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Awards are presented honoring a wide variety of musical styles, reflecting the diversity represented in Christian Pop music, including Christian Hip Hop , Christian Rap , Christian Metal , Christian Punk , Christian Rock , Christian Worship Music , Christian Soft Rock ( Contemporary Christian Music ), and Christian Pop Rock . Each award features performances by a number of the industry's newest and most popular artists including Rebecca St. James , Bethany Dillon , and Kirk Franklin . The GMA Music Awards is one of the major laundering factors influencing today's Christian Pop Culture . Despite, the large criticism, the GMA Music Awards is one of the most prestigious Christian music awards, if not the most prestigious. LOCATION Until 1978, the GMA Music Awards were held in September, during the National Quartet Convention . The Awards were not held in 1979 (except for the GMA Hall of Fame) as they were moved to April 1980, for Gospel Music Week, where it has been held annually except in 1999, when the GMA Music Awards were moved to late March separate from GMA Week. CRITICISM Some argue that the GMA Music Award voters tend to be musically conservative people that are more likely to vote for a traditional gospel artist, or a pop act than a rock and roll band. They also contend that most GMA Music Awards tend to go to either well-established acts that receive heavy radio airplay, or those which fall into the above categories. Some evidence for this is that Steven Curtis Chapman won the "Songwriter of the Year" award 9 out of 10 years and "Male Vocalist of the Year" 7 of 12 years, with some of those wins coming in years when he released no new material. Since the voters are all GMA members and are usually people working in the industry, critics charge they would more than likely tend to vote for whichever bands happen to have the most "buzz" at the moment or are associated with their area of the industry, as with most award voterships. Supporters of the GMA contend that this is likely less prevalent than in secular awards due to Christians placing a high value on ethical behavior. {Link without Title} THE 1971 VOTE BUYING SCANDAL A major scandal developed at the 1971 GMA Music Awards, when the Blackwood Brothers sold so many GMA memberships, their suggestions on who should receive votes dominated the results. All awards, except the GMA Hall of Fame inductees, were revoked to maintain the integrity of the event. James Blackwood was forced to apologise after the scandal, and the 1972 GMAMA was held under new rules designed to preserve the integrity of the voting. MICHAEL ENGLISH SCANDAL Shortly after the 1994 show, Male Vocalist winner Michael English admitted to an extramaritial affair with Marabeth Jordon, a member of former Group winner First Call. Although English returned his awards to the GMA after news of his affair became public the week following the awards presentation, the GMA refused to reissue his awards to another winner. English's name remained on the winner's list against his stated wishes. DEFINITION OF GOSPEL MUSIC In 1998, the GMA, growing concerned over some blatantly secular entries in their sacred categories, enacted a new Definition of Gospel Music, intended to strengthen standards which were too weak. Prior to the Definition of Gospel Music, the only music which qualified were music which was sold in Christian Booksellers Association affiliated stores. The new standards resulted in complaints by some fans and artists after thirteen entries were disqualified for being too secular in the 1999 GMAMA. The rules were rescinded afterwards, and many groups victimised by the rulings in 1999 were winners in 2000. The controversy grew in 2004 when Switchfoot and Stacie Orrico were major winners with music which was predominantly secular in nature. Switchfoot also drew controversy with an endorsement deal with Budweiser. Some thought the Budweiser deal was inappropriate for artists who were nominated for a GMA Music Award. This controversy continues in 2006, as top pop artists who are not in the genre won major awards -- Carrie Underwood and Brian Littrell were major GMA Music Award winners. THE 2004 TELEVISION NON-BROADCAST In 2004, a major scandal broke in the GMA Music Awards with a tape-delayed broadcast which never aired. The GMA signed a contract to air the awards live in selected Regal Cinema multiplexes, with United Paramount Network featuring tape-delayed coverage to air five weeks after the GMA Music Awards were held. When GMA Music Awards co-host Deion Sanders announced on May 15, 2004, he was leaving Viacom 's The NFL Today , intending to join Disney 's ESPN NFL Countdown , UPN cancelled the broadcast of the GMA Music Awards. This move was reminiscent of the 1988 decision by CBS to cancel a 60 Minutes story featuring Richard Petty which had been taped, and ready for future broadcast (to air around the 1989 Daytona 500, which CBS had broadcast rights), after reporter Diane Sawyer defected to ABC . That problem was later fixed with a new report filed on Petty which aired the next season. The GMA Music Awards broadcast did not air for eight months, finally airing in late December 2004 on the i Network. CATEGORIES The 2004 Awards included:
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