Victoires de la Musique

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Victoires de la Musique
Awarded for Outstanding achievements in the music industry
Country France
Presented by French Ministry of Culture
First awarded 1985
Official website lesvictoires.com
Television/Radio coverage
Network France Televisions

Victoires de la Musique is an annual French award ceremony where the Victoire accolade is delivered by the French Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry that recognizes the best musical artists of the year. The classical and jazz versions are the Victoires de la musique classique and Victoires du Jazz.[1]

The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely viewed televised ceremony. The awards are the French equivalent to the Grammy Awards and the Brit Awards for music, and it is one of the major awards in France, along with Nuits des Molières for stage performances, and the César Award for motion pictures.

The first Victoires de la Musique ceremony was held in 1985, and it was set up to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1985.

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Background[edit]

The title trophies and nominees for each are established annually by the Board of Directors of the Association "Les Victoires de la Musique", which also refers to people who make up the Academy voters. In 2010, the Victoires were awarded by a panel of 1 226 professionals (musicians, artists, writers, composers, producers, record stores, video directors, sound engineers and critics) in a vote in one round. Voters are 40% of artists (performers, but also musicians, writers, composers ...), 40% of professional music production and 20% of other professional circles close to the world of music (agents artists, music stores, music critics, radio programmers ...). In recent years, some trophies are awarded by the public, through SMS voting, and since 2009, Internet: Victory "Group or Artist of the public revelation of the year" and that the "Song of the year".

Categories[edit]

Male Artist of the Year[edit]

Male Group or Artist of the Year[edit]

Female Artist of the Year[edit]

Female Group or Artist of the Year[edit]

Electronic/Dance Artist of the Year[edit]

Révélation (Newcomer)[edit]

Popular Music Révélation of the Year[edit]

Popular Music Female Révélation of the Year[edit]

Popular Music Male Révélation of the Year[edit]

Group Révélation of the Year[edit]

Révélation of the Year[edit]

Group or Artist Stage Révélation of the Year[edit]

Group or Artist Popular Révélation of the Year[edit]

Album Révélation of the Year[edit]

Album of the Year[edit]

Album of the Year[edit]

Pop, Rock Album of the Year[edit]

Pop Album of the Year[edit]

Song/Variety Album of the Year[edit]

Rock Album of the Year[edit]

Pop/Rock Album of the Year[edit]

Traditional Music Album of the Year[edit]

  • 1992 : Nouvelles polyphonies corses
  • 1994 : Renaud cante el Nord by Renaud
  • 1995 : Polyphonies by Voce Di Corsica
  • 1996 : Dan Ar Braz et les 50 musiciens de l'Héritage des Celtes en concert by Dan Ar Braz and l'Héritage des Celtes
  • 1997 : I Muvrini à Bercy by I Muvrini

Traditional Music/World Music Album of the Year[edit]

World Music Album of the Year[edit]

Rap/Groove Album of the Year[edit]

Rap, Reggae or Groove Album of the Year[edit]

  • 2000 : Les Princes de la ville by 113
  • 2001 : J'fais c'que j'veux by Pierpoljak

Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year[edit]

Rap/Hip-Hop/R&B Album of the Year[edit]

Rap/Ragga/Hip-Hop/R&B Album of the Year[edit]

  • 2006 : Les Histoires extraordinaires d'un jeune de banlieue - Disiz la Peste

Urban Music Album of the Year[edit]

Reggae/Ragga Album of the Year[edit]

Reggae/Ragga/World Music Album of the Year[edit]

Electronic/Groove/Dance Album of the Year[edit]

Original Cinema/Television Soundtrack of the Year[edit]

Song of the Year[edit]

Original Song of the Year[edit]

Musical Show and Concert of the Year[edit]

Musical Show[edit]

Concert of the Year[edit]

Musical Show, Tour or Concert of the Year[edit]

Music Video of the Year[edit]

Music DVD of the Year[edit]

  • 2005 : Les leçons de musique by -M- (director: Emilie Chedid)
  • 2006 : En images by Noir Désir (director: Don Kent)
  • 2007 : Tryo fête ses dix ans by Tryo
  • 2008 : Le Soldat Rose by Louis Chedid (director: Jean-Louis Cap)
  • 2009 : Divinidylle by Vanessa Paradis (directors: Thierry Poiraud - Didier Poiraud)
  • 2010 : Alain Bashung à l'Olympia by Alain Bashung (director: Fabien Raymond)
  • 2014 : Geeks on Stage by Shaka Ponk

Honorary Award[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ La France Contemporaine - Page 176 William F. Edmiston, Annie Duménil - 2009 "Les Victoires de la Musique sont un concours musical qui a lieu tous les ans en France. Tandis que les Victoires de la Musique sont consacrées à la musique populaire, il y a aussi les Victoires de la Musique classique et les Victoires du Jazz."

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