The Indie Genre is one that doesn't feature much in the charts as that is mostly dominated by POP music (as you can see from the picture below.) Indie songs don't enter the charts that much but when they do they do quite well, for example The 1975's Chocolate achieved 19th in the main charts but 2nd in the Indie Charts. The Arctic Monkeys AM album achieved the top spot in the album charts, with 'Do I wanna know' reaching 11th in the singles charts.
In this years MTV awards there has been no Indie bands or artists that have been nominated for any of the awards. Although there is 15 categories, there is none that are for the indie genre as they focus more on POP, Rock and HIP-HOP as these are the more popular genres.