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MuchMusic Video Award for Peoples Choice: Favourite International Artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ7165479 ↗
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The Peoples Choice: Favorite International Artist is a defunct award, formerly presented at the MuchMusic Video Awards. The award was only presented to an artist or group that was not from Canada. For the 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards, the award was changed to People's Choice: Favourite International Video, a more general award including international group artists as well as international solo artists.

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This entry incorporates text from “MuchMusic Video Award for Peoples Choice: Favourite International Artist” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.