Victoires de la Musique (French pronunciation:[viktwardəlamyzik]; English:Victories of Music) are an annual French award ceremony where theVictoire accolade is delivered by theFrench Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The classical and jazz versions are theVictoires de la musique classique andVictoires 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 theGrammy Awards and theBrit Awards for music, and it is one of the major awards in France, along withNuits des Molières for stage performances, and theCésar 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.
The title trophies and nominees for each are established annually by theBoard 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. Of the voters, 40% are artists (performers, but also musicians, writers, composers ...), 40% are professional music producers and 20% are 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, throughSMS voting, and since 2009, Internet: Victory "Group or Artist of the public revelation of the year" and that the "Song of the year".
(Starting 1997 until 2004, replacing three categories Female Révélation of the Year, Male Révélation of the Year and Group Révélation of the Year) (Starting 2005, replaced by Group or Artist Popular Révélation of the Year)
^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."
