Westlife and Blue win interactive music awards

Boybands Westlife and Blue have walked away with the big awards at the first Interactive Music Awards. Westlife picked up the Dotmusic People's Choice Award while Blue took away the Artist of the Year gong.


The mobile phone music recognition service Shazam won the award for best innovation, while Playlouder's coverage of Glastonbury 2002 won the best use of broadband category.


The awards were presented by Public Enemy's Chuck D, he's long been an advocate of using the web to distribute music.