Trophies are nice. We're not about to say that winning the IDMA's Best Record Pool/Subscription Service award for the fourth consecutive year isn't an honor. But it's the friends we make at the Dance industry's most celebrated event of the year that make it all worthwhile...

Now in its 25th year, Winter Music Conference is where the industry's top artists, producers, labels, and DJs gather for what can best be described as an international summit on Dance Music, poolside -- where Sirius XM, Ultra Records, Island Def Jam, Capitol Records and Promo Only Promotions throw down star-studded parties; and celebrities the likes of Mary J Blige, Traci Lords, BT, Sylvia Tosun, Freedom Williams, Anton Bass, NFL Super Bowl champ Jeremy Shockey, Blake Lewis, Richard Vission, and Kaskade mix, mingle and celebrate the music we call Dance.

It's also where deals are made and the relationships that translate into more music more often for our subscribers are forged.

Did we mention that trophies are nice?

Results were drawn from ballots cast by industry professionals representing 130 countries and announced March 25, 2010 before an international audience at Miami's prestigious Fillmore Theatre.

We'll just say it: This marks the fourth year in a row Promo Only has taken top honors in the Best Record Pool category. We are the only service to have won the award since its inception. "To be voted best by your peers is very gratifying," said Promo Only executive program director and co-founder Pete Werner. "But our deepest thanks go out to the DJs and VJs who cast their ballot for Promo Only each time they reach for a Promo Only CD or DVD. We're extremely honored by the support our subscribers have shown us over the years."

Also taking home the gold was Promo Only Promotion's Cary Vance and John Suraci, winners of this year's Best Independent Record Promotion/Marketing Award.

"We're very excited to have the industry recognize the effort put forth by all of us here at Promo Only Promotions," said Vance. "Getting a chance to work with today's top artists as well as the up-and-coming stars of tomorrow makes it all that much more rewarding."

This year's award marks the fifth IDMA award for Vance in the independent promotion category; it's Suraci's first IDMA award.

For a closer look at the faces and events that made WMC 2010 an event to remember click here!

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Useless Information! - Fun facts, trivia, or just plain silly stuff!

Beatles Songs ... and who or what inspired them!

• "A Hard Day's Night" - Although the title was inspired by a comment from Ringo, John wrote the song for Julian, his baby son.


• "Hey Jude" -- Paul wrote to cheer Julian when his parents split.


• "Eleanor Rigby" - Paul claimed that he made up the story and the name, but there is a gravestone of a woman named Eleanor Rigby in St. Peter's Woolton -- where Paul first met John at a church fair. Could be one of the greatest coincidences of all time.


• "Something" - Written by George for his wife, Patti.


• "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" - Long after it wouldn't have mattered anyhow, John always insisted that the song had nothing to do with the drug LSD but rather was inspired by a picture painted by a school friend of his son Julian's.


• "A Day In The Life" - This song was about many things, but the line "He blew his mind out in a car" was inspired by the death in a car of Tara Browne, an Irish male heir who was related to the Guinness family. Browne was friendly with Paul and other members of the rock aristocracy.
  


• "Things We Said Today" - Written by Paul for Jane Asher. "We'll go on and on." Alas not.


• "We Can Work It Out" - Once again for Jane Asher. "Try to see it my way," begged Paul, but she wouldn't.


• "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" - Supposedly written by John "for" Brian Epstein. The love that Epstein had to his was, of course his homosexuality.


• "Shes's Leaving Home" - Paul read a story in the papers about teenage runaway Melanie Coe. Her father was quoted as saying "I cannot imagine why she would run away. She has everything here," which has its echo in Paul's line "We gave her everything money could buy." Amazing coincidence: unknown to Paul, he had actually met the girl when he had presented her with a competition prize on Ready Steady Go four years earlier.


• "She Said She Said" - Written by John during his acid phase. John got the line "I know what its like to be dead" when he overheard Peter Fonda talking to George about a near-death childhood experience.


• "I Saw Her Standing There" - Like the girl in the song, Iris Caldwell was just seventeen when Paul met her while she was dancing at a nightclub. Iris, whose brother was Liverpool musician Rory Storm, went out with Paul for two years.


• "Sexy Sadie" - Famously written by John for the Maharishi Mahese Yogi, who, John reckons, "made a fool of everyone" by pretending to be pure when really he was a womanizer.


• "Dear Prudence" - Written to encourage Prudence Farrow (Mia Farrow's younger sister) to stop meditating so much - "Won't you come out to play?" during the Beatle's time in India.