MANILA, Philippines - Top OPM artists will gather for the third Tambayan OPM Music Awards by ABS-CBN’s Tambayan 101.9 to honor outstanding Filipino artists and songwriters today at SM City North EDSA SkyDome.
Yeng Constantino, Ney Dimaculangan, Ruben Caballero of Cueshé, Cathy Go, Barbie Almalbis, Angeline Quinto, Marcelito Pomoy, Gloc9, Jovit Baldivino, Kitchie Nadal, Bugoy Drilon, Liezel Garcia, Bryan Termulo, Mike Hanopol, Pepe Smith and Vice Ganda will perform at the TOPMA awards.
Real-life couple Maja Salvador and Mateo Guidicelli will also grace the event together with Tambayan 101.9 DJs.
After weeks of voting, Tambayan 101.9 will announce the 11 winners in different categories based on listener’s votes (30 percent), judges’ votes (30 percent), and TOPMA awards committee’s votes (40 percent). Each nominee will be adjudged based on the following criteria: Commercial appeal, musicality and originality/creativity.
The next recipient of the Tambayani award will also be recognized alongside the first-ever recipient of the Phenomenal Artist of the Year award. The former is given to an artist and/or songwriter who has helped change the OPM industry and has been a true champion of Filipino music while the latter is awarded to the OPM artist who had the most successful career in the previous year.
Tambayan 101.9 is on its third year of recognizing Pinoy artistry in music. Recently, TOPMA took home an Anvil award from the prestigious Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP).
This year’s TOPMA is bigger as Tambayan 101.9 partners with all the 16 M.O.R. FM stations of ABS-CBN Regional Network Group, to promote and encourage listeners to vote for their favorite songs or music artists.