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Music applications are among the most popular types of apps downloaded on today’s smartphones. But which are the best of the best? Which new music apps created in the last year are setting the stage for tomorrow’s successes? Billboard’s Music App Awards is the first app awards program answering these questions by showcasing and celebrating the best and most innovative new music apps defining the space today.

The Music App Awards serve as the core of Billboard’s Mobile Entertainment Live!: The Music App Summit , Oct. 5 in San Francisco, held in conjunction with CTIA’s Wireless Enterprise & Applications. All applicants will receive discounted admission to the conference. Finalists will be featured in a Billboard article listing the best apps of the year, have the opportunity to demo their app onstage and be given free demo space in the exhibit area. Winners will be chosen by an independent panel of influential industry experts and awarded their prize on-site.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING FINALISTS!

Best Music Engagement App:
Tap Tap Revenge 3
SoundHound Infinity
Mix Me In2 Taylor Swift

Best Music Creation App:
LaDiDa
AmpliTude iRig
MorphWiz

Best Music Streaming App:
Rhapsody
MOG
Thumbplay

Best Touring App:
Live Phish
R5
Bonnaroo

Best Artist-based App:
Linkin Park 8-Bit Revolution
I Am T-Pain
TouchChords: Jimmy Vaughan

Best Branded App:
50s Sound Lab
ZOOZbeat Sprite
Gibson

Winners will be announced at the conference, Oct. 5, 2010.
Winners will receive an award on-site at the event, a write-up in Billboard magazine, and featured in a press release announcing the winners!

Billboard’s editorial team will select three finalists for each category, and an independent panel of judges will pick the winners. The judge’s for this inaugural event are:

MC HAMMER
MC Hammer brings both traditional and Social Media expertise into the public forum as a co-founder of Social Media destination Dancejam and Executive Producer and creator of "HammerTime" a new Real Life Family show on the A&E networks. As a successful musician, he won a multitude of awards including three Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and The Peoples Choice Award. Hammer was honored with "MC Hammer Days" in CA.

DANIEL KLAUS, Founder, AppFund
Daniel is a new media and technology entrepreneur. He served as CEO of online media company Music Nation, Inc. and Original Signal Recordings, which he co-founded and become one of the leading independent music companies in the US with artists such as Ingrid Michelson, Butch Walker, and others. In 2009 the company formed a venture with UMG. Daniel was named as one of the top 100 Internet executives in New York by Silicon Alley Insider

PATRICK MORK, VP Marketing, GetJar
Patrick joined GetJar in 2008 as CMO of marketing and member of the executive team. Patrick has been in the mobile content space since 2004, first at mobile games publisher I-play then subsequently at glu mobile. Patrick has 15 years of marketing experience at leading companies such as PepsiCo and Diamondcluster.

IAN ROGERS, CEO, Top Spin
Ian, CEO of Topspin, is a music and technology veteran with roots in defining the way artists and consumers promote and experience digital media online. He created one of the first music-related Web sites and built many of the original promotional sites for the music and movie industries. Prior to Topspin, he was VP of Video and Media Applications at Yahoo! and General Manager for Yahoo! Music. Before Yahoo!, Ian founded Mediacode and was CTO at rVision and President of New Media for the Beastie Boys’ record label Grand Royal.

RALPH SIMON, CEO, The Mobilium Advisory Group
Ralph Simon is regarded as one of the founders of the modern mobile entertainment industry. Simon heads the Mobilium International Advisory Group and is the founder of the Mobile Entertainment Forum. Before, Simon co-founded the Zomba Group of music, was EVP of Capitol Records and Blue Note Records, and started EMI Music’s global New Media division in the early 90’s.

ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Staff Writer, Wired.com
Eliot has covered digital music and other disruptive technologies for over a decade for Wired.com, CNET, and as a freelancer. The author of two books (Burning Down the House: Ripping, Recording, Remixing and More and an iPod book, both for McGraw-Hill), he's a regular on NPR.