Terms & Conditions

The Indian Music Awards 2024

The Indian Music Awards 2024, presented by Hungama Artist Aloud, is a digital platform dedicated to celebrating the best of Indian music, Organized by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Private Limited (‘Hungama’), this prestigious event recognizes and honors outstanding contributions across 40 categories, spanning Film, Independent, Regional, and Traditional music. The awards aim to discover and promote exceptional artists and releases in India, including those from Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood, as well as independent and regional artists. Artists and labels can submit their nominations online for content that has been officially released in India between October 2022 and March 2024. The winners will be selected through public voting for Consumer Categories and a jury round for Jury Categories, ensuring both fans and industry experts contribute to recognizing the most deserving talent.

NOMINATION DETAILS

Nominations are accepted Only for Releases done within India from 1st October 2022 and 31st March 2024 (NRI Included)

Nomination Terms

  • Participation in the Indian Music Awards is voluntary and by participating the Artist/Label agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions.
  • After the official announcement, interested participants submit their nominations online as per the respective categories.
  • The Participant registers before they send in their nomination by entering their Email ID or Mobile Number. An OTP is sent to their Email ID or Mobile Number to be able to authenticate the same so that the entry is genuine, and the contestants are accessible if he/she needs to be reached out to.
  • There is a moderation process by Hungama who will have full rights to approve or disapprove the nominations if not as per the requirements.
  • Approved content is reflected on the website under Nominees tab as per the category.
  • A nominee submits only one entry per category.
  • All participants’ nominations go through a moderation process by qualified moderators and only once the nomination is approved as per the terms shared, it is then visible on the Nominee section.
  • By entering these awards, the nominee gives the Organizer the right to publish/exhibit screen grabs and/or submitted report.
  • All submissions are made online. Once entries are submitted, they go forward for judging.
  • After the entry deadline entries cannot be withdrawn, and refunds, if any, cannot be given.
  • All entries are legal. Any entries containing offensive material are disqualified.
  • The following submissions are disqualified:
    • Participant's content is not an Original content.
    • Does not fall under releases done between October 2022 and March 2024.
    • Does not conform to the category rules/submission formats.

The Participant warrants that it:

  • Does not violate any law for the time being in force.
  • Does not deceive or mislead about the origin of any messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature.
  • They are well aware of the terms and conditions of use of Contest Organizers websites, especially policy against spamming and/or privacy policies, and shall participate in the Contest with strict adherence to such terms and policies. In no event Contest Organizer shall be responsible or held liable for any acts of the Contest Participants.
  • Shall not violate the rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, privacy rights, copyrights, trademark rights and/or any other intellectual property rights.
  • Shall indemnify the Contest Organizer, its officials, employees, representatives against any claim, loss, damages and liability arising as a result of infringement of third-party intellectual property rights.
  • The Content is not harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever.
  • The submission does not contain software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource. In the event of any discrepancy as to the date and/or the time of receipt of any entry, Contest Organizer shall have the final decision in resolving such discrepancy. The Contest Organizer's decision is final.
  • Hungama further reserves the right in its absolute discretion to disqualify any Participant at any stage if it has reasonable grounds to believe that a Participant has breached any of these Terms, any applicable law (including copyright law) or has otherwise infringed the intellectual property rights of any other person.

Category:

Consumer Category

Consumer categories are a set of genre-based award categories where users visiting the website have the opportunity to cast their votes for their favorite artist or content during the designated voting period. The voting process is divided into two distinct phases

  • Consumer Voting (Winner Selection): There will be a single phase of voting that will run from 4th November to 18th November 2024. During this period, users can vote for their favorite artists or content, and the winners in each category will be determined directly based on the votes received.
  • The votes will determine the winners of the consumer categories, allowing fans and supporters to have a direct impact on the outcome of the awards.

Jury Category

  • Jury category are a set of award categories which will be judged by the jury members. Jury are a set of jury members from the entertainment industry. These members will judge the nominations that have been shortlisted and provide scores towards each content in the respective category and the final winners will be decided based in the highest score given by the jury members.
  • Nominations received for the Jury Category are shortlisted by a highly curated team who shortlist the Top 5 Nominations which are then sent to the Jury Members to select the final Winner for each of the Jury Categories. The judges' decision is final and binding.

Hungama is not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone or internet network, or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email Entry to be received on account of technical mechanical problems or traffic congestion on the internet or at any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof.

Voting

Terms:

  • Every user visiting the website needs to login/register to cast his/her vote for the content in each category.
  • Multiple Voting Allowed Across Entries:Users have the flexibility to support multiple different entries within each category, enabling them to cast votes for various artists/songs they appreciate. This ensures that users can express their diverse musical tastes and preferences without restriction within any category.
  • Single Vote Per Entry:While users can vote for multiple entries, they are limited to casting only one vote per specific content within each category. This means that although a user can vote for several different songs or artists, they can only vote once for each individual song or artist.

GENERAL

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This website is for the purpose of providing digital content. Users are not permitted to edit, cut, copy, download, reproduce, distribute, modify, display or make use of the contents of this website, except stream content in temporary storage on one computer/mobile solely for their personal and non-commercial use.

Any unauthorized use of the content and services of the website may violate copyright laws, trademark laws as well as the laws of privacy and Hungama is not responsible for the same. 'Unauthorized use' shall mean and include any usage of the digital content of this website in contravention to the rights granted under this term. Except as expressly provided above, nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring any license or right under any copyright or other intellectual property right.

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REGISTRATION DETAILS

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CONSENT TO TRANSFER

The Site is hosted and operated in India. Your Personal Data will therefore be transferred to and processed in India. By using the Site, and providing us with any information, you consent to the transfer of your information to, and its processing in India.

AMENDING OR REMOVING YOUR PERSONAL DATA, CONTROLLING MARKETING COMMUNICATION, AND PRIVACY QUESTIONS

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USER ACCOUNT & SECURITY

All registered users shall have a username and password. It shall be the sole responsibility of the users to maintain the confidentiality and security of their account. You should not reveal your account information to anyone else or use anyone else's account. Your 'user account' and ‘password’ are personal and should be kept confidential. You agree that you will not allow another person to use/access your 'user account' and use the service under any circumstances.

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Although Hungama will not be liable for any losses you may incur due to any unauthorized use of your 'user account', you may be liable for the losses of Hungama and/or other users due to such unauthorized use. In consideration of your use of the website and services provided therein, you agree to provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself, where requested and to maintain and update it promptly. You agree that if any information you provide is false, inaccurate, outdated or incomplete, we may terminate your use of the website and/or the services provided there under.

TERMINATION

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We reserve the right to terminate your use of the services/subscription, without cause, upon reasonable notice. The failure of Hungama to take any action in respect of a breach of these terms and conditions shall not constitute a waiver of their enforceability. Hungama reserves its rights in respect of these terms and conditions at all times.

The Contest and these terms and conditions will be governed by Indian laws and any disputes arising from the same will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Mumbai.