The 16th Annual World Music Awards was held on September 15, 2004 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, outside of Monaco for the first time.
[1] Awards are given based on worldwide sales figures for that year.
The Diamond Award honors those incredibly successful recording-artists who have sold over 100 million albums during their career.
This is the third year that this award was presented; the first was in 2001.
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