Despite being annoyed that ITV dropped the highly rated Record of the Year Show (my event - so it cost me several hundred thousand a year) and irritated by the boredom every year of The Brits (I was offered £250,000 a year for 2 months work for life and turned it down in 1992 because they wouldn't let me keep running it my way); I still would like to see a regular pre-Christmas music show on TV that both boosts sales and gets massive ratings - and is entertaining, original, clever, funny, informative. Surely not that hard?

Judging by what's arranged for tonight, be prepared for disappointment.

So far, 30 mins in, I'm absolutely loving it; an excellent mix, very well put together and Clean Bandit just did my Record of the Year - Rather Be - wonderfully. Incidentally, my pick for Artiste of the Year is Sam Smith.

Pharrell wins Best International and now excellent George Ezra is on; a great year for music 2014. This show really puts The Boring Brits to shame.

Love the way Ed Sheeran is just working the crowd, entirely solo - just him & a guitar

Well. it certainly has today's biggest acts. The set's colourful if a bit cluttered and Chris Evans is possibly not the best or appropriate presenter. Gwen Stefani looks amazing (even though she isn't actually at Earl's Court).

Thankfully there's none of the chaos or daftness of the Shits, sorry, Brits.

Well to me a spectacular success. Well done Guy Freeman and the team.

I haven't managed to see the show yet, but by all accounts a good effort. Anyone know the viewing figures yet?

Could this be a foundation for a campaign for BBC to bring back a regular music show on peak-time BBC1?

I think it will need a bit of programming imagination to get Top of the Pops back Dixie, especially as everyone on it will be guaranteed years in jail, thirty years later.
The Awards Show was a huge success. Fingers crossed for decent ratings. Far better than The Brits and a much better time of year for a high profile prime time show. Bet it boosts music sales over Christmas by millions as our ROTY shows did.

From Music Week:

The BBC has praised the "annual fixture" of last night's Music Awards, as new figures show it pulled in a TV audience of 3.9 million people.

That is slightly less than the BRIT Awards attracted in February, which was the lowest TV figure since 2006 at 4.2 million.

And we used to get 9 million for Record of the Year on ITV - and 9 million for Entertainment USA on BBC2. And almost 6 million a week for No Limits on BBC2 at 6pm.