with his popular talk show. Rebuilt as a multimedia facility, The Palace became the consummate concert venue and nightclub in town. As a five-night-a-week mega dance club featuring the largest light and sound system in Los Angeles, The Palace was the West Coast version of New York's infamous Studio 54. Prince, Madonna, The Rolling Stones and others regularly came to party at The Palace.