Music Industry Awards
Awarded for	Outstanding achievements inFlemishmusic industry
Location	Palais 12 (2017-2022) Sportpaleis (2023-2024) ING Arena (2025)
Country	Belgium
Presented by	Music Centre Flanders
First award	1994 (as ZAMU Award) 2007 (as MIA)
Website	mias.een.be
Television/radio coverage
Network	VRT

TheMIA's, in fullMusic Industry Awards, areFlemish music prizes that are awarded by theVRT in collaboration with Music Centre Flanders. The prizes replace theZAMU Awards, last awarded in 2006.

The abbreviation MIA is a wink toMia, a song byGorki.

The first MIA's were the 2007 MIA's, the winners of which were revealed on 30 January 2008; the show was broadcast byEén two days later. There were twelve categories of award, nine of which were voted for by the public, the other three by the music industry itself. In 2007 the singerMilow fromLeuven was the biggest winner, scooping three prizes.^[1]

At the second edition, on 6 February 2009, Milow was again the biggest winner. This time he took home five prizes, including those for best song and best male solo artist.^[2]

The third show (MIA's 2009) took place on 8 January 2010.Absynthe Minded andDaan (Stuyven) were the biggest winners. Absynthe Minded won the MIA's for Hit of the Year, best album, best rock/alternative and best band. Daan won the prizes for best male solo artist, best author/composer, best videoclip and best artwork.^[3]

In early December 2010 the VRT announced the nominees for the 2010 MIA's. The most nominated artists, with four or more nominations, wereStromae,Tom Dice,Bart Peeters andAdmiral Freebee. The award ceremony was broadcast live onEén on 7 January 2011. Stromae won the most important MIA, "Hit van het Jaar", as well as "Best Breakthrough". There was no clear-cut winner of the event. The most successful artists, all with two awards, were Stromae,The Black Box Revelation,Goose andTriggerfinger.^[4] Only at the 2010 show a MIA for "Kidspop" was awarded, withKapitein Winokio as winner.

The 2011 Music Industry Awards ceremony took place on 10 December 2011.Milow andSelah Sue each took home three MIA's, andGotye anddEUS two each.^[5]

The 2012 MIA's show took place on 8 December 2012. Also in this sixth edition the prizes were awarded during a live broadcast onEén, this time presented byPeter Van de Veire andCath Luyten. The biggest winner of 2012 wasTriggerfinger. This band aroundRuben Block won the awards in all four of the categories for which it was nominated. Triggerfinger won the most important MIA, the "Hit of the year", with the coverI follow rivers. They also won the awards for best group, best alternative music and best live-act. The prize for best album went toBalthazar for the albumRats.^[6]

Before the yearly show, the nominees are assigned by a broad media jury. (Music) journalists from both popular and specialized magazines, newspapers, radio and television participate at a preceding voting procedure in which each journalist kan indicate his/her favourite candidates per category. For each category the four candidates with the highest number of annotations receive a definitive nomination.After the publication of the nominees, the broad public can bring out their votes for the majority of the categories. The winners of a limited number of categories are elected by professionals from the Flemish music sector. The Lifetime Achievement Award is chosen by the organizers of the MIA's.

A list of recent winners showing the 8 most recent editions, with the most important categories:

There have been numerous acts, both groups and individuals, that have won multiple awards. The table below shows those that have won seven or more awards.

• Official website

• Belgian music awards

• CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl)
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Use mdy dates from April 2014