Annual French music award
Award
Victoires de la Musique (French pronunciation: [viktwar də la myzik]; English: Victories of Music) are 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. 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.
Background
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. 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, 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
Group of the Year
(Starting 2001, replaced by Male Group or Artist of the Year / Female Group or Artist of the Year)
Male Artist of the Year
Male Group or Artist of the Year
(Replacing Male Artist of the Year and Group of the Year)
Female Artist of the Year
Female Group or Artist of the Year
(Replacing Female Artist of the Year and Group of the Year)
Foreign Artist of the Year
Francophone Artist or Artist of the Year
Electronic/Dance Artist of the Year
Révélation (Newcomer)
Popular Music Révélation of the Year
Popular Music Female Révélation of the Year
Popular Music Male Révélation of the Year
Group Révélation of the Year
Révélation 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)
Group or Artist Popular Révélation of the Year
(Replacing Révélation of the Year)
Group or Artist Stage Révélation of the Year
Album Révélation of the Year
*Discontinued for period 2011 to 2013
Album of the Year
Album of the Year
*Discontinued and replaced by Song/Variety Album of the Year and Rock Album of the Year
Song/Variety Album of the Year
Rock Album of the Year
*Discontinued from 1987, returned in 2001
Francophone Album of the Year
Pop/Rock Album of the Year
Traditional or World Music
Traditional Music Album of the Year
- 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
World Music Album of the Year
Urban music (various)
- 1999 : Panique celtique by Manau (as Rap/Groove Album of the Year)
- 2000 : Les Princes de la ville by 113 (as Rap, Reggae or Groove Album of the Year)
- 2001 : J'fais c'que j'veux by Pierpoljak (as Rap, Reggae or Groove Album of the Year)
- 2002 : X raisons by Saïan Supa Crew (as Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year)
- 2003 : Solitaire by Doc Gynéco (as Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year)
- 2004 : Brut de femme by Diam's (as Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year)
- 2005 : 16/9 by Nâdiya (as Rap/Hip-Hop/R&B Album of the Year)
- 2006 : Les Histoires extraordinaires d'un jeune de banlieue - Disiz la Peste (as Rap/Ragga/Hip-Hop/R&B Album of the Year)
Urban Music Album of the Year
Reggae/Ragga (various)
- 2002 : The Real Don by Lord Kossity (as Reggae/Ragga Album of the Year)
- 2003 : Umani by I Muvrini and Francafrique by Tiken Jah Fakoly (as Reggae/Ragga/World Music Album of the Year)
- 2004 : Voz d'amor de Cesária Évora (as Reggae/Ragga/World Music Album of the Year)
- 2005 : Dimanche à Bamako by Amadou et Mariam (as Reggae/Ragga/World Music Album of the Year)
Electronic/Groove/Dance Album of the Year
Variety/Instrumental Album of the Year
Album of the Year for Children
Discontinued 1988 to 1990
- 1991 : La Petite Sirène told by Nathalie Baye
- 1992 : Pierre et le Loup de Prokofiev by Julien Clerc
- 1993 : Pierre et le Loup de Prokofiev recited by Lambert Wilson
- 1994 : Aladin et la Lampe merveilleuse recited by Sabine Azéma
- 1995 : L'Évasion de Toni by Henri Dès and Pierre Grosz
- 1997 : Far West by Henri Dès (second award)
- 1999 : Émilie Jolie (2nd version) by Philippe Chatel
- 2001 : Du soleil by Henri Dès (third award)
Original Cinema/Television Soundtrack of the Year
Song of the Year
Original Song of the Year
Musical Show and Concert of the Year
Musical Show
Concert of the Year
Musical Show, Tour or Concert of the Year
Music Video of the Year
Music DVD of the Year
- 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
Various awards
Sound engineer
Album producer
Studio musician
Producer / Arranger
Show producer
- 1992 : Jean-Claude Camus
- 1993 : Gilbert Coullier
- 1994 : L'Olympia
- 1995 : Corida
- 1996 : Jules Frutos, Hélène Rol et Dominique Revert
Record covers
Comedian of the Year
- 1985 : Raymond Devos
- 1987 : Coluche
- 1990 : Les Inconnus
- 1991 : Les Inconnus (second award)
- 1992 : Smaïn
- 1993 : Guy Bedos and Muriel Robin
- 1994 : Patrick Timsit
- 1995 : Raymond Devos (second award)
- 1996 : Les Inconnus (third award)
- 1997 : Valérie Lemercier
- 1998 : Quator for the show Il pleut des cordes (as Humour show of the year)
Honorary Award