What’s a genre anymore, really? Clearly not too many voters in this year’s International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) perhaps know the answer to that question.

Now, IDMA is an annual awards ceremony held during the Winter Music Conference in Miami and this year includes a large pool of 57 different categories ranging from Best Global DJ to Best DJ Software. Fans and professionals within the industry both, are allowed to vote in order to nominate who they deem worthy of these different titles and according to IDMA, every year there are more than “two million votes from music enthusiasts in 209 countries and territories” which contribute greatly to the wide array of nominees.

This year it seems however, that the array of nominees may have been a little too wide considering Martin Garrix has been nominated for Best Trance DJ and it’s surely safe to say that Garrix’s style of music is pretty far away from your typical ‘trance’ sound. Other nominations in the category consist of some remarkable names such as, Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Dash Berlin, Gareth Emery, Markus Shulz, Mat Zo and W&W.

In all fairness to Martin, it wasn’t his fault for being nominated as it was his fans that decided to write his name down on the ballot in large numbers. An equally puzzled, Garrix took to twitter to express how bewildered he was and said,

WTF i'm nominated for 'best trance dj' at the IDMA Awards.. guess somebody didn't do their homework.. hahahahaha—
MARTIN GARRIX (@MartinGarrix) February 06, 2014

Well all said and done, whatever happened, someone clearly dropped the ball on this one. Be sure to tell us your thoughts in the comment section below.